404 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO I669. 



Cartesian hypothesis, we may without any difficulty maintain that it was the 

 same with the first. 



IV. Sylva* et Pomona, by John Evelyn, Esq. F.R.S. Reprinted in folio. 

 London. 



This is the second edition of this book, very much improved and enlarged. 

 It was the first that was written and published by the express order of the Royal 

 Society. 



In Sylva our author provides and directs for sound timber, and store of the 

 best fuel in forests, woods, and groves. Timber is the strength and walls of this 

 kingdom ; and is serviceable for many domestic uses and curious utensils ; and 

 to advance the riches and accommodations, not only of our own country, but 

 also of all foreign parts, as far as may mutually oblige each other by naviga- 

 tion and commerce. In Pomona he gives an account of fruit-trees. He has 

 also given an instructive touch for vineyards in England (see Number 1 5) ; 

 and for the sake of his own country has furnished us with accurate translations 

 of the French Gardener. Also of the best writers of architecture, and of the 

 idea of the perfection of painting (see Number 39.) 



Of his own collections, he has given us an elegant history of sculpture, and 

 of engraving in copper, and the curious arts thereunto belonging : In which the 

 most excellent painters of this age may see themselves either duly celebrated or 

 directed for the best, and assisted, or at least encouraged. 



And, besides other treatises which are anonymous, he has lately made two 

 considerable tracts : In one of which, for a caution to all future ages, and to 

 denote the general aptness of mankind to be deluded and deceived, he has 

 published a history of the three late famous impostures; the first, merely casual 

 and innocent, in Padre Ottomanno ; the second, bold and impudent, in Maho- 

 met Bei ; the third, a confident cheat, in Sabatai Sevi, the Jews' counterfeit 

 Messiah: In the other tract, public employment and an active life are pre- 

 ferred to solitude. 



A Letter from an Englishman at Paris to a Member of the Royal 

 Society, concerning some Traiisactions there, relating to^ the Experi- 

 ment of the Transfusion of Blood. N° 54, p. 10/5. 



Monsieur Denys, a physician, had been questioned before the Lieutenant 

 Criminal here on account of the death of his patient (a man that had been stark 

 mad for several years) who had expired under his hands, while he was trans- 



* A new and splendid edition of the Sylva, enriched by many useful and ingenious notes, was 

 published in 1786, by Dr. A. Hunter of York. 



