RefNo | RBO/1/19 |
AltRefNo | RBO.1.95 |
Level | Item |
Title | 'The Description of the Island Hirta Brought in by Sir Robert Moray' |
Date | 30 September 1661 |
Description | 'Hirta lyes from Snod in Skye-Hand West and by North, from the neerest land to it in the Hereishe, from whence people ordinarilie take boate...'
Details about the island of Hirta, near St Kilda, off the Outer Hebrides - its wildlife, geology, indigenous population
Details about the wildlife on Burra and Soa given
Read to the Royal Society on 28 August 1661 |
Language | English |
Extent | 4 sides |
Format | Manuscript |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1677.0033 Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 12, no 137, p 927 |
RelatedRecord | CLP/7i/3 |
RBC/1/22 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8261 | Moray; Sir; Robert (1608 - 1673); army officer and politician | 1608 - 1673 |