Blair, ' 139 
but tlie rarity of the occafion added fuch 
zeal to the anatomift, that it is matter of 
furprife that Dr. Blair could fo amply 
gratify the comparative anatomift, as he has 
done in this paper. Fie has fupplied the 
deficiency of feme articles, and illuftrated 
others, from the Hiftory of the DilTedtion 
of an Elephant which perifhed at Dublin ^ 
publiihed by Dr. Moulii4s, in 1682. 
An Account of the Apsjlus^ or Lapis 
Amianthus, found in the county of Angus, 
m Scotland. W 333. Vol. xxvii. p. 434. 
A Diffedlion of a Child emaciated, N** 
353. Vol. XXX. p. 631. At five months 
old the child weighed only five pounds. Dr, 
Blair could find no veftige of the omen- 
tiim^ and queries whether this atrophy might 
not originate in the want of that membrane. 
The abfence of this part was probably the 
confequence, rather than the caufe of this 
infant's difeafe. 
An Account of a Boy who lived a con- 
(iderable Time without Fo1&d. N° 364, 
Vol. xxxi. p. 28. 
A Method of difcoverlng the Virtues of 
Plants by their external Strufture. N"" 364. 
Vol, 
