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RefNoPT/15/3
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'Communication of a singular fact in natural history' by the Earl of Morton [George Douglas] in a letter to William Hyde Wollaston
Date12 August 1820
DescriptionSubject: Zoology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A communication of a singular fact in natural history. By the Right Honourable the Earl of Morton, F. R. S. in a letter addressed to the President'.

Written by Douglas at 39 Wimpole Street [London] addressed to Wollaston at Harewood House in Wetherby, Yorkshire. Read 23 November 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.
Extent6p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0140
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1821.0004
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA3047Douglas; George (1761 - 1827); 16th Earl of Morton1761 - 1827
NA8298Wollaston; William Hyde (1766 - 1828); chemist, physicist and physiologist1766 - 1828
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