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Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/73/6/19.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Some account of the nests of the Java swallow, and of the glands that secrete the mucus of which they are composed'.

Read 26 June 1817.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.

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PT/11/25
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1817
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Ink on paper
Page extent
9 pages
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Manuscript

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Everard Home

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Everard Home, Paper, 'Some accounts of the nests of the Java swallow and of the glands that secrete the mucus of which they are composed' by Sir Everard Home, 1817, PT/11/25, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_11_25/paper-some-accounts-of-the-nests-of-the-java-swallow-and-of-the-glands-that-secrete-the-mucus-of-which-they-are-composed-by-sir-everard-home, accessed on 07 February 2025

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