VOL. I.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS; 37 



Of a Method of mahing more lively Representations of Nature in Wax 

 than are extant in Painting : Ajid of a new hind of Maps in Bas 

 Relief Both practised in France. By Mr. John Evelyn. N" 6, 

 P^ 99. 



This was communicated by the ingenious Mr. John Evelyn, to whom it was 

 sent from Paris in a letter, as follows : — 



Here is a Frenchman who makes more lively exhibitions of nature in wax 

 than ever I yet saw in painting ; having an extraordinary address in modelling the 

 figures, and in mixing the colours and shadows ; also making the eyes like 

 nature. 



I have also seen a new kind of maps in bas relief, or sculpture : For example, 

 the isle of Antibe, on a square of about eight feet, made of boards, with a frame 

 like a picture. There is represented the sea, with ships and their cannons and 

 tackle of wood fixed upon the surface, after a new and most admirable manner. 

 The rocks about the island exactly formed, as they are in nature ; and the island 

 itself, with all its inequalities, hills and dales ; the town, the fort, the small 

 houses, platform, and cannons mounted ; and even the gardens and platforms of 

 trees, with their green leaves standing upright, as if they were growing in their 

 natural colours. In short, men, beasts, and whatever you may imagine to have" 

 any protuberancy above the level of the sea. This new, delightful, and most 

 instructive form of map, or wooden country, affords equally a very pleasant ob- 

 ject, whether it be viewed horizontally or sidelong. 



Some Observations on a White Fluid resembling Milk, found in the 

 Feins, instead of Blood: fAnonymousJ . And on Grass found in the 

 Wind Pipes of some Animals. By Mr. Boyle. iV" 6, p. 100. 



This observation of a fluid resembling milk being found in tlie veins instead 

 of blood, is explained by a further communication at the end of this same 

 number, p. 117, where it is related, on the authority of Dr. Lower, that a 

 maid after eating a good breakfast about seven in the morning, was let blood 

 about eleven the same day in her foot. The blood first drawn, which was re- 

 ceived in a porringer, soon turned very white : that which was last drawn was re- 

 ceived in a saucer, and turned white immediately, like the white of a custard. 

 Within five or six hours after the physician saw both, and found that con- 

 tained in the porringer to be half blood and half chyle, swimming upon it like a 

 serum as white as milk ; and that in the saucer all chyle, without the least ap- 

 pearance of blood. When heated over a gentle fire they both hardened, as 



