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    'Fish...from Bermuda'

    Date
    1699-1700
    Creator
    Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742, British) , Astronomer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (drawing): 205mm
    width (drawing): 333mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > fish
    Description
    Side view of an unidentified fish, inscribed above in pencil: "A Fish Taken in the Latitude of 36 degrees NE & N [?] from Bermodas [Bermuda] following an old Mast overgrown with Barnacles."

    At a meeting of the Royal Society on 6 November 1700: "Dr. Sloane shewed a book of Albegetti's of artillery, and done according to Gallilae...Capt. Hally was desired to give the So: an acct. of this book in writing. The same produced several sketches of fishes, and of the Batavian Islands, for which he was thanked, and ye sketches ordered to be put into the Repository. The fishes were of two sorts of flying fish &c." Royal Society Journal Book, JBO/10/198.

    The astronomer Edmond Halley was commissioned captain in 1698 commanded the voyages of HMS Paramour in the South Atlantic.
    Credit
    © The Royal Society
    Image number
    RS.9360
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