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RefNoL&P/1/241
LevelItem
TitleLetter, 'On account of a monstrous child; of a omoplate bone from Brazil; of the tarantula; of the camphor tree' from Claude Geoffrey to Hans Sloane
Date30 June 1743
Description6 pages in French and 4 in English.

Subject:Anatomy

Part-published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Part of a letter from M. Geoffroy, F. R. S. and Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, to Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. late President of the Royal Society, concerning a child of a monstrous size'

Read 22 December 1743
LanguageFrench
Extent10p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1742.0099
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8406Sloane; Sir; Hans (1660 - 1753); physician and collector1660 - 1753
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