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Paper, 'Account of some experiments made on the torpedo electricus at La Rochelle' by John T Todd

Reference number: PT/11/3

Date: 1816

Description

Paper regarding electric rays in La Rochelle, France.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Account of some experiments on the Torpedo electricus, at La Rochelle'.

Communicated by Sir Everard Home. Read 5 December 1816.

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/11/3
Earliest possible date
1816
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

Creator name

John Tweedy Todd

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John Tweedy Todd, Paper, 'Account of some experiments made on the torpedo electricus at La Rochelle' by John T Todd, 1816, PT/11/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_11_3/paper-account-of-some-experiments-made-on-the-torpedo-electricus-at-la-rochelle-by-john-t-todd, accessed on 18 January 2025

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