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LIBRARY > Digital edition: Lib. Cat. No. GODD1678 > “Some Observations of a Cameleon.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 12.137 (February 1678): 930–931. By Jonathan Goddard (1617?–1675).

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