l66 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1715. 



j4n Account of a Book, viz. Bibliographt^e Anatomicce SpecimeUf sive Catalogus 

 omnium pene Auctorum, qui ab Hippocrate ad Harveium Rem Anatomicam ex 

 professo vel obiter scriptis illv^trarunt, &c. Curd et Studio Jacobi Douglas^ 

 M. D. Reg. Soc. S. et in Colleg. Chirurg. Lond. Prcelect. Anatom. Qvo. Lond. 

 1715. N°343, p. 263. 



The author of this treatise, whose skill in dissecting, as well as in the theory 

 of the structure of the parts, leaves him few equals, in order to discover what 

 progress anatomy has made, and with what industry it has been cultivated, has 

 perused a great number of authors who have advanced the science; observing 

 who were the first discoverers, and who have unjustly arrogated to themselves 

 that title. In this decision he has impartially weighed their deserts, the better 

 to lay before the reader the increase of these studies, and to determine more 

 exactly the differences that have arisen about who are first inventors. 



The history, lives, and eulogies ascribed to anatomists, which he has inserted, 

 either from their own writings, or their editors, or commentators, will afford a 

 great variety of pleasure, in which he has been particularly careful to set down 

 the names, surnames, country, time of their birth, what year they died in, 

 under what masters educated, where they flourished, and in what part of ana- 

 tomy they excelled. Nor has he been less diligent in the account he has given 

 of the books of anatomy, with which his friends supplied him in great numbers. 

 The reader will see here laid before him all the several editions; with the places, 

 date of the year, &c. together with an account of the plates whether originals 

 or copies, cut in wood or engraven on copper, &c. To the whole are added 

 three indexes. 



An Account of some Barometrical Experiments, for finding the different Elas- 

 ticities of the Air, made in several Parts of Switzerland. By Dr. John James 

 Scheuchzer, M. D. Math. Professor at Tigurum, or Zurich, and F. R. S, 

 N° 344, p. 266. Translated from the Latin. 



The tube employed was 32 inches in length, and 2 lines in diameter, Paris 

 measure. In the following tables, the first column shows the quantity of air 

 left in the tube; the 2d the height of the mercury above the surface of the 

 stagnant quicksilver; the 3d the spaces of the expanded air; and the 4th the 

 descent of the mercury, on account of the air left in the tube. 



At Zurich, Sept. 6, 1714, the height of the whole barometer, at 8 o'clock 

 in the morning, was 26 Paris inches, 4 lines; but at 9^** it was lQ inches, 44. 

 lines. 



