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A letter of Mr. Martin Lister, written at August 25 1671. Confirming the observation in no 74. about musk sented insects; adding some notes upon D. Swammerdam’s book of insects, and on that of M. Steno concerning petrify'd shells
Authors: Lister Martin
Published: December 2006

Sir, I Have observed the two Insects, which Mr.
Ray faith
, smell of Musk, which indeed they do in an high degree.
Observationes jovis ad duas fixas transeuntis, derbiæ anglorum habitæ mensibus Febr. & martii A. 1672 st. veteri à Joh. Flamstead
Authors: Flamsteed John
Published: December 2006

Mitto Tibi duos Jovis transitus, accuratè, ni fallor admodùm, observatos, posteriorem inprimis; adeò ut (absit jactantia) paucas, inter observationes hactenus factas, hisce œquiparandas crediderim
.
Observations of a new comet, made at Paris in the Royal Observatory by Signor Cassini
Authors: Cassini Jean Dominique
Published: December 2006

There now appears a Comet, which seems to be near the end of his Appearance, and which might have been seen above a month since, if the weather had been favourable.
Mr. Isaac Newton's considerations upon part of a letter of Monsieur de Bercé priinted in the eight french memoire, concerning the cata drioptrical telescope, pretended to be improv'd adn refined by M. cassegrain
Authors: Newton Isaac , de Bercé  , Cassegrain M.
Published: December 2006

That the Reader may be enabled the better to Judge of the whole, by comparing together the contrivances both of Mr. Newton and Mr. Cassegrain; it will be necessary, to borrow from the said French Memoire what is there concerning them: which is as followes.
I send you (saith M. de
Bercé
to the Publisher of the
Memoire,
) the Copy of the Letter, which M.
Cassagrain
hath written to me concerning the proportions of Sr.
Samuel Morelands
Trumpet.
Some additions to the narrative, that was publish'd Numb. 58. about the conjunction of the ocean and Mediterranean by a channel in France; in which additions the progress and the designed usefulness of that great undertaking are more amply represented: Out of a French letter, written by Monsieur de Froidour to Monsieur Barrillon, and printed at Tholouse this very year
Authors: Froidour Monsieur De
Published: December 2006

In the Description of this Channel, inserted in
Numb
. 58. of these
Tracts
, there was some mention made of the great
Magazin
of Water, for a continual supply in case of want thereof.
An extract of a letter of M. Hugens to the author of the journal des scavans of July 25. 1672. attempting to render the cause of that odd phænomenon of the quicksilvers remaining suspended far above the usual height in the torrisellian experiment
Authors: Hugens M.
Published: December 2006

The Experiment is briesty this; That a Tube, being, after the
Torricellian
way, filled with Mercury, and before inversion perfectly purged of Air, doth, when inverted, remain top full, even to the height of 75 inches.
Mr. Isaac Newtons answer to some considerations upon his doctrine of light and colors; which doctrine was printed in Numb. 80 of these tracts
Authors: Newton Isaac
Published: December 2006

Sir, I have already told you, that at the perusal of the considerations, you sent me, on my Letter concerning
Refractions
and
Colors
, I found nothing, that, as I conceived, might not without difficulty be answer'd.
Some observations about shining flesh, made by the Honourable Robert Boyle; Febr. 15. 1671/72. and by way of letter addressed to the publisher, and presented to the R. Society
Authors: Boyle Robert
Published: December 2006

Yesternight when I was about to go to bed, an
Amanuensis
of mine, accustom'd to make Observations, informed me, that one of the Servants of the house, going upon some occasion into the Larder, was frighted by something of Luminous that she saw (not with standing the darkness of the place,) where the meat had been hung up before:
Some observations touching the nature of snow, presented to the R. Society by Dr. Nehemiah Grew
Authors: Grew Nehemiah
Published: December 2006

If those Philosophers,
Aristotle
and
Cartesius
, and others, of their Followers, who have written of
Meteors
, and amongst them of
Snow
, have not yet given us a full account hereof; it will not be needless to enquire further of it.
Nobilissimi cujusdam angli demostratio synchronismi vibrationum peractarum in cycloide; nunc juris publici facta ex occasione quam suppeditavit Rev. P. Pardies, de eodem argumento demonstrationem exhibens ad calcem libelli nuper ab ipso gallicè editi de statica, inferiùs à nobis commemorandi.
Authors: Pardies P
Published: December 2006

Sint a b, b c, c d, d e, e f, &c. omnes invicem æquales; & b 1, c 2, d 3, e 4, f 5, &c. æqualiter crescant ut 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, &c.
An easy way of raising fruit-trees to what numbers any desires; communicated to the Publisher, by Mr. Lewis of Totnam Highcross
Authors: Lewis
Published: December 2006

