Insect cartridge made of leaf
Date
19 August 1670
Creator
Francis Willughby (1635 - 1672, British) , Naturalist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p47av
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 70mm
width (page): 182mm
width (page): 182mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Insect cartridges made of leaves, observed by Francis Willughby and described in his letter to Henry Oldenburg, read on 27 October 1670. It was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 5, no. 65 (November 1670).
This is the drawing that accompanied the letter, cut out and inserted into the Letter Book Original.
There is another copy at LBC/4/062a.
This is the drawing that accompanied the letter, cut out and inserted into the Letter Book Original.
There is another copy at LBC/4/062a.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 27 October 1670, ‘Two letters of Mr. Willughby to Mr. Oldenburg were read, one dated at Astrop 19 August 1670, the other at Middleton 2 Sept. 1670, both confirming Dr. King’s observation about the maggots lodged in old willows, and changed into bees, and sending some of the very rose leaves, out of which the bee had bitten pieces of such a shape, as are found employed by that insect in making up those cartrages, wherein the bees close themselves up’ (Birch 2:449).
Printed in Francis Willughby, 'Observations on the insects and cartrages', Phil. Trans. vol. 5, no. 65 (November 1670), pp. 2100-02 (ref. to figures at p. 2102).
Printed in Francis Willughby, 'Observations on the insects and cartrages', Phil. Trans. vol. 5, no. 65 (November 1670), pp. 2100-02 (ref. to figures at p. 2102).
Related fellows
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Associated place