Account by Thomas Stack of a treatise entitled 'De Ambra grysea' by Caspar Neuman
Reference number: RBO/14/125
Date: 1730
Description
Discussing ambergris; quotes from Paul Dudley on ambergris; details of how ambergris is used eg in perfumes with details of how it is made
Read to the Royal Society on 4 June 1730
- Reference number
- RBO/14/125
- Earliest possible date
- 1730
- Page extent
- 12 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Account by Thomas Stack of a treatise entitled 'De Ambra grysea' by Caspar Neuman, 1730, RBO/14/125, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_14_125/account-by-thomas-stack-of-a-treatise-entitled-de-ambra-grysea-by-caspar-neuman, accessed on 11 February 2026
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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 14, copies of papers communicated 1728-1730
1728-1730 Reference number: RBO/14
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