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Lifter, Coll. Med. Lond. & S./J.5. giving an Account of 
a Kom^n Pottery, »e^r Leeds /«Yorklhire. VIII. A 
Letter from Sir Robert Sibbald to Dr. Martin Lifter, 
ColLMed.Lond, & S,R S, containing an Account of feve-^ 
rat Shells olferved hy him in Scotland. IX. An Ac- 
count of Books. The Titles of fome late Books of Dr. 
Lifter, not Accounted for in the Tranfac^ions, and of 
which mention is made in one of the Letters^ X. Juli^ 
us Celfus de vita & Rebus Geftis Julii e^faris ex Muf- 
CO Joan Georgii Grevii IterataEditio cum Indice Return 
Uberrimo. 
I. An Account of Four forts of firange Beans ^ 
frequently cafl on Shoar on the Orkney Ifles, 
tpitb fome ConjeStures about the rpay of their 
being brought thither from Jamaica, where 
Three forts of them grow. By Hans Sloane, 
CoU. Med. Lond. & S. R. S. 
IHad feveral times heard of ftrange Beans was thrown up 
by the Sea on the IQands^on the North -weft parts of Scot- 
land, efpecially thofe of them who are mbft expofed to the 
Waves of the great Ocean ; they are thrown up pretty fre- 
quently in great Numbers^ and are no otherwife regarded 
then as they ferve to make SnufF-Boxes. They are not men- 
tioned by any Author I know of, excepting Sir Robert Sibhald 
in his TrodriHtfi. nat.Scot.p.^^, fart 2. where they are called 
ThafeoU Molucani^ and James Wallace of Kirkwatt^ in his 
iate Defcription of the Ifles of Orkney, f. 14. where tliere are 
Four forts Figured, by the Name of Molucca Beans, 
I had a very great defire to fee what thefe Beans were, and 
fent feveral times into Scotland^ to get of them fent me hither, 
but nevercould obtain it, till lately Dy.Geo.Garden Aherden, 
did me the favour to fend me foui forts of them very freih 
and little injured by the Sea ; Three of thofe Beans grow in 
Jamaica where I gathered them, snd have mentioned them 
m, my Catalogue of the Plants of that Ifland, The 
