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real Crabs -Eyes, are often fubflituted inftead thereof. 
Permit me to fubfcribe myfelf with all pollible Re- 
fped, 
^ I jR, 
London, Feb. 25. 
1747-8. lour mojl obedient humble Servant , 
Henry Baker. 
IX. Brevis hiftoria naturalis, five de Vita, Ge- 
nere, Moribufque Muris /. llpini : Autore 
[ Jacobo Theodor 0 Klein , Reipubl. Gedanenf. a 
Secretis, et R. S. Land. S. communicata per 
Petrufn Collinfonum , ejufdem Societatis S. 
8 Feb ‘ 2S T^ ESTI " £ ex mur * um gliriumve genere 
/ 4/ ’ JD ^ unimalia indujlria numerantur* 
Nulli beftiarum, nedum infe&oium multitudinibas, 
ingenitam denegamus induftriam, i. e. mores ct 
fludia, pro vita; fuas genere, ad confervationem et 
progeniem adtequata. In quibufdam circumfcripta 
nobis videntur ; uti juxta aranearum tribum, five ex 
telis, ftaminibus, retibus vel cafliculis fcicntifice con- 
ftrudis, five ex latebris vidum capicntium ; qusedam 
philomufos dixeris, ut admirandum animal Caflorem 
{a), lignationis, hydrographite, aggerationis ct archi- 
tedurce 
(a) Con f. quadr. Hiji. prodr om. p. 19. — Hi ft. de V Acad, des 
Scienc. 1737. P* I0 - ibid. On ne trouveguerc parmis les grands Ani- 
maux, que les Cajlors , qui ayent une de ces induftries fingulieres et 
incomprehenfibles a l’Efprit humain. 
