# The Figures of Some Antiquities; Communicated by a Member of the Royal Society

**Author(s):** Anonymous  
**Year:** 1685  
**Journal:** Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775)  
**Volume:** 15  
**Pages:** 3 pages  
**Identifier:** jstor-102172  
**JSTOR URL:** <https://www.jstor.org/stable/102172>  

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The Figures of some Antiquities; communicated by a Member of the Royal Society.

1. A Ring of Corinthian Brass with a Vizard of Silenus in a Sardonyx.
2. An Amulet of the Gnosticks cut in a Chalcedonian, the names of certain Æones or Intelligences.
3. A Tesseræ of Chrystal having on one side XIIII. on the other IΔ.
4. A Fortune and a half Diana in an Onyx.
5. An Ancient Picture of the Virgin in a Chalcedonian.
6. A Cameus, with a mixture of severall Gods.
7. An Onyx.
8. A Glass Lachrymatory.

A Letter of Dr Lister's to Mr Ray, concerning some particulars that might be added to the Ornithology.

Sir,

In answer to your kind Letter, I send you, what I designed for you some years since, viz. an Abstract of my Notes about Birds, which may be added to yours and Mr. Willughby's History of Birds, if you think fit; such as they are take them.

Fringilla montana major] Sea Larks nostris Aucupibus appellantur. Sc. in Agro Eboracensi sæviente Bruma sat copiose capiuntur.

Rubeculæ excrementa semper liquida sunt; etiam illa ovorum luteis duriter coctis victitet; intestinis Cæcis