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Observations made when at the top of the Collegiate Chapel in Windsor Castle
Read to the Royal Society on 23 January 1724

Reference number
RBO/11/108
Earliest possible date
1724
Page extent
7 pages
Format
Manuscript

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'Observations about Wasps and the Difference of their Sexes' by William Derham, Prebendary of Windsor, 1724, RBO/11/108, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_11_108/observations-about-wasps-and-the-difference-of-their-sexes-by-william-derham-prebendary-of-windsor, accessed on 06 December 2024

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