Letter, from Martin Lister to Henry Oldenburg, dated at York
Reference number: EL/L5/23
Date: 25 January 1670
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States that he will send on further observations of spiders's 'action of the darting of thread'; concerning the acid liquor of pismires (type of ant); observations of trying to obtain sap from sycamore ( 'bleeding of sycamore')
Read to the Royal Society on 9 February 1670
Transcription in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall & Marie Boas Hall, vol 7, p 415
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 5, no 68, p 2067
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- 25 January 1670
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Martin Lister, Letter, from Martin Lister to Henry Oldenburg, dated at York, 25 January 1670, EL/L5/23, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_l5_23/letter-from-martin-lister-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-york, accessed on 11 December 2024
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Extract of a letter written by Mr. Martin Lister to the publisher Jannuar, 25, 16 70/71, relating partly to the same argument with that of the former letter, and directing to another insect that is like to yield an Acid liquor; partly to the Bleeding of the Sycamore External link, opens in new tab.
Author: Martin Lister
Date: 2nd February 1671
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1670.0053
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