bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Further observations on slip-bands in metallic fractures.—Preliminary note.
Authors: Rosenhain Walter , Ewing James Alfred
Published: December 2006

The main purpose of the present paper is to describe what the author believes to be a novel method of investigating the micro-structure of metals, and to give some account of preliminary results obtained by its aid. The method was devised in order to throw further light on the true nature of slip-bands, and the preliminary results relate mainly to this question. The investigation described in this paper is thus a further development of researches carried out in the first place by Professor J. A. Ewing, F. R. S. and the author jointly (“The Crystalline Structure of Metals,” Bakerian Lecture, 1899), and subsequently by the present author alone (“The Plastic Yielding of Iron and Steel.”) In the course of correspondence on the latter paper, M. F. Osmond drew the attention of the author to certain experimental facts concerning the behaviour of slip-bands under oblique illumination, which had formerly escaped attention.
The rôle of diffusion in the catalysis of hydrogen peroxide by colloidal platinum.
Authors: Senter George , Ramsay William
Published: December 2006

According to a theory of reaction-velocities in heterogeneous systems recently put forward by Nernst, the observed velocities are those with which diffusion and convection renew the reacting material at the boundary of the two phases, the actual chemical change at the boundary being very rapid in comparison. Nernst is of opinion that the same considerations apply to the catalytic decomposition of hydrogen peroxide by colloidal platinum and similar substances, but has not gone fully into the discussion of this particular class of heterogeneous reactions. In a recent paper on the effect of poisons on the catalysis of hydrogen peroxide by hsemase, I have discussed the probable mechanism of catalysis by colloidal particles, and have arrived at the conclusion that the experimental results obtained by Bredig and his pupils and by myself are best accounted for on Nernst’s hypothesis.
Transport and heat flux of the Florida Current at 27°N derived from cross-stream voltages and profiling data: theory and observations
Authors: Larsen J. C. , Smith F. T.
Published: December 2006

The variability in the volume transport of the Florida Current at 27°N has been observed from the voltage measured between a point 16 km east of Jupiter Inlet, Florida and Settlement Point, Grand Bahama Island by the use of an abandoned communications cable. The voltage is caused by the separation of electric charges in the ocean that are caused by the Florida Current crossing the Earth’s magnetic field (motional induction), by the electric currents induced in the ocean caused by time varying ionospheric and magnetospheric electric currents (geomagnetic induction), and by the voltage bias between the cable-ocean contacts caused by differences in the temperature, salinity and electrochemical state of the contacts. The geomagnetic-induced voltage was removed by the use of shore-based magnetic data and transfer functions. Changes in the voltage bias of the cable-ocean contact at Settlement Point were minimized by the use of a silver-silver-chloride electrode. The comparison of the daily mean motion-induced voltages with 137 daily profiling-derived transports, yields a voltage calibration factor of 24.42 + 0.56 Sv V
-1
, a correlation squared of 0.94, and a root mean square misfit of 0.77 Sv (1 Sv = 10
6
m
3
s
-1
). The misfit is consistent with an error of 0.9 Sv in the voltage-derived transport estimated from the velocity and temperature profiling data, the electric current effects, and the profiling derived transport error. Hence the voltages accurately monitor the transport variations. The mean voltage-derived transports for the Florida Current at 27°N is 32.3 + 3.2 Sv based on 4862 daily mean values from 1969 to 1990. The annual variation has a range of 4.4 Sv. There is no evidence since 1969 for any long-term trend in the transport but there are numerous shorter term variations as large as 15 Sv lasting from days to months. The mean northward heat flux is 1.30 + 0.13 PW derived from 130 days of profiling the velocity and temperature of the Florida Current and assuming the North Atlantic has a southward, velocity-weighted temperature of 9.4 °C. The variations in heat flux are, essentially, due to the variations in transport because the velocity weighted temperature estimated by the profiling data has a nearly constant value of 19.1 ± 0 .6°C.
Rapid changes in gene expression in response to microbial elicitation
Authors: Dixon Richard A. , Bailey J. A. , Bell J. N. , Bolwell G. P. , Cramer C. L. , Edwards K. , Hamdan M. A. M. S. , Lamb Christopher John , Robbins M. P. , Ryder T. B. , Schuch W. , Leaver Christopher John , Boulter D. , Flavell Richard Bailey , James Anthony Trafford
Published: December 2006

Treatment of cell suspension cultures of French bean (
Phaseolus vulgaris
) with polysaccharide elicitor molecules from cell walls of the anthracnose fungus,
Colletotrichum lindemuthianum
, results in the rapid accumulation of isoflavonoid phytoalexins, deposition of wall-bound phenolic compounds and synthesis of hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins. These changes are dependent upon a highly selective induction of gene products, including the enzymes L-phenylalanine ammonia-lyase, cytochrome P450-dependent cinnamic acid 4-hydroxylase, chalcone synthase, chalcone isomerase, prolyl hydroxylase and protein: arabinosyl transferase. Use of
in vivo
labelling,
in vitro
translation and RNA blot hybridization techniques has shown that these elicitormediated changes arise from rapid but transient induction of enzyme synthesis, resulting from the accumulation of specific mRNAs. Similar phenomena are observed in bean hypocotyls at the onset of phytoalexin synthesis in response to infection by incompatible and compatible races of
C. lindemuthianum
. In bean, both L-phenylalanine ammonia-lyase and chalcone synthase are encoded by multigene families and, at the protein level, both exhibit subunit and intact enzyme polymorphism. A number of less than full-length phenylalanine ammonialyase copy DNAs containing identical open reading frames have been produced from mRNA from elicitor-induced bean cells. Analysis of phenylalanine ammonia-lyase genomic clones predicts the presence of enzyme forms of differing amino acid sequence. In cultured bean cells, elicitor differentially induces the two apparent phenylalanine ammonia-lyase iso-forms with the lowest
K
m
values. In addition to transcriptional control of the appearance of specific gene products, post-translational processes may result in increased subunit polymorphism for phenylalanine ammonia-lyase, and in the activation of chalcone isomerase. Changes in endogenous phenylpropanoid intermediate pools may signal the rapid removal of phenylalanine ammonia-lyase activity, in addition to exerting less specific inhibitory effects on the formation and/or activity of the mRNAs encoding phenylalanine ammonia-lyase and other phytoalexin biosynthetic enzymes.
Phylogenetic relations between Microbats, Megabats and Primates (Mammalia: Chiroptera and Primates)
Authors: Pettigrew J. D. , Jamieson B. G. M. , Robson S. K. , Hall L. S. , McAnally K. I. , Cooper H. M.
Published: December 2006