Take a piece of the root of any Apple-tree or Pear-tree, &c. about six inches long, and tongue-graft a graft of an apple or pear into the root.
An account of the current of the tydes about the orcades, given in by a gentleman of Scotland, who had pass'd himself that way, and from him communicated to the Publisher by the truly Honourable Sir Robert Moray Knight, deceased, lately one of the Vice-Presidents of the R. Society, of which he had been President formerly; whose death is no less deservedly than exceedingly lamented by all that knew his worth, knowledge, integrity, prudence, and courage
Authors: Moray Robert
Published: December 2006

In
Fairay
-Sound (betwixt the Isles of
Fairay
and
Ætha
in
Orkney
) the Sea runneth North-east, for the space only of three hours in Flowing, and nine hours South-west in Ebbing.
Eclipfis Lunaris Anno 1676, die i, Januarii mane obfervata gedani á Johanne Hevelio
Authors: Hevelius Johannes
Published: December 2006

Hanc eclipsin Luna carlo admodum, fereno observare obtigit, fit ut ipsum initum,
An account of Virginia, its scituation, temperature, productions, Inhabitants,and their manner of planting and ordering tobacco &c. communicated by M r. Thomas Glover, an ingenious chirurgion that hath lived some years in that country
Authors: Glover Thomas
Published: December 2006

Virginia being part of the Continent of America, is distant from the lizard or lands-end of England and thousand leagues, and is bounded on the east with the main oceon.
New experiments made and communicated by the Honourable Robert Boyie Esquire, about the superficial figures of fluids, especially of liquors contiguous to other liquors: likely to conduce much to the physical theory of the grand system of the world
Authors: Boyle Robert
Published: December 2006

Sir, In compliance with your curiosity, I herewith send you my rude notes about the superficial figures of contiguous liquors, which, belonging to a paper (concerning the pores and figures of bodies,) whereof they made the last part, and being themselves very indigested; I should by no means venture to expose them even to a less critical eye than yours, if I did not hope, that, though a more discerning reader will sooner discover their imperfections, yet he may be more inclin’d than an ordinary one would be to think them not useless trifles
An extract of a letter, written from Aberdeen Febr. 17. 1676/7, concerning a man of a strange imitating nature, as also of several human calculus's of an unusual bigness
Authors: Garden George
Published: December 2006

Sir, I Am very sensible of the great civility, wherewith you were pleased to entertain Master
Scougall
and me, when we waited on you last Summer; and shall be ready on all occasions to give you that account you then desired of things philosophical that may occur here, to promote that noble design you have in hand.
An extract of two letters, written by Dr. Wallis to the publisher the 20th and 30th of January last, concerning a considerable meteor seen in many distant places of England at the same time
Authors: Wallis John
Published: December 2006

Sir, I do not know, whether in your transactions you have any where taken notice of that unusual
meteor
which happened on Wednesday Sept. 20
th
. last past, about seven of the clock at night or soon after
Mr. Flamstead's account of his observations of the late comet, sent in a letter to the publisher, Greenwich, May 18. 1677
Authors: Flamsteed John
Published: December 2006

I have this day received a Note from. Sr. Jonas Moore, in which he informs me, that you have received Papers concerning the late Comet both from Mr.
Hevelius
and Mr.
Gassini
, and that you desire to know what I observed of it.
An account of some books: I. The primitive origination of mankind, considered and examined according to the light of nature; By the Honourable Sir Matthew Hale, Kt. late Lord Chief Justice of his Majesties Court of Kings Bench. London, 1677. tn fol
Authors: Hale Matthew
Published: December 2006

An account of some books: I. The primitive origination of mankind, considered and examined according to the light of nature; By the Honourable Sir Matthew Hale, Kt. late Lord Chief Justice of his Majesties Court of Kings Bench. London, 1677. tn fol.II. Tractatus Medicus de morbis castrensibus internis, Auth. Joh. Valentino Willio, Medico Regio Castrense. Hafniæ, 1676, in 40. III. Hebdomas observationum de Rebus Sinigis; Auth. Andræa Mullero, Greiffenhagio. Coloniæ Brandenburgiæ, A. 1674. IV. The Curious Distillatory, &c. written originally in Latin by Joh. Sigism. Elsholt, and Englished by T. S. Med, D. Physit. in Ordinary to his Majesty. London, 1677. in I2°. V. Medicina Statica, or Rules of Health originally written by Sanctorius now Englsihed by J. D. London, 1676 in 120. VI. Systema Horticulturæ, containing in English the Art of Gardening in Three Books; by J. W. Gentl. 80. The Worthy and Learned Author of this Book (whose Death is exceedingly regretted by all good and intelligent men, upon the account of his singular integrity and great knowledge) hath therein principally considered these particulars:
A relation of a worm voided by urine; Communicated by Mr. Ent; to whom it was sent by Mr. Matthew Milford
Authors: Milford Matthew
Published: December 2006

