However, it was looked upon as a masterpiece of art, and as such deposited in the museum or anatomy school at Oxford.’ Several fine copies of verses were wrote upon so rare a subject but at last Mr. Magliabecchi, librarian to the Grand Duke of Tuscany. The learned immediately pronounced it a dragon, and one of them sent an accurate description of it to Dr.
‘Jacob Bobart botany professor of Oxford, did about forty years ago (in 1704) find a dead rat in the Physic Garden, which he made to resemble the common picture of dragons by altering its head and tail, and thrusting in taper sharp sticks, which distended the skin on each side till it mimicked wings. He just recently came across an account though that trumped most of the shilly-shally he has put up here in the past. Beach has demonstrated an interest in dragons in this place on several occasions.
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