Torpedo marmorata Sur la Torpille..., ca. 1770s. (Manuscripts, [ca. 1770-1779], concerning the torpedo fish)

Mss.597.5.Su7

Date: Circa 1770-1779 | Size: 0.25 Linear feet, 4 items, 37 p.
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Abstract

These manuscripts are in the hand of various unknown authors, and concern research and observations on the torpedo fish, which was of much interest to those studying electricity at the time. Included are copies of letters from John Walsh to Benjamin Franklin, and a copy of a Walsh and Thomas Pennant letter, read before the Royal Society (1774), concerning a torpedo fish found off the coast of England.

Collection Information

Physical description

4 items, 37 p.

Provenance

Purchase from Privat (Chinard; $53.00) and accessioned, 1960 (1960 298ms).

Early American History Note

This collection contains correspondence on the torpedo fish, an animal of interest to scientists in the eighteenth century.

Indexing Terms


Corporate Name(s)

  • Royal Society (Great Britain)

Genre(s)

  • Essays.
  • Scientific Correspondence

Personal Name(s)

  • Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
  • Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798
  • Walsh, John

Subject(s)

  • Electrophysiology.
  • Fishes -- Research.
  • Natural history
  • Science and technology