Paper, 'Of a way of killing rattlesnakes' by Mark Warkman and Jane Willis
Reference number: CLP/10i/4
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.
- Reference number
- CLP/10i/4
- Earliest possible date
- 1664
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 1 page
- Format
- Manuscript
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Paper, 'Of a way of killing rattlesnakes' by Mark Warkman and Jane Willis, 1664, CLP/10i/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_10i_4/paper-of-a-way-of-killing-rattlesnakes-by-mark-warkman-and-jane-willis, accessed on 20 March 2025
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Of the way of killing ratle-snakes, used in Virginia External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 3rd May 1665
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1665.0022
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'Of an Experiment Of Killing Rattle-snakes in Virginia' communicated by Captain [Silas] Taylor
Creator: Silas Taylor Reference number: RBO/3/19
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