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

Reference number: EL/L5/37

Date: 25 August 1671

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Observations of insects that smell of musk; observations of caterpillars; observations of healing cut eyes with the juice of the herb Celandine; observations of petrified shells from English quarries and states that he will send some specimens of English cockle stones
Read to the Royal Society on 2 November 1671
Transcription in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall & Marie Boas Hall, vol 8, p 212
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 6, no 76, p 2281

Reference number: EL/L5/37
Earliest possible date: 25 August 1671
Page extent: 4 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Martin Lister, Letter, from Martin Lister to Henry Oldenburg, dated at York, 25 August 1671, EL/L5/37, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_l5_37/letter-from-martin-lister-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-york, accessed on 03 December 2024

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A letter of Mr. Martin Lister, written at August 25 1671. Confirming the observation in no 74. about musk sented insects; adding some notes upon D. Swammerdam’s book of insects, and on that of M. Steno concerning petrify'd shells External link, opens in new tab.

Author: Martin Lister

Date: 22nd October 1671

DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1671.0050

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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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