Letter, from Joseph Walsh to Theodore de Vaux
Reference number: EL/W3/12
Date: 20 January 1668
Description
States that he has sent several types of clay to the Royal Society and gives an account of some of them; discussing 'bole armoniack', a red earth or clay, which Thomas Morris compounded; discussing a 'yellow oker' used for colouring leather
Read to the Royal Society on 6 February 1668
- Reference number
- EL/W3/12
- Earliest possible date
- 20 January 1668
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Creator name
Joseph Walsh
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Joseph Walsh, Letter, from Joseph Walsh to Theodore de Vaux, 20 January 1668, EL/W3/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_w3_12/letter-from-joseph-walsh-to-theodore-de-vaux, accessed on 22 April 2025
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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
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Theodore de Vaux
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Dates: 1613 - 1740
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