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have not beeij able to meet with it. Nor have 1 been able to 

 see another work of this kind, entitled Biblioiheca Curiosa, 

 which was published in 1709. 



XVI. 1707. " Memoirs for the Curious." This 

 work was published monthly in sixpenny quarto numbers 

 throughout the years 1707 and 1708, and when these two 

 years were completed, a general title was given, of which the 

 following is an exact copy : 



" A compleat volume of the Memoirs for the Curious, from 

 January 1707 to December 1708, containing an abstract of the 

 most valuable things that have been published both at home 

 and abroad, in relation to Arts and Sciences. With the lives 

 of the most eminent men deceased within that time, Prince 

 Lewis of Baden, Duke of Devonshire, Lord Cutts, Lord Bel- 

 haven, Dr. Sherlock, Dr. Drake, Dr. Brown, Mr. White, 4c; 

 Monsieur Bayle, Monsieur Du Harael, secretary to the French 

 Academy of Sciences. The whole interspersed with several 

 discourses on trade, botany, mathematicks,^c. By several hands. 

 London, sold by J. Morphew, near Stationers '-Hall, 1710." 



The first volume which contains 404 pages, closes with a 

 general index, and the following advertisement : 



" Though we have made several promises to amend the 

 errata that have been committed in this first volume, yet we 

 have not been able, by want of time in the person appointed 

 to correct the press. Once more promising, we hope to con- 

 vince the world at last that they shall not find any such errors 

 for the time to come ; and, in consideration of which, (it bein^r 

 the only atonement the proprietors can make for past mistakes), 

 any gentleman may have this first volume, sold for 6d. each, 

 being twelve in number, for 5s. stitched, or bound at 6s. 6d., 

 which would otherwise have been 7s. 6c?. In answer to our 

 not punctually keeping time, we reply; that there being so 

 many gentlemen voluntarily concerned, out of a generous com- 

 municative faculty, and not for lucre or livelihood, we were 

 obliged to stay their time ; but as they intend, so we promise 

 pii their words, to amend that too." 



