Paper, 'Of the humming bird' by Robert Southwell
Reference number: CLP/15i/53
Date: October 1697
Description
Southwell recounts Mr Fovey's observations from the island of Nevis in theWest Indies, including a description of hummingbirds (Trochilidae) and how they 'suck their food from the blossoms of trees, and feed their young with such honey or juices as they suck from hence'.
Subject: Zoology / Ornithology
Read to the Royal Society on 20 October 1697
- Reference number
- CLP/15i/53
- Earliest possible date
- October 1697
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Robert Southwell, Paper, 'Of the humming bird' by Robert Southwell, October 1697, CLP/15i/53, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_15i_53/paper-of-the-humming-bird-by-robert-southwell, accessed on 14 June 2026
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Dates: 1592 - 1741
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