NEHEMIAH, a learned English writer, in the 17th century, had a considerable practice as a physician in London, and succeeded Mr Oldenburg in the office of secretary to the royal society. In this capacity, pursuant to an order of council, he drew up a catalogue of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the society, under the title of Musaeum Regalis Societatis, &c. 1681. He also wrote, besides several pieces in the Philosophical Transactions, 1. The Comparative Anatomy of the Stomach and Guts, folio. 2. The Anatomy of Plants, folio. 3. Tractatus de Salis Cathartici natura et usi. 3. Cosmologia Sacra, or a Discourse of the Universe as it is the Creature and Kingdom of God, folio. He died suddenly in 1721.