The Digital Ark :: William Clerk

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

William Clerk ( - fl. c. 1699)

Surgeon Relevant locations: Lived at or near Smyrna , Turkey
Relationships: William Clerk was a associate or acquaintance (general) of James Petiver (c. 1665-Apr 1718)

References in Documents:

Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 479. Spongia speciosa fibris tenuissimis è Smirna. This Mr. William Clerk, Surgeon, brought me lately from thence.

Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) 6. Nerita ORCAD. flava, striis capillaceis. These 3 elegant varieties, my kind Friend Mr Will. Clerk Surgeon, found the last Summer on the Shoars of the Orkney Isles.

Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) 10. Faba ORCAD. nigra, polita, tetrasculcata, hilo magno. vid. Clus. Exot. p. 4. Fig. 9. My Ingenious Friend Mr James Wallace, Physician, hath Figured this in his Description of the Orckney Isles, p. 14. from whose shoars Mr Will. Clerk brought it me. Father Kamel hath also sent me the same from the Philippine Isles.

Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) Fig. 1. FIneFine Hair-girdled white Orchney Moon Cockle, Cat. 66. Mr. William Clerk Surgeon brought this with other Shells, &c. from those Isles.