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Paper, 'Observations upon luminous animals' by James Macartney

Reference number: PT/4/15

Date: 1810

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Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Observations upon luminous animals'.

Communicated by Everard Home. Read 17 May 1810.

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 1, 1832.

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PT/4/15
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1810
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90 pages
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Manuscript

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James Macartney

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James Macartney, Paper, 'Observations upon luminous animals' by James Macartney, 1810, PT/4/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_4_15/paper-observations-upon-luminous-animals-by-james-macartney, accessed on 14 August 2026

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