Barnacles in Scotland
Date
8 March 1661
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p20
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 368mm
width (page): 231mm
width (page): 231mm
Subject
Content object
Description
A figure of a barnacle observed by Robert Moray on the shores of the Isle of Berneray, showing that the shell had some cross sutures dividing it into five parts which were fastened to each other. Moray's account was read to the meeting of the Royal Society on 6 March 1661, and entered into the Register Book on 8 March 1661. It was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 12, no. 137 (January and February 1678).
This figure is copied from RBO/1/015. There is another version at Cl.P/15i/1/001 and another copy at MS/776/017.
This figure is copied from RBO/1/015. There is another version at Cl.P/15i/1/001 and another copy at MS/776/017.
Transcription
The shells hung very thick and close by one another, and were of different sizes, of the colour and consistence of musshells, and the sides or joints of them, joined with such a kind of film, as Mussels are, which serves them for a Hinge to move upon, when they open and shut. The figure of the Barnacle shell, is here coursely represented on the Margin. It is thin about the Edges, and about half as thick as broad.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 6 March 1661, ‘Sir Robert Moray having given in, probably this day, his relation concerning the bernacles [sic], it was registered on the 8th of March’ (Birch 1:18).
Printed as fig. 3 in Robert Moray, ‘A relation concerning barnacles’, Phil. Trans. vol. 12, no. 137 (January and February 1678), pp. 925-27.
Printed as fig. 3 in Robert Moray, ‘A relation concerning barnacles’, Phil. Trans. vol. 12, no. 137 (January and February 1678), pp. 925-27.
Related fellows
Robert Moray (1608 - 1673, British) , Natural philosopher
Associated place