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Paper, 'On the ova of the opossum tribe' by Sir Everard Home

Reference number: PT/13/18

Date: 1819

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Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/73/7/15-19.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the ova of the different tribes of opossum and orinthorhynchus'.

Read 25 March 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/13/18
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1819
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12 pages
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Manuscript

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Everard Home

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Everard Home, Paper, 'On the ova of the opossum tribe' by Sir Everard Home, 1819, PT/13/18, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_13_18/paper-on-the-ova-of-the-opossum-tribe-by-sir-everard-home, accessed on 03 December 2024

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