240 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1705. 



locust and the mantis (of which an account is here given with plates) are de- 

 scribed and figured in numerous books of natural history. 



Concerning a Pin found in the Gizzard of a Fowl. By Mr. N. Regnart. 



N° 301, p. 2055. 



On cutting the stomach or gizzard of a fowl Mr. R found something resist his 

 knife, which proved to be a pin that the pullet had swallowed, and which in all 

 probability had lain there some time, for it had pierced through the membrane 

 on the inside, and made a passage into the thick part, where it had formed it- 

 self a bed. The head of the pin had passed through the first shrivelled mem- 

 brane, but stopped at the second, which seemed more thick and sinewy, so that 

 the head remained inclosed between the two membranes, the body of it having 

 made its way into the fleshy muscular part. At the point there was formed a 

 callus, of the size of a small pea, which seemed a defence that nature had made 

 to oppose it, as it was working itself farther. 



It is not at all strange that a pin should lie in the fleshy parts, since we see a 

 musket ball will lie there a considerable time, without much injuring the part; 

 but how it should pass through the membranes of the stomach, without obstruct- 

 ing its functions, and the pullet thrive well after it, he leaves to others to deter- 

 mine. 



Olai Rudbeckii Atlanticay seu Manheimiiy pars Tertia^ &c. &c. Upsalie ; in 



folio. N°301, p. 2057.* 



The author divides this third part of his Atlantica into thirteen chapters. The 

 first treats of the most ancient writings of the hyperboreans, and the practice 

 of the Greeks and other nations, of taking some things from them. From 

 Schroder, he says, that the Runes, or Runic letters, were invented by Magog 

 the Scythian, and communicated to Tiiisco, chief governor of the Germans, 

 Anno Mundi 1799. And he thinks it remarkable, that Magog is there men- 

 tioned as the inventor of the Runes, at that particular time that he himself has 

 shown in his former volume, from Pliny, Wormius, and their own writings ; 

 that Atlas was one of the first inventors of the Runic calendars, from whom they 

 are called Atlas's Calendars, orRunstafTs; whom he makes also inventor of 

 the true golden number, between the year of the world 1800 and I900, which 

 number stands an undoubted argument for the true age of the Runic calendars, 

 and the sixteen Runic letters, used by their ancestors in writing, and being more 

 ancient than the letters of most other nations, especially European, as many as 



* See p. 239 of this volume. 



