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An Account offome Bool^ lately -puhlifhed, 
L PIN AX Rerum Naturalium BI{ITJNURVM continent 
VEGETABlLlA, ANlMALIA & FOSSILIA in hof Infula reper- 
tajncboatus^ Autl\ Chriftophoro Merret, Med^ A ^ utriujque 
Societatis Regias fom. 
, The Learned and luquifitive Author of this Book, hath by 
hb laudable example ot c >lle(3:ing together ^ what Natural 
things are to be found here m England^ of all forts ( which he 
has done upon his own expences) given an invitation to the 
curious in alt parts of the world to attempt the like, thereby 
to eftablifli the much defired and highly ufeful commerce 
J^niong ISJaturalifls^ and to contribute every where to the com* 
pofivig of a genuine and full Hifiory of Nature, 
l\\ the Preface he intimates, that his ftock does ftill encreafs 
dayly i and that therefore the Reader may exped an Appendix 
to thiscolleftion* 
l\\ the Body of the Book, he enumerates all the iy/^mV/, Al- 
plmbecically ; And, as to Vegetables, ^ he reckons tip about 410 
forrs;and g ves iht 'n Latine and Englijh Names,, and the P/^j^^/ 
and Tmes o( their growth : reducing them afterwards to cer- 
tain Claffes^ hitherto ufed by ^(?/aw/V4 Writers in their Hi^O" 
Ties of Plants: Adding the Etymology of their Generick 
Names, and a compendious Regi/ier ot the Time, n?^m ancj how 
lor^ the En^ltjb Planer do flioot and flourifli. 
As to Ammals^ he finds of them about 3 40^ kinds in England^ 
whereof the fourjooted avQ about Birds I70. and Fi/hei- 
120. Infers 2V'C innumerable, whic4i yet he endeavours to ena-^ 
merate, and to reduce to certain C/^?^/ into which he alfo 
brings the three former kinds. 
Concerning fo^//, he jfr/? takes notice of the Metals fomd 
lA Eng/i/h Mines; as Silver^ Tiny Copper^ iroth^ Lead^ Antimony^ 
and fome Gold exfradiedout of Tin. Next of the Stones, oi 
wh oil he finds about 70 fortsj^ amongft ihtvayBriftol-Diamonds^. 
A'/attSy Hyacinths^ Emerods ^ Loadftones^ Toad-fiones ^ ( which 
)att yet he affirms to be nothing but the grinding-teeth of the 