We examine the paraphylectic hypothesis of bat origins, both in the light of previous discussions, and in the light of new evidence from our analyses of neurological traits and wing morphology. Megabats share with primates a variety of complex details in the organization of neural pathways that have not been found in any other mammalian group, particularly not in microbats. The features previously used to link microbats and megabats have been examined and found to be questionable bases for support of a monophyletic origin. In particular, morphological analyses of the musculoskeletal adaptations associated with the flight apparatus are consistent with two separate origins of the mammalian wing. Taken together, these analyses suggest that megabats evolved from an early branch of the primate lineage. This branch was comprised of moderate-sized, phytophagous gliders, of which the other living descendants are the dermopterans. Microbats, in contrast, probably evolved much earlier from small, agile insectivores whose forelimbs had long metacarpals in relation to their phalanges.
Dr. John Beals Instances promised in Numb. 42. and intended to shew the correspondence of the pith and timber, with the seed of the plant, and that of the bark or sap in the bark, with the pulp of the fruit, or some encompassing coat, or cod, containing the seed
Authors: Beals John
Published: December 2006

The author having prefaced, that he can promise no method in the following Communications, gives these instances.
An extract of a letter written by Dr. Edward Brown from Vienna in Austria March 3. 1669. concerning two parhelia’s or mocksuns, lately seen in Hungary
Authors: Brown Edward
Published: December 2006

I received the account of the
Parhelia's
, seen
Iannar
. 30th last, ft. n. about one of the clock in the afternoon, over the City of
Cassovia
in
Hungary
.
An account of two books - I. Guaging epitomised, by Michael Dary. London, printed by W. Godbid 1669. upon one folio page. - II. Histoire naturelledes animaux plantes et mineraux, qui entrent dans la composition de la theria que d´ Andromachus; par M. Charas in 12. a Paris
Authors: Charas Moise
Published: December 2006

A table of squares and cubes is of general use, but more particularly in
guaging
, for taking away
proportional
work in computing the contents of brewers tuns from inch to inch, or by as great portions as you please; or for making the tables of gallon-measure for M.
oughtreds
guaging-rod:
An accompt from the same Dr. Brown concerning an vn-common lake, called the Zirchnitzer-Sea, in Carniola
Authors: Brown Edward
Published: December 2006

Having cross'd the River
Dravus
, and pass'd Mount
Luibel
in the
Carnick Alpes
, by that noble passage, cut through the Rooks, and vaulted like that of
Pausilype
near
Naples
, I had a desire to take a view of the
Lake
of
Zirchnitz
, so much spoken of, and written on by so few; and therefore I went unto
Crainburg
upon the River
Savus
, and so to
Labach
, the chief City of
Carniola
;
The causes of mineral springs further inquired : and the strange and secret changes of liquors examined; by Dr. J. Beale, to the Publisher
Authors: Beale John
Published: December 2006

Sir; I am much obliged to my honored friend Dr H. for his
analysis
of mineral springs, and his animadversions relating to that argument. I offer no objection against the note, that some waters do lick up the salts, before they be perfectly fixt in the materials of metals:
Instances, hints, and applications, relating to a main point, solicited in the preface to this 4th Vol; concerning the use may be made of vaults, deep wells, and cold conservatories, to find out the cause, or to promote the generation of salt, minerals, metals, christal; gems, stones of divers kinds; and helps to conserve long; or to hasten putrefaction, fertility of any land, &c. by the same D. Beale, in another letter to the Publisher
Authors: Beale John
Published: December 2006

Sir, Shall here collect from your own Tracts; (with a brief touch from my own Observations and Readings) a few hints, pertaining to your solicitations in your
preface
to this 4th
vol
. N. 45. pag. 896. I. Our worthy friend, Mr
Evelyn
, in his
Sylva
, as it is now most excellently improved in his 2d edition, C. 3. p. 26, re-citeth, that a certain Oak was found buried somewhere in
Transylvania
, near the salt pits, intirely converted into an hard Salt.
Extract of divers letters, written by Martin Lister Esquire, to the publisher; touching some inquiries and experiments of the motion of sap in trees, and relating to the question of the circulation of the same
Authors: Lister Martin
Published: December 2006

You may be pleased to put this
Quærie
also, concerning the bleeding of the
Sycamore
: What condition the Soil is of, where such Trees are planted, that shall either bleed, or refuse to do so: whether Sandy, as that of
Nottingham
, or a wet Clay, as that of the two Trees, I have observed here at
York
.
A considerable accompt touching vegetable excrescencies, given by that learned and observing gentleman, Mr. Martin Lister, in a letter to the publisher, of July 17. 1671. from York
Authors: Lister Martin
Published: December 2006

