. He hath experimented, that if you put _Sal Armoniack_ upon the places of
the Tongue, where those _Eminencies_ are not, you shall find no Taste; but
that you will find it presently assoon as you put any such Salt, where they
are to be met with. Ergo, _saith he_, those _Eminencies_ are the principal
Organ of Taste.

3. He assures, that with a _Microscope_, may be seen in those _Risings_
many little holes, at the bottom whereof there are small nerves,
terminating there: But _he directs_, to observe this in live and healthy,
not in dead or sick Animals.

Having laid down these Observations, he concludes, that the manner, after
which Taste is perform'd, is this, That the particles of Salt passing
through those pores, which pierce the _Papillary Eminences_, and
penetrating as far as to the nerves, that meet them there, do by the means
of their small points prick them; which pricking is called the _Taste_.

In the mean time he acknowledges, that before him Signior _Malphigi_,
Professor at _Messina_, had made some of these discoveries.

The notice of these two last Books we owe to the _French Journal_.

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_Correct in Number._ 19.

Page, 342. line, 33. read _mixt Ores_, in stead of, _mixt with Ores_.

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_London_, Printed for _John Martin_, Printer to the _Royal Society_, and
are to be sold at the _Bell_ a little without _Temple-Bar_.

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PHILOSOPHICAL
_TRANSACTIONS._

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_Munday_, _January_ 21. 1666.

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The Contents.

_An Account, formerly promised, of Monsieur _Hevelius's_ Calculation of
the late _Solar Eclipse's_ Quantity, Duration, &c. The Figure of the
Star in the Constellation of _Cygnus_, together with the New Star in
it, discovered some years ago, and very lately seen again by the same
Mr. _Hevelius_. An Extract of a Letter, written by Mr. _Auzout_,
concerning a way of his, for taking the _Diameters_ of the Planets, and
for knowing the _Parallax_ of the _Moon_: Giving also a Reason, why in
the _Solar Eclipse_ above-mentioned, the _Diameter_ of the _Moon_ did
increase about the end. A Relation of the loss of the Way to prepare
the _Bononian Stone_ for shining. A Description of a _Swedish Stone_,
affording _Sulphur, Vitriol, Allum_,