The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Stag Beetle
Illustration of the "Stag Beetle" in Philosophical Transactions no. 127 [Engraving].Click image for full-size. In Print: An extract of a letter written from Dublin to the publisher, containing divers particulars of a philosophical nature, viz.a narraitive of a strange effect of thunder upon a magnetick sea-card; some remarks concerning the gradual alteration of the temperature of the air in divers countreys; a contrivance of an uncommon hygroscop; the musky scent of certain parts of the animal called musk-quash,&c, 652