The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Richard Waller (1660 - 1715)
Natural philosopher, translator, and member of the Royal Society, serving as secretary and editor of the Philosophical Transactions 1691-1693 and served again as secretary 1710-1714. Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/48707?docPos=16 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Waller_(d._1715) Other Links: https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/s/rs/people/viaf_107707317 - Relationships: Richard Waller was a member of Royal Society (-)Richard Waller was a friend of Edward Tyson (20 Jan 1651-1 Aug 1708)
Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
as Mentions or references - London in 1710, from the Travels of Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach .
as Subject of/in a document - Biographical Notes - Richard Waller (about 1650-1715).
References in Documents:
Musk-Hog,Tajacu seu Aper Mexicanus Moschiferus , or the
Ana
tomy of theMexico
tomy of the
&c.
By the Learned and Ingenious
M. D. Fellow of the
ofPhysicians
and of the
on; and its inward organs, at least some, so odd,
and remarkable; I am willing to deliver my ob
servations of it.
They are rude, and very inperfect,
yet such as they are, I the rather venture abroad, since
it may be, I may never have an opportunity of compleat
ing them.
The occasion of my making these, was afforded me,
by my very good friend GoodallColledg of Physicians, and a great lover of the same,
who ac
cidentally meeting with it, when dead: procured it for
our private
dissectionat
Theater
leasurely examining it, at the
[360]
Hunt
Figures; I
think I may be able to give some better notice of it, than
what hitherto we have recieved.
in
round.
small as Brush Iron. Boulder, acciden
tally broken in paving the Court of
William CooksonEsq
Mayor of
viz. an Oval within a Quadrangle in red Lines upon a yellow Ground.
metrical Figures, naturally imprinted upon Stones; but I have not
the Opportunity in these remote Parts to consult that Author.
transparent
viz. an Orle of three Pieces with an Inescochean.
an Orange Oval in a white Stone.
of protuberant Lozenges, set most regularly in the
Squares being hollow, and the Rows protuberant; it was found at
the Coal-Pits near
white
ly placed at half Inch distance from each other.
wrought quite round, with Ridges and Furrows the length Way of
the Stone, the
Rigs(to use the Local Word) thick set with Knobs.
near
Tho. Dinsdale
transverse Wreaths, and a Protuberance above the Neck, that, with
out much Stretch of Fancy, resembles the Head of a Quadruped.
Point.
like Work, but as to the Form, tapering like the Branch of a Tree; and
seems, by a Seam, and part of a Joint remaining near the Top, to
have had an Out-branch springing from it, which would tempt one
to think that even these large rough Stones do sometimes shoot forth
like the tender Rock-Plants in
MendipHills
e)
e)
Phil. Trans. N° 150
Madam Leighton's Quarry at
deeply chanell'd, not unlike the
Radixof those Rock-Plants: This
(which was brought me from
rence, fit for so large a Stem as the last described. Don.
Mil.
Gale
Gale
about three Inches round, the other not two.
perhaps have been more aptly placed amongst the
Formed Stones, but
their
CircumscriptiveForm not being Regular, they were omitted.
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