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Account of a large fish which was twenty feet in length caught in June 1728 by some fishermen of St Erenzo between the Rivers Serchio and old Arno four miles from the shore in nets call Bestinare
Read to the Royal Society on 16 January 1728

Reference number
RBO/14/30
Earliest possible date
1728
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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'Relazione del Pisce, che nel Mese di Guigno prossimo passato 1728 ...' communicated to Hans Sloane by Thomas Dereham, 1728, RBO/14/30, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_14_30/relazione-del-pisce-che-nel-mese-di-guigno-prossimo-passato-1728-communicated-to-hans-sloane-by-thomas-dereham, accessed on 12 May 2025

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