An Account of Several Curiosities Relating to Amber, Lately Sent to the Royal Society from Philippus Jacobus Hartmannus (Author of the Account of It Published Last Transaction) and which are Now in Their Repository at Gresham-College

VI. An Account of several Curiosities relating to Amber, lately sent to the Royal Society from Philippus Jacobus Hartmannus (Author of the Account of it published last Transaction) and which are now in their Repository at Gresham College. 1. Frustum quod variam concretionem Succini corticatim cum armatura auri exhibet. 2. Frustum album sale volatili abundans, ut sapor salis linguam afficiat. 3. Frustum insignis duritiei cum sapore vitrioli. 4. Frustum in quo insignis cavitas aquae plena. 5. Frustum in quo lignum fossile. 6. ———— in quo festucae quasi abiegnæ. 7. ———— quod fibras ligneas matricis in qua situm fuit, exhibet. 8. Gutta oblonga. 9. Gutta oblonga altera. 10. Gutta succinea. 11. Gutta minor. 12. Gutta minor altera. 13. Feretrum aliquot muscarum. 14. Feretrum araneæ. 15. Litera F primordium musivi ex succino operis. SUPERIUS. 16. Lignum fossile. 17. Terra foliata f. Corticata. 18. Lignum in lapidem metallicum indurescens. VII. Part of a Letter of Mr. Dale from Braintree, Feb. 1. 1699. to Dr. Martin Lister, Fellow of the College of Physicians and R. S. concerning several Insects. Herewith you will receive a Cervus volans or two, which I take to be different from those described by Mouset in his Theat. Insect. p. 148, 149; these are plentifully found about Colchester, especially towards the Sea-Coast. Besides these I have happened upon divers sorts of Scarabs, which I cannot find figured in your curious Tabulae Mutae in the Appendix Hist. Animal. Angl. as the Benzæs Mouset. p. 152. a Species or two of Cantharides, three or four sorts of Lady Bugs, and others; which, although of most of them I have at present but single Specimens, yet if you desire the sight of them to design and fill up the Vacancies of your Plates with, they shall be sent up to you. Last Summer being on our Sea-Coast at Harwich, I observed no less than five or six Species of Cochleæ Marine two of which I have since found to be already noted by you in your excellent Hist. Conchyl. as of English Production, viz. Sect. 5. n. 19. and 43. A third I have which is by you figured, viz. n. 13. but is not marked as found in England. The fourth agrees with your n. 8. in Figure, but having no Name, I cannot be positive, I therefore desire your Name of it: