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RefNoCLP/15i/64
LevelItem
TitleAppendix, 'A supplement to the account of the Pediculus pulsatorius, or death-watch published in Philosophical Transactions number 271, serving to the more perfect natural history of that insect' by William Derham
DateApril 1704
DescriptionDerham provides observations on the death-watch beetle, with a particular focus on its generation.

Subject: Zoology / Entomology

Original account published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A letter from the Reverend Mr William Derham to the publisher, concerning an insect that is commonly called the death-watch'

Read to the Royal Society on 26 April 1704
LanguageEnglish
Extent9p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1700.0084
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6239Derham; William (1657 - 1735); naturalist1657 - 1735
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