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[No. 147. 



that be might fi.id a resemblance, if not an iden- 

 tity. The book is scarce, and not readily met 

 with out of the British Museum. S. Reg. Obme. 



The Bmg-finger (Vol. iv., pp. 150. 199. 261. ; 

 Vol. v., pp. 1 14. 371. 492.). — Several of your corre- 

 spondents have very kindly and very ingeniously 

 replied to my Query respecting the ring-finger. 

 I am, however, still inclined to suspect that the 

 fourth finger was used for matrimonial purposes 

 before ecclesiastical customs or symbolisms were 

 in vogue. I copy part of a note from Grey's 

 edition of Hudibras, but am unable to verily the 

 references : 



" Alcadas X. Rex Assijriorum regnavit annis 33, et 

 anno ejus 11. Sparta condita est a filio Phoronci, qui 

 invenit usum annulorum ; et in quarto digito poni 

 aunulum debere dixit, quia ab illo vena pertingit ab 

 cor. — Gobelini, PersoncB, Cosmodromii astas 111.; Mei- 

 bomii Her. Germanic, torn. i. p. 89." — Hudibras, vol. ii. 

 p. 235. n. : Dublin, 1744. 



Grey gives also references to Aulus Gellius, 

 Wheatly, and Sir Thomas Browne ; but these I 

 had already adduced in my Query, and I have not 

 present access to another of his authorities, viz. : 

 Dr. Wotton's Reflections uj)on Ancient and Modern 

 Learning, chap. x. p. 133. Rx. 



Warmington. 



Boscovich (Vol. vi., p. 102.). — In reference to 

 Boscovich, and for an account of the system deve- 

 loped in his J'heoria Philosophice Nuturalis, you 

 direct your inquirer A. N. to see the article 

 ■"Physics" in the E iicijclopadia Britannica. 



Have you not been misled by the observation 

 and similar reference at the close of the biogra- 

 phical account of Boscovich in the same Encyclo- 

 pedia, which appears to me to be a mistake ? 

 There is no account of Boscovich's system — no 

 mention of Boscovich's name that I find, in the 

 said article " Physics." * The article is well worth 

 reading, on many accounts, but not for any notice 

 which it contains of Boscovich. This matter hap- 

 pened to fall under my notice some months ago, 

 when looking into the beautiful appendix to Bos- 

 covich's work relating to metaphysical topics, De 

 Anima etDeo, de Spatio et Tempore, and observing 

 with satisfaction the salutary influence of the 

 English philosophers, Locke, Newton, and Clarke, 

 upon his mind, and his perfect agreement with 

 them. E. T. 



Wildwood, Hampstead. 



[* Our correspondent is correct. We were misled 

 by a reference to that article in the biographical account 

 of Boscovich.] 



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