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juft where this receives the Camlis Arterlofus 5 but 
obferves, that the Knowledge of the Ufe and Adion 
of the Nervous Syftem is much more imperfed than 
any other Branch of the Animal Oeconomy. 
There is a fhert Dijfertation ( with Four Figures 
of the Tongue^ its Vejfels, Glands^ Mufclesy and 
Nerves annexed) by the fame Author 5 whofe prin- 
cipal Intent is to {heWj that the Vejfels called falival 
f)uBs by Cofchwitzius, are not falival F>uilsy but 
Veins. 
yin* Some cmhm Experiments and Obfer- 
vations on a Beetle, that li^oed Three Years 
^without Food: Communicated totheKox kl, 
Society in a Letter from Mr. Henry- 
Baker to Alexander Stuart, M. D. F. R. S. 
SIR, 
W H E N I had the Honour of waiting on you 
lately, and was mentioning, in Converfation, 
the uncommon and furprifing Strength of Life be- 
llowed by Providence on a certain Fnglifh Infed, 
called by Fetiver, Scarabaus impennis tardipesy the 
flow-legged Beetle. Moff. 139. Fig. id. Angl. 999. 
Gaz. Decad. 33^, Tab. xxiv. 7. (whofe Natural Hi- 
ftory, as to that Particular, has never, I believe, 
been touched on) you was pleafed to think it fo 
extraordinary, as to defire I would write down the 
Obfervations I had made, lince the Accidents that 
led me into them may perhaps never again occur : 
And you feemed of Opinion, that their being known 
may 
