Barnacles in Scotland
Date
6 March 1661
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p1
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 268mm
width (page): 195mm
width (page): 195mm
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 (see RBO/1/015). It was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 12, no. 137 (January and February 1678).
Other copies can be found at RBC/1/020 and MS/776/017.
Other copies can be found at RBC/1/020 and MS/776/017.
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
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