A Reed from Virginia of 13 Joints, the Internodia from 2 ½ Inches to half a Foot in Length. Don. D. Fr. Place.

THEThe Cochlites of four Wreaths, part of the Shell remains upon the Clavicle of one of them. Don. Rog. Gale Arm. The Buccinites, the small striated one of Dr. Plot (h)(h) Nat. Hist. Ox. Tab. 4. 2.. A larger, plain; both from my Lord Bishop of Carlisle. All above are Stones, but here are also the Shells both of the Cochlea Kind, and the Buccina, fill'd with Pyrites, from a Clay-Pit at Richmond in Surry. Don Jo. Woodward M D. As also others from the great Sand-Pit at Woolwich in Kent. The smallest Turbinites from Northamptonshire, and three Turbinated Stones, with a plain Superficies curiously turned in the Form of a Spiral Cone, like a Scrue or Steel-worm for drawing Corks out: One of half an Inch long, hath five solid Wreaths. These were from the Portland Quarry. One of near three Inches taken out of a great Stone at Oswald-kirk Com. Ebor. Don. D. Fr. Place. But the largest of all the Buccinites (above three Inches round) was sent me with many rare Fossils, by my Lord Bishop of Carlisle. It is Dr. Lister's 14th (i)(i) De Lapid. Turb. p 216.. Some curious ones very small, from Scotland. Don. D. Jac. Sutherland.

Emery or Smiris is said to be the hardest of unfigured Stones, and is therefore used for the polishing and cutting of all Gems, except the Diamond. But perhaps Porphyry is to be excepted, which is a Body so exceeding hard, that the Art of working it is supposed to be quite lost (c)(c) Phil. Trans. N° 217., by a learned Pen, which gives an Account of the noble Porphyry Pillars, yet remaining in the Ruins of Palmyra or Tad mor in the Desart, built by K. Solomon, 2 Chron. 8. 4. This here is dark coloured, adorned with white Spots, well polished. To this foreign Porphyry, I shall add one that I brought from Mount Sorril in Leicestershire, where is great Variety of Colours, so that the House built of the rough Stones look very beautifully, though not a squared one to be met with it is so hard to be wrought. It was not without Difficulty that I got a Sample broken off; one Part is a pale red, the other dark coloured, with shining Particles. That ingenious Artist, Mr. Place of Yorke, got a Piece polished to grind Colours upon, for which it exceeds Marble.

A Piece of Indian Armour; this consists only of three Scales made of thin Whale-Bone, each about three Inches long, and near 1 ½ broad, coupled to the next by three Thongs of Leather on the inner Side, but very well glazed with black Varnish on the outer. I lately saw an entire Suit of this Sort of Armour in the Tower of London. Don. D. Fran. Place.

An Indian Arrow near two Yards long, of a fine unjointed Cane, feathered on two Sides; it is armed with a smooth and flat Stick or Cane, an Inch broad, and more than a Foot long, with a sharp Point; where it is joined with the Shaft it is kept from cracking with a Swath or Bandage fastned with fine Glew. Another that instead of the smooth Cuspis hath a Spike of hard Wood 14 Inches long, with 16 Notches or Hooks upon one Side, and none upon the other, which is round and smooth; both the Present of Mr. Fran. Place of Yorke. Other Arrows from 2 Foot to 2 ½; triple-feathered, and armed with Iron. One adorned with Gold Lines. Don. S. Molineux Arm. A poisoned Arrow, the smallest of all being but nine Inches in Length, and about the Thickness of a Crow's Quill. Don. J. Perkin's Arm.

One of Mr. Place's delicate fine Muggs made in the Mannor-house at Yorke; it equals the true China-Ware. Mr. Houghton, in the 8th Vol. of his useful Collections, tells us, there were very good made at Fulham, but all flat, the Difficulty in making a hollow Dish was thought insuperable, because it must be burnt to that Degree, that the Heat of the Fire made the Sides fall: But this ingenious Gentleman surmounted the Difficulty, and hath many Years ago actually made several very delicate Pots of English Materials. This Specimen was his Present, together with one of the coarse Mugs and Covers, made purely to preserve them from the Violence of the Fire in baking.

