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Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742)

Astronomer and fellow of the Royal Society. From his scientific endeavors in a voyage to the Americas in 1698-1699, Halley "submitted some barnacles to the Society, which he observed to be of quick growth" (Weld 1.351). He many coastal regions of the Americas. Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi-org.cyber.usask.ca/10.1093/ref:odnb/12011 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Halley Relevant locations: Birth place in Shoreditch, London
Lived at or near London, England
 Relationships: Edmond Halley was a friend of James Petiver (c. 1665-Apr 1718)
Edmond Halley was a visitor to the collection of Henry Prescott (1649-1719)
Edmond Halley was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Henry Prescott (1649-1719)
Edmond Halley was a member of Royal Society (-)
Edmond Halley was a donor to Royal Society (-)

George Alfrey (-fl. c. 1699) was a worked with Edmond Halley
Mr. Roberts (-fl. 1696) was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Edmond Halley
Linked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Part of a letter from Mr. Halley at Chester, October 26th, 1696. giving an account of an animal resembling a whelp voided per anum, by a male greyhound, and of a Roman Altar found there, &c.
as Mentions or references - A History of the Royal Society, With Memoirs of the Presidents. Compiled from Authentic Documents.
as Subject of/in a work of art - Sale Catalogues of Libraries of Eminent Persons.
 References in Documents:
MS Book of the dean of Christ Church (MacGregor, ed.) 171 Edmundus Halleius Astronomus Regius &c: Edmund Halley, Astronomer Royal, etc.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 347. Anomala Brasil. floribus parvis, ex alis foliorum, longo tenuissimoque pediculo affixis. These two last, with some others, Mr. George Alfrey, Surgeon to my worthy Friend Capt. Edmund Halley, gathered on the Coast of Brasil, in his late Expedition to those and other Parts.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 1. MR.Mr. GEORGE ALFREY, Surgeon to Capt. HALLEY in his late Expedition, was so kind to make me some Collections of Plants on the Coast of Brasil.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 795. Polypodium รจ Trinidado foliis valde pilosis. This my worthy Friend Capt. Haley that Famous Mathematician gathered on that Island in his last Expedition.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 796. Randalia Madraspat. Graminis folio globulifer. This elegant Plant was first collected by Mr. Randal a Gardner at Fort St. George and sent to my worthy Friend Mr. Charles Du-Bois.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) Capt. Edmund Halley was pleased to give me what Plants he collected on the Island Trinidado in his last Expedition.
Selections from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1665-1669) VI. Part of a Letter from Mr. Halley at Chester, October 26th, 1696. giving an Account of an Animal resembling a Whelp voided per Anum, by a Male Greyhound, and of a Roman Altar found there, &c.
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) Allestree, Alsop, Ambrose, Ames, Angier, Annesley, Ashe, Ascham, Ashmole; Barnes, Bates, Baxter, Beaumont, Bentley, Bernard, Blackmore, Bladen, Bodley, Bolton, Bonnel, Boswel, Bowles, Boyle, Bromley, Buchanan, Burket, Busby; Calamy, Camden, Cartwright, Castel, Cave, Cawton, Chadderton, Chamberlayn, Chancy, Charlotte, Charnock, Chetwynd, Chillingworth, Clarges, Clark, Clarkson, Collings, Collier, Dodsworth, Dodwell, Doolittle, Dorrington, Drake, (Sir Francis), Dryden, Dugdale, Duport; Edwards, Ent, Evelyn, Elstob; Fairfax, Firmin, Flaherly, Flamsted, Flemming, Floyer, Fox, Frankland; Gale, Du Gard, Gascoigne, Gibson, Gilpin, Glisson, Godolphin, Goodall, Goodwin, Gouge, Gower, Gumble, Gurnall; Halley, Hammond, Hampden, Harley, Harrison, Henry, Herbert, Herne, Heywood, Hickes, Hickman, Hickeringil, Higden, Hill, Hildersham, Hobbes, Hody, Holder, Hook, Hooker, Hopkinson, Howe, Hudson, Humfreys, Hyde; Jacomb, James, Jenkins, Jenkyn, Johnson (Ben.), Johnston; Keith, Kennet, Kettlewell, King, Kirke, Knox (Capt.), Kymberley; Lambarde, Langbain, Lenthall, Le-Neve, Le-strange, Lesley, Lewys, Lightfoot, Linacre, Lister, Littleton, Lhoyd (Hum. and Edw.), Loggan, Lower; Mack-Martin, Madox, Manton, Marshall, Marsham, Marvel, Mather, Matthewes, Mead, Micklethwait, Midgeley, Mildmay, Milner, Molesworth, Molyneux, More, Morice, Morisone, Morgan, Morland, Morton, Morris, Mountague; Nalson, Nalton, Nelson, Newcome, Newcomen, Nowel (Alex. and Laur.), Nye; Ogle, Oley, Olliffe, Otteley, Owen; Pearse, Pearson, Penn, Penton, Pepys, Peters, Petiver, Petyt, Plot, Pococoke, Pool, Potter, Preston, Prideaux, Primrose, Pryor, Purcell, Pymm; Radcliffe, Ralegh (Sir Walter), Randolph, Raye, Rawdon, Rosewell, Rogers, Rule, Rushworth, Russel (Admiral), Rycaut, Rymer; Sacheverell, Sampson, Savile, Scobell, Sedgewick, Selden, Sharp, Sherburn, Sherlock, Shepard, Shovel (Sir Cloudesley), Shower, Sibbald, Sidney (Sir Phil.), Simpson, Skelton, Sloane, Smith, South, Southwell, Spragge, Spelman, Steel, Stephens, Stretton, Strype, Suckling, Sutherland, Swinburn; Talbot, Tallents, Tanner, Temple, Thursby, Thwaits, Todd, Towneley, Travers, Tuckney, Twisse, Tyndal, Tyson; Vernon, Vicars, Vincent, Vyner; Wales, Walker, Waller, Wallis, Walsingham, Wanley, Ware, Washington, Watson, Webster, Wentworth, Welwood, Wharton, Wheatley, Wheeler, Whiston, Whitacre, Whitby, Whitchcote, Whitlock, Whyte, Widdrington, Wild, Williams, Williamson, Wittie, Wolseley, Woodcock, Woodward, Worthington, Wortley, Wotton, and Wren.
Sale Catalogue of Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1764) 80 A Box containing a great Number of Letters by eminent Persons, among which are Locke, Boyle, Prior, Steele, Flamstead, Halley" ref="528">Halley, Woodward, Sir H. Sloane, Sir Christopher Wren, Brown Willis, Warburton, and many others