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Paper, 'Reasons for giving the name proteo-saurus to the fossil skeleton which has been described' by Sir Everard Home

Reference number: PT/13/16

Date: 1819

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Subject: Palaeontology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Reasons for giving the name Proteo-Saurus to the fossil skeleton which has been described'.

Read 1 April 1819.

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/13/16
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1819
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11 pages
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Everard Home

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Everard Home, Paper, 'Reasons for giving the name proteo-saurus to the fossil skeleton which has been described' by Sir Everard Home, 1819, PT/13/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_13_16/paper-reasons-for-giving-the-name-proteo-saurus-to-the-fossil-skeleton-which-has-been-described-by-sir-everard-home, accessed on 08 February 2026

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