t 
( 885 ) 
was not more than their Prime Coftj the dearnefs of 
keeping them near London neccffitating the Cow keep- 
ers to buy the very beft. 
His Majefty was further plcafed, on the Sollicitarion 
of the four Gentlemen, to grant a Brief fot the 24500/. 
but the many lalfe Reports that were then induflriouG- 
Jy propagated, to leflen the value of thofe poor Mens 
Ioffes, fo fruftrated that Charity, that the entire Sum 
Collcded (the charges of Colleding being firft paid) 
was but 6278 /. 2 6 d, which on a Dividend, amount- 
ed to Five Shillings and Three Half Pence in the Pound, 
computing their Lofs as above, at Six Pounds per Cow ; 
tho’ if we confider their Contrads with Brewers for 
Grains, their Rent of Grounds which lay ufelefs. Ser- 
vants wages, ( 0 c. their real Lofs may (by a modeft Com- 
putation) be allowed to be Ten Pounds for every Cow 
that died* 
IV. A Vefcription of the Organ of Hearing in the 
Elephant, whh the Figures and Situation of the 
OfTicles, Labyrinth and Cochlea in the Ear 
of that large Animal. Communicated to the Roy- 
al Society, by Dr. Patrick Blair, 5. S. 
I N the Defcription I formerly wrote to the Honour’d 
Sir Hans Sloanc.^ Barr, of thQ f l.fhant \ Difleefed in 
Dundee^ Anno 1706. which he was pleafed to Commu- 
nicate ro the Roj dSociety^ as you have it in Philo f Tr mf, 
N°. 226 227. I treated of the Bony part of the Far 
of tf at prodigious Animal a little too (uperhcially ; 
bccaufe ) unwilling at that time to break up the 
Qs Petrofum of the right Far, which- had accidemaliy. 
Beeni 
