Description | "Dr Short" may perhaps be Dr Thomas Short, who corresponded with the Society in the eighteenth century.
The list of items are of a mineral or chemical nature (eg "A Lixivium of Alum after it's let into & mixed with the Alkalis of Urines and Kelp"..."Two of Whitby Snake Stones which calcined you will find their bed is only Limestone and the snake chiefly Sulphur with a little Limestone earth"). |