Fossils
Date
4 November 1673
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
vol6 p466a
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 236mm
width (page): 370mm
width (page): 370mm
Description
Fossils from the Craven area, described by Martin Lister in a letter to Henry Oldenburg dated 4 November 1673 at York. It was read at the meeting on 13 November 1673 and printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 8, no. 100 (1674), pp. 6181-71.
Copied from LBO/6/379a-b.
Copied from LBO/6/379a-b.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 13 November 1673, ‘Mr. Oldenburg read a paper of Mr. Lister, containing an account of some of the parts of certain stones figured like plants, together with thirty-seven figures, curiously drawn to represent the same’ (Birch 3:110).
Printed in M. Lister, 'A description of certain stones figured like plants', Phil. Trans. vol. 8, no. 100 (February 1674), pp. 6181-91.
Printed in M. Lister, 'A description of certain stones figured like plants', Phil. Trans. vol. 8, no. 100 (February 1674), pp. 6181-91.
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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