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Paper, 'Some account of the dugong' by Sir [Thomas] Stamford Raffles in a letter to Sir Everard Home

Reference number: PT/14/16

Date: 1820

Description

The final page contains remarks written by Everard Home. Paper consists of 14 manuscript pages and one plate of unpublished drawings of the dugong. An additional illustration for this paper has been separated from the manuscript and is found at PT/73/8/18.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Some account of the Dugong. By Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Governor of Sumatra. Communicated in a letter to Sir Everard Home, Bart. V. P. R. S'.

Communicated by Everard Home. Read 18 May 1820.

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/14/16
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1820
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Ink on paper
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15 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles

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Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles, Paper, 'Some account of the dugong' by Sir [Thomas] Stamford Raffles in a letter to Sir Everard Home, 1820, PT/14/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_14_16/paper-some-account-of-the-dugong-by-sir-thomas-stamford-raffles-in-a-letter-to-sir-everard-home, accessed on 14 January 2025

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