Ylll A Letter from Dr f .SmcRxc^ oftk Coilo§ 
Phy.is^ E RtSjQ thePublijher^ giving an accmm 
of fomenerp Books and Manujcripts iu lizly, 
Legorne, Ap:i6. 1700: N* S^ 
IN general, every thing is very rnach coord here 
lince the death of M^/p/^^i, there are fcarce any 
who apply /themfelves to the ftudy of Nature^ His 
Antaognift ShragU told me in paffing through Bomnm 
that he intended to give fomething to the pub- 
lick, upon the fecretions and ftrudure of the Glands^ 
as alfo upon the ufe of the Nerves. Senior Jokm 
^^ptipa TA-mmpktU is going to Print a Botanic 
.^ifcpur/ej, he will add the Figures- of fome Plants that 
liav^ iiotyet been defcribed. Senior La?^djl h^s pro*. 
mifed to fend me fome confultations of Mdpighi^ with 
Notes after his rnanner,. and fome other op^^fcul a, which 
.will ma^ke a good fuppiement to the Foftliuraoua works 
MMalpi^tlh^c brotjght from Naples ' two new Btto'k^ 
'one contains foriieDjffertations concerning Acids^and the 
ferment of the Stomacb^wTote by Sar^gmMtnr the othep^ 
'which is' oiMvMo^rtt'is de (iderum UiJia^thsJThQV<^» 
age round the World of MonfieurG?*;^e//i is-pi4nt€d4 
6 Vol in 12^. They are printing 2itVenice another work 
of a Neapolitan^ which has this Title, Dominici Anlif 
Prodromus de origtne progrejfn medicine. I faw ai' 
^^S^^-fl-emme^ Monfieur BeUmi^ . he is at prefent bu- 
fie in writing the Anatomy cf the Body of Mao, in the 
Tufcan LanguagcHe aflured me this v/ork was wrote fo 
clearly^and that he had taken fuch pains to explain the 
fuhttiDnS,by examples from ordinary M€chaniGfcs.y and 
^iie' comraoneft thingsV^' that the moft ignorant could 
underftand them* He fpoke to tlie like#ifc of ai^^her 
work 
