Letter, from Martin Lister to Henry Oldenburg, dated at York Observations of insects that smell of musk; observations of caterpillars; observations of healing cut eyes with the juice of the herb Celandine; observations of petrified shells from English quarries and states that he will send some specimens of English cockle stones Read to the Royal Society on 2 November 1671 Transcription in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall & Marie Boas Hall, vol 8, p 212 Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 6, no 76, p 2281 25 August 1671