—nifts of Europe, for his exquifite Manner of de: 
_ Branches expanded. 
Corallines,; alive in Sea-water,: by. the Help: of 
vinced, that thefe apparent Plants were raniifie 
peared alive, is defcribed magnified at Letter 4: 
withdraw. the Paper I had laid before the Roy | 
ious Drawings, the Royal Society have honoure 
In FRODUGTEON. | “ 
an Opportunity of {ecing thefe difputed Beings calle 
modious Microfcope, of: Mr. Cuff’s the Optician-in 
which I had altered for that Purpofe ; and was 
in their proper Skins or Cafes, not loco-motive, b 
Shells of Oyfters, Muffels, Sc. and to Fucus’s. 
The farft Coralline that occurred to me, -was 
is exprefled in Plate II. at N°. 3._ A Part of it, 
- 
i, #2 Sree 
gether with other Proofs, that then-occurred, ind 
and to purfue with Attention my Enquiries conc i 
Subject ; both with a View to my own Satisfaction, ai 
to afford thofe, who. yet doubted, the Means of am 
vidion, : piste t NAPE $2; St ab aotite Se ate 
In the Beginning of Sune laft, 1754, I pa 
Ehret, a Gentleman univerfally known to the | 
painting Plants and: Flowers, to accompany me 
fide at Brighthelmftone, in Suffex ;:there to draw fr 
ture, whatever the Microfcope prefented him of thefe 
ordinary Beings. An Account of this Journey, with. 
Acceptance. Here we faw, amongft others, the © 
NN’. 14, Plate IX, Letter 4,. with all its minute 
rrrec *- 
‘Letter C, fhews one of thefe Branches magnifi 
appeared in the Sea-water through: the Microfcope, 7 
Polypes united: together, ‘repofing in their Sockets, and 
their Arms extended, 2 23 Sa ee 
