Paper, 'The description and figure of a scorpion from Barbary [North Africa]' by Richard Waller
Reference number: CLP/15i/38
Date: March 1689

Description
Waller shares a description of a scorpion (Scorpiones), with a focus on its 'two great claws'. Followed by one page of figures, including a full-colour drawing of a scorpion.
Subject: Zoology / Arachnology
Read to the Royal Society on 27 March 1689
- Reference number
- CLP/15i/38
- Earliest possible date
- March 1689
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 3 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Richard Waller, Paper, 'The description and figure of a scorpion from Barbary [North Africa]' by Richard Waller, March 1689, CLP/15i/38, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_15i_38/paper-the-description-and-figure-of-a-scorpion-from-barbary-north-africa-by-richard-waller, accessed on 18 February 2025
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Dates: 1592 - 1741
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