Record

RefNoCLP/12ii/66a
Previous numbersCLP/12ii/66 p5-6
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'A further account of the bones of animals being made red by aliment only' by Mr John Belchier
Date[1736]
DescriptionBelchier's follow-up on his earlier paper regarding turning the bones of hogs red by feeding them bran that had been boiled with printed calico fabric, found at CLP/12ii/66. Belchier confirms via experimentation that the dyeing agent in the fabric is madder root.

Subject: Physiology / Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A further account of the bones of animals being made red by aliment only'.

Read to the Royal Society on 16 December 1736.
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1735.0065
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 39, no 443, p 299
RelatedRecordRBO/20/12
CLP/12ii/66
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA5410Belchier; John (1706 - 1785)1706 - 1785
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