'A Discourse - concerning Ants or Emmets' by Dr [Andrew] King

Reference number: RBO/3/41

Date: 1666

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King shares observations on ants (Formicidae) and what they do with their eggs.

Subject: Entomology

Read to the Royal Society on 29 August 1666

Printed in Philosophical Transactions vol 2, no 23, p 425 as 'Observations concerning emmets or ants, their eggs, production, progress, coming to maturity, use, &c'

Reference number: RBO/3/41
Earliest possible date: 1666
Page extent: 7 pages
Format: Manuscript

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'A Discourse - concerning Ants or Emmets' by Dr [Andrew] King, 1666, RBO/3/41, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_3_41/a-discourse-concerning-ants-or-emmets-by-dr-andrew-king, accessed on 08 July 2025

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Observations concerning emmets or ants, their eggs, production, progress, coming to maturity, use, &c External link, opens in new tab.

Date: 3rd December 1666

DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1666.0007

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Paper, 'Observations concerning ants or emmetts' by Andrew King
Reference number: CLP/15i/15

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