4lg< An Account o f the M inis Seciata, or cluftered Animal Flower,
lately found on the Sea-coafts o f the new-ceded Iflands: In a Letter
to the Right Honourable the Earl of HiUJborough, F . R. S. Read
November 12th, 1767’
vd. lvjii. A Letter to the Prefident, on the Succefs o f his Experiments for
P 7S' preferving Acorns for a whole Year without planting them, fo as to
be in a State o f Vegetation, with a View to bring over fome o f the
moft valuable Seeds from the Eajl Indies, to plant for the Benefit of
our American Colonies. Read March 10th, 1768.
Wol. ns. Ob'fervations on a particular Manner o f EnCfeafe in the Anirnal-
* cula of vegetable Inftfions, with the DifcoVery o f ail indifloluble Salt
arifing from Hemp-feed put into ’Water till it becomes putrid. Read
May 28th, 17'69.
Vol. l x . A Copy o f a Letter from Join Ellis, Efq. F. R. S. to Dr. Lhnaus,
*• V«* y , R. S. &c. with the Figure and Charadters Of that elegant AmCri-
■ oan Ever-green Tree, called by the Gardeners the Loblolly Bay, taken
from Bloffoms blown near London -, and fhewhig that it is not an
Hibifcus, as Mr. Miller calls it ; nor an Hypericum, as D r . Lirmaus
fuppofes i t ; but an intire new Genus, to which Mr. Ellis gives the
Name of Gardenia. Read December 20th, 1770.
p. 514. T h e Copy o f a Letter from John Ellis, Efq. F . R. S. to Mr. William
Aim , Gardener to her Royal Highftefs the PrincCfs Dowager o f
Wales, at Keen, on a new Species of Illicium Limuei, or Stariy Annifeed
Tree, lately difeovered in Wejl Florida. Read December 13th, 1770.
Vol. lxV i . On the Nature o f the Qorgonia; that it is a real Marine Animal,
’ ’ and not of a mixed Nature between Animal and Vegetable : In a
Letter to Daniel Solander, M. D. F. R. S. Read June 2pth, 1773.
Copy
Copy o f the Prefident Sir John P ringle’s Speech, November ys, »768;
on delivering Sir G odfrey C opley’s Prize Medal to John E llis,
Efy. F. R. S. for his Papers on Natyral H p ry read, to the Royal
Society in 1767»
MR. E L L IS ,
YO U have- obliged the Public in general, and this Society ins
particular, Sir,, with fo many judicious experiments, and accurate
drawings; fo many acute reafonings, and ingenious obferva-
tions; and fo many valuable improvements in natural knowledge,
that it has been difficult to determine which o f them are belt intitled
to thofe marks o f approbation which the will o f the late Sir Godfrey
Copley has dir ceded and enabled us to confer by an honorary diftinc-
tion— In public acknowledgment o f the merit and confequential
encouragement o f the profecution o f fuch laudable fludies.
You have opened fuch a wonderful view o f fome of the moft
extraordinary productions o f nature, and have purfued your difeove-
ries- with fo much fagacity and judgment, that you might have rea-
fon to expedt many of thefe teftimonies o f your fuccefsfuL labours
in Natural Hiftory. i f it were cuftomary to repeat them.
But as-it has only been ufual for the Council to Angle out fome
one or two in particular, I am directed by them to deliver this Medal
to you, as an exprefs teftimony of their approbation, o f your excellent
papers o f the year 1767, on the animal nature o f the genus o f
Zoophytes, called Corallinaand the Actinia Sociata, or Cluftered Animal
Flower, lately found on the fea-coafts of the new-ceded iflands, now
publifhed in the Tranfadtions for the year 1767.
It would be impertinent in me, Sir, to pretend to expatiate on the
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