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“ obftetrices. Verum id noluit mater puerpera. 
“ Pietati ejus obfecundavit fortuna. Lingua enim 
“ inferior paulatim emarcuit, et in exiguam pifoque 
“ haud majorem lingulam, qux hodienum maner, 
<( contrada eft. Lingua interim fuperior ad juftam 
“ crevit magnitudinem, quamplurimis longis pro- 
“ fundifque fulcis diftinda, an vulneribus laniata, 
“ dicam ! quse parallelo fttu pofita una cum lingua 
“ creverunt, neque unquam coitura efle videntur.” 
Nat. Nov. ix. 1664 . Ob. 1694-5. Mart.s. /Et. 31 . 
It appears by this Journal of himfelf that he was 
always infirm and ftckly. * 
XIV. Upon the Sounds and Hearing fl/'Fifhes, 
by Jac. Theod. Klein R. C P. Gedan. F.R.S. 
or Some Account of a *lreatife , intit led , “An 
u Inquiry into the Reafons why the Au- 
“ thor of an Epiftle concerning the Hear- 
<c ing of Fifhes endeavours to prove they 
u are all mute and deaf;” by Richard 
Brocklesby M . D. F. R . S . 
Read March io. ^\UR Author in the firft place claftes 
I 747 - 8 - them into two Orders, the firft 
hath Lungs, the other is furnifh’d with Organs ana- 
logous to Lungs, which we call Fifh-Ears, or Gills : 
All the Whale-Kind, the Dolphin, Porpoife, and 
fuch like, have Lungs. There are two Families of 
the fecond Clafs, to one of them belongs all that 
Tribe, 
* See the Account of Margaret Cuttings who fpeak* without a 
Tongue, in th dsTranf, N°. 484, p . 621, 
