6l8 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. ANNO 1 671.3' 



dried yields a musky scent, I have no knowledge. I can at present call to 

 mind but two sorts of insects that I have seen, which smell of musk. The one 

 is like the common capricornus * or goat-chafer, which is mentioned by all 

 naturalists that write of insects, and which smells so strong of that perfume, 

 that you may scent it at a good distance as it flies by, or sits near you. The 

 other is a small sort of bee, which in the south and east parts of England is 

 frequently to be met withal in gardens among flowers in spring time. I re- 

 member, they were very plentiful in Sir Edw. Duke's tulip garden, when the 

 tulips flowered. Sir Edward is now dead ; his house was not far from Sax- 

 mundham in Suffolk ; the name of the parish I have forgotten. 



Another Extract of a Letter written from Middletoyi in Warwickshire, 

 to the Publisher July 10th, hy Francis Willoughby, Esquire; 

 about the Hatching of a Kind of Bee, lodged in old Willows. 

 N"'7^y _p. 2221. 



This bee has been sufficiently described in the note on Willoughby's pre- 

 ceding paper on the same subject. See p. 533. 



A further Account of the Stellar Fish, formerly described in 

 N" 57 > p' 422, of this Abridgement; with the Addition of some 

 other Curiosities. N' 74, p. 2221. 



Of no importance. 



An Extract from the 3d and 7 th Tenetian Giornale de Letter ati, con- 

 cerniiig the Formation of Foetuses. N" 7^3 p- 2224. 

 There is nothing in this extract worthy of preservation. 



Dr. Walliss Opinion concerning the Hypothesis Physica Nova of 

 Dr. Leibnitz, announced in N" 73. iV''74, p. 2227. 



In examining this work. Dr. Wallis finds many things to commend, as 

 agreeing with his own opinions in philosophical matters, explained in his writ- 

 ings. *** Such as, that all physical matters ought to be adapted and accommo- 

 dated as much as possible to the mechanical ways of reasoning : no body can 

 of itself return again in the same line in which it has moved, unless by means 

 of a new force added : that all bodies, at least hard ones, are sensibly elastic ; 

 and hence results reflection : also that a heavy body is not raised by the dread 



• * The Cerambyx moschatus. Lin. 



