122 CONTENTS OF THE ADDITIONAL NOTES. 



NOTE IV. MUSQUITO. 



The larva lives chiefly in water; it may be driven away by smoke; gnats; libel- 

 lula; aestros bovis ; botts; musca chamseleon; vomitoria. 



NOTE V. AMPHIBIOUS ANIMALS. 



Diodon has both lungs and gills; some amphibious quadrupeds have the foramen 

 ovale open; perhaps it may be kept open in dogs by frequent immersion so as to 

 render them amphibious; pearl divers; distinctions of amphibious animals; lamprey; 

 3eech ; remora ; whale. 



NOTE VI. HIEROGLYPHIC CHARACTERS. 



Used by the magi of Egypt to record discoveries in science, and historical events; 

 astrology an early superstition; universal characters desirable; Grey's Memoria 

 Technica; Bergeret's Botanical Nomenclature ; Bishop Wilkins's Real Character and 

 Philosophical Language. 



NOTE VII. OLD AGE AND DEATH. 



I. Immediate cause of the infirmities of age not yet well ascertained; must be 

 sought in the laws of animal excitability; debility induced by inactivity of many 

 parts of the system ; organs of sense become less excitable; this ascribed to habit; 

 may arise from deficient secretion of sensorial power; all parts of (he system not 

 changed as we advance in life. II. Means of preventing old age; warm bath; fishes; 

 cold-blooded amphibious animals ; fermented liquors .injurious; also want of heat, 

 food, and fresh air; variation of stimuli; volition; activity. III. Theory of the 

 approach of age; surprise; novelty:; why contagious diseases affect a person but 

 ouce; debility; death, 



NOTE VIII. REPRODUCTION. 



I. Distinguishes animation from mechanism; solitary and sexual; buds and bulbs; 

 aphises; tenia; volvox; polypus; oyster; eel; hermaphrodites. II. Sexual. III. In- 

 ferior vegetables and animals propagate by solitary generation only ; next order by both; 

 superior by sexual generation alone. IV. Animals are improved ty reproduction; 

 contagious diseases ; reproduction a mystery. 



