'200 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO ISQ^. 



Account of a Booh, viz. Philippi Cluverii Introductio in Universam Geographiam, 

 tarn Veterem quam Novam, &c. inAto, 1697. N° 231, p. 666. 



This celebrated geographer, Ph. Cluverius, was born at Dantzic, in the year 

 1580, where his father, who was master of the mint, took great care to educate 

 him in the best manner ; at fifteen years of age he sent him into Poland ; afier- 

 wards to Leyden, to study the civil law, for which he had no taste, his niind 

 running wholly upon geographical studies, being a master in the art of drawing 

 and surveying. Joseph Scaliger, then a professor in that university, seeing his 

 natural genius bent upon geography, advised him to pursue it, and make it his 

 chief business ; on which he resolved, first to visit Lipsius, and view all the 

 Netherlands; after that he spent 1 years in Hungary and Bohemia, and viewed 

 all Germany, Italy, Sicily, France, and England, with a curious and observing 

 eye ; having ten languages at his command, he was highly courted in all places, 

 especially at Rome ; but retaining an old love for the city of Leyden, he re- 

 turned thither, and fixed under a generous pension from the curators, who ap- 

 pointed him to read and teach geography, of which he there published several 

 specimens, as his Com. de 3 Rheni Alveis ac Ostiis, et de 5 Populis quondam 

 Accolis cum Tab. Geograph.; his Germania Antiqua ; his Descriptio Italiae 

 Antiquae ; as also the Sicilia, Sardinia, and Corsica; all illustrated with charts, 

 &c. After his death, in the year 1623, Joseph Vorstius published his Intro- 

 duction to Geography, which Cluverius had drawn up before his death, as an 

 abridgment of his labours ; this geographical epitomy was often translated and 

 printed in many places, where several learned men have thought it worth their 

 time to comment upon it; as Joh. Frid. Hekelius, Job. Reiskius, and Joh. 

 Buno, to whose excellent notes the new maps contained in this volume are very 

 well adjusted; so that the present edition may be considered as much the most 

 useful and exact, whether we regard the gravings of the charts, the elegance of 

 the types, or the fulness of the annotations. 



On the Tongue of a Pastinaca Marina, frequent in the Seas about Jamaica, and 

 latc-lij dug up in Maryland and England. By Hans Sloane, M. D. 

 N° 232, p. 674. 



Dr. Tancred Robinson, some time since, showed me a considerable number 

 of fossil bones and shells of several sorts, which had lately come to his hands 

 from Maryland. Some of them had received little alteration in the earth, 

 others more, and some were so changed as to be stony ; but all of them relauied 

 their ancient shape so well, that it was easy for any person, who remembered 