The Worm when I voyded it, which was at the second urine, was then alive.
Clarissimo viro domino nehemiæ greuio regiæ societatis à secretis fo. Dominicus Cassinius S. P. D
Authors: Cassini Jean Dominique
Published: December 2006

Cum nupera Lunæ Eclipsis à nobis hîc in observatorio regio diligentissime fuerit observata, ejus exemplar ad te, Vir Clarissime, mittendum duxi regiæ Societatis Astronomis, imprimisque D. Flamstedio, communicandum.
The art of refining, communicated by Dr. Christopher Merrit
Authors: Merrit Christopher
Published: December 2006

The end hereof, is the separation of all other Bodies from
Gold
and
Silver
; which is performed four ways,
viz
.
An account of the English alum-works, communicated by Daniel Colwall Esquire
Authors: Colwall Daniel
Published: December 2006

Alum is made of a Stone digged out of a Mine, of a Seaweed, and Urine.
An account of the way of making English green copperas, communicated by the same
Authors: Colwall Daniel
Published: December 2006

Copperas-stones, which some call Gold-stones, are found on the Sea-shore in Essex, Hampshire, and so Westward. These are great quantities on the Cliffs; but not so good, as those on the Shore, where the Tides Ebb and Flow over them.
A letter from Mr. John Collins to the Reverend and learned Dr. John Wallis Savilian Professor of geometry in the University of Oxford, giving his thoughts about some defects in algebra
Authors: Collins John , Wallis John
Published: December 2006

To describe the
Locus
of a cubick Æquation. A Cardanick Æquation convenient for the purpose, (viz. such as shall have the dioristick limits rational) must have the Coefficient of the roots to be the triple of a square number such is
a
48
a
=
N
.
A letter formerly wirtten to Mr. H. O. containing the projection of the threds of spiders, and bees breeding in cases made of leaves, as also, a viviparous fly, &c
Authors: Lister Martin
Published: December 2006

I am glad to understand my Lettter came safe to your Hands.
An account of a salt spring, and another medicinal spring, on the banks of the river weare, or ware in the Bishoprick of Durham in a letter to the Publisher, from the ingenious Mr. Hugh Todd fellow of University College in Oxon, and Chaplain to the right Reverend Father in God Lord Bishop of Carlile
Authors: Todd Hugh
Published: December 2006

Sir, I Am so much oblig’d to you for your many Favours when I was with you; that now, when I am at so great a distance from
Oxon
, I cannot pass by any oportunity of serving you, in visiting the
Curiosities
of
Art
or
Nature
(with which the
Northern
parts,
Durham
, and
Cumberland
especially, do abound) and in giving you an account of what, I judge, may be worth your knowledge.
Some queries whereby to examine mineral waters by the Learned Sir William Petty Knight
Authors: Petty Knight Sir William
Published: December 2006

1. How much heavier then
Brandy
?. 2. How much
common Water
will extinguish its Tast ?
An account of a sort of paper made of linum asbestinum found in Wales in a letter to the Publisher, from Edward Lloyd of Jesus Coll. Oxon
Authors: Lloyd Edward
Published: December 2006

In obedience to your commands I have here sent you all the account I am able to give at present of the
Lapis Amianthus
or
Linum fossile Asbestinum
which you were inform'd (and that truly) was to be found in the
Isle
or
Anglesey
: wherein I shall choose to refer it to your own judgment to determine whether this be the same kind with the
Asbestos
of the
Ancients
, or in Some respects different from it.
A Letter from Dr. Turbervile of Salisbury containing some considerable observations in the practise of Physic
Authors: Turbervile Dawbeney
Published: December 2006

Sir, I will now proceed in communicating more of my observations to you; at present be pleasd to accept these which follow.
An abstract of a letter of Mr. Anthony Leewenhoek Fellow of the R. Society; concerning the parts of the brain of severall animals; the chalk stones of the gout; the leprosy; and the scales of eeles.
Authors: Leeuwenhoek Antoni Van
Published: December 2006

Having lately been imployed about the Eyes if Turky Cocks, I proceeded to examine the Brain
A letter from Dr. Robert Plot of Oxford, to Dr. Martin Lister F. of the R. S. concerning the use which may be made of the following history of the weather, made by him at Oxford through out the year 1684
Authors: Plot Robert
Published: December 2006

