Ingenious Friend Research Articles

I. Part of a letter from Mr. Benjamin Bullivant, at Boston, in New England; to Mr. James Petiver, Apothecary, and Fellow of the Royal Society, in London. concerning some na­tural observations he had made in those parts

Sir, The last I addressed. to you, was by our ingenious Friend Mr. Trott , who went hence in October ; I have since received from you Mr. Josselin’s Book of New England Rarities , and observe him to be short, but nervous.

A confirmation of what was formerly printed in numb. 50. of these tracts, about the manner of spiders projecting their threds; communicated by Mr. John Wray, to the publisher

Concerning the manner of Spiders projecting their threads, I received the following account from Dr. Hu’se , from whom (to do him right) I must acknowledge, I had the first notice of this particular, which was not long after communicated to me by another Ingenious Friend, whose Letter I formerly sent you to be imparted to the R. Society .

To the queries of mines what the worthy and learned Mr. Joseph Glanvil intimated in his answers to the queries concerning mines, publisht numb. 28. p. 525. viz. That he did not think himself by the return, then made, absolv'd of his taske, but in­tended to pursue that matter further, he now proveth to have been his real purpose, by

Sir, I now send you a more perfect account of the Mendip-Mines, which by the help of an Ingenious friend I procured from some very experienc'd Mine-men.