Skip to content

Please be aware that some material may contain words, descriptions or illustrations which will not reflect current scientific understanding and may be considered in today's context inaccurate, unethical, offensive or distressing.

The Royal Society: Science in the Making

'Experiment on Aloe Americana Serratifolia, weighed' by Christopher Merrett

Reference number: RBO/3/48

Description

Experiment carried out in 4 August 1656
Paper by Merrett regarding grafting bark of ash and sycamore trees back onto the trees themselves. Also includes an account of experiments with Aloe americana serratifolia demonstrating a degree of circulation occuring within the plant.

Subject: Botany

Published as two separate papers in Philosophical Transactions, the first titled 'Observations concerning the uniting of barks of trees cut, to the tree it self; made by Christopher Merret M. D. and read before the Royal Society January 9. 1666' and the second titled 'An experiment on Aloe Americana Serrati-folia weighed; seeming to import a circulation of the sappe in plants, by the same Dr. Merret'.

Read to the Royal Society on 9 January 1667.

Reference number
RBO/3/48
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Christopher Merrett

View page for Christopher Merrett

Use this record

IIIF manifest

View​ IIIF ​ manifest Opens in new tab

Open in Mirador viewer Opens in new tab

Export this record

Download PDF Opens in new tab

Citation

Christopher Merrett, 'Experiment on Aloe Americana Serratifolia, weighed' by Christopher Merrett, RBO/3/48, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_3_48/experiment-on-aloe-americana-serratifolia-weighed-by-christopher-merrett, accessed on 09 December 2025

Link to this record

https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_3_48/experiment-on-aloe-americana-serratifolia-weighed-by-christopher-merrett

Embed this record

<iframe src="https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/embed/items/rbo_3_48/experiment-on-aloe-americana-serratifolia-weighed-by-christopher-merrett" title="'Experiment on Aloe Americana Serratifolia, weighed' by Christopher Merrett" allow="fullscreen" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="500px"></iframe>

Related Publications

Related Records

Hierarchy

This item is part of:

Related Fellows

Explore the collection

  • Register Books

    The 'Register Books Originals' contain copies of scientific papers submitted to the Society and considered for publication. The papers were transcribed to establish their precedence for a particular discovery or idea.

    Dates: 1661 - 1739

    View collection