11-412) must also be mentioned. Bibliographies of the earlier literature
are to be found in Hartmann (_op. citat._), and in Daniel Gralath,
_Elektrische Bibliothek_ (_Versuche und Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden
Gesellschaft in Danzig_, Zweiter Theil, pp. 537-539, Danzig and Leipzig,
1754). See also Karl Muellenhoff, _Deutsche Altertumskunde_, vol. i.,
Zweites Buch, pp. 211-224, Zinn und Bernsteinhandel (Berlin, 1870), and
Humboldt's _Cosmos_ (Bohn's edition, London, 1860, vol. ii., p. 493).

The ancient Greek myth according to which amber was the tears of the
Heliades, shed on the banks of the river Eridanus over Phaethon, is not
alluded to by Gilbert. It is narrated in well-known passages in Ovid and in
Hyginus. Those interested in the modern handling of the myth should refer
to Muellenhoff (_op. citat._, pp. 217-223, der Bernsteinmythus), or to that
delightful work _The Tears of the Heliades_, by W. Arnold Buffum (London,
1896).

[113] PAGE 47, LINE 30. Page 47, line 36. _quare & muscos ... in frustulis
quibusdam comprehensos retinet._--The occurrence of flies in amber was well
known to the ancients. Pliny thus speaks of it, book xxxvii., chap. iii.
(p. 608 of P. Holland's translation of 1601):

"That it doth destill and drop at the first very clear and liquid, it is
evident by this argument, for that a man may see diverse things within, to
wit, Pismires, Gnats, and Lizards, which no doubt were entangled and stucke
within it when it was greene and fresh, and so remain enclosed within as it
waxed harder."

A locust embedded in amber is mentioned in the _Musaeum Septalianum_ of
Terzagus (Dertonae, 1664).

Martial's epigram (_Epigrammata_, liber vi., 15) is well known:

Dum Phaethontea formica vagatur in umbra
Implicuit tenuem succina gutta feram.

See also Hermann (Daniel), _De rana et lacerta Succino Borussiaco insitis_
{37} (Cracov., 1580; a later edition, Rigae, 1600). The great work on
_inclusa_ in amber is, however, that of Nathaniel Sendel. See the previous
note.

Sir Thomas Browne must not be forgotten in this connexion. The
_Pseudodoxia_ (p. 64 of the second edition, 1650) says:

"Lastly, we will not omit what Bellabonus upon his own experiment writ from
Dantzich unto Mellichius, as he hath left recorded in his chapter _De
Succino_, that the bodies of Flies, Pismires and the like, which are said
oft times to be included in Amber, are not reall but representative, as he
discovered in severall pie