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quainted with the Rate of thofe, which are found 
actually under the fea, and the revolutions, to which 
they are fubjed, while they are covered by it. It is 
ftill farther requifite to have an attention to the revo- 
lutions, which have been and are conftantly obferved, 
with refped to the fea-fhores, which change their 
fituation in feveral parts, fome advancing upon the 
land, and others retiring. If all thefe different fads 
be compared together, it will not be doubted, but 
there are adually under the earth marine bodies, 
which are found there only in confequence of thefe 
flow revolutions, and not of an univerfal deluge. 
Perhaps this notion might be extended to the greateft 
part of the marine foffile bodies, which are known 
to us. 
Monf. Donati informs me, that he would be glad 
to prefent to the Royal Society an hiftory of coral, 
if he thought, that it would be agreeable to them. 
XII. A brief Botanical and Medical Hiftory 
of the Solanum Lethale, Bella-donna, or 
Deadly Nightfhade, by Mr . Richard 
Pultney. Communicated by Mr . William 
Watfon, F. R. S. 
Read Feb. 17 
* 757 - 
B E l l a-d o n n A is the name, which 
the Italians, and particularly the Ve- 
netians, apply to this plant $ and Mr. Ray ( 1 ) ob- 
ferves, that it is fo called becaufe the Italian ladies 
(1) Nom. Etymol. ad Calcem. Cat. Cant. p. 47. item Hift. 
Plant, p. 680. 
make 
