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LXXV. An Account of a manufcript treat fe , 
prefented to the Royal Society, intituled , 
Traite du corail, contenant les nouvelles 
decouvertes, qu’on a fait fur le corail, les 
pores, madrepores, fcharras, litophitons, e- 
ponges,et autres corps et productions, quela 
mer fournit,pour fervir a Philtoire naturelle 
de la mer ; that is to fay , A Treatife upon Co- 
ral , and fever al other ProduEUons furnifh'd 
by the Sea , in order to illujlrate the natural 
Hijlory thereof , by the Sieur de Peyffonnel, 
M. D. Correfpondent of the Royal Acad . of 
Sciences of Paris, of that of Montpelier, and 
of that of Belles Lettres at Marfeilles ; Phy- 
Jician-Botanifl , appointed by His Mofl 
Chriflian Majefly in the If and ^Guada- 
lupe, and heretofore fent by the King to the 
Coafs of Barbara for Df cover ies in Natural 
Hiftory . Extracted and tranfated from the 
French by Mr . William Watfon, F. R. S, 
Read May 7, t ' ¥ \ HIS curious treatife before us, con- 
W- taining upwards of 400 quarto 
pages in manufcript, was tranfmitted to the Royal 
Society from Guadalupe. It is the refult of the ob- 
fervations of above thirty years ; and was fent hither, 
as M. de Peyffonnel informs the Society by a letter 
dated 
