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RefNoCLP/15i/40
LevelFile
TitlePaper, 'Some observations made on the spawn of froggs and of the production of todpoles therein' by Richard Waller
DateDecember 1690
DescriptionWaller writes on frogspawn and tadpoles. He describes how he observed frogspawn in a pot of water on his windowsill over a period of four weeks. Includes one page of figures showing stages of the tadpole life cycle.

Subject: Zoology / Herpetology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Some observations made on the spawn of frogs, and of the production of todpoles therein, by the Learned and Curious Richard Waller, Esq; Reg. S. Secret'

Read to the Royal Society on 17 December 1690
LanguageEnglish
Extent3p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1686.0096
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 17 (1691), p 523
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6739Waller; Richard (c1646 - 1715); natural philosopher and translatorc1646 - 1715
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