526 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 167O. 



Those insects, which the author can as yet reduce to no classes, are, 

 cicindela, scolopendra, julus, curculio, scarabaeus pilularius, hydrocantharis, 

 hydrocantharis minimus, scorpio. 



III. The Creed of M. Hobbes, examined by M. Tenison. London, 1670, 

 in 8vo. 



Passing by the several particulars, which concern morality and policy, dis- 

 cussed in this book, as not belonging to these Tracts, which are principally de- 

 signed to give an account of such occurrences as are of a physical and mathe- 

 matical nature ; we shall only take notice of the confutation made by this au- 

 thor, of what M. Hobbes has delivered concerning the rational soul, and per- 

 ception in matter ; where it is contended, that the soul of man is something 

 else than the organized body in due motion ; and that it is altogether incon- 

 ceivable, that matter should be capable of perception, cogitation, and dis- 

 course. 



IV. Francisci Josephi Burrhi, Epistolee duae ad Thomam Bartholinum.. 

 HafnicE, 1669, in 4 to. 



Containing nothing entitled to notice. 



An Extract of a Letter y written to the Editor from France, Oct. 29, 

 1670, intimating two New Anatomical Discoveries. N° 65, p. 2083. 



A friend of mine, a professed physician, has assured me, that at Montpelier, 

 a German has discovered the vessels which convey the chyle to the breasts of 

 nursing women ; and showed, that they do issue out of the ductus of M. 

 Pecquet. This is a discovery of a thing, the existence of which has been be- 

 lieved long since, though not clearly proved.* Another person has assured 

 me, that there is certainly another passage of the urine to the bladder than by 

 the ureters ; an experiment having been lately made, whereby the ureters of a 

 dog were so carefully tied up, that nothing could pass that way, and yet the 

 urinary bladder was found full of water. 



A Narrative of several odd Effects of a dreadful Thunder-clap, at 

 Stralsund in Pomerania, 19-29 Ju7ie I67O; taltenfrom a Narrative 

 there printed, by Authority, in High Dutch. N" 65, p. 2084. 



June the 1 9-29, being Sunday, after several less strong reports of thunder, 

 the whole town was strangely surprised with a most terrible flash of lightning, 



* Such a discovery was never yet made. The milk is secreted in the breasts, by vessels which 

 have no communication with the thoracic duct. It was probably one or more trunks of the mammary 

 lymphatics, or of the lymphatics going from the axillary glands, which this anatomist traced to the 

 thoracic duct, or to the place where this duct empties itself into the subclavian vein. 



