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Paper, 'Of alkermes, in French' by Monsieur Verny

Reference number: CLP/10i/5

Date: 1666

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Paper originally written in French by Monsieur Verny, apothecary in Montpellier, France. The paper details how alkermes is prepared for use in medicine and in dyeing wool. Alkermes is an excrescence from wood or leaves of a shrub called ilex baccifera aquifolium, a type of holly, which grows in Languedoc, France.

Subject: Botany

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A relation of the use of the grain of kermes for coloration, from France'.

Translated from French by Henry Oldenburg. Communicated by Dr Croone. Read to the Royal Society on 17 October 1666.

Reference number
CLP/10i/5
Earliest possible date
1666
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, 'Of alkermes, in French' by Monsieur Verny, 1666, CLP/10i/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_10i_5/paper-of-alkermes-in-french-by-monsieur-verny, accessed on 27 April 2025

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