'An Account of the Aquila Squatina Salviana vulgarly called the Mermaid' by A Bradley
Reference number: RBO/21/15
Date: 1737
Description
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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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 20, copies of papers communicated 1737-1739
1737-1739 Reference number: RBO/21
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Dates: 1661 - 1739
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