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'Description of the Phocaena rostrata rostro breviori or Short bill mouth'd Dolphin of the northerns or properly Porpess' by Benjamin Allen

Reference number: RBO/14/25

Date: 1729

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Account of the dissection of a dolphin with figures in text
Read to the Royal Society on 19 and 26 June 1729

Reference number
RBO/14/25
Earliest possible date
1729
Page extent
9 pages
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Manuscript

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'Description of the Phocaena rostrata rostro breviori or Short bill mouth'd Dolphin of the northerns or properly Porpess' by Benjamin Allen, 1729, RBO/14/25, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_14_25/description-of-the-phocaena-rostrata-rostro-breviori-or-short-bill-mouthd-dolphin-of-the-northerns-or-properly-porpess-by-benjamin-allen, accessed on 15 June 2025

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