54 CHAPTER 30, 
Plumier was the author of two differ ta- 
tions^ one in the yoiirnal des Scava?2s'' of 
1694 ; the other in the Journal des Tre- 
uoiixy' to prove that cochineal was an in- 
fed ^ a fact doubted by many at that time, 
and concerning v/hich his own teftimony 
had been controverted. In the fame work 
occur fome publications by Plumier, on 
other zoological fubje6ts. 
His U Art de Tourner was firft publifhed 
at Lyo?2s in ijoi ^ and a fecond time at 
Paris ^ fo lately as in 1749, in folio^ with 
eighty plates. It is fpoken of as a curious 
and fingular work, containing the m.oft 
compleat inftrudions relating to that art^ 
that are to be met v/ith. 
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