Cortex Winteranus
Date
1693
Creator
George Handisyd, Surgeon
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p97
Material
Dimensions
height (paper): 136mm
width (paper): 119mm
width (paper): 119mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Drawing of a 'true' Cortex Winteranus (Drymis winteri) from the Straits of Magellan by George Handisyd (a navy surgeon). The description of this plant was read at the meeting on 4 February 1691. It was printed in H. Sloane, 'An Account of the True Cortex Winteranus', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 17 no. 204 (1693), pp. 922-24, as confirmed by the inscription at the top.
Transcription
At the top in ink: Philosophical Transactions No. 204, and figure numbers.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 4 February 1691, 'There were read a Description very curious of the Tree being the Cortex Winteranus, and of the Pimenta Tree, growing in Jamaica brought in by Dr Sloan, and by him designed to be inserted in the Transactions' (JBO/9/28-29).
Related fellows
Hans Sloane (1660 - 1753, Irish) , Physician
Associated place