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of wood engravings. It was printed at tlie expense of Sir Isaac Newton, 

 Sir Hans Sloane,"and some of his otlier scientific friends. Only one liun- 

 dred and twenty copies of tlie first edition were printed. Subsequently a 

 new edition was published under the care of Mr. Huddcsford, and to wliich 

 several of Lhwyd's other contributions to palaeontology were annexed. 

 This work contains a systematic arrangement of fossils, which, whatever may 

 be its defects, possesses the merit of being the first attempt that was made 

 to connect the study of fossils with other branches of natural history. 



The following is a list of his published works and papers from the 'Bib- 

 liotheca Britamiica : 



1. ' Lithophylacii Britannici IconograpMa,' London, 1699. 8vo. New 

 edition, by W. 'Huddesford, 1760. 



2. 'ArehfBologia Britannica,' Oxford, 1707. PoKo. 



3. 'Adversaria de Fluviorum Montium, Urbium,' &c., 'in Britannia 

 Nominibus,' 1719, Loudon. Svo. 



4. ' Letter to the Scots and Irish.' Translated by W. Malcolm. Edin- 

 burgh, 1739. 5. Some account of a fiery exhalation in Merionethshire. 

 'Phil. Trans.,' Ab. iii, 671. 6. A note concerning an extraordinary hail in 

 Monmouthshire. Ibid., 1697. 7. Concerning some regularly figured stones 

 lately found, and observations on ancient languages. Ibid., 1698. 8. On a 

 figured stone found in Wales. Ibid., 1699. 9. Account of some fossils. 

 Ibid., 1701. 10. Account of very large stones voided by the urethra. Ibid., 

 1704. II. Observations in natural history, made in travels through Wales. 

 Ibid. 12. Account of some uncommon plants growing about Penzance and 

 St. Ives, in Cornwall. Ibid. 13. On the natural history and antiquities of 

 Wales. Ibid., Ab. vi, 19, 1713. 14. On an undescribed plant [^^ci^z^/anV* 

 indivisa, Linn.], Ibid. 



In the ' Gentleman's Magazine ' (vol. Ixxvii, p. 41 9) there is an account of 

 the sale of Mr. Lhwyd's library, which consisted chiefly of works of antiqua- 

 rian interest. Many of his letters to Dr. Mai-tin Lister, and other dis- 

 tinguished natiu-alists, were presented by Dr. Pothergill to the Ashmolean 

 Museum, Oxford, where they still exist. 



He died in July, 1709, and his death is said to have been hastened by 

 immoderate application to his antiquarian studies. The immediate cause 

 was sleeping in a damp and close room in the museum at Oxford, which he 

 chose to sleep in, for the convenience of pursuing Ms studies. 



The following extract, giving an account of the church in the parisli 

 in which Lhwyd was bom, and some account of his family, is from the MS. 

 of the late Mr. John Dovaston, and has been kindly communicated by his 

 son, P. M. Dovaston, Esq. A.M., of Westfelton, near Shi-ewsbnry : 



" The old church of Oswestry stood near to Llwynymaen, in a field there 

 called to this day Caeyr Eglwys, or the Church Leasow. It was called the 

 church of Llanforda, from its vicinity to River Morda, and was dedicated to 

 the Holy Trinity. Near to the spot was a weU of fine water, to which the 

 vulgar do yearly resort on Trinity Sunday, where they hold a kind of wake, 

 and drink the water of the said well, with sugar in it. No remains of this 

 chui-ch are to be seen. Llwynymaen house is very near to where the church 

 once stood ; and I cannot pass this place without very strongly supposing 

 that hereabouts was a Druid's place of worship ; for the word Llan, or 

 Llwyn (which is the same thing), does not signify a chui-ch. And yet we 

 always find churches in those places so bearing the name of Llan ; but it 

 signifies a grove, or place of Druid worship, which always was in woods of 

 oak ; and Llwyn y Maen signifies ' the grove of stone ;' and probably there 