I Understand by yours of the 23
th
instant, that M.
Ray
cannot without much trouble retrieve the Letter, wherein I gave him formerly my opinion concerning
Vegetable Excrescencies
; and yet not wholly to deny you the satisfaction of what you seem which to desire, I am willing to think again upon the same subject, at least to recollect part of my former thoughts, as my memory will serve me.
Two observations made by P. Francesco Lana, the author of the prodromus premised to Arte Maestra, concerning some of the effects of the Burning Concave of Lions; and also an odd salt extracted out of a metallic substance: Taken out of the same Venetian Journal
Authors: Lana P. Francesco
Published: December 2006

The
first
is, That the said
Fr. Lana
having been inform’d, that that famous
Burning Concave
, not long since made by M.
de Vilette
To the Right Honourable Arthur Earl of Anglesey One of the Lords of His Majesties Most Honourable Privy Counsel, & c
Authors: Oldenburg Henry
Published: December 2006

My Lord, Your Lordships many favours towards me, and mine own engagements to record the modern Resuscitations and Advancements of the Philosophical Science
A serie's of quere's propounded by Mr. Isaac Newton, to be determin'd by experiments, positively and directly concluding his new theory of light and colours; and here recommended to the industry of the lovers of experimental philosophy, as they were generously imparted to the publisher in a letter of the said Mr. Newtons of July 8.1672
Authors: Newton Isaac
Published: December 2006

In the mean while give me leave, Sir, to insinuate, that I cannot think it effectual for determining truth, to examin the several waies by which Phænomena may be explained, unless where there can be a perfect enumeration of all those waies.
Mr. Newtons answer to the foregoing letter
Authors: Newton Isaac
Published: December 2006

In Observationibus R. Patris J. Pardies, quas adte dennò conscripit, an majus sit Humanitatis argumentum quòd meis responsionibus vim omnom attribuit;
An account of what hath been of late observed by Dr. Kerkringius concerning eggs to be found in all sorts of females
Authors: Kerkringius Dr.
Published: December 2006

Although we have already (N°. 70.) taken notice in brief of what the inquisitive
Kerkringius
hath discoursed of, concerning
ovaria
and
ova
in all sorts of femals; yet, to excite the more vigorously our eminent anatomists here to a further search into this matter, as those of that profession in many forrain parts, as
France, Italy, Holland
, &c. employ themselves to find what truth there is in it;
An extract of Mr. John Templers letter of March 30. 1672. to Dr. Walter Needham concerning the structure of the lungs
Authors: Templers John
Published: December 2006

In Answer to the request of an Ingenious Dr. of Physick I was lately engaged to give my thoughts of the structure of the Lungs; which was as follows.
An extract of a Latin epistle of Dr. Joel Langelot, Chief Physitian to the Duke of Holstein now Regent: Wherein is represented, that by these three chymical operations, digestion, fermentation, and triture, or grinding, (hitherto, in the authors opinion, not sufficiently regarded) many things of admirable use may be performed. English'd by the publisher
Authors: Langelot Joel
Published: December 2006

After that this learn'd and experienced physitian and chymist had often with himself consider'd, what the reason might be, why the chief chemical operations had been hitherto contemned, and by some reputed even for Chimæra's; he affirms to have found at last, that the true cause thereof is, that the artists have not made use, as they should, of those means and ways, that would have made them successeful.
An extract of letter written to the publisher by Mr. Thomas Platt, from Florence, August 6. 1672. concerning some experiments, there made upon vipers, since Mons. Charas his reply to the letter written by Signor Francesco Redi to Monsieur Bourdelot and Monsieur Morus
Authors: Platt Thomas , Redi Francesco
Published: December 2006

Sir
, I shall begin with telling you, that in a Conversation last Winter, where I had the good fortune to make one of the number, the discourse was of an Opinion of M.
Dela chambre
, who, to prove that the Spirits are animated, alledges, among other arguments, their Aptness to discern
An extract of a letter from the excellent Renatus Franciscus Slusius, Canon of Liege and Counsellor to his Electoral Highness of Collen, written to the publisher in order to be communicated to the R. Society ; concerning his short and easie method of drawing tangents to all Geometrical curves without any labour of calculation : Here inserted in the same language, in which it was written
Authors: Slusius Renatus Franciscus
Published: December 2006

M
ethodum meam ducendarum ad Curvas quaslibet Geometricas Tangentium mitto ad Te, & Virorum Doctissimorum
R. Societatis
censuræ submitto
.
A new experiment of the Noble R. Boyle, concerning an effect of the varying weight of the atmosphere upon some bodies in the water; the description where of was presented A. 1671. to the perusal of the Right Honourable the Lord Brouncker; as the experiment it self was since by the author's favour shewn to the publisher
Authors: Brouncker William
Published: December 2006

Though any things have by Ingenious men been already observed, as to the Power and Operations of the Atmosphere's Weight upon Liquors that are exposed to it in Torricellian Tubes (or other Vessels closed at one end, and near the top either empty or unfill'd with any visible Body;)
A confirmation, given by Dr. Wallis, of what was deliver'd in numb. 90. about the strange freezing in Somersetshire
Authors: Wallis John
Published: December 2006

The Strange Frost (or Freezing rather) you give an account of to have hapned in
somerset-shire
in
December
last (though I remember not the day) was the like with us at
Oxford
.
An observation, made by the same Mr. Templer upon the motion of the hearts of two Urchins, after their being cut out
Authors: Templer John
Published: December 2006

When I had written thus far, I was diverted by a couple of living
Urchins
, which were presented me by a Shepherd.
Extracts of two letters of Dr. Swammerdam, concerning some animals, that having lungs are yet found to be without the arterious vein; together with some other curious particulars
Authors: Swammerdam
Published: December 2006

