Paper, 'Some observations made on the spawn of froggs and of the production of todpoles therein' by Richard Waller
Reference number: CLP/15i/40
Date: December 1690
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Waller writes on frogspawn and tadpoles. He describes how he observed frogspawn in a pot of water on his windowsill over a period of four weeks. Includes one page of figures showing stages of the tadpole life cycle.
Subject: Zoology / Herpetology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Some observations made on the spawn of frogs, and of the production of todpoles therein, by the Learned and Curious Richard Waller, Esq; Reg. S. Secret'
Read to the Royal Society on 17 December 1690
- Reference number
- CLP/15i/40
- Earliest possible date
- December 1690
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 3 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Richard Waller, Paper, 'Some observations made on the spawn of froggs and of the production of todpoles therein' by Richard Waller, December 1690, CLP/15i/40, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_15i_40/paper-some-observations-made-on-the-spawn-of-froggs-and-of-the-production-of-todpoles-therein-by-richard-waller, accessed on 24 April 2025
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Author: Richard Waller
Date: 1st September 1691
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1686.0096
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Dates: 1592 - 1741
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