Paper, 'An account of an experiment touching the freezing of common water ting'd with a liquid, said to be extracted from shell lac [shellac]' by Francis Hauksbee Hauksbee writes: 'This Liquid is a very deep Red; a small quantity of which, will Tinge twenty times as much of Common Water of a very good Sanguine colour hardly Transparent.' Subject: Physics Read to the Royal Society on 28 February 1708 Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of an experiment touching the freezing of common water, ting'd with a liquid said to be extracted from shell-lac' 1708