Spawning of tadpoles
Date
17 December 1690
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p2
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 123mm
width (page): 187mm
width (page): 187mm
Subject
Description
Figures for Richard Waller's paper on the spawning of tadpoles, which was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 17 December 1690, and published in R. Waller, ‘Some observations made on the spawn of frogs’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 16, no. 193 (March to June 1691), pp. 523-24, figs. 5-11.
Transcription
Some observations of frog spawn/of Todpoles. made on the spawn of froggs and of the production therin by the learned and curious Richard Waller Esq. Roy. S. Secret.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 17 December 1690, ‘Mr Waller’s Paper about the Generation of Todpoles [sic] or Young Frogs, was read, wherein he gave the Bigness of the Black Specks in the Spawn of a Frog, as they chang’d from time to time, til they had attained the true figures of the Tadpoles’ (JBO/9/21).
Related fellows
Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
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