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Reference numberPT/10/6
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'Some observations and experiments made on the torpedo of the Cape of Good Hope in the year 1812' by John T Todd
CreatorTodd; John Tweedy (1789–1840); English doctor; Royal Navy surgeon; naturalist
Date[1816]
DescriptionPaper refers to the torpedo electricus, a type of fish commonly known as the electric ray.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Some observations and experiments made on the torpedo of the Cape of Good Hope in the year 1812'.

Communicated by Sir Everard Home. Read 15 February 1816.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.
Extent7p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionInk on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0029
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1816.0007
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA4668Home; Sir; Everard (1756 - 1832); surgeon1756 - 1832
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