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Lidén Number 61

Respondent: Isaac Nilsson Palmér (1735-1787)
Title: ... Oves breviter adumbrans, ...
Date of Defense: 30 October 1754
Paginations: [ii], [1], 4-24
Lidén Title: Ovis.
Soulsby Title: Oves
Drake Title: Oves.
Note: P. 12 misnumbered 13.
Abstract: A dissertation on the domestic sheep (Ovis aires L.), its relatives, the breeds known to Linnaeus, their diseases (including the liver fluke) and alleged remedies, and an enumeration of some 140 species of plants which sheep will not eat, plus those that are poisonous when eaten.