| Reference number | CLP/10i/4 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'Of a way of killing rattlesnakes' by Mark Warkman and Jane Willis |
| Date | [1664] |
| Description | Paper describing a plant referred to as the 'wild penniriall [pennyroyal] or ditany of Virginia' and its use in killing rattlesnakes by bruising its leaves and dangling them in the face of the snake.
Subject: Botany
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Of the way of killing ratle-snakes, used in Virginia'.
Communicated by Captain Silas Taylor. Read to the Royal Society on 20 July 1664. |
| Language | English |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1665.0022
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 1, no 3, p 43 |
| Related records in the catalogue | RBO/3/19 |