A sample of lithophone, one of the zinc sulphide whites examined by the author, had the following composition: […]

However it is also suitable for testing for polymorphic single-gene (Mendelian) disorders such as sickle cell disease [1 ] or β-thalassaemia 11 , or α(0)-thalassemia 12 , or in detecting rhesus-positive fetuses in alloimmunised pregnancies [13 ].

We have had (says he) another of this kind brought us out of the East-Indies, which being planted was in shew like the former, but came not to perfection, the unkindly season not suffering it to shew the flower; but of the Cods that were brought, some were smaller, shorter, and rounder then the Garden kind; others much longer, and many growing together, as it were in clusters, and cover'd all over with a brown short hairiness, so fine, that if any of it be rubb'd, or fall on the back of ones hand, or other tender parts of the skin, it will cause a kind of itching […]

The absence of the Lyric's usual work-horse heldentenor William Johns (who, according to Lyric, dropped out of the show--quite uncharacteristically--due to illness) was sadly evident here.