The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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D. Baxter, Reverend ( - )

Ordained minister, “VDM” verbi divini minister (Minister of the Divine Word) References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

Corallium fossile exalbidum; the first of the English Coralls, Lh. 92. from Witney in Oxfordshire, from the Benefactor last mentioned. A Branch like that from Shipston Sollers in Gloc. Lh. 94. A larger Sort sent me from Ireland. A porous Species of Coral, like Imperatus's Madrepora, Lh. 104. The second Sort of a Coral mentioned in Dr. Sloan's Nat. Hist. of Jamaica, white, smooth, with many crooked Branches not above an Inch high (b)(b) Jam. p. 51.. The next Sort Corallium album porosum maximum; this is of the tapering Part towards the Top, thicker than the little Finger, about five Inches long, hath but one Joint, the muricated Prickles are convex below, but Hollow above, fit to receive Nourishment from the Water, but whether from the East or West-Indies I know not. A lesser Sort of white porous Coral, that hath half a Score Branches in less than five Inches. The Doctor's 4th, Corallina Opuntiades, one Leaf growing out of another, tyed together by a Sort of stony Thread. Pounced white Coral from the Coast of Norway; it is above four Inches in Circumference, full of small Holes upon the Surface: It was broke from the Rock that my Friend's Ship struck against. Don. D. S. Madox. Two Branches, but conjoined in Places, of curious starred white Coral, with many lesser Branches intermixed. Don. Rev. D. Baxter V D M. The Root of Red Coral, growing upon a Rock, but the Branches broken off, that there remains not above an Inch in Height of each Branch, which is smooth, solid and red, as are also the spreading Branches of the Root. Another very ponderous and rugged, having the Foot Stems of above 20 Branches, some of which are four Inches round.