Pa ae 
‘Linneus, © The learned Cuvier, however, has recently fhewn 
that naturalifts have been widely mittaken 
j on this fubject, 
Mr. Bruce alone having indicated the real Jdis, in his vol. 5. 
172, which is a fpecies of Curlew hitherto fearcely known to 
naturalifts, and now called by Cuvier Numenius Ibis, m Ann. 
du Mufeum d’Hikt. Nat. v. 4.116, t. 52, 53. Itis the Zan- 
talus ethiopicus of Latham, Ind. Ornith. 706. A. great ob- 
‘eétion to this determination is the weaknefs of its bill, which 
feems by no means fo fit as that of an Ardea for the mode 
culiarly noxious, though not large animals of that kind; or 
for fome fuperttitious reafon, forgotten in the lapfe of ages, 
equivalent to no reafon at all. : 
affelquift proceeded in March, 1751, to Damiata, 
whence he failed for Jaffa, or Joppa, and arrived there after 
a voyage of four days. e had now reached the great the- 
atre of his enquiries, the Holy Land, and he entered upon the 
examination of its produ@tions, and their facred as well as 
medical hiftory, with all the zeal which had at firlt prompted 
him to the journey, and which was crowned with eminent 
fuccefs. Having {pent near two months in this celebrated 
country, he failed from Seide the’ 23d of May, for Cyprus, 
from whence he proceeded to Rhodes, and to Stanchio, the 
which our C. Berus had always previoufly been miltaken ; 
Coluber Cerafles, or hor viper ; Angi Cerafles, horned 
fnake; La incus, the famous reftorative lizard of the 
Arabs ; a a oopedia, ei ht-armed cuttlefith, the cele- 
brated enemy of the great mu cle Pinna muricata, which lait 
is warned of its approach by one or more li that 
ext g 
Tranfactions for 1750 1751, and 1752, Haflelquift wrote 
eafe called the Aleppo mark; on the 
rally underftood ; and finally, another paper on the Mus 
Jaculus, ox Jerboa, the Dipus Jaculus of later writers. His 
his countrymen, they contribnted fome neceffary fu $ 
towards his expenfive undertakings. Unfortunately he had 
in the meanwhile, facrif.ced, inftead of reftoring his 1 . 
The ferpent he had long harboured in his bolom,” to ule 
atic words of us, “ awoke.’ He fi 
elf, as all in his condition do, and thought that a 8 
Smyrna might reftore him. 
i ae eee but he « watted away daily, like a lamp 
and commiffioned him to arrange and publifh the eee 4 
e 
regard to the natural hiftory and the {cientific names, and 
being become very fearce, a new an imp i 
wanted, to which a good index wou'd be a valuable addition. 
In 1758 the above mentioned Dr. Beck, phyfician to the 
queer, publifhed, at. Stockholm, an oration in praife of 
. 
{e&ts, which Tournefort faw, and yet would not admit the 
i PRIFICATION, aud Ficus,n. 
Haflelquilt’s obfervations, however, by no means invalida 
the one more than the other. 
Cynips Pfencs, Linn. Sylt. Nat. ed. 12. V. I. 919, by eating 
the germens of the Ficus Carica does more harm than good ;. 
and in his letter of September, 1750,to Linnzus, in {peaking 
of F. Sycomsrus and the C. 'ynips which inhabitsits blofioms, he 
c t 
tributes any thing towards its fecundation, bu 
m; fome farther inquiry.” To the firtt remark of Haffelquiit 
mma’ 
Tler f allude, is removed in the botanical part of 
b cus Sycomorus, where, le an original. 
account is given of a {p renous fpot in that 
fruit, by which its bloffoms become expofed, the afliftance of 
C omori in fecundating it is exp admitt 
refsly admitted. 
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Curious fpecimens of this minute animal, 
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