Fitzsimons and the Snake Bite Kit Traditional Cache

Frederick William FitzSimons was an Irish born South African naturalist and herpetologist.

He was also a past director of the Port Elizabeth Museum for 31 years.

In 1918, he founded Africa's first snake park at the Port Elizabeth Museum at Bird street.

During World Was Two, his snake-bite kit was the most distributed African snake-bite kit.

F.W. FitzSimons established the first snake-park in South Africa at the Port Elizabeth Museum.

That snake park, with its daily live snake demonstrations, was a major tourist attraction in Port Elizabeth.

FitzSimons also undertook research on snake-venom, and milked the snakes to produce various anti-snakebite serum, and anti-snakebite kits.