402 ON THE SCOPE AND INFLUENCE OF THE 
tails the discoveries of Gatmero, Torricent1, and Pascat *. 
“ It is certain,” says Mr Havers, in the preface to a work 
also published in that year, entitled, Philosophical Conferences, 
“ that Lord Bacon’s way of experiment, as now prosecuted 
“ by sundry English gentlemen, affords more probabilities of 
** glorious and profitable fruits, than the attempts of any other 
** age or nation whatsoever t.”” Dr Josnua Cuiwprey, in the 
introduction to his Natural Rarities of England, a book of the 
same period, and which gave rise to a new class of publica- 
tions in Natural History, states, that he had given it the title of 
Britannia Baconica, in order to indicate its connection with those 
studies which Bacon had originated {. Anruony Woop has pre= 
served a letter from the same person to Mr OLpEnzvre, Secreta- 
ry of the Royal Society, in which he says, that he had long been 
engaged in the philosophical inquiries “ which form the busi- 
“* ness of that body; in consequence of having fallen in love with 
“‘ Lord Bacon’s Philosophy as early as the year 1646 ||.” Mr 
Evezyn, one of the most active and respected of the early mem- 
bers of the Society, has, in several of his works, alluded to the 
beneficial effects produced by Bacon’s philosophical writings. 
In: the introduction to his Sylva, which work he published 
in 1664, at the request of the Royal Society, he takes oc- 
casion to state the philosophical principles by which it profes- 
sed to be guided, in terms which clearly point to the quarter 
from whence they were derived. ‘“ They are not hasty,” says 
he, “ in pronouncing from a single or incompetent number of 
“ experiments ; 
* Power’s Experimental Philosphy, p. 82. 
+ Philosophical Conferences, translated from the French, by G. Havers, in 
two volumes folio. . 
+ Britannia Baconica, or the Natural Rarities of England, 1661, 8vo. ‘ From 
this work,” says A. Woop, “ Dr Pror took the hint of his Natural History of 
Oxfordshire.” 
\| Athen@ Oxonienses, vol, ii, p. 468. 
