Letter 4290

[fol. 272] ye. 16th. July 1731 Sir I hope you will have been able to fill up the number of the subscriptions for the Museum Florentinum which I have caused to be sent over to Mr. Pucci, & very shortly the first Volume will be published, & the second also will follow in a short time, & most of the designs of the whole work are done, so that as soon as engraven will successively appear, & I presume will prove one of the most magnificent setts of erudition that the World has yett seen. As to the Chinese Chronological Table I want to know whether you are quite rid of the trouble of it, by its having been all sold away, since that curious discovery of the darkness of the historie of that Nation, ought to have been very agreeable to all men of learning. Having gott some further accounts, & philosophical Observations upon the strange Phenomenon that happned about four months agoe at Casena, whereof I gave you the first news that I received, I have thought it might be very acceptable to you to be thoroughly informed of the matter to lay it before the society with my humble submissions to there profound speculation, that thereby might be made some improvement in the discovery of the ignicles that emanate from out bodies, & that unperceived continually float in the air, especially in these southern parts of the World, & I should be very proud to have contributed to so usefull a lucubration. I am in great want of the Philos. Transact. from No. 411. to go on in my work of giving to Italy an Essay of them down to the present year exclusive, which I have already compassed as farr as above mentioned, & was in hopes of receiving ere now the quite, butt I dont hear from the Merchant at Leghorne that any shipp has brought them, nor the books you was pleased to mention designed for me, nor the Barometers that I entreated you to send me, wherefore I renew unto you my most earnest request to enquire what is become of the said parcells, & if ever dispatched [fol. 273] I have nothing more at present to impart you wherefore I remaine with reall esteem Sir P.S. Tis very remarkable that this year the flies of all kinds have not appeared in these parts untill the beginning of this month, & even in a very little quantity, which must be owing to the past long winter that must have destroied there eggs. The annex’d letter of Marq. Scipio Master of Verona I caused to be copied from the print, because it would have been to bulky for a packet. Your most obedt. humble sert. Thomas Dereham RSS.