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    Tuna fish

    Date
    1699-1700
    Creator
    Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742, British) , Astronomer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (drawing): 261mm
    width (drawing): 390mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > fish
    Description
    Side view of a variety of Atlantic tuna [Thunnus], inscribed below in ink: "these Fishes were taken and drawn : and given to the R. Society by Capt. Halley November 6: 1700.”

    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 Original, 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.9363
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