Table of land, freshwater and marine snails
Date
23 October 1672
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p353
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 313mm
width (page): 197mm
width (page): 197mm
Subject
Description
Table of land, freshwater and marine snails in Martin Lister's letter to Henry Oldenburg dated 23 October 1672, York. Lister's paper was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 30 October 1672.
Transcription
Tabulae cochlearum Angliae tum terretrium fluviatiliumque, tum marinarum, quibus accedunt lapides ad chochlearum similitudinem atque alias vel suo modo figurati (Tables of the land, freshwater, and marine snails of England, to which are added the stones formed in the likeness of snails and other things or in their own way.'
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 30 October 1672, ‘Two letters of Mr. Lister to Mr. Oldenburg, dated at York, one of the 10th of October, 1672, inlarging and correcting his former notes about kermes; and the other of 23d October, concerning land and fresh water snails, with some queries relating to them, were read, and ordered to be inserted in the Letter-book’ (Birch 3:59).
Related fellows
Martin Lister (1639 - 1712, British) , Physician
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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