Paper, 'An account of the skeletons of the dugong, two-horned rhinoceros, and tapir of Sumatra, sent to England by Sir Thos [Thomas] Raffles, Governor of Bencoolen [Bengkulu, Sumatra, Indonesia]' by Sir Everard Home
Reference number: PT/15/18
Date: 1821
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10 manuscript pages and five plates showing skeleton of a dugong, skeleton and stomach of a rhinoceros, and skulls of tapirs.
Subject: Zoology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of the skeletons of the dugong, two-horned rhinoceros, and tapir of Sumatra, sent to England by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Governor of Bencoolen [Bengkulu, Sumatra, Indonesia]'.
Read 22 March 1821.
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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- 1821
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- 15 pages
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Everard Home, Paper, 'An account of the skeletons of the dugong, two-horned rhinoceros, and tapir of Sumatra, sent to England by Sir Thos [Thomas] Raffles, Governor of Bencoolen [Bengkulu, Sumatra, Indonesia]' by Sir Everard Home, 1821, PT/15/18, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_15_18/paper-an-account-of-the-skeletons-of-the-dugong-two-horned-rhinoceros-and-tapir-of-sumatra-sent-to-england-by-sir-thos-thomas-raffles-governor-of-bencoolen-bengkulu-sumatra-indonesia-by-sir-everard-home, accessed on 21 March 2025
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1821
January 1819 - July 1821 Reference number: PT/15
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