We shall give the Reader both these Extracts in the same Language the Letters were written in.
An extract of a Latin letter of Signor Cassini, containing both his considerations upon Mr. Flamsteed's account of the lunar eclipse of Decem. 21. 1675, and his own observations of the same eclipse
Authors: Cassini Jean Dominique , Flamsteed John
Published: December 2006

Observatie lunaris eclipsis, noste præcedente diem primam Januarii anni hujus celebratæ, quam mihi à doctissimo Flamstedio communicasti, inter difficillimas recensenda est. obliqua quippe lunæ incidentia in Umbram, in hoc parvo defecin tempora appulsuum & emersionum tam marginum
An extract of a letter written by Signor Caflini to the author, of the Journal des Scavans, containing some advertisements to astronomers about the configurations, by him given of the satellites of Jupiter, for the years 1676, and 1677, the verification of their hypotheses
Authors: Cassini Jean Dominique
Published: December 2006

The configurations of the satellites of Jupiter, which are observed this year 1676, and which may be observed the next year, are of so great importance to the verifying of their hypotheses
An extract of an account by Mr Flamstead of his own and Mr. Edmund Halleys, observations concerning the spots in the sun, appearing in July and August 1676
Authors: Flamsteed John , Halley Edmond
Published: December 2006

The following ephemeris was deduced from careful observations (made with the micrometer) of the distances of the spots from the limb of the sun.
Monsieur Leewenhoecks Letter to the publisher, wherein some account is given of the manner of his observing so great a number of little animals in divers forts of water, as was deliver'd in the next foregoing tract: English'd out of Dutch
Authors: Leewnenhoek Van Antony
Published: December 2006

Sir, I Received your Letters of the 12
th
and 22
th
of the last month; and I was not a little pleased, that my Observations about Water had not displeased your learned Philosophers.
A letter of monsieur hevelius, giving an account of his observations, made for several years together concerning three new stars, one in the whale's neck, the other two near the head and in the breast of the swan
Authors: Hevelius Johannes
Published: December 2006

Cum nova illamira Stella in collo Ceti nuperrimè ex insperato rursùs ex æthere prodierit, etiamsi ad meas ultimas 15 Sept. datas nullum adhuc responsum à Te obtinuerim, voluitamen vos quantocyus certiores reddere, quid de ea bic Gedani mihi observare obtigerit.
Monsieur Hevelius's letter written to the publisher, containing his observations of the late comet, seen by him the 27, 29, and 30 April, and the first of May, 1677. (st. nov.) in Dantzick
Authors: Hevelius
Published: December 2006

Nuper reditum illius miræ Stellæ in collo Ceti vobis, Amice honorande, signisicæbam: Nune verò de apparitione novi cujusdam Cometæ vos certiores saciam.
Another letter from the same hand, upon same subject with the former. Illustri Viro Dom. Henrico Oldenburgio, Illustrissimæ Regiæ Societ.Secretario, amico honorando, Joh. Hevelius. S
Authors: Hevelius  , Oldenburg Henry
Published: December 2006

Literas meas, die 1 Maii nuper datas, Spreo Te optimè accepisse, atque ex iis intellexisse, Cometamtis Gedani die 27 April.
A letter of Mr. John Conyers, citizen of London; the author of the hygroscope described in Numb. 129; in which letter is contained a draught and description of a very useful and cheap pump, contrived by the said Mr. Conyers; a trial of which was also made at the repairing of the new canal of Fleet-river in London, and elsewhere
Authors: Conyers John
Published: December 2006

Sir, I Have here inclosed a Draught of a very useful and cheap Pump, which about the Year 1673 was by contrived, and by my direction used and made at the New Canal of Fleet-river in
London
at the work there, when the River was lately enlarged as now it is;
A relation of some strange phænomena', accompanied with mischievous effects in a cole work in Flint Shire; sent March 31. 1677. to the Reverend and eminently learned Dr. Bathurst, Dean of Bath and Wells, by an ingenious gentleman, Mr. Roger Moslyn, of the inner temple, who, at the said doctor's request, obtained it from his fathers Steward and overseer of his cole-works, who was upon the place when the thing was done; the same Mr. Moslyn being also assured of it from his father, Sr. Roger Moslyn,
Authors: Moslyn Roger
Published: December 2006

A relation of some strange phænomena', accompanied with mischievous effects in a cole work in Flint Shire; sent March 31. 1677. to the Reverend and eminently learned Dr. Bathurst, Dean of Bath and Wells, by an ingenious gentleman, Mr. Roger Moslyn, of the inner temple, who, at the said doctor's request, obtained it from his fathers Steward and overseer of his cole-works, who was upon the place when the thing was done; the same Mr. Moslyn being also assured of it from his father, Sr. Roger Moslyn, Lord of the Mannor, and several others, who were eye witnesses. The Cole-work at
Moslyn
in
Flint Shire
lies in a large parcel of Wood-land, that from the Countries side which lies to the South hath a great fall to the Sea-side, which is direct North;
Mr. Leewenhoecks letter written to the publisher from Delft the 14th of May 1677, concerning the observations by him made of the carneous fibres of a muscle, and the cortical and medullar part of the brain; as also of moxa and cotton
Authors: Leeuwenhoek Antoni Van
Published: December 2006

Sir, Yours of the 22th of February mentions, that some of your Friends did wish, I would with all possible exactness observe the Carneous Fibres of a Muscle, and also the Cortical and Medullar part of the Brain.
A relation concerning barnacles, by Sr. Robert Moray, lately one of his Majesties council for the Kingdom of Scotland.
Authors: Moray Robert
Published: December 2006

