RefNo | PT/10/6 |
Level | Item |
Title | Paper, 'Some observations and experiments made on the torpedo of the Cape of Good Hope in the year 1812' by John T Todd |
Creator | Todd; John Tweedy (17891840); English doctor; Royal Navy surgeon; naturalist |
Date | [1816] |
Description | Paper 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. |
Extent | 7p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0029 |
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1816.0007 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA4668 | Home; Sir; Everard (1756 - 1832); surgeon | 1756 - 1832 |