Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14901

    Snowflakes in March

    Date
    13 March 1667
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    LBC
    Manuscript page number
    vol1 p477
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 298mm
    width (page): 180mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > snow
    Description
    Drawings of snowflakes in March. This observation by James Hayes, one of the founding Fellows of the Royal Society, was read at a meeting of the Society on 21 March 1667.

    These images are copies of the ones at LBO/1/403.
    Object history
    At the meeting of the Royal Society on 21 March 1667 'Mr. Hayes produced a letter containing some observations concerning the figure of snow fallen in Hampshire-marsh; and the figures were ordered to be drawn with ink' (Birch 2:160).
    Related fellows
    James Hayes (British) , Barrister
    Associated place
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