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gentlemen make this further inquiry, whether there be any other insect, or 

 animal, flesh or fish, that will afford an acid juice; as they have with great in- 

 dustry tried many species amongst insects, and other animals, without dis- 

 covering the like acid liquor. I am of opinion there are; and a ready way to 

 find such out, may be, that having observed that an ant bruised and smelt to 

 emits a strange fiery and piercing odour, like the leaf of the herb called 

 flammula, broken at one's nostrils ; by this means I have, since Mr. Ray put 

 the question to me, found an insect which I suspect may yield an acid liquor as 

 well as the ant; and that is the long and round bodied red coloured jul us,* 

 distinguished from all other multipeds, as their innumerable legs are as small as 

 hair, and white, and in going they move like waves; not rare among dry rub- 

 bish ; no scolopendra, it being a harmless insect, and that armed with danger- 

 ous forcipes. The body of this julus being bruised strikes the nostrils pun- 

 gently ; but I have not yet had an opportunity to furnish myself with any quan- 

 tity of them for further trials. 



As to the bleeding of the sycamore; the last year I wintered at Nottingham, 

 where I pierced a sycamore about the beginning of November ; the turgescence 

 of the buds inviting me thereto, and some hopes of improving the notion of 

 winter bleedings, so happily discovered by Mr. Willoughby and Mr. Ray. This 

 succeeded so well with me, that I afterwards engaged myself in keeping a journal 

 throughout the whole winter; from which I may note; 1 . That the wounded 



he settled in 1670 at York, where he followed his profession many years with much reputation, and 

 at the same time took all opportunities of prosecuting his researches into various branches of natxiral 

 history, the study of antiquities, &c. He was a benefactor to the Ashraolean Museum at Oxford, 

 which he enriched with several altars, coins, &c/&c. He became a fellow of the Royal Society, 

 and in l68^, removing to London, was created Doctor of Physic by diploma at Oxford, by the re«- 

 commenAntion of the chancellor himself Soon after this he was elected fellow of the College of 

 Physicians. In 1698, he attended the Earl of Portland in his embassy from King William to the 

 court of France. On his return he published his Journey to Paris, a work of sterling merit, though 

 ridiculed by Dr. King, in a paper entitled A Journey to London . In 1709 he was appointed physi- 

 cian in ordinary to Queen Anne, in which post he continued to his death, which happened in 171 N 

 12. Lister was the author of several very ingenious and learned works, viz. 1. Hutorite Anmalium 

 Anglice ires tractatus, S)-c. l678. 2. Goedartii Histona Insectonm cum notis, l682. 3. De Fontibua 

 medidnalibus Anglice, l682. 4. Exercitatio Anatomica, inqua de Cochkis agitur, l694. 5. CocAlearum 

 et lAmacum exercitatio Anatomica, 1695. 6. Conchyliorum bixalvium utnusqv* aquce exercitatio Anato- 

 mica tertia, 1696. 7. Exercitationes Medicinales, 8j-c. 1697. 



The most celebrated production however of Dr. Lister is his Synopsis Conchyliorum, which, though 

 merely consisting of plates with their inscriptions, may be considered as by far the best work on the 

 subject at the period of its publication, containing almost all the then known shells, accurately re- 

 presented, and not injudiciously arranged. The plates were engraved by his two daughters Susanna 

 and Anna Lister. In the different copies of this work are observed some occasional variations. 



* Julus terrestris. Linn. 



