The last Week I received a valuable Present of Two and Twenty old Roman Coins, from Mr. Townely of Townely, which were lately found in the Parish of Burnley in Lancashire, which are the more acceptable, because many of them are Consular, or Family Coins, one of them, viz. Q. Cassius, was 162 Years ante Christum according to Goltzius's Method, being strictly the same he places An. Urb. Cond. 589.

The Senembi or Iguana, a Sort of Lizard, so called in Brasil; it is three Foot long within an Inch, the fore Legs but three, the hinder eleven Inches. Don. Car. Towneley de Towneley Gent. Another sent me by Mr. Molineux, hath not so great a Disproportion, the hinder Legs being 13, and the fore eight. A young One of the same Kind, the Body little more than five Inches. The Skeleton of another. Don. D. Hall, Bervic.

Lapis Astroitidis, commonly called the Brainstones; they are frequently found in the Seas about Jamaica, as big as a Man's Head; this is half a Yard in Circumference one Way, and two Foot the other: It is curiously undulated; the Ridges in this are very high, and the transverse Striæ very fine, the winding of the Waves imitate the Gyri or Aufractus of a Man's Brain, whence the Name. A small one very fine, given by Dr. Lister to my Father, not unlike Point-work wrought by the Needle. A larger sent me by Mr. Char. Towneley of T. with the Top rising high and round; the Furrows in this are small. Another I bought at London, which is very curious, and being two Inches thick on one Side; the thin Plates, which compose the small Cells, and the Formation of the Stone is better discerned. A white Corall sent me from Ireland, with flat Lamina; it resembles the Astropodium ramulosum of Lh. Tab. 14. 1132. c. A Mushroom Corall somewhat compress'd, striated above, the inner Part below; it is of a like fine Texture, with the small Striæ of the Brain-stone. A fungus Lapideus in Form of an Hemisphere, a larger Starry Fungites, both sent me, with other valuable Fossils, from Roger Gale Esq; Astroites or starred Stone, a thin one with less perfect Stars, shewing their Original when beginning to grow or sprout up at the Bottom of the Sea (c)(c) Dr. Sloane's Nat. Hist. of Jam. Tab. XXI. Fig. I.. A large porous Convex Astroites, a Foot in Circumference, wholly composed of radiated Stars, like Fig. 4. in the same Table. Some of these Sorts of Coralls are frequently found in Europe, and particularly in England. I have one Sort from North Leach in Gloc. with very fair Stars, though it seems by the Lightness to be petrified Wood. A solid Corall, with concave Stars, very fair. Another, like Mr. Lhwyd's Astroites pyxidatus seu faviginosus from Oxfordshire. A slender Branch of white Corall from Ireland. A Mycetites surrounded with Astroites. (d) Grew's Mus. Reg. Soc. p. 305.Lapis Cribriformis or Sieve-stone (d), a perforated brown Stone. (e) Nat. Hist. Oxon. p. 139. A Porpites Plotii (e), & Lhuidii (f) from the Bishop of Carlisle. (f) Lith. Brit. N° 142. Another Button-stone more compress'd, but very fair; from Mr. Gale, Specimen minus & elegantius, Tab. 3. 151.

White Cylindrical Pillars in a dark coloured Stone from Towneley in Lancashire. Don. Car. Towneley Gen These are near two Inches round. Another of a bright glossy black, with white Cylinders as small as Brush Iron. But the most remarkable is a Boulder, accidentally broken in paving the Court of William Cookson Esq; the present Mayor of Leedes, whereby were discovered two Mathematical Figures, viz. an Oval within a Quadrangle in red Lines upon a yellow Ground. Kircher, in his Mundus Subterraneus, gives an Account of certain Geometrical Figures, naturally imprinted upon Stones; but I have not the Opportunity in these remote Parts to consult that Author. A transparent Peble with the exact Resemblance of a Coat of Arms, viz. an Orle of three Pieces with an Inescochean. Another Peble hath an Orange Oval in a white Stone. A blewish Stone with twelve Rows of protuberant Lozenges, set most regularly in the QuincuuxQuincunx Order. Another which hath been a Mold as it were to the former, the Squares being hollow, and the Rows protuberant; it was found at the Coal-Pits near Beiston, and given me by Alderman Askwith. A white Stone from Weetwoodside with Rows of perforated Holes regularly placed at half Inch distance from each other. A Cylindrical Stone wrought quite round, with Ridges and Furrows the length Way of the Stone, the Rigs (to use the Local Word) thick set with Knobs. A small one of 29 Rigs that was found in the midst of a great Stone near Kirkstall, and given me by Mr. Tho. Dinsdale. Another with transverse Wreaths, and a Protuberance above the Neck, that, without much Stretch of Fancy, resembles the Head of a Quadruped. Another with Rows of Holes, and in the midst of each a small raised Point. A large one near half a Yard long, and a Foot thick, of the like Work, but as to the Form, tapering like the Branch of a Tree; and seems, by a Seam, and part of a Joint remaining near the Top, to have had an Out-branch springing from it, which would tempt one to think that even these large rough Stones do sometimes shoot forth like the tender Rock-Plants in Mendip Hills, so accurately figured by Rich. Waller Esq; (e)(e) Phil. Trans. N° 150.. These I had from Madam Leighton's Quarry at Great Woodhouse. A large round Stone, but somewhat compress'd, deeply chanell'd, not unlike the Radix of those Rock-Plants: This (which was brought me from Craven) is almost a Yard in Circumference, fit for so large a Stem as the last described. Don. Rev. Mil. Gale. Two small ones, with white Veins or Chanels, the larger about three Inches round, the other not two. Some of these might perhaps have been more aptly placed amongst the Formed Stones, but their Circumscriptive Form not being Regular, they were omitted.

140. A Catalogue of the Nobility of Ireland, from Geo. Fitz-Gerrard, Earl of Kildare, to Roger Boyle, Baron of Broghill, Nov. 1627. with their Arms and Crests painted. Don. D. Car. Towneley Gent.

189. De Virginitate, in honorem Domini nostri & in venerationem quinque Plagorum, &c. Quinque Salutationes beate dei genetricis Marie cum quinque Orationibus quas qui cotidie, &c. ab omnibus adversitatibus, periculis & peccatis & malis ab ombibus spiritibus immundis liberabitur, &c. English Verses, welkum Lorde in fourme of brede, &c. A Calendar. Oratio sancta quam beatus Augustinus angelo dictante scripsit. Le Chapeleyn en la messe, &c. cuilibet dicenti hanc oracionem, &c. duo millia annorum venie conceduntur per Bonefacium papam sextum ad supplicationem Philipi Regis Francie. Letania. Psalterium a beato Jeronimo dispos. ab Angelis dict. &c. with other Tracts bound together. Don. D. Car. Towneley de Towneley Gen.