Scorpion from Barbary
Date
27 March 1689
Creator
Richard Waller (1641 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
Object type
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Manuscript page number
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Material
Dimensions
height (page): 333mm
width (page): 211mm
width (page): 211mm
Subject
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Description
Drawings of a scorpion from Barbary, accompanying a paper read by Richard Waller to the Royal Society on 27 March 1689. The scorpion is shown in full in watercolour at fig. 1, its eyes on the back at fig. 2, and its tail at fig. 3. This was not printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Object history
27 March 1689, 'the Description and Figure of a Scorpion of Barbary was read, and shewn by Mr Waller, wherein was observable the Eyes on the middle of the back, and the taile which was without any hole, slitt or perforation thro' which the poyson might pass' (JBO/8/253).
10 April 1689, ‘I went to Lond: was at the R. Society, where the very ingenious Mr. Waler brought in his Tables of knowing plants by a peculiar method: There was an extraordinary greatec scorpion, sent the Society out of Africa, whose Eyes were in his back, like to spiders, but not so prominent.’ (The Diary of John Evelyn: Now First Printed in Full from the Manuscripts Belonging to Mr. John Evelyn, ed. by E. S. de Beer, 6 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955), IV, 632.)
10 April 1689, ‘I went to Lond: was at the R. Society, where the very ingenious Mr. Waler brought in his Tables of knowing plants by a peculiar method: There was an extraordinary greatec scorpion, sent the Society out of Africa, whose Eyes were in his back, like to spiders, but not so prominent.’ (The Diary of John Evelyn: Now First Printed in Full from the Manuscripts Belonging to Mr. John Evelyn, ed. by E. S. de Beer, 6 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955), IV, 632.)
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Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
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