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Paper, 'On the Megatherium (Megatherium americanum, Cuvier and Blumenbach)' by Professor [Richard] Owen

Reference number: PT/53/9

Date: 1850

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Subject: Palaeontology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the megatherium (megatherium americanum, Cuvier and Blumenbach). Part III.—The skull'.

Received by the Royal Society on 8 November 1850. Read 8 May 1851.

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PT/53/9
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1850
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Ink on paper
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44 pages
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Manuscript

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Richard Owen

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Richard Owen, Paper, 'On the Megatherium (Megatherium americanum, Cuvier and Blumenbach)' by Professor [Richard] Owen, 1850, PT/53/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_53_9/paper-on-the-megatherium-megatherium-americanum-cuvier-and-blumenbach-by-professor-richard-owen, accessed on 10 October 2024

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