The expediency of laying before you observations of this sort, which may tend, by making people careful of what they take, to the saving the lives of many, makes no apology necessary for so doing. I am, with all possible regard, Gentlemen, Your most obedient humble Servant, W. Watson. Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, 20 Dec. 1758. CXV. _Extract of a Letter to_ John Eaton Dodsworth, _Esq; from Dr._ George Forbes _of_ Bermuda, _relating to the_ Patella, _or_ Limpet Fish, _found there_. 2 April, 1758. [Read Dec. 21, 1758.] AS a curiosity for your esteemed friend Mr. Theobald, the Captain will deliver you two fishes, intirely singular here, and never before observed amongst us. The one is of the shell kind, and changed its figure so often, that it was difficult to make a drawing. However I got a young man to take it in two different positions, and have sent the drawings with the fish. _See_ TAB. XXXV. The small one may be called the sea-batt; and in some sort resembles that species of animals when it is swimming. _Additional Remark by_ Charles Morton, _M.D. F.R.S._ The Patella, or Limpet Fish, whose generic characters, as enumerated by Bishop Wilkins, are, that it is an exanguious testaceous animal, not turbinated; an univalve, or having but one shell; being unmoved; sticking fast to rocks or other things; the convexity of whose shell doth somewhat resemble a short obtuse-angled cone, having no hole on the top. CXVI. _A Discourse on the_ Cinnamon, Cassia, _or_ Canella. _By_ Taylor White, _Esquire, F.R.S._ [Read Dec. 21, 1758.] THE Cinnamon, Cassia, or Canella, are shrubs of no great height: they grow in Ceylon, Malabar, Java, Sumatra, and other places in the East Indies; as I think, in the island of St. Thomas, and on the coast of Coromandel. They are described by Mr. Ray, in his _History of Plants_, vol. ii. f. 1559. under the title _de Arboribus Pruniferis_. [Illustration: _Philos. Trans. Vol. L._ TAB. XXXVI. _p. 860_. _J. Mynde. sc._] Linnæus, in his _Species Plantarum_, places them under the title _Enneandria Monogynia_, by the name Laurus. The leaf, flower, and fruit, of this plant, are particularly described by Mr. Ray. The leaf is smooth and shining; has one large vein running thro’ the midst, and a remarkable one on each side; the middle one generally running near the length of the leaf. The leaves differ in shape, some being more acute, others more oval or obtuse. The flowers grow in an umbel, somewhat like the Laurus Tinus; but they are small, consisting of one petal, of a tubular form at the bottom, and divided at the top into six segments in the form of a star. The flowers are succeeded by berries growing out of a capsula, like acorns in shape; which berries contain a shining seed.