Letter, from Martin Lister to Henry Oldenburg, dated at York
Reference number: EL/L5/22
Date: 10 January 1671
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Observations of the 'Viviparous Flye' and answering enquiries about it; states that he sends a paper on snails; attached is a list of enquiries about spiders (23 questions); Lister has answered the first enquiry in Latin which is a list of the spiders of England
Read to the Royal Society on 19 January 1672
Transcription and translation in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall & Marie Boas Hall, vol 7, p 350
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 6, no 72, p 2170
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Martin Lister, Letter, from Martin Lister to Henry Oldenburg, dated at York, 10 January 1671, EL/L5/22, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_l5_22/letter-from-martin-lister-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-york, accessed on 17 May 2025
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A letter written to the publisher from York, Jan: 10. 1670, concerning a kind of fly that is viviparous, together with a set of curious inquiries about spiders, and a table of the several sorts of them to be found in England, amounting to at least 33 External link, opens in new tab.
Author: Martin Lister
Date: 19th June 1671
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1671.0022
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