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Reference numberPT/11/12
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'An account of some fossil remains of the rhinoceros discovered by Mr Whitby in a cavern inclosed in the lime stone rock, from which he is forming the break water at Plymouth' by Sir Everard Home
Date[1817]
DescriptionSubject: Palaeontology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of some fossil remains of the rhinoceros, discovered by Mr. Whitby, in a cavern inclosed in the lime-stone rock, from which he is forming the Break water at Plymouth'.

Read 27 February 1817.

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.
Extent13p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionInk on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0057
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1817.0013
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA4668Home; Sir; Everard (1756 - 1832); surgeon1756 - 1832
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