COLLECTION Of philosophical and scientific treatises, in Latin, in one hand, accompanied at the end by a few neatly-drawn and coloured illustrative figures. The MS. was probably written for use at the Jesuit College of Clermont-Ferrand. The contents are:-(1) "Tractatus ad quatuor libros Aristote...
NOTES on John Hunter's classification of the Animal Kingdom, taken (according to a statement at the end) "from a slight view of Mr. Hunter's experiments and preparations. They are, in the first place, imperfect; in the next, they way be erroneous in many particulars." Paper; ff. 11. Belonged to ...
"MATTHIÆ DE LOBEL [L'Obel], M.D., Botanographi Regii eximii, Stirpium Illustrationes." Printed (somewhat more fully) under the editorship of William How, London, 1655. At the end (f. 72) is added, in the same hand, "Theatri Botanici Joannis Parkinsoni (pr. 1640) ['A a."] This is also printed, as...
COLLECTION of tracts on alchemy, the philosopher's stone, etc., as follows:- 1. "Tractatus Nicholai Comitis" de lapide Philosophorum, beg. "ut ad perfectam scientiam pervenire." f.2. For another copy see Sloane MS. 692, f. 20. 2. "Summa Platonis": an alchemical treatise, beg. "Cum res ex eod...
"THE GOULDEN ARTE, or The Jewell House of Gemes . . . with divers other things devided into tow severall bookes for the better understandinge therof. Collected and gathered together out of divers and sundry authors by William Heth, Clarke of his Majesties Store for the navy at Portesmouth, for t...
ACCOUNT of a new volcano which rose from the sea between Sicily and the island of Pantellaria, in July, 1831: a translation of a paper read by Dr. Carlo Gemmellaro, Professor of Natural History in the Royal University at Catania, on 28 Aug. 1831, in the hall of that University, and published the...
HIPPOCRATES and Galen, in Greek, viz.:-(1) Hippocrates' [ ] f 2;-(2) Hippocrates' [ ]. f. 3 b;-(3) Hippocrates' [ ]. Titles are occasionally given, in red ink, but irregularly and sometimes wrongly. The concluding aphorisms, rejected by Littré and Ermerins, are here present. f 6;-(4) Hippocrates...
"PRIMERA PARTE de Medicina y Cirugia": a treatise on medicine by the Licentiate Juan de Vidos y Miro, "Beneficiado" of the church of St. Paul, Saragossa. Spanish. A fac-simile copy made por los Indios Guaranis de las antiquas Misiones del Paraguay" from the printed edition, Saragossa, 1699, begi...