[5] “_New and Rare Inventions of Water Workes_, shewing the easiest waies to raise water higher than the spring. By which invention the Perpetual Motion is proposed, many hard labours performed And variety of Motions and Sounds produced. First written in French by Isaak de Caus a late famous engineer; and now translated into English by John Leak. London, Printed by Joseph Moxon. Folio. 1659.” [6] See page 30. [7] “De Syria Dea.” [8] Mem. Acad. Sc. Paris, 1729. [9] Beckmann in his “History of Inventions,” says that these automata found their way to St. Petersburg, and that in 1764, he himself saw them at the Palace of Zarsko-Selo, where he learnt that they had been purchased from Vaucanson, but they were not, at that time, in working order. [10] “An Attempt to Analyse the Automaton Chess Player of Mr. de Kempelen, with an easy method of imitating the movements of that celebrated figure. Illustrated by original drawings. 8vo. London. 1821.” [11] The author exhibited Edison’s talking doll at the Conversazione of the Sette of Odd Volumes which was held the following month. THE FOLLOWING EDITIONS OF OLD WORKS, IN ILLUSTRATION OF THE PAPER, WERE EXHIBITED BY THE AUTHOR. 1. John Wilkins, (Bishop of Chester,) _Mathematicall Magick_. (First Edition.) Sm. 8vo. London, 1648. 2. —— _Ditto_. (Third Edition.) Sm. 8vo. London, 1680. 3. —— _Ditto_. (Fourth Edition.) Sm. 8vo. London, 1691. 4. Aulus Gellius, _Noctes Atticæ_. Folio. Paris, 1530. 5. —— _Ditto_. Sm. 8vo. Lyons, 1546. 6. —— _Ditto_. 12mo. (Elzevir.) Amsterdam, 1651. 7. Hero, of Alexandria. _Spiritalia_. (Commandinus Edition.) Sm. 4to. Urbino, 1575. 8. —— _Ditto_. (Aleotti Edition.) Sm. 4to. Ferrara, 1589. 9. —— _Ditto_. (Georgi Edition.) 4to. Urbino, 1592. 10. —— _Ditto_. (Aleotti Edition.) Sm. 4to. Amsterdam, 1680. 11. —— _De gli automati overo machine se movente_. Sm. 4to. Venice, 1589. 12. —— _Quatro theoremi aggiunti a gli artifitiosi Spiriti_. Sm. 4to. Ferrara, 1589. 13. John Bate, _The Mysteries of Nature and Art_. Sm. 4to. London, 1654. 14. Edward Somerset (Marquis of Worcester). _A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions, as at present I can call to mind_. 12mo. London, 1746. 15. Agostino Ramelli. _Le Diverse et artificiose Machine_. Folio. Paris, 1588. 16. Athanasius Kircher. _Magnes sive de Arte Magnetica_. Folio. Rome, 1641. 17. Vaucanson. _An Account of the Mechanism of Automaton or image playing on the German Flute_. 4to. London, 1742. 18. Peter van Musschenbroeck. _Introductio ad Philosophiam Naturalem_. 4to. Padua, 1768. 19. Jacques Ozanam. _Recréations Mathématiques et physiques_. 8vo. Paris, 1696.