Letter, from Martin Lister to Henry Oldenburg, dated at York 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 10 January 1671