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Paper, 'Additional facts respecting the fossil remains of an animal on which two papers have a place in the Phil [Philosophical] Trans [Transactions] shewing that the bones of the sternum resemble those of the ornithorhynchus paradoxus' by Sir Everard Home

Reference number: PT/12/3

Date: 1818

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13 manuscript pages and two plates showing the sternums of the fossilised animal and the ornithorhynchus paradoxus and an unidentified bone from the fossilised animal.

Subject: Palaeontology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Additional facts respecting the fossil remains of an animal, on the subject of which two papers have been printed in the Philosophical Transctions, showing that the bones of the sternum resemble those of the ornithorhynchus paradoxus'.

Read 22 January 1818.

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.

Reference number
PT/12/3
Earliest possible date
1818
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Ink on paper
Page extent
15 pages
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Manuscript

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Everard Home

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Everard Home, Paper, 'Additional facts respecting the fossil remains of an animal on which two papers have a place in the Phil [Philosophical] Trans [Transactions] shewing that the bones of the sternum resemble those of the ornithorhynchus paradoxus' by Sir Everard Home, 1818, PT/12/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_12_3/paper-additional-facts-respecting-the-fossil-remains-of-an-animal-on-which-two-papers-have-a-place-in-the-phil-philosophical-trans-transactions-shewing-that-the-bones-of-the-sternum-resemble-those-of-the-ornithorhynchus-paradoxus-by-sir-everard-home, accessed on 15 January 2026

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    Dates: 1802 - 1865

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