Cotton Mather's Scientific Communications to the Royal Society.

The article discusses correspondence sent by minister Cotton Mather to the Royal Society regarding scientific matters. The author discusses letters sent by Mather to physician John Woodward and Royal Society secretary Richard Waller concerning the discovery of fossils believed to have come from a giant, the medicinal use of plants found in America and childbirth complications. Mather also sent letters discussing the case of a ship caught in a thunderstorm near New England, the effects of the moon on wood and the flocking of birds.