Esca Virginiana, or Tinder from Virginia. The Gift of Dr. John Sharp. A Box and a Stopper of the Royal Oak. Don. Rev. Geo. Plaxton. One of Box Wood curiously turned, by Parson Gale. Another with Hour-Glass and Bones, above a Death's Head, with Worms crawling upon that Side of the Face, which hath Flesh upon it not quite consumed. Don. Jac. Mickleton Arm. One of Glass with Silver enclosed in it. Don. D. Jo. Plaxton. St. George and the Dragon, well performed in Silver. Another in Brass somewhat different. And one with four Heads, viz. the Pope and the Devil one, and Cardinal with Fool on the other Side. Irish Snuff-Boxes made in the Form of Brogues and Shoes, from two to six Inches long. Don. D. Marshal. An antique Ladle for a Punch Bowl, of Horn. Don. D. Fr. Place.

Copper-Plates. The noted Gate-House at Wærton, engraved by Hollar, and inserted in Thoroton's Hist. of Nottinghamshire (pag. 98.) Don. D. Jo. Boulter Arm. Lambeth-House or Pallace, etched by Mr. Will Lodge of Leedes. Also some Italian Ruins, with a distant Prospect of Rome, by the same ingenious Gent. St. George and Dragon, and other two of uncertain Hands. The Picture of Mr. Henry Gyles, the famous Glass-Painter at Yorke, wrought in Mezzo-Tinto, by the celebrated Mr. Fran. Place, when that Art was known to few others. Bought, with other Curiosities, of Mr. Gyles's Executors. Ticho Brahe's System very well engraved upon Wood for the Printing-Press. A Dye from the Mint for coining Brass-Pennies, when private Tradesman had Liberty of inserting their Names and Device (this is Beware of the Beare 1670, round that Animal) upon their currant Monies. Don. D. Jac. Dawson. One Stamp inscribed, White Clothiers Seale. Another Faulty to mark the Delinquents.

Other Collections of Prints, Histories, Maps, &c. shall for Brevity's Sake be wholly waved, (except some Prospects betwixt Rome and Naples, both delineated and etched by the learned and ingenious John Evelyn Esq; who presented them to me with his Picture engraved by the noted Nanteil, and are not to be met with, save in private Hands.) But Designs drawn by the Pens of ingenious Gentlemen ought to be particularly valued. Of these I have some Originals of the noted Hollars; others by the late ingenious Tho. Kirke Esq; and a Map of Skireake by his Clark, Mr. John Marsh. Several Prospects from the Via Appia, &c. taken by Mr. Will Lodge of Leedes, in his Journey to Rome, and presented to me by the late worthy Hen. Watkinson L L D, and Chancellor to four Archbishops of Yorke, who was also a Native of this Town: Other Prospects by the said ingenious young Gentleman, particularly Yorke, Leedes, Durham, Newcastle, Berwick, Carlisle, Edinburgh, Glascow, &c. The Tables of Entrochi and Astroites, the Multangular Tower and Roman Wall inserted in the Phil. Trans. The best Draught of the Monument at London, was both delineated and etched by him: He drew also the noted Bridge in Languedoc three Stories high of Arch-work, which is rare to be had, though printed. Mr. Hen. Gyles's Historical Draught for Windows. Tinmouth Castle and Light-House, by that excellent Artist Mr. Fran. Place of Yorke, who has performed that Cathedral most accurately; as also both the Churches and Prospect of Leedes. Some Math ematical Bodies by the curious Pen of the incomparable Mr. Sharp, as he is stiled by the Publisher of some of his accurate Performances (b)(b) (a) Math. Tables contrived after a most comprehensive Way, p. 55., which "are sufficient to exhibit the Circumference of the Globe of the Earth, so truly as not to err the Breadth of a Grain of Sand in the whole." These Artists are only mentioned last, because still surviving. A Draught also of Moses and Aaron, and the Giving of the Law, as painted with exquisite Art in the Parish Church of Leedes, by Mons. J. Permentier.

163. Johannes Godartius of Insects, done into English, and methodized, with Addition of Notes, by Martin Lister M. D. 1672. This is the Original M. S. and was the Present of Tho. Kirk Esq; who translated part of it: The Figures were etched upon Copper by Mr. Place, and the Book printed at Yorke, 1682; though only 150 Copies for the Curious.