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This fish was caught off the Exmouth coast by Robert Heath on 9 September 1737
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Original letter was dated 12 January 1737/8
Read to the Royal Society on 16 February 1737

Reference number
RBO/21/15
Earliest possible date
1737
Page extent
5 pages
Format
Manuscript

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'An Account of the Aquila Squatina Salviana vulgarly called the Mermaid' by A Bradley, 1737, RBO/21/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_21_15/an-account-of-the-aquila-squatina-salviana-vulgarly-called-the-mermaid-by-a-bradley, accessed on 20 April 2026

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