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

Reference number: EL/L5/26

Date: 15 February 1670

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Glad that his box has arrived; observations of the 'Viviparous Fly' and the insect 'Julus'; further observations of experiments about the motion of sap in sycamore, walnut and maple; questions whether sap moves in plants and outlines an experiment to determine this with 'Cataputia minor Lob' (spurge); concerning the colours of vegetables and animals and whether salts are responsible for changing colours; observations of the colours of flowers; considers how to fix colours, especially black which was from an English vegetable
Read to the Royal Society on 23 February 1670
Transcription in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall & Marie Boas Hall, vol 7, p 457
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 6, no 70, pp 2121-2123 and pp 2132-36

Reference number: EL/L5/26
Earliest possible date: 15 February 1670
Page extent: 3 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Martin Lister, Letter, from Martin Lister to Henry Oldenburg, dated at York, 15 February 1670, EL/L5/26, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_l5_26/letter-from-martin-lister-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-york, accessed on 03 December 2024

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Some observations, touching colours, in order to the increase of dyes, and the fixation of colours; generously imparted by the Author of the four above mention'd letters, who annexed them to that of Februar. 15. 1670 External link, opens in new tab.

Date: 1st April 1671

DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1671.0009

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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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