Extract of a letter, from Revered Charles Ellis to Edward Tyson
Reference number: EL/E/10
Date: 14 July 1699
Description
Observations of travels in the Netherlands and Belgium - for example, a deaf and dumb girl who was taught to speak by Arnand; a physic garden in Amsterdam; dials at Leige and the hope to have a water dial; the eye condition of a five-year-old boy
Read to the Royal Society on 2 August 1699
- Reference number
- EL/E/10
- Earliest possible date
- 14 July 1699
- Page extent
- 3 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Charles Ellis, Extract of a letter, from Revered Charles Ellis to Edward Tyson, 14 July 1699, EL/E/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_e_10/extract-of-a-letter-from-revered-charles-ellis-to-edward-tyson, accessed on 16 November 2025
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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
1613-1740 Reference number: EL -
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Edward Tyson
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The archival collection known as 'Early Letters' is composed of original manuscript letters sent to, or collected by, the Royal Society from English and foreign correspondents.
Dates: 1613 - 1740
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