He complained only for the first day of a pretty sharp pain in the course of the tendon; to which compresses, wrung out of warm brandy, were applied: but his arm was never swelled; there was no _ecchymosis_; nor had he so much fever, as to require bleeding even once. The cure proceeded happily, no symptoms arising from the extracted tendon. At the third dressing the bone was covered; and no other application but dry lint was necessary during the whole time. No exfoliation happened; yet it was twelve weeks before it was intirely cicatrised, owing to the loss of skin: and he seems to enjoy the use of the stump as completely, as if that tendon was not lost. LXXXIV. _An Account of the late Discoveries of Antiquities at_ Herculaneum, _and of an Earthquake there; in a Letter from_ Camillo Paderni, _Keeper of the Museum at_ Herculaneum, _and F.R.S. to_ Tho. Hollis, _Esq; F.R.S. dated_ Portici, Feb. 1. 1758. [Read April 6, 1758.] WE have been working continually at Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabiæ, since my last of Dec. 16, 1756. The most remarkable discoveries made there are these, which follow. February 1757, was found a small and most beautiful figure of a naked Venus in bronze, the height of which is six Neapolitan inches. She has silver eyes, bracelets of gold on her arms, and chains of the same metal above her feet; and appears in the attitude of loosening one of her sandals. The base is of bronze inlaid with foliage of silver, on one side of which is placed a dolphin. In July we met with an inscription, about twelve Neapolitan palms in length, which I have here copied. IMP·CAESAR·VESPASIANVS·AVG·PONTIF·MAX TRIB·POT·̅VĪĪ·IMP·X̅VĪĪ·P·P·COS·̅VĪĪ·DESIGN·̅VĪĪĪ TEMPLVM·MATRIS·DEVM·TERRAE·MOTV·CONLAPSVM·RESTITVIT After having found a great number of volumes of papirus in Herculaneum; many pugillaries, styles, and stands with ink in them, as formerly mentioned; at length, in the month of August, upon opening a small box, we also found, to our exceeding great joy, the instrument, with which they used to write their manuscripts. It is made of wood, of an oblong form, but petrified, and broke into two pieces. There is no slit in it, that being unnecessary, as the ancients did not join their letters in the manner we do, but wrote them separate. In September were discovered eight marble busts, in the form of terms. One of these represents Vitellius, another Archimedes; and both are of the finest workmanship. The following characters, in a black tint, are still legible on the latter, namely, ΑΡΧΙΜΕΔ which is all the inscription that now remains.