Double goose egg
Date
27 February 1668
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p5
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 195mm
width (page): 145mm
width (page): 145mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Drawing of a double goose egg found at Brougham in March 1666, as reported, amongst other things, by Thomas Browne (1606-1682), the author of Pseudodoxia epidemica (1646). The account was read at the meeting of the Royal Society on 27 February 1668.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 27 February 1668, ‘Dr. Brown of Norwich presented to the society a great petrified bone, a double goose egg, the one included in the other, and a stone-bottle, which had been filled seven years before with Malaga sack, and was well stopped, but now found almost empty, and the outside covered all over with a mossy coat’ (Birch 2:253).
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