| RefNo | PT/15/18 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Paper, 'An account of the skeletons of the dugong, two-horned rhinoceros, and tapir of Sumatra, sent to England by Sir Thos [Thomas] Raffles, Governor of Bencoolen [Bengkulu, Sumatra, Indonesia]' by Sir Everard Home |
| Date | [1821] |
| Description | 10 manuscript pages and five plates showing skeleton of a dugong, skeleton and stomach of a rhinoceros, and skulls of tapirs.
Subject: Zoology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of the skeletons of the dugong, two-horned rhinoceros, and tapir of Sumatra, sent to England by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Governor of Bencoolen [Bengkulu, Sumatra, Indonesia]'.
Read 22 March 1821.
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 | 15p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0154 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1821.0019 |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA4668 | Home; Sir; Everard (1756 - 1832); surgeon | 1756 - 1832 |
| NA7464 | Raffles; Sir; Thomas Stamford Bingley (1781 - 1826) | 1781 - 1826 |