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worthy members of the Society $ and to make exact 
drawings of the feveral different objects, as they ap- 
pear’d to him thro’ the microfcope. 
Accordingly, on Monday the third of this inftanfc 
June, we let out, and arriv’d at Lewes in Suffex that 
evening, and the next morning at Brighthelmftone* 
The weather being very calm, and few fucus’s or co- 
rallines being thrown aShore on the beach, I hir’d a 
fiSherman, the next day, to take up fome oyfters from 
an old oyfter-ground, that had been long difus’d, lying 
about three or four leagues off to fea, and where, by 
his defcription, the Shells were cover’d with great 
varieties of thele minute tree-like corallines y with 
directions, that, as foon as he took them out of the 
fea, he Should immediately put them into a bucket 
of fea- water j but, unfortunately, he put the oyfters 
into a fisherman’s balket ; by which means, many 
varieties were dead, notwithstanding we receiv’d them 
two hours after they were taken out of the fea, and 
had them put immediately into fea- water : However, 
by the oyfters lying on one another, fome of the co- 
rallines were kept fo moift, as to be perfectly alive, 
and briSk. In order to diftinguifh them more ealily, 
we pluck’d them off the oyfters, and placed them in 
white earthen plates, and pour’d as much fea- water 
over them as would juft cover them: After we had 
let them reft for a little while, to recover themfclves, 
we could eafily difcover, with a magnifying giafs of 
an inch focus, which were alive, and which not : 
Accordingly, I cut off fmall pieces of feveral of the 
livelieft, and placed them in watch-glaffes fill’d with 
fea- water ; thefe, after refting a little while, I placed, 
one after another, on the Stage of the microicope. 
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