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Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/73/7/13-14.

Subject: Palaentology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of the fossil skeleton of the Proteo-saurus'.

Read 4 March 1819.

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PT/13/15
Earliest possible date
1819
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Ink on paper
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7 pages
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Manuscript

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Everard Home

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Everard Home, Paper, 'An account of the fossil skeleton of the proteo-saurus' by Sir Everard Home, 1819, PT/13/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_13_15/paper-an-account-of-the-fossil-skeleton-of-the-proteo-saurus-by-sir-everard-home, accessed on 20 January 2026

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