Letter, from Martin Lister to Henry Oldenburg, dated at York

Reference number: EL/L5/24

Date: 28 January 1670

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Sends an enquiry about obtaining sap from sycamore ( 'bleeding sycamore'); stating that he has not been harmed by the spiders he has investigated, but has been by 'Cimices', a genus of bedbugs
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 423

Reference number: EL/L5/24
Earliest possible date: 28 January 1670
Page extent: 1 page
Format: Manuscript
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Martin Lister, Letter, from Martin Lister to Henry Oldenburg, dated at York, 28 January 1670, EL/L5/24, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_l5_24/letter-from-martin-lister-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-york, accessed on 02 December 2024

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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
Early Letters L5
1651-1701 Reference number: EL/L5

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