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Lidén Number 16
Respondent: Peter Sundius (1725-1786)
Title: Surinamensia Grilliana ...
Date of Defense: 18 June 1748
Paginations: [vi], 1-34, 1 plate
Lidén Title: Surinamensa [sic] Grilliana.
Soulsby Title: Surin. Grill.
Drake Title: Surinamensia Grilliana.
Note: P. 24 misnumbered 42. The plate of one of our copies lacks fig. 2.
Abstract: A description of 25 animals, mostly serpents, collected in Surinam and eventually given to M. Grill who gave them to the museum at Uppsala. Includes accounts of the rattlesnake and boa constrictor.