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RefNoAP/4/6b
LevelItem
TitleFragment of paper, from 'An essay, towards elucidating the history of the sea-anemonies' by [Jacques-François Dicquemare]
CreatorDicquemare; Jacques-François (1733-1789); physician; astronomer; naturalist
Date[1773]
DescriptionFragment of Dicquemare's first paper on sea anemones, paginated 2-3 and 17-18, corresponding roughly to pages 363-366 and 380-382 of the published text. Numerous marginalia, deletions, and corrections in ink throughout. The final page includes a struck-out list of maps.

Subject: Marine Biology / Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'An essay, towards elucidating the history of the sea-anemonies'.

Communicated by Matthew Maty. Read 11 February and 29 April 1773.
Extent6p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1773.0037
RelatedRecordAP/4/6
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA3579Penneck; Richard (1728 - 1803)1728 - 1803
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