| RefNo | CLP/18i/133 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'An account of experiments touching the keeping of fishes in water under different circumstances' by Francis Hauksbee |
| Date | 1711 |
| Description | Hauksbee writes: 'The fishes made use of in the following Experiments were Gudgeons; which are a sort of Fish very brisk and lively in the Water, and will live a pretty considerable time out of it. Three of them I put into a Glass Vessel, to about three Pints of common Water (which fishes were to be a standard to compare the others by.) Into another Glass, to a like quantity of Water, I put three more of them, which quantity of Water fill’d this Glass to the very Brim and upon which I screw'd down a Brass Plate with a Leather between, to prevent a Communication with the Water in the Glass and the External Air: And that it might the better resemble a Pond of of Water frozen over (on which account this Experiment was made) I suffer’d as little Air as possible to remain on the Surface of the included Water. The third Glass had a like quantity of Water put into it as the former; which Water, first by boyling, then by continuing it a whole Night in Vacuo on the Air Pump, was purg’d of its Air to the greatest nicety: Into this Water also, I put a like number of Gudgeons as into the other.'
Subject: Physics / Zoology
Read to the Royal Society on 21 February 1711
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of some experiments touching the keeping of fishes in water different circumstances' |
| Language | English |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1710.0041 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8345 | Hauksbee; Francis (c 1660 - 1713) | c 1660 - 1713 |