NOTES 



249 



P. 126. 1. 1 from top. 



In corvo aqvatico] See note to vol. 

 I p. 117. 1. 7-8 from top. 



P. 127. 1. 1 from bottom. 



Stultitia caruiffe] Horatius, Eph 

 stolee, I 1, 41-42. 



XI 



DE VESICULIS IN PULMONE. 



ANATOME CUNICULI PRAv 



GNANTIS. IN PULMONIBUS EX, 



PERIMENTA. DE LACTEIS MAM, 



MARUM. IN CYGNO OBSERVA, 



TIONES &C. 



This Letter from Steno to Th. Bar= 

 tholin, dated Leyden March 5, 1663, is 

 found in Thorns Bartholini Epist. Me= 

 dicin. Cent. IV Hafniae 1667. pp. 348 

 —359, numbered Epist. LV. 



P. 131. 1. 4 from top. 



binis . . . beatus litteris] Only one 

 of these letters is known, viz. the one 

 found in Epist. Medicin. Cent. IV. p. 1 1 3, 

 numbered Epist. XXVII, dated Copen, 

 hagen September 7, 1662. 



P. 131. 1. 9 from top. 



De . . . Malpighii obfervationi* 

 bus] The results of Malpighi's exami* 

 nations of the structure of the lung, 

 together with his demonstration of the 

 existence of small vesiculx in the latter, 

 were published for the first time in De 

 Pulmonibus Epistolae II ad Borellium, 

 Bononiae 1661. In his above-mentioned 

 Letter to Steno, Bartholin had spoken 

 of these observations of Malpighi's and 

 called upon him to further examine the 

 question. Bartholin had also written to 

 Ole Borch and van Home about it, and 



in 1663 he reprinted Malpighi's Letters 

 in Copenhagen: Thomse Bartholini De 

 Pulmonum Subjlantia 6- Motu Diatribe. 

 Accedunt CI. V. Marcelli Malpighij de 

 Pulmonibus Obfervationes Anatomicx. 

 Hafniae 1663. 



P. 132. 1. 4-5 from bottom. 



Dominus Swammerdamius] Jo= 

 annes Swammerdam (1637— 1680), born 

 in Amsterdam, was the son of a chemist 

 of that town, who was intensely interest- 

 ed in curiosities of art and nature. In 

 Amsterdam young Swammerdam began 

 to study medicine, especially anatomy, 

 under Blaes and Tulp. At this early 

 period he made the acquaintance of 

 Steno, which acquaintance soon ripened 

 into friendship. Afterwards they both 

 studied in Leyden, under Sylvius and 

 van Home, and here the two students 

 made many joint investigations, which 

 co-operation, as mentioned in the Intro, 

 duction, was later on continued at The= 

 venot's in Paris and Issy. In 1665 Swam= 

 merdam was once more in Amsterdam, 

 and in 1666 he was in Leyden, where 

 in the following year he was made a 

 doctor. In spite of splendid offers from 

 abroad Swammerdam preferred to stay 

 in Holland. He went to live in Amster, 

 dam, where he lead a retired life in the 

 house of his father, but religious scrup, 

 les gradually got the upper hand of his 

 otherwise clear intellect; he gave up his 

 scientific studies, and especially after he 

 had came under the influence of Antoin= 

 ette Bourignon his mind gave way al, 

 together. — Swammerdam made many 

 valuable anatomical and physiological 

 discoveries; but his name is chiefly asso* 

 ciated with the study of insects and their 

 biology, a branch of science which he 

 was not only the first to cultivate, but 



