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

Reference number: EL/L5/47

Date: 10 October 1672

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Wishing to expand and modify notes about the insect Kermes; states that an account of mushrooms that produce a milky substance found in the northern Alps will be ready soon (see EL/L5/49)
Read to the Royal Society on 30 October 1672
Transcription in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall & Marie Boas Hall, vol 9, p 281
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 7, no 87, p 5059

Reference number: EL/L5/47
Earliest possible date: 10 October 1672
Page extent: 3 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Martin Lister, Letter, from Martin Lister to Henry Oldenburg, dated at York, 10 October 1672, EL/L5/47, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_l5_47/letter-from-martin-lister-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-york, accessed on 14 December 2024

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An extract of letter of Mr. Lister to the publisher, both enlarging and correcting his former notes about kermes; and withal insinuating his conjecture of cochineil's being sort of kermes External link, opens in new tab.

Author: Martin Lister

Date: 14th October 1672

DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1672.0045

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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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