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but in Natural Hiftory too, as appears in his trea- 

 tifes on Vefuvius, the Tarantifmus, the Hiftory of 

 the Lion, the Elephant, the Boar, and in fundry 

 others. 



Dr. Giufeppe Vairo^ profefibr of chemiftry and 

 phyfic, is an excellent chemift, a very polite obli- 

 ging man; and, perhaps, the only Naturalift 

 at Naples, who is fcientifically acquainted with 

 Vefuvius and Solfatara. He favoured me with 

 his company to that place, to Ihew and to 

 explain to me its chief curiofities. I got in his 

 houfe an acquaintance with a young phyfician, Mr. 

 Nicolo Andria^ who is no ftranger to chemiftry and 

 Natural Hiftory. I hope they both will unite 

 to publifh their obfervations on Vefuvius and 

 Solfatara, either in a feparate work, or in the 

 fupplements of the Leghorn-edition of the French 

 Encyclopedy. 



Dr. Dominico Cirillo, profeflbr of botany and 

 phyfic, a fon of a celebrated phyfician, has tra- 

 velled in France, England, Dalmatia, and Sicily, 

 and by that means gathered an excellent Herbary. 

 He is poficfled of the late Ferrantis Imperati col- 

 lection of plants, and had once a thought of a 

 Neapolitan Flora ; but phyfical practice has noxv 

 fo much engroiTed his time, that I fear he has 

 given it up. He has publilhed an abftract of Lin- 

 nai Pbilofophia Botanica for his lectures, under the 



title 



