The GREATEST LOON. Colymbus maximus sive Arcticus Clusii. Given by Mr. Houghton an Apothecary in London. Described by Mr. Willughby. (b) (b) Ornithologiæ, p. 259. This is as big as a Goose: of a dark colour, dapled with white Spots on the Neck, Back, and Wings; each Feather marked near the point with two Spots. They breed in Farr Island.

Another SEAL like the former, only somewhat thicker. Given by Mr. J. Houghton, Ph. L.

Jo.i Michael Fehr i Jo. Mich. Fehr de Hiera picra seu de Absynthio p. 125. a German Curioso in his Treatise de Hierâ picrâ sive de Absynthio in the year 1644. he observed in a piece voided by a Patient about 6. yards long, a head much different from that of Tulpius; he describeth this Worm cum collo sensim angustiore, & rotundiore in minutissimum capitulum atrum, & verrucosum, trium Papaveris seminum aptè conjunctorum formam exprimens, desinentem: cujus ||Vid. fig. 5 iconem ob raritatem hic addidimus. Indeed I must confess that account I had from the women who first observed it, and the Patient who voided that Worm I mentioned to have by me eight yards long: and was given me by my worthy Friend Mr. Houghton an Apothecary, seemed agreeable to this, tho when I first saw it I could take notice of no such thing: and therefore am apt to think 'twas onely some Thrumbs of the inward coat of the Intestine, which might stick to the hooks here, which might make this figure. For in the heads of all I have had yet an opportunity of feeling: I could never observe any such thing.

Canella alba, the Bark of the wild Cinnamon Tree from Jamaica; the Seed of it, being the last Arbor bacifera Aromatica of Dr. Sloane (l)(l) Cat. Plant. Jam. p. 165.. A Piece of the Root of the true Cinnamon Tree, brought from the East-Indies, by Mons. Herman the late Botanick Professor at Leyden. Don. Jab. Cay M. D. A Branch of Cloves. Don. D. Ha. Sloane, M. D. & R. S. Sec. Nutmegs enclosed in Mace as they grow. Don. D. R. Dixon Lond. Coffee-Berries, the Plant is well described in the Phil. Trans. N° 208. and in N° 256, is a very handsome Discourse of its first Use amongst the Arabians and Turks, and since, the Europeans: Of its Vertues and Political Uses, read before the Royal Society, by my late Friend Mr. John Houghton, who computes that the three Kingdoms expends yearly therein 20586 Pounds; which, if all sold in Coffee-Houses, would amount to 61740 Pounds. But to return to the West-Indies, Chr. Gale Esq; sent me from North-Carolina some dried Yawpon, which the Indians in those Parts use for Thea, but is not very agreeable to the Generality of English Palates; the Form of the Leaf is not unlike that of Box. The Date-stone altogether solid. The Fruit of the Palm-Tree yielding Wine and Oil.

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.