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Roncetti, A. 1845. Lettere inedite scientifico-letterarie di L. Muratori, V. Donati, G. M. Lancisi, D. Le Clerc, raccolte e corredate di cenni biografici. Milano, Gio. Silvestri. pp. i-vii, 1-278.

Lettere inedite scientifico-letterarie di L. Muratori, V. Donati, G. M. Lancisi, D. Le Clerc, raccolte e corredate di cenni biografici

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Location Captive Subject Captivity Species Greater One-horned Rhino (unicornis)

In a letter dated Torino, 6 February 1751 written by Vitaliano Donati to Antonio Cav. Valliesnieri
Writes that he say the rhinoceros in Milan - this must have been 1750 or 1751
He examined the horn. Was told that it had been cut off when the animal was in Naples.

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