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noted by you in your Hist, Concbyl. as of English production. A third I have, 

 which is figured by you, but is not marked as found in England. The fourth 

 agrees with your n. 8, in figure, but having no name, I cannot be positive, I 

 therefore desire your name of it. Among other things which the fishermen 

 brought up, there were several of those marine animals, which by Dr. Molyneux, 

 Phil. Trans, n. 225, are taken for nondescripts, and referred to the classes of 

 scolopendrae marinas ; these our fishermen call sea-mice, and are described by 

 Rondeletius, and by Moufet, and Johnson, figured under the title of physalus, 

 but badly. 



Account of a young Man hilled by Thunder and Lightning, Dec, 12, 1698. By 

 Ral[}hThoresby, Esq. F.R.S. N°249, p. 51. 



Jeremiah Skelton, of Warley, near Halifax, Yorkshire, observing a storm 

 coming, hastened to gather in some of the corn which was out at a farm of his 

 father's in the Cold Edge, about a quarter of a mile from their own dwelling ; 

 while at this work, bringing in a burden and casting it upon the barn-floor, 

 the tempest began as he came forth again ; whereupon he stepped aside for 

 shelter within the barn door, and while there, was struck with a dreadful flash 

 of fire. The young man was a sad spectacle, being beaten down, quite dead, 

 and many stones about him ; he was laid upon his face, wholly naked, save a 

 small part of his shirt about his neck, and a piece of a stocking on one foot, 

 and so much of a coat-sleeve as covered the rist of one arm : his shoes driven 

 from his feet, one not to be found, and the other split ; his hat not to be found 

 after search, and the rest of his garments torn into small shreds, and cast at 

 considerable distances, one piece from another ; the hair of his head and beard 

 singed, as if with a candle, and a little hole below his left eye, which was pro- 

 bably made with the fall upon a stone, for there was a great breach made on the 

 barn, the door tops, both of stone, broken, and the wall above them fallen, 

 with the slate and water-tables. 



Account of Books. — 1. Museo di Fisica et di Esperienze, &c. By Signior 

 Boccone ; with additional Remarks by Mr. John Ray, F. R. S. N° 249, p. 53. 



This book is made up of many curious observations, natural and medicinal, 

 about various subjects, not digested into any certain method, but miscellaneously 

 disposed : each observation dedicated to some noble or learned person. 



The first 4 observations relate to the dreadful earthquake in Sicily in i6q3. 

 The 5th is concerning succinum or amber ; the 6th about alkaline and medici- 

 nal earths: the 7 th on the powder of Claramont ; the 8th of the lapis bezoar 

 mineralis of Sicily ; the 9th of terra lemnia : the 10th on the same ; the 1 1 th on 



