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Paper, 'Observations tending to show that the wolf, jackal and dog are all of the same species' by John Hunter

Reference number: L&P/9/41

Date: 1787

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Observations tending to shew that the wolf, jackal, and dog, are all of the same species'

Read 26 April 1787

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L&P/9/41
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1787
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35 pages
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Manuscript

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John Hunter

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John Hunter, Paper, 'Observations tending to show that the wolf, jackal and dog are all of the same species' by John Hunter, 1787, L&P/9/41, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_41/paper-observations-tending-to-show-that-the-wolf-jackal-and-dog-are-all-of-the-same-species-by-john-hunter, accessed on 20 March 2025

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