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

Reference number: EL/L5/60

Date: 25 October 1673

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Signed autograph
Reservations about Nehemiah Grew's paper; sends Jessop's letter; states that he will send a specimen or a preparation of the blood-staunching liquid to the Royal Society and gives a case of a boy who used it after chopping his thumb
Lister's answer to Grew see EL/L5/62
Transcription in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall & Marie Boas Hall, vol 10, p 301

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EL/L5/60
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25 October 1673
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3 pages
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Martin Lister, Martin Lister, Letter, from Martin Lister to Henry Oldenburg, dated at York, 25 October 1673, EL/L5/60, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_l5_60/letter-from-martin-lister-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-york, accessed on 12 December 2025

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