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Paper, 'Relation concerning barnacles' by Robert Moray

Reference number: CLP/15i/1

Date: 1660

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Moray shares observations from the island of Berneray [Outer Hebrides, Scotland]. These include observations on the tides, barnacles, fir and ash trees. Includes one figure of a barnacle in the text.

Subject: Zoology / Botany / Natural history

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A relation concerning barnacles, by Sr. Robert Moray, lately one of his Majesties council for the Kingdom of Scotland.'

Read to the Royal Society on 4 March 1660

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CLP/15i/1
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1660
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Robert Moray

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Robert Moray, Paper, 'Relation concerning barnacles' by Robert Moray, 1660, CLP/15i/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_15i_1/paper-relation-concerning-barnacles-by-robert-moray, accessed on 10 December 2024

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