t'OL. Xm.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. * SQl 



makes a part of a large trunk or body cut off, with a limb or branch springing 

 out, bearing the leaves, flowers, or fruits, or what is observable, which seems a 

 much more expressive way, than to contract a whole large tree to so small a 

 compass as other sculptures usually do. 



Horti Indici Malabarici pars tertia, &c. Amstel. An. l682. N° 145, p. 106. 



This third part the before-mentioned H. Van Rheede has dedicated to the 

 Indian King, in whose dominions he lived several years, and there collected, 

 and made his observation of what that country afforded, hoping by his accuracy 

 that his account of so many new and wonderful plants and trees may not be ap- 

 prehended an ungrateful work, since the most part are such as have not been 

 mentioned by any Kuropean autlujr. 



The two first parts of this work were especially compiled by the reverend and 

 skilful D. J. Casiar, a divine in the city of Cochin, where then lived D. P. 

 Herman, the present botanic professor at Leyden, a person of excellent experi- 

 ence and skill, and no small instrument in this work by his assistance; and since 

 the death of D. Casiar, before the finishing of the work, D. Van Rheede took 

 to his assistance the well experienced D. J. Munnicks, now professor at Utrecht, 

 for the prosecution and completion of his design, to which D. J. Commelin has 

 added his curious notes, but tells us that this third volume should have been 

 more properly the second, consisting mostly of trees as the first did; and the 

 second should have been the last, containing shrubs and plants, in which are 

 64 whole sheet plates of sculptures well executed. 



//. Epistola ad D. Joelem Langelottum De Alcali et Acidi Insufficientia pro prin- 

 cipiorum corporum Naturalium munere gerendo, conscripta d. Johanne Bohn 

 Phil, ac Med. Doct. et in Acad. Lips. Prof. P. N° 145, p. 110. 



///. Jacohi Barneri, D. Spiritus Vini sine Aeido, &c. Demonstratio curiosa. 



N^ 145, p. ni. 



The Lumbricus Latus ;* or, a Discourse read before the Royal Society, concern- 

 ing the jointed Worm. By Edward Tyson, M. D. Col. Med. Lond, nee non 

 Reg. Societ. Soc. N'^ 146, p. 113. 



The consideration of insects, and their manner of generation, as it is a subject 

 of curious speculation ; so of late it has been much illustrated by the laborious 

 researches of many inquisitive persons : whose endeavours^ though they haVe 



* Taenia Solium. Lin. 



