Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14390

    Uncommon substance found in distillation

    Date
    25 February 1685
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p217
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 368mm
    width (page): 232mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Graphite on a separate piece of paper (37 x 46 mm) stuck in the margin of the page.

    Figure of 'uncommon concrete' found in distillations of several vegetables by Frederick Slare, whose paper was read at the meeting of 11 March 1685.
    Object history
    At the meeting of the Royal Society on 11 March 1685 ‘A paper of Dr. Slare was read, concerning an uncommon concrete found in the distillations of several vegetables’ (Birch 4:378).
    Related fellows
    Frederick Slare (1642 - 1727, British) , Physician
    Associated place
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