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Wyche provides details about life in Muscovy [Tsardom of Russia], including how grain is preserved, a bird called the heathcock that changes colour, frozen ground and methods used by gravediggers to penetrate it, and effects of the cold on substances including oil, blood, iron and steel.

Subject: Agriculture / Anthropology

Read to the Royal Society on 14 July 1670.

Reference number
CLP/10iii/15
Earliest possible date
1670
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Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Peter Wyche

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Peter Wyche, Paper, regarding preservation of grain in Moscovy by Peter Wyche, 1670, CLP/10iii/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_10iii_15/paper-regarding-preservation-of-grain-in-moscovy-by-peter-wyche, accessed on 06 December 2025

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