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'Observations On Insects [lodging themselves] in old Willow' by Edmond King

Reference number: RBO/4/31

Date: 1670

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A piece of willow wood had been sent to King by John Bernard of Northamptonshire, which contained insects 'wrapt in green leaves'
Read to the Royal Society on 14 July 1670

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RBO/4/31
Earliest possible date
1670
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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'Observations On Insects [lodging themselves] in old Willow' by Edmond King, 1670, RBO/4/31, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_4_31/observations-on-insects-lodging-themselves-in-old-willow-by-edmond-king, accessed on 16 June 2025

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