Record

RefNoPT/14/16
LevelFile
TitlePaper, 'Some account of the dugong' by Sir [Thomas] Stamford Raffles in a letter to Sir Everard Home
Date[1820]
DescriptionThe final page contains remarks written by Everard Home. Paper consists of 14 manuscript pages and one plate of unpublished drawings of the dugong. An additional illustration for this paper has been separated from the manuscript and is found at PT/73/8/18.

Subject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Some account of the Dugong. By Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Governor of Sumatra. Communicated in a letter to Sir Everard Home, Bart. V. P. R. S'.

Communicated by Everard Home. Read 18 May 1820.

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.
Extent15p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0129
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1820.0014
RelatedRecordPT/14/16/1
PT/14/16/2
PT/73/8/18
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7464Raffles; Sir; Thomas Stamford Bingley (1781 - 1826)1781 - 1826
NA4668Home; Sir; Everard (1756 - 1832); surgeon1756 - 1832
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