In the western Islands of Scotland much of the Timber, wherewith the Common people build their Houses, is such as the West Ocean throws upon their Shores.
A description of the Island Hirta; communicated also by Sr, Robert Moray
Authors: Moray Robert
Published: December 2006

Hirta lies, from
Snod
in
Skye
-Island, West and by North.
Observations of some animals, and of a strange plant, made in a voyage into the Kingdom of Congo: by Michael Angelo de Guattini and Dionysius of placenza, missionaries thither. Extracted out of the journal des scavans
Authors: de Guattini Michael Angelo , Dionysius
Published: December 2006

In Braseil, there are certain little Animals, by the Author call'd
Poux de Pharaon
, which enter into the feet be twist the skin and the flesh.
A relation of a child which remained twenty fix years in the mothers belly. Taken out of the journal des scavans; being the extract of a letter written from Tolouse 22. June to the author of that journal, by Monsieur Bayle, M. D
Authors: Bayle
Published: December 2006

The said Author premises, that there having been many different Reports of this matter: Monsieur
Bayle
took the pains to give an exact account, as well of the Infant, as of what accidents befell the Mother during her being big with It.
A new invention of a Clock ascendent on a plain inclin'd: By Mr. De Gennes, an officer belonging to the sea. Extracted out of the journal des scavans
Authors: De Gennes
Published: December 2006

We have formerly seen Clocks, that never go, but when they are applied upon a Plain inclin'd.
Observationes D. Anthonii Lewenhoeck, de natis e semine genitali animalculis
Authors: Leeuwenhoek Antoni Van
Published: December 2006

Nobilssimè Vir, Ultimæ ad Vestram Nobilitatem datæ litteræ præteriti mensis decimo sexto, quamvis jam Nob.
An account of the salt waters of Droytwich in Worcestershire; sent by Dr. William Cole from Dr. Tho. Rastell, who hath lived many years upon the place, and hath there several phats of his own
Authors: Rastell Tho.
Published: December 2006

Sir, Having heretofore seen in some of the Transactions of the Royal Society, Queries concerning the Salt-Springs in
Cheshire
, and not hearing of any account hath been given them of ours in
Worcestershire
, (which I hoped some more ingenuous Pen would have done before this time); to satisfie the desire of some friend.
An introductory essay to the doctrine of sounds, containing some proposals for the improvement of acousticks; As it was presented to the Dublin Society Nov. 12. 1683. by the Right Reverend Father in God Narcissus Lord Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin.
Authors: Marsh Narcissus
Published: December 2006

Being to treat of the Doctrine of Sounds, I hold it conventient to premise something in the general concerning this Theory; which may serve at once to ingage your attention, and excuse my pains, when I shall have recommended them, as bestow'd on a subject not altogether useless and unfruitful.
Certain observation of the Midland salt-springs of Worcester-shire, Stafford-shire and cheshire. Of the crude salt, which grows from the stone-powder dejected by the said brines in boyling. Of the specifick difference betwixt sea salt and common salt. A way ( which seems to be the true method of nature) of distilling sweet and fresh water from sea water, by the breath of sea plants growing in it. That this breath probably is the material cause of the trade or tropick winds. In a letter to the publisher from
Authors: Lister Martin
Published: December 2006

Sir, I Made all the
Wiches
or noted salt Springs in my way home from
Bath
, the last Batch, the last summer, and spent home few hours in the examining of them.
Ricreatione dell’ occhio é della Mente Nell’ osservation delle Chiocciole Dal P. Filippo Buonanni & c. in Rome, per il Varese, 1681
Authors: Buonanni P. Filippo
Published: December 2006

Having discoursed as it were in his own defence how proper for the diversion of a
philosopher
these sort of
Speculations
are, as creating a
pleasure
only to him whose
faculties
are,
refined
enough to
relish
it; he divides his
Subject
, which is
Shell-fish
, according to the number and figure of their shells, whence arises the definition of them into
Univalves
,
Bivalves
, and
Turbinated
.
A letter from the learned and ingenious Mr. Will. Molyneux Secrctary to the Society of Dublin, to Will. Musgrave LL. B. Fellow of New Colledge, and Secretary to the Philosophical Society of Oxford, for advertisement of natural Knowledge; concerning Lough Neagh in Ireland, and its petrifying Qualitys
Authors: Molyneux William
Published: December 2006

Sir, In Answer to the
Oxford Society's
Query concerning our
Lough Neagh
and Its Petrifying Qualitys, I make this return.
Advertisement
Authors: Collins
Published: December 2006

These papers were sent by Mr. Collins to Dr. Wallis in a Letter of 3 Octob. 1682, (with this Character, I have sent here with my thoughts about some defects in algebra:) and are a copy of what he had written to some other (but I know not whom) to whom he speaks all along in the second person, whereas of he speaks in the third person.
An abstract of a letter from Mr. Leevvenhoeck of Delft, dated Decemb. 28th, 1683. concerning scales within the mouth, the scaly child that was shewn, the anatomy of the slime within the guts, and the use thereof
Authors: Leeuwenhoek Antoni Van
Published: December 2006

In my Letter of the 17th,
September
1683. I said that our Skin was covered with scales.
A letter from Mr. Charles Leigh of Brazen-Nose College in Oxford. to Dr. Rob. Plot Director of Experiments to the Philosophical Society of Oxford, and one of the Secretaries of the Royal Society
Authors: Leigh Charles
Published: December 2006

