Paper, 'Relation concerning barnacles' by Robert Moray
Reference number: CLP/15i/1
Date: 1660
Description
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
- Reference number
- CLP/15i/1
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- 1660
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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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 22 January 2026
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