Paper, 'An account of a petrified honey-comb with some observations upon it' by Dr [Thomas?] Molyneux
Reference number: CLP/9i/63
Date: 1707
Description
Molyneux describes finding a petrified honeycomb in a type of freestone between two large rocks in a stone quarry near Dungannon in Northern Ireland.
Subject: Palaeontology
Read to the Royal Society on 22 October 1707.
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- CLP/9i/63
- Earliest possible date
- 1707
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Thomas Molyneux, Paper, 'An account of a petrified honey-comb with some observations upon it' by Dr [Thomas?] Molyneux, 1707, CLP/9i/63, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_9i_63/paper-an-account-of-a-petrified-honey-comb-with-some-observations-upon-it-by-dr-thomas-molyneux, accessed on 15 January 2026
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Dates: 1592 - 1741
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