442 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1678. 



most of concords; and where of discords, of such as constituted harmony; and 

 the same person was the most affable, pleasant, and the best natured in the 

 company. And this suggests a reason why many discourses which one hears 

 with much pleasure, when they come to be read scarcely seem the same things. 



From this difference of music in speech, we may also conjecture that of tem- 

 pers. We know the Doric mood sounds gravity and sobriety ; the Lydian free- 

 dom; the ^olic sweet stillness and composure; the Phrygian jollity and youth- 

 ful levity; the Ionic sooths the storms and disturbances arising from passion. 

 And why may we not reasonably suppose that those whose speech naturally 

 runs into the notes peculiar to any of these moods, are likewise in disposition. 



So also from the cliff; as he that speaks in gamut to be manly; C Fa Ut may 

 show one to be of an ordinary capacity, though good disposition. G Sol Re 

 Ut to be peevish and effeminate, and of a weak and timorous spirit. Sharps 

 an effeminate sadness ; fiats, a manly or melancholic sadness. He who has a 

 voice in some measure agreeing with all cliffs, seems to be of good parts and 

 fit for variety of employments, yet somewhat of an inconstant nature. Like- 

 wise from the times; so semibriefs may bespeak a temper dull and phlegmatic; 

 minims grave and serious; crochets a prompt wit; quavers vehemency of pas- 

 sion, and used by scolds. Semibrief-rest may denote one either stupid or fuller 

 of thoughts than he can utter; minim-rest one that deliberates; chrochet-rest, 

 one in a passion ; so that from the natural use of mood, note and time, we may 

 collect dispositions. 



Account of some Books. N° 140, p. ]01T. 



I. Museo Cospiano annesso a quello del famoso Ulisse Aldrovandi* et donato 

 alia sua Patria dall' Illustrissimo Signore Ferdinando Cospi Patricio di Bologna 



' Ulysses Aldrovandus, professor of philosophy and physic at Bologna^ the place of his nativity, 

 was a most curious inquirer into natural history, and travelled into the most distant countries on pur- 

 pose to inform himself of their natural productions, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral; but his 

 principal attention seems to have been devoted to zoology, and in particular to ornithology, in the 

 pursuit of which branch he expended great sums, having according to Aubert le Mire, engaged at a 

 yearly salary of two hundred crowns, continued for the space of thirty years together, an eminent 

 artist to execute his figures of birds. He is also said to have employed, at his own expence, Lorenzo 

 Bennini, Cornelius Swintus, and the eminent engraver Christopher Coriolanus. These expences 

 ruined his fortune, and at length reduced him to the utmost necessity, and it is said that he died bhnd 

 in a hospital at Bologna, at a great age, in the year l605. Bayle observes, that antiquity does not 

 furnish us with an instance of a design so extensive and laborious as that of Aldrovandus, with regard 

 to natural history, Pliny indeed has treated of more subjects, but only touches them lightly, whereas 

 Aldrovandus has collected all he could. His compilation, or at least what was compiled upon his 

 plan, consists of several volumes in folio, some of which were printed after his death. He himself 