Sir, Since you gave me some specimens of the water of
Latron
, and likewise of
Nitrian Nitre
, I have found that those Descriptions which the Antients give of it, exactly agree with those specimens we have here; their encomiums of it were to many, but so different the names which they ascribed to it, as a sceptic indeed might equally question whether or no they writ of any thing else, or whether or no they writ of any such thing.
A letter from Dublin to the Publisher of these tracts, concerning the porphyry pillars in Egypt
Authors: H. R.
Published: December 2006

Sir, You engage me after a very undeniable manner, as I perceive by the minutes of your Philosophical
Society
, to send you some Account of the
Porphyry Pillars
in
Egypt
: And though I could have satisfied your Curiosity much better in this matter, had you thought of it when I was amongst my Papers in
Oxford
; yet rather than hazard your good Opinion, or give the least presence of disrespect to your worthy Company, for whose persons and designs I have so just an esteem and veneration: I here send, not what's fit for me to write, or you to read; but what I can remember upon this subject.
Experiments to be made relating to land-carriage, proposed by the learned Sr. William Petty Kt
Authors: Petty William
Published: December 2006

The water carriage of goods round about the Globe of the Earth, is but about double to the price of Land Carriage from
Chester
to
London
of the like goods.
The Description of a Siphon, performing the same things with the Sipho Wurtemburgicus; invented by Dr. Papin Fellow of the Royal Society
Authors: Papin Denis
Published: December 2006

In tractatu de
Siphone Wurtemburgico qui Stutgardiæ
authore Do Salomone Reiselio nuper editus est magna quædam atque inaudita, si & utilitatem & raritatem & artificium spectes, de novo illo siphone prædicantur;
A letter from Mr. J : Beaumont of stony-easton in sommersetshire to one of the S. of the R. S. concerning a new way of cleaving rocks
Authors: Beaumont John
Published: December 2006

A worthy Gentleman, who for many years has been a Confiderable adventurer in the Lead Mines on Mendrip hills, being in London a while since, was pleasd to acquaint me that the Miners there, within these twelve months, had gotten a new way of
cleavin
g Rocks with Gunpowder, whereupon I desire'd he would please to favour me with a President of the Instruments us'd in it, which I conceiv'd would not be unacceptable in the Repository at Gresham Colledge, where I have now caus'd them to be deliuered.
A letter from William Molyneux Esq. secretary of the Philosophical Society of Dublin, to a S. of the R. S. giving an account of the connough-worm.
Authors: Molyneux William
Published: December 2006

I here send you inclosed the figures of our Connoughworm, which is reported to be the only poysonous Animal in our Kingdome; but whether it be really so, or not, I cannot assert on my own experience.
A remarkable account of an hydrophobia, in a letter from Dr Roger Howman, physician in Norwich, to William Briggs M. D. Fellow of the Coll. of Phys. Lond. and physician of St. Tho. Hospitall.
Authors: Howman Roger
Published: December 2006

I had long since (if business had not prevented me, returned you thanks for the Philosophicall Collections you sent me; and therein, particularly, for your new Theory of vision, so highly rational & satisfactory.
An abstract of a letter from Dr Sam. Threapland of Hallifax to Dr Plot of Oxford, giving an account of stones voided by seige.
Authors: Dr Sam
Published: December 2006

A Carpenter, about forty years of age, of a strong habit of body, and very laborious in his calling, liveing about a mile hence, came to me about three weeks since, and made great complaint of the sad torture he had suffer'd by reason of two stones he had voided by stool this last Christmass, there being about 14 days time between;
A letter from William Molyneux Esq; Sec. Of the Dublin Society; to one of the S. Of the R. S. Concerning a new Hygroscope, invented by him
Authors: Molyneux William
Published: December 2006

Sir, For want of some thing better to send you, I shall briefly declare to you the contrivance of a
Hygroscope
, which I have lately invented and put in execution with good success.
Some observations on the French Macrense, and the Scotch Bernacle; together with a continuation of the account of boyling, and other fountains
Authors: Robinson Tancred
Published: December 2006

I Find to so many mistakes amongst Natural Writers, and some learned Men, concerning the Bird at
Paris call'd Macreuse
, and in other parts of
France, Macroul, or Diable de Mer
, that I think it no improper subject for the entertainment of Your Curiosity.
A discourse concerning the incombustible cloth above mentioned; address't in a letter to Mr. Arthur Bayly Merchant, and Fellow of the R. Society; and to Mr. Nicholas Waite, Merchant of London; By Rob. Plot. LL. D
Authors: Arthur Bayly  , Plot Robert
Published: December 2006

Worthy Gentlemen. The Historical account of the
incombustible LinnenCloth
above mentioned, being sent me by the
one
of You; and a noble present made me of
part
of it by the other; with a desire from
both
, that I would search the old
Authors
and see how agreeable their
relations
are to
this
; give you
Both
a just right to the following Discourse: which I desire you would believe I address to you, not so much out of
complement
, as true
gratitude
for so valuable a gift.
An account of some experiments for trying the force of great guns, by the learned Mr. Greaves; communicated by Mr. Stubbs
Authors: Greaves
Published: December 2006

At 200 yards distance from the platform for great Ordinance, there were raised 3 Buts, one behind another: the space between the first and the 2d butt was 14 yards, between the 2d and the 3d, eight.
A letter from the Reverend Dr. Wallis, Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford, and Fellow of the Royal Society, London, to Mr. Richard Norris, concerning the collection of secants; and the true division of the meridians in the sea-chart.
Authors: Wallis John
Published: December 2006

An old enquiry, (about the sum or Aggregate of Secants,) having been of late moved a-new; I have thought sit to trace it from its Original: with such solution as seems proper to it: Beginning first with the general Preparation; and then applying it to the Particular case.
A correct tide table, shewing the true time of the high-waters at London-Bridge, to every day in the year, 1686
Authors: Flamsteed John
Published: December 2006

