106 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1684. 



wicks, till the oil was consumed ; the wick remained in the same proportion as 

 at first. I pounded some quantity of it in a stone mortar, till it became a 

 downy substance ; and then sifted it through a fine searse, by which means I 

 purged it pretty well of its terrene parts, the linum remaining. Having thus 

 pounded and cleansed it, I brought it to the paper-mill ; and putting it in water 

 in a vessel, just capacious enough to make paper with such a quantity; I stirred 

 it pretty much, and desired the workmen to proceed with it in their usual 

 method of making paper, with their writing-paper mould ; only to stir it about 

 always before putting the mould in ; considering it as a far more ponderous 

 substance than what they used ; and that consequently, if not immediately 

 taken up after it was agitated, it would subside. The paper made of it proved 

 but very coarse and brittle. But this being the first trial, I have some reasons 

 to believe it may be much improved ; nor did the workmen doubt, but in case 

 it were pounded in one of their mortars for the space of 20 hours, it would 

 make good writing-paper; which, when I shall receive a sufficient quantity of 

 it, I design to try. 



Specimen Universie Rei Nummariee Antiqute ; or, an Essay towards an Universal 

 History of Ancient Coins and Medals, by Andreas Morellius. Paris, 8vo. ] 683. 

 N° 166, p. 825. 



This ingenious Swiss has already delineated above 20,000 different and 

 ancient coins ; being a very considerable part of the sorts reserved in the 

 cabinets of the princes of Europe. This specimen is divided into 14 tables, 

 as into so many curiosities, and is prefaced with a short account of the more 

 famous collectors of such antiquities. He distributes the whole into parts. 1 . The 

 coins of cities and kings before the times of the Caesars, or at least without refe- 

 rence to them. 2. The consular coins. 3. Those of the Roman emperors. 4. The 

 coins of the Hebrews, Phoenicians, Moors, Parthians, Arabs, Spaniards, Goths, 

 and others, which either want inscriptions, or are not easy to be interpreted. 



An Account of the reprinting oj" Johannes Goedartius de Insectis; cum Appendice 

 ad Historiam Animalium Anglice. By Martin Lister, M.D. and F. R. S. 

 N° 166, p. 833. 



It was desired that Goedartius, and the notes I had added, might be again 

 printed in Latin ; which for some reasons I suffered. I was willing to print 

 with it a second edition of the appendix to the history of English animals, 

 having some few things, with two plates of figures, to add, which are new, 

 besides amendments. Also not knowing, but I might be prevented myself, by 



