| RefNo | CLP/15ii/16 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, regarding 'Hirudinella marina' or sea leach by Laurent Garcin |
| Date | 5 January 1729 |
| Description | Garcin writes: 'The Oxyoides is a family of plants, whose flower and fruit are altogether like those of the Oxys; that is, the flower is compleat, regular, polypetalous and hermaphrodite; containing the ovary, which afterwards becomes, as in the Oxys, a five-cornered fruit, divided into five cells, filled with small seeds; each of which is covered by a membrane, like a hood, which opens, when ripe; and by an elastic motion, makes the seed leap out.'
Subject: Botany / Zoology
Read to the Royal Society on 14 May 1730
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Memoirs communicated by Mons. Garcin to Mons. St. Hyacinthe, F. R. S. containing a description of a new family of plants called oxyoïdes; some remarks on the family of plants called musa; and a description of the Hirudinella marina, or sea leach. Translated from the French, by Mr. John Martyn, F. R. S.' |
| Language | French |
| English |
| Extent | 15p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1729.0053 |
| RelatedRecord | RBO/15/26 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA4513 | Garcin; Laurent (1683 - 1751) | 1683 - 1751 |
| NA7004 | Hyacinthe; Paul de Saint (1684 - 1746) | 1684 - 1746 |