Directions for the use of the foregoing
Tide-table.
A letter, subscribed W. Tenon, concerning Dr. Papin's new water- engine
Authors: Tenon W , Papin Denis
Published: December 2006

Sir, The other day, upon reading in the
Transactions
, a description of the effects of a
Water-Engin
, invented by D
r
Papin
, and propounded as a probleme to find out the contrivance, there came into my mind the following thought.
Eclipsis lunæ totalis cum mora, Anno 1685. die 10 Decemb. St. N. observata gedani à Johanne Hevelio
Authors: Hevelio Johanne
Published: December 2006

Cum Obsevationes Eclipsium Lunæ, inprimis totalium cum mora, ad restaurandas & promovendas Res Astronomicas, plurimum contribuant, ac raro nobis in conspectum prodeant; utique summe necessarium, ut quilibet Astrophilus ad eas omni industria attendat:
Part of a letter to one of the Secr. of the R. Society, from the learned Dr. Salomon Reiselius, Chief Physician to the Duke of Wirtemberg; concerning the sipho wirtembergicus stutgardiæ . 8.Oct. S. V. 1685
Authors: Reiselius Salomon
Published: December 2006

Statim atque vestras 4 junii datas vidit serenissimus princeps meus; in quibus communicas vestra experimenta in siphone vitreo decem pedum; sciredesideras quantum temporis sit duraturus siphonis fluxus nostri; das confilium pro extrahendis bullulis in siphone collect is, quæ fluxum possint susslaminare; speras serenissimum ducem passurum, ut & vobis & orbitoti exponatur artisicium Machinæ fuæ.
IV. An account of two plants lately brought from the Cape of Good-hope
Authors: Sloane Hans
Published: December 2006

Alderman
Charles Chamberlain
having favoured the Royal Society to present them (among other natural Rarities) with two Branches of Trees and their Fruits, brought from the
Cape of Good-hope
by Mr.
Goddard
, which being very curious, and are not yet any where perfectly described, it was thought fit to publish their Figures and Descriptions;
IV. The extract of a letter from Mr. Anthony Van Leuwenhoek, S. R. S. to the R. Soc. containing several observations on cinnabar and gunpowder
Authors: Leeuwenhoek Antoni Van
Published: December 2006

Having with the greatest niceness examined native
Cinnabar
, I could discover therein nothing worthy noting; wherefore I gave it a very strong Fire, upon which it soon began to move, many small Particles separating themselves from the rest, till they had crept into a cooler place; and notwithstanding the great Weight of the
Cinnabar
, yet several considerable Particles as big as Pins Heads rose up from the Fire, and got into cooler places.
III. An extract of a letter from Mr. Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek, to the R. S. containing his observations on the seeds of cotton, palm, or date-stones, cloves, nutmegs, gooseberries, currans, tulips, cassia, lime-tree: On the skin of the hand, and pores, of sweat, the crystalline humour, optic nerves, gall, and scales of fish: and the figures of several salt particles, &c
Authors: Leeuwenhoek Antoni Van
Published: December 2006

Since my former Observations on the Seeds of Plants, (Vide
Philosoph. Transact
. No 199, p. 700.) I was surprized to find a Variety from what I then wrote concerning the Mealy and Oily Substance, as likewise the
Embrio-plant
itself, to be nourisht by them;
I. A discourse concerning the methods of approximation in the extraction of Surd Roots
Authors: Wallis John
Published: December 2006

The several Methods of Approximation, which have been mentioned of late Years, for Extracting the & Roots of Simple or Affected Equations, gives me occasion of saying somewhat of that Subject.
I. An extract of a letter from Mr. Robert Vans of Kilkenny in Ireland. Dated Nov. 15. 1695. to Mr. Henry Million
Authors: Vans Robert
Published: December 2006

We have had of late, in the Country of
Limerick
, and
Tipperary
, Showers of a sort of Matter like Butter or Grease: If one rub it upon ones.
IV. An account of chylification
Authors: Cowper William
Published: December 2006

The occasion of the following paper, was in complyance to some ingenious Enquirers about the Process of Nature in Chylification; so that a Philosophical Account of that grand operation, is not here so much aimed at, as a brief Anatomical Enumeration of Matter of fact, in the several steps made use of for that purpose; Nor had any part of controversie had any place in it, but in answer to an ingenious Person, who supposed the Menstruum of the Stomach, after having there Impregnated the Aliment by its austere faculty, should oblige that part to Contract, in order to void its Contents, as apperars by the sixth paragraph.
II. An extract of a letter from Mr. Leewenhoek, dated the 10th of July, an. 1695. containing microscopical observations on eels, mites, the seeds of figs, strawberries, & c.
Authors: Leeuwenhoek Antoni Van
Published: December 2006

I must tell you, gentlemen, that when I had written of the engendring of eels, and did send the print thereof to Mr. Chr. Huygens of Zuylighem, he did answer me from his country-house, called Hoswyk on the 20th of October, 1692.
I. An account of four sorts of strange beans, frequently cast on shoar on the Orkney isles, with some conjectures about the way of their being brought thither from Jamaica, where three sorts of them grow
Authors: Sloane Hans
Published: December 2006

I Had several times heard of strange Beans was thrown up by the Sea on the Islands, on the North-west parts of
Scotland
, especially those of them who are most exposed to the Waves of the great Ocean; they are thrown up pretty frequently in great Numbers, and are no otherwise regarded then as they serve to make Snuff-Boxes.
I. An account of the opening of the body of a boy, who dyed suddenly, and what observable was found therein
Authors: Preston Charles
Published: December 2006

