Record

RefNoRBO/16/27
AltRefNoRBO.16.166
LevelItem
Title'An account of a part of the left horn of a Stag drawn out of Ravens Barrow hold adjoining to holker Old Park by the net of a Fisherman on 20 June 1727' by J Hopkins in a letter to John Senex
Date1731
DescriptionHorn taken out of the sea off the coast of Lancashire
Horn in possssion of Thomas Lowther of Holker in Cartmell, Lancashire
Engraved figure from 'Philosophical Transactions' attached
Read to the Royal Society on 25 November 1731
LanguageEnglish
Extent2 sides
FormatManuscript
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialPrinted in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 37, no 422, p 257
RelatedRecordCLP/15ii/19
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA327Senex; John (- 1740) - 1740
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