( II 1 5 ) 
'oftdthat tateftine and uBufual motion of the parts^ that 
caufesor accompanies Putrefadion in Rotten Wood or 
Fiflies -, fiuce upon the firft and liveHeft appearance of the 
Light/ there was not any ("at leaft that could be taken no« 
tice of by the fenfes; j To determine this^ I fay, it feem'd 
tome fo difficuh a task^ that I fhall willingly leave the So- 
lution of ftich abftrufe Phsnomenas fome of ours.unat- 
teoipted ; efpecially fince I m^ fy God permittiogj make an 
Hiftorical mention of them the day after to morrow at 
the Meeting of thtl^yal Society ^ where 1 doubt not much 
more and more to the purpofe will be (aid and confider'd^ 
than I have vanity to think my felf capable of ofFering.Oo* 
ly, for the prevention of fome needlefs conjecStureSj to 
which without this previous Advcrtiferaent one might upon 
plaufible grounds indulgejl ftiall in the mean while add and 
conclude with one Oblervation more, which maypoflibly 
take off our thoughts from ftriving to deduce the Shining 
of our Veal from the peculiar nourifliment^ or conftitutiouj 
pr properties of that individual Galf, whofe flefhjd^^r.was 
luminous. For^ having feveral nights fent purpofely into 
the Larder, to obferve, whether any Veal, fince brought 
thither, or any other meat, did afford any light, a negative 
anlwer was alwaies brought me back ^ fave at one time, 
which happened to be within Icfs than 48 hours of that, at 
which the Luminoufnefs of the Veal had been firft taken 
notice of, for at this time there was in the fame Larder a 
confpicuous light feen in a Pullet jihzt hungup there,which 
having caus'd to be brought up into a darkned place in my 
chamber in the night time, I perceived four or five lumi- 
nous places, which were not indeed near io large as thofe 
of the Veal, but were little lefs vivid than they. All 
thefe I took notice to be either upon or near the Rump^and 
that, which appeared moft like a Spark of Firejftione at the 
very tip of that part* Yet was not this Foul mortified, nor 
at all ill-lentedj butfofrefli, that the next day I found it 
very good meat. But whether this may reafonably lead to 
O o o o o a 
