'A Relation Concerning the Making of Allum By Mr Daniel Colwall'
Reference number: RBO/1/17
Date: 27 September 1661
Description
'Allum is made of a Stone digged out of a Mine, of a Sea-Weede, and of Urine; The Mine of stone is found in most of the Hills betweene Scarborough and the River of Tees in the County of Yorke, and also neare Preston in Lancashire'
That 'snake stones' were found with the stones that make alum
Read to the Royal Society 11 August 1661
- Reference number
- RBO/1/17
- Earliest possible date
- 27 September 1661
- Page extent
- 7 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Daniel Colwall, 'A Relation Concerning the Making of Allum By Mr Daniel Colwall', 27 September 1661, RBO/1/17, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_1_17/a-relation-concerning-the-making-of-allum-by-mr-daniel-colwall, accessed on 18 May 2025
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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 1, copies of papers communicated 1661-1662
1661-1662 Reference number: RBO/1
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Dates: 1661 - 1739
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