Sir, It would be needless to acquaint you with the Universal approbation, your new and easy invention of observing the rise and fall of the
Mercury
in the
Barometer
(by parallel lines drawn from every decimal part of each month of its whole extent,) was received in our
Philosophical Society
at
Oxford
: Since I here Send you the
observ
.
A letter from Mr. St Georg Ash, Sec. of the Dublin Society, to one of the Secretaries of the Royal Society; concerning a girl in Ireland, who has several horns growing on her body
Authors: Ash Georg
Published: December 2006

Hon. Sir. The account I here send of the
Horny Girl
is, much more imperfect then I hoped it would have been, both because its parents or friends, it who might give some information of the beginning and occasion of the growing out of these
Horns
, are not to be perfwaded to let us take figure there of, which we design'd to present you.
A letter of Mr. R. A. relating to the same subject
Authors: A. R.
Published: December 2006

I have here given you a rude Draught of
Monsr Papins
curious Experiment, hoping thereby to have my conception of it more readily understood.
V. An account of several experiments made to examine the nature of the expansion and contraction of fluids by heat and cold, in order to ascertain the divisions of the thermometer, and to make that instrument, in all places, without adjusting by a standard
Authors: Halley Edmond
Published: December 2006

Q
ualities
, such as Heat and Cold, Moisture and Driness, and the like, are not otherwise to be estimated, but by their Effect on the
Quantity
of some body they act on, encreasing or lessening the Dimensions thereof;
VI. An account of digging and preparing the lapis calaminaris, in a letter from Mr. Giles Pooley to Sir Robert Southwel President of the R. S
Authors: Pooley Giles
Published: December 2006

Sir, I Promis'd a long while ago to give you an Account of the
Lapis Calaminaris
which is digged and prepared here near me.
VIII. An account of books - I. Horti indici malabarici. Pars quarta, quinta & sexta. With some remarks upon them by T. R. M. D. S. R. S. - Horti indici malabarici. Pars quinta. - Horti malabarici. Pars sexta
Authors: Robinson Tancred
Published: December 2006

The three first volumes of this work having been taken notice of in the
Philosophical Transactions
, N. 155. from
pag
. 100. to
pag
. 109.
I. The method, manner and order of the transmutation of copper into brass, &c. By Thomas Povey, Esq; brought into the Royal Society, of which he is a fellow
Authors: Povey Thomas
Published: December 2006

We have in the North parts of
England
much
Copper
, which places, though as they now lie, are barren and poor, might be rendred rich and useful, if a sufficient Encouragement were given to the Digging and Raising thereof, and the Poor thereabout might be put in a good way of Livelyhood, as well as several other Advantages to be brought thereby to the Publick.
IV. An account of the tubera terræ, or truffles found at Rushton in Northamptonshire; with some remarks thereon
Authors: Robinson Tancred
Published: December 2006

Sir, The
Tubera Terræ
(which you was pleas'd to send me, together with a Draught of them drawn with your own Pencil) observ'd lately at
Rushton
in
Northamptonshire
, by that curious and learned Gentleman Mr.
Hatton
, are indeed the true French
Truffles
, the Italian
Tartuffi
or
Tartuffole
, and the Spanish
Turmas de Tiera
, which are not noted by Mr
Ray
to be found in our British Soyl.
II. Observatio solaris eclipsis habita die 12. Julii, 1684. Bononiæ, à Cl. V. Dono. Dominico Gulielmino
Authors: Guglielmini Domenico
Published: December 2006

Desumebant Solis à Vertice Distantias D. D.
Jo. Ludovicus Donellus & Nicolaus Ignatius Joanettus
; Phasibus determinandis tres aderamus, D. D.
Jo. Galeatius Manzius, Hercules Vanottus
& Ego.
III. An extract of a second letter from Dr. Oliver, communicated by Walter Moyle, Esq;
Authors: Oliver Dr.
Published: December 2006

Sir, I Went once more to the Well to make my Observations, when we lay last in
Torbay
, and having a little more time than I had before, tho' little enough for so odd a
Phœnomenon
, I shall answer those Questions you were pleased to send me as well as I am able.
IV. Emendationes ac notæ in vetustas albatênii observationes astronomicas, cum restitutione tabularum lunisolarium ejusdem authoris
Authors: Halley Edmond
Published: December 2006

Cum inter Monumenta Veterum nihil uspiam reperiatur Observationum Astronomicarum nisi apud
Claudium Ptolemæum,
cumque etiam nullas alias in Syntaxi sua tradiderit, prœter eas quœ Theoriis suis comprobandis usui erant, cœteras vero permultas sine dubