Extracts of Some Letters to the Publisher, Giving an Account of Some Books Now Printing and Lately Printed in Italy, France, Germany, Holland and Scotland

this Volume the Ingenious Author is pleased to promise many Observations on the Weather, the Velocity of running Waters, the Physical qualities of the several sorts of Waters near the Danube; also a Dissertation upon the Skeletons of Elephants, as well as their single Bones, dug up in great quantities near and in the Roman Aggeres. Lastly, all the Insects of the Danube will be methodically rang’d, describ’d and figur’d, by the indefatigable hand of Signior Marsigli, who deserves all the encouragement that the Learned World can possibly give him. V. Extracts of some Letters to the Publisher, giving an Account of some Books now Printing and lately Printed in Italy, France, Germany, Holland and Scotland. Dr Marchini a Physician at Luca is now Writing the Natural History of the places within that small Commonwealth. Dr Baglivi at Rome, is Writing a Treatise de Successionibus Morborum. F. Plumier has finished his Book de Torno, or of turning, and is now about publishing a Catalogue of all the Plants found in France, the Title of it will be Botanicum Gallicum. He has ready 1400 designs of Plants belonging to this Work. Johannes Georgius Volckamerus, a Physician in Nurenberg, is busy in making Tables of the Affinity of Plants, which he promis’d in the Preface to his Flora Norimbergensis. In this Book he will follow a method directly contrary to that of Rivinus. At Leyden is now Printing Stephani Blancardi Lexicon Medicum. The following Books are lately Printed. Corn. Benghem Apparatus ad Historiam literariam, com- spectus quartus. Amst. 1701. in 12s. De Spina Lexicon Pharmaceutico Chymicum, Francof. ad Menum 1700. in 8o. Valentini, pandectae Medico-legales accedunt polychresta exotica ibidem. 1701. in 4to. Rammazini de Morbis Artificium diatriba Mutine. 1700. in 8o. Books lately Printed and Printing in Scotland. Sir Andrew Balfuro's Letters, giving an Account of his Travels are Printed here, but not as yet published. The History of the World, from the Creation to the Birth of Abraham, containing the space of 1948. years, in two Books. 1st, From the Creation to the Flood. 2d, From the Flood to the Birth of Abraham, wherein all Historical Controversies, either Civil or Ecclesiastick, are handled and discussed, by James Preston, Professor Literature Hu- mane, in the University of St Andrews, is lately Published. Books in the Press. Georgii Sibbaldi M. D. regula bene & Salubriter vi- vendi partim metro expresse quibus accessere Roberti Bodii de trocho regia de filii sui primogeniti monita. The Charitable Physician, being a Collection of curious Receipts, published by Scougal of Whithill, one of our Ordinary Lords of the Session. Sir Rob. Sibbald is about to Print an Appendix to his History of Scotland. Mr Adair is lately returned from Surveying the Shires of Annandale and Niddesdale, where he has observed seve- ral Natural curiosities, as curious Shells, Ores, Metals, Minerals; and particularly, he found a very fine sort of Iron Ore on the Coast of Northumberland: he is now busy in drawing the Maps of those Shires, and intends shortly to publish them, with the Natural History of those places. An INDEX to the 22d Vol. of the Philosophical Transactions. A Abdomen of a Man prodigiously distended with Wind, and cut 6 inches thick of Fat. No 265. p. 618. Abscess of 12 years standing opened. No 265. p. 617. Abscess at the Navel, discharging a great quantity of Prune-stones. No 265. p. 617. Age of Men. See Men. Alkali and Acid precarious principles. No 273. p. 918. Alum how made near Naples. No 265. p. 633. Allantois. See Anatomical discoveries. Ambergrice a large piece. No 263. p. 573. Anatomical Observations and Discoveries. The Intestines and Mesentery found in the Thorax. No 275. p. 992. An Ivory Bodkin cut out of the Bladder. No 260. p. 445. A curious preparation of the Blood-vessels and Viscera. No 265. p. 630. A Stone with Hair cut out of the Bladder. No 266. p. 688. A Polypus near the Spleen. No 266. p. 690. A Triple Bladder in a Man. No 268. p. 752. Dissection of a Woman dead in Child-bed. No 269. p. 787. A Polypus in the Vena Pulmonalis. No 270. p. 797. The human Allantois fully discovered. No 271. p. 835. A new opinion of the motion of the Heart. No 273. p. 914. Aneurisme in the Aorta. No 267. p. 696. Animalcules observed in Semine Masculino. No 263. p. 560. Farther observations on the same. No 268. p. 739. and more on that subject. Their prodigious num-