Being called to the Dissection of a Boy. about Nine Years of Age, who Dyed suddenly, being taken ill with a Fit of Vomiting, a little before his Death, with the Chyrurgion one Monsieur
Du Linier
Operator to Monsieur
Du Verny
, what we found most remarkable is as follows: First in the lower Belly, after having laid open th common Integuments, we discovered the left Test cle out of its natural place, drawn up above the Apnevrose, or holes of the three
Muscles
of the
Abdmen
, which gives passage to the Spermatick Vessls i Men that go to the
Testicles
, and to the round
Ligamen
of the Matrix in Women.
III. Epistola missa ad prænobilem virum D. Carolum Mountage Armigerum, Scaccarii Regii apud Anglos cancellarium, & societatis regiae prasidem, in qua solvuntur duo problemata Mathematica à Johanne Barnoullo Mathematico celeberrimo proposita
Authors: Bernoulli Jean
Published: December 2006

Accepi, Vir amplissime, hesterno die duo Problematum
à Joanne Bernoullo
Mathematicorum acutissimo propositorum exemplaria, Groningæ edita in haec verba.
V. The original of a polypus discover'd, by Mr. Giles, sworn surgeon at St. Come, being translated from the progres de la medecine of monsieur brunet, art III. journal. III
Authors: Giles Mr.
Published: December 2006

In the Month of
June
1684, I was called to see Madam___ who had a
polypus
in the right nostril; after I had examin'd the marks of it which were to be soft, white, and without pain; I endeavou'd to pull it out, which I did without pain or any had accident.
IV. An observation of one hemisphere of the brain sphacelated, and of a stone found in the substance of the brain its self
Authors: Tyson Edward
Published: December 2006

Decemb. 12, 1688. I was desired to be present at the opening of Mr. A. About Two Months before (as I was informed) he had received in a Quarrel at the Tavern a great bruise on his Head by Quarpot.
VI. A letter from Mr. Stephen Gray, from Canterbury, May the 12th 1697, concerning making water subservient to the viewing both near and distant objects, with the description of a natural reflecting microscope
Authors: Gray Stephen
Published: December 2006

I send you here a short Account of what has been the success of my attempts, to make small Portions of Water subservient to the viewing both near and distant Objects, together with the Discription of a Natural Reflecting Microscope.
VIII. A note concerning an extraordinary hail in Monmouthshire, extracted out of a letter sent from Mr. Edward Lhwyd to Dr. Tancred Robinson, Fell. of Coll. of Phys. & R. S. Dat. Usk in Monmouthshire, June 15. 1697
Authors: Lhuyd Edward
Published: December 2006

We had at
Pont y Pool
in
Monmouthshire
, on the 6th of
June
last, an Extraordinary Shower of Hail, which extended about a Mile, and lasted near half an Hour.
IX. An account of a fætus, voided by the ulcered navil of a Negro in Nevis
Authors: Brodie James
Published: December 2006

Sir, In the Island of
Nevis
, in the
West-Indies
, there was a Negro Woman belonging to one Captain
Mead
, who after one Year and halfs being with Child, was at the last, to a wonder relieved by the Navil, in this manner;
III. The anatomical history of the leech. By Sieur Francois Poûpart. Taken from the Journal des Savans, of the 22th of July, 1697
Authors: Poûpart Francois
Published: December 2006

Its Upper Lip is stretched out into a Point, and falls upon the Under, which is Round like a Crecent, and shorter.
VI. A letter from Mr. Stephen Gray, dated Canterbury, Dec. 8.1697. relating some Experiments about making Concave Specula nearly of a Parabolick Figure
Authors: Gray Stephen
Published: December 2006

I Had before this time communicated the Experiments I mentioned in the end of my Letter of the 12th of
May last
, had I not expected an Opportunity to have made some farther Progress than I have yet done.
IV. Eclipsis lunaris observatio, facta Roterodami die 29. Octobris Anni 1697. N. S. A Jacobo Cassini, R. Ac. Parisiensis Socio
Authors: Cassini Jean Dominique
Published: December 2006

Eclipsis Lunæ diei 29 Octobris anni 1697. observata est Roterodami per Telescopium quatuor ferè pedum Parisiensium oculari convexo in cujus foco erant fila quatuor sese in axe intersecantia ad angulos rectos & semirectos, ad Phases dimetiendas, macularumque Lunarium situm determinandum.
IV. A question in musick lately proposed to Dr. Wallis, concerning the division of the monochord, or section of the musical canon with his answer to it
Authors: Wallis John
Published: December 2006

Take a String of any Musical Instrument, and divide the same into two equal Parts, and Stop the String there; it shall be an Eighth, which consists of twelve Semi-tones.
V. An account of what happened on syringing warm water into the thorax of a bitch
Authors: Musgrave William
Published: December 2006

On
Thursday
, the 21st of
June
, 1683. I syringed iv. of warm water into the Right Side of greyhound Bitch; which caused a great Rigour (especially in the Hinder Parts) a Shortness of Breath
VI. Some observations concerning the substance commonly called, black-lead, by the late Dr. Rob. Plot, F. R. S
Authors: Plot Robert
Published: December 2006

The Mineral Substance, called, Black Lead (our common Lead being the true Black Lead
XI. An account of the appearance of an extraordinary iris seen at Chester, in August last, by E. Halley
Authors: Halley Edmond
Published: December 2006

On the Sixth Day of
August
last, in the Evening, between Six and Seven of the Clock, I went to take the Air upon the Walls of
Chester
, when I was surprized by a sudden Shower, which forced me to take Shelter in a Nich that afforded me a Seat in the Wall, near the North East Corner thereof.