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THE 
Crounian Lectures 
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MUSCULAR MOTION. 
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LECTURE I. 
SECT. I. 
Head in January H E proper Motion of the Muf- 
J 743 +• ■ cular Fibres of Animals, and 
^ the Manner of its being com- 
municated to, and continued 
in them, is a Subject fo abftrufe, that it is with the 
greateft Diffidence imaginable I have attempted its 
Explanation. It is the laft Subjed I would offer at, 
of all that the boundlefs Scope of Nature affords 
us. And, indeed, no other Motive ffiould have en- 
gaged me in it, than to comply with the Command 
of the worthy Frejident and Council of the Royal 
Society , for whom I bear the utmofl: Efteem. 
P> 
II. 
