| Description | Signed autograph
Observations of the 'Viviparous Flye' and answering enquiries about it; states that he sends a paper on snails; attached is a list of enquiries about spiders (23 questions); Lister has answered the first enquiry in Latin which is a list of the spiders of England
Read to the Royal Society on 19 January 1672
Transcription and translation in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall & Marie Boas Hall, vol 7, p 350
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 6, no 72, p 2170 |
| Place origin | York, North Yorkshire, England |