30. A History of Stones; as Marble, Gold-Touchstone, Flint, &c.

31. A History of the Magnet.

32. A History of Miscellaneous Substances, which are neither wholly fossil nor vegetable; as Salts, Amber, Ambergris, &c.

33. A Chymical History regarding Metals and Minerals. 34. A History of Plants, Trees, Fruits, Grapes, and their Parts, the Roots, Stalks, Wood, Leaves, Flowers, Fruits, Seeds, Tears, or Exudations, &c.

35. A Chymical History regarding Vegetables.

36. A History of Fishes, and their Parts and Generation. 37. A History of Volant Creatures, their Parts and Gene

ration.

38. A History of Quadrupeds, their Parts and Generation. 39. A History of Reptiles, Worms, Flies, and other Insects, and of their Parts and Generation.

40. A Chymical History of those Substances which are extracted from Animals.

The following are Histories of Man.

41. A History of the Figure and external Members of Man; his Stature, the Knitting of his Frame, his Countenance and Features; and the varieties of these according to Nation and Climate, or any minute Diversities. 42. A History of Physiognomy derived from the former. 43. A History Anatomical, or of the Internal Members of Man, and their variety so far as it is found in the natural Cohesion and Structure of the Parts, and not merely with reference to diseases and preternatural accidents. 44. A History of the Homogeneous Parts of Man; as of Flesh, Bones, Membranes, &c.

45. A History of the Humours in Man; as Blood, Bile, Semen, &c.

46. A History of Excrements, Spittle, Urine, Sweats, Fæces, the Hair of the Head, and Hair generally, Nails, and the like. 47. The History of the Faculties of Attraction, Digestion, Retention, Expulsion; the Formation of the Blood; the Assimilation of Nourishment to the Frame, the Conversion of the Blood and the Flower of it into Spirits, &c. 48. A History of Natural and Involuntary Motions; as the Motions of the Heart, the Motions of the Pulse, Sneezing, the Motions of the Lungs, Priapism.

49. A History of Motion of a mixed nature, between natural and voluntary: Respiration, Coughing, Making Water, Stool, &c.

50. A History of Voluntary Motions; as of the Organs of Articulation or Speaking, the Motions of the Eyes, Tongue, Jaws, Hands, Fingers, of Swallowing, &c. 51. A History of Sleep and Dreams.

52. A History of different Habits of Body, of fat and lean, of complexions (as they are called), &c.

53. A History of the Generation of Man.

54. A History of Conception, Quickening, Gestation in Utero, Birth, &c.

55. A History of the Nourishment of Man, of all Esculents and Potables, and of all Diet, and its Varieties according to nations, or minor differences.

56. A History of the Augmentation and Growth of the Body, in the whole or in its parts.

57. A History of the Course of Life: of Infancy, Boyhood, Manhood, Old Age; of Longevity, Shortness of Life, and the like, according to nations, or minor differences. 58. A History of Life and Death.

59. A Medical History of Diseases; their Symptoms and Signs.

60. A Medical History of the Cure, Remedies of, and Liberations from, Diseases.

61. A Medical History of those things which preserve the Body and Health.

62. A Medical History of those things which belong to the Form and Beauty of the Body, &c.

63. A Medical History of those things which alter the Body, and belong to Alterative Regimen.

64. A History of Drugs.

65. A Chirurgical History.

66. A Chymical History, with Reference to Medicines.

67. A History of Light and Visible Objects, or Optical.

68. A History of Painting, Sculpture, Casts, &c.

69. A History of Hearing and Sounds.

70. A History of Music.

71. A History of Smell and Odours.

72. A History of Taste and Savours.

73. A History of Touch, and its Objects.

74. A History of Venery, as a Species of Touch.

75. A History of Bodily Pains, as a Species of Touch.

76. A History of Pleasure and Pain in general.

77. A History of the Passions; as Anger, Love, Shame, &c.

78. A History of the Intellectual Faculties; the Cogitative Faculty, Fancy, Reason, Memory, &c.

79. A History of Natural Divination.

80. A History of Discernments; or, Discriminations of Occult Qualities.

81. A History of Cookery, and the Arts subservient to it; of the Shambles, of Aviaries, &c.

82. A History of Baking, and the Preparation of Bread, and the subservient Arts, as grinding Meal.

83. A History of Wines.

84. A History of the Cellar, and different Kinds of Drinks. 85. A History of Sweetmeats and Confections.

86. A History of Honey.

87. A History of Sugar.

88. A History of Milkmeats.

89. A History of the Bath and Unguents.

90. A Miscellaneous History of the Care of the Person; Shaving, Perfuming, &c.

91. A History of Working in Gold, and the Arts subservient to it.

92. A History of the Preparation of Wool, and the Arts subservient to it.

93. A History of Manufactures of Silk and Satin, and the Arts subservient to them.

94. A History of Manufactures of Linen, Canvass, Cotton, Hair, and other thready Substances, and of the Arts subservient to them.

95. A History of the Preparation of Feathers.

96. A History of Weaving, and the Arts subservient to it. 97. A History of Dyeing.

98. A History of Leather and Tanning, and the Arts subservient to it.

99. A History of Mattrasses and Feather Beds.

100. A History of Working in Iron.

101. A History of the Lapidary Art; or of Stone-cutting.

102. A History of Bricks and Tiles.

103. A History of Pottery.

104. A History of Cements and Incrustations.

105. A History of Working in Wood.

106. A History of Lead.

107. A History of Glass and all Vitreous substances, and

of the Manufacture of Glass.

108. A History of Architecture in general.

109. A History of Waggons, Cars, Litters, &c.

110. A Typographical History of Books, Writings, Seals, Ink, Pens, Paper, Parchment, &c.

232 CATALOGUE OF PARTICULAR HISTORIES.

111. A History of Wax. 112. A History of Osiers.

113. A History of Carpeting, and Manufactures of Straw, Rushes, and the like.

114. A History of Washing, Brushing, &c.

115. A History of Farming, Pasturage, the Managing of Wood, &c.

116. A History of Gardens.

117. A History of Fishing.

118. A History of Hunting and Fowling.

119. A History of the Art of War, and the Arts subservient to it, as the Manufacture of Arms, Bows, Arrows, Muskets, Projectile Engines, Balistæ, Machines, &c. 120. A History of the Nautical Art, and the Trades and Arts subservient to it.

121. A History of Gymnastics, and of all Kinds of Exercise used by Man.

122. A History of Riding.

123. A History of Games of all kinds.

124. A History of Conjurors and Slight of Hand Men. 125. A Miscellaneous History of different Artificial Substances, as Smalt, Porcelain, various Cements, &c.

126. A History of Salts.

127. A Miscellaneous History of different Machines and Motions.

128, A Miscellaneous History of Common Experiments, which have not yet united into an Art.

Histories also of pure Mathematics ought to be written, although they be rather Observations than Experiments. 129. A History of the Natures and Powers of Numbers. 130. A History of the Natures and Powers of Figures.

It may not be useless to suggest that, as many of the experiments fall under two or more heads (thus the History of Plants and of the Art of Gardening contains many things common to both), it will be more convenient to regulate the inquisition by the Arts, the arrangement by the Bodies. For we pay no great attention to the mechanical arts as such, but only to those of them which contribute to furnish forth philosophy. But these matters will be best disposed of as the cases arise.

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HISTORY,

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