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RefNoCLP/15i/23
LevelItem
TitleLetter, 'Of spiders and snails' from Mr Skippon to John Ray
DateFebruary 1668
DescriptionSkippon describes the appearances of two types of snail he has seen in England. He goes on to discuss spiders, and spider silk in particular.

Subject: Zoology / Arachnology / Malacology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Some observations concerning the odd turn of some shell-snailes, and the darting of spiders, made by an ingenious cantabrigian and by way of letter communicated to Mr. I. Wray, who transmitted them to the publisher for the R. S.', vol 4, no 50, p 1011

Read to the Royal Society on 18 February 1668
LanguageEnglish
Extent7p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1669.0034
RelatedRecordRBO/4/17
JBO/4/15
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8382Lister; Martin (1639 - 1712); physician and naturalist1639 - 1712
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