Paper, 'A further account of the bones of animals being made red by aliment only' by Mr John Belchier
Reference number: CLP/12ii/66a
Date: 1736
Description
Belchier's follow-up on his earlier paper regarding turning the bones of hogs red by feeding them bran that had been boiled with printed calico fabric, found at CLP/12ii/66. Belchier confirms via experimentation that the dyeing agent in the fabric is madder root.
Subject: Physiology / Chemistry
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A further account of the bones of animals being made red by aliment only'.
Read to the Royal Society on 16 December 1736.
- Reference number
- CLP/12ii/66a
- Earliest possible date
- 1736
- Physical description
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- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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John Belchier, Paper, 'A further account of the bones of animals being made red by aliment only' by Mr John Belchier, 1736, CLP/12ii/66a, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12ii_66a/paper-a-further-account-of-the-bones-of-animals-being-made-red-by-aliment-only-by-mr-john-belchier, accessed on 13 September 2026
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