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Lidén Number 76
Respondent: Johan von Coelln (1725-1808)
Title: ... sistens Specifica Canadensium ...
Date of Defense: {19 June} 1756
Paginations: [iv], [1], 2-28
Lidén Title: Specifica canadensium.
Soulsby Title: Specif. Canad.
Drake Title: Specifica Canadensium.
Note: Two copies have day and month supplied in manuscript; third copy lacks day and month.
Abstract: A compiled account mostly of Canadian animals and plants (but also of northeastern United States), based on letters and writings of Peter Kalm (1716-1779), on John Bartram's (1699-1777) Observations ... (London, 1751), and on Cadwallader Colden's (1688-1776) articles in Acta Soc. Reg. Sci. Upsaliensis 1743: 81-136 and 1744/50: 47-82.