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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

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Discussing fuller's earth (a type of clay used in fulling cloth and as an absorbent) found in Worcester Read to the Royal Society on 2 January 1668

Reference number: EL/W3/10
1668

Account of a clay resembling fuller's earth Read to the Royal Society on 23 January 1668

Reference number: EL/W3/11

States that he has sent several types of clay to the Royal Society and gives an account of some of them; discussing 'bole armoniack', a red earth or clay, which Thomas Morris compounded; discussing a 'yellow oker' used for colouring leather Read to the Royal Society on 6 February 1668

Reference number: EL/W3/12

Copy of EL/W3/12 States that he has sent several types of clay to the Royal Society and gives an account of some of them; discussing 'bole armoniack', a red earth or clay, which Thomas Morris compounded; discussing a 'yellow oker' used for colouring leather

Reference number: EL/W3/13

Concerning the discovery of the ruins of a furnace works in Kencester in Herefordshire with cremations Plan of the ruins attached Read to the Royal Society on 30 April 1668

Reference number: EL/W3/15

Concerning the ruined furnace at Kenchester, Herefordshire with measurements of rooms Read to the Royal Society on 9 July 1668

Reference number: EL/W3/16
1670

Concerning artificial respiration with case studies; details of a six-year-old child who voided 'millipedes' in stools; concerning a patient with dropsy who had 12 quarts of water drained Read to the Royal Society on 2 June 1670

Reference number: EL/W3/17