Description | Signed autograph Sends an enquiry about obtaining sap from sycamore ( 'bleeding sycamore'); stating that he has not been harmed by the spiders he has investigated, but has been by 'Cimices', a genus of bedbugs Read to the Royal Society on 9 February 1670 Transcription in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall & Marie Boas Hall, vol 7, p 423 |
Place origin | York, North Yorkshire, England |