Letter, from Martin Lister to Henry Oldenburg, dated at York
Reference number: EL/L5/25
Date: 08 February 1670
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Concern about whether a box has arrived at the Royal Society; stating that 'Multipedas' gives acidic juice; concerning an experiment for obtaining sap from sycamore (the 'bleeding of sycamore') which was carried out on other trees; concerning the sap from a mulberry tree
Transcription in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall & Marie Boas Hall, vol 7, p 443
Partially printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 5, no 68, p 2069 and vol 6, no 70, p 2120
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Martin Lister, Letter, from Martin Lister to Henry Oldenburg, dated at York, 08 February 1670, EL/L5/25, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_l5_25/letter-from-martin-lister-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-york, accessed on 20 April 2025
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Extract of divers letters, written by Martin Lister Esquire, to the publisher; touching some inquiries and experiments of the motion of sap in trees, and relating to the question of the circulation of the same External link, opens in new tab.
Author: Martin Lister
Date: 1st April 1671
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1671.0007
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