The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
An Account of a petrified Bone. An oddly-coated Stone Bottle: And a double Goose-Egg. Produced before the Society, by Dr. Brown of Norwich, Feb. 27- 1667/8
In Print Source: Philosophical experiments and observations of the late eminent Dr. Robert Hooke, S.R.S. and Geom. Prof. Gresh., and other eminent virtuoso's in his time, 31-32 Document Type: Description Date:1726 Number of Objects:3Attached People: Subject of/in a document - Browne, Thomas (19 Nov 1605-19 Oct 1682)
Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - Hooke, Robert (18 Jul 1635-3 Mar 1703)
Location(s): No Locations Attached To This
Bibliographic Source(s): The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg..., page: 4.22, notes:
Annotation:It is doubtful the report was delivered by Browne in person, but Oldenburg did record in a letter to Boyle that these curiosities were "produced...to be lodged in our repository" (3 March 1667/8, 4.22). Two of these objects seem to be the "leg-bone of an Elephant" and the "egg of a swan" identified with Browne in Musaeum Regalis.