no SEA FABLES EXPLAINED. 



can grow from puny animalcules generated in putrid 

 wood. He further declares that these British geese are 

 hatched from eggs like other geese, which he considers 

 proved by the testimony of Albertus Magnus, Gerhardus 

 de Vera, and of Dutch seamen, who, in 1569, gave their 

 written declaration that they had personally seen these 

 birds sitting on their eggs, and hatching them, on the 

 coasts of Nova Zembla. 



FIO. 35. — THE BARNACLE GOOSE TREE. After AldfOVandllS. 



In marked and disgraceful contrast with this careful 

 and philosophical investigation and its author's just deduc- 

 tions from it, is *A Relation concerning Barnacles by 

 Sir Robert Moray, lately one of His Majesty's Council for 

 the Kingdom of Scotland,' read before the Royal Society, 

 and published in the ' Philosophical Transactions,' No. 137, 

 January and February, 16^]-^. 



