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3. He assures that with a microscope many small holes may be seen in those 

 risings or papillae, at the bottom whereof there are small nerves, terminating 

 there. But he directs to observe this in live and healthy, not in dead or diseased 

 animals. 



Having laid down these observations, he concludes, that taste is performed 

 in the following manner, viz. that the particles of salt passing through those 

 pores which pierce the papillary eminences, and penetrating as far as to the 

 nerves, meet them there, and by means of their small points prick them ; which 

 pricking constitutes taste. In the meantime he acknowledges, that before 

 him Malpighi, professor at Messina, had made some of these discoveries. 



Calculation of the late Solar Eclipse. By M. Hevelius. iV°21, p. 369. 

 This calculation is now useless. 



The Figure of the Stars in the Constellation of Cygnus; togetherwith the 

 New Star in it, very lately seen by M. Hevelius again. ^ iV° 2 1 , />. 372. 



The figure of that constellation with the new star in it was thus, hastily 

 drawn, sent over by that observer. 



5fc in Collo, 



>fc In Rostro, 



* See No. 19. p. 127. 

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