Record

RefNoDM/5/79B
LevelItem
Title'Recommended to Col Long'
Datec.1660s
Description7 items listed: "To try whether Pebble-stones, inclosed in glasses with water, will grow..."; "An account of the Spawning Generation and Growing of Fishes. Item, of the spawning of Frogs and Toads, of Newts and Lizzards, the raining of Frogs"; "An account of the Serpent with wings like to those of a Batt"; "To try the feeding of Carps in the Air"; "An Account of the way of producing good Melons, without transplanting them" and "To peruse the papers brought in of Cyder and to add his own observations".
Extent1 side
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA4526Long; Sir; James (? 1617 - 1692); politician? 1617 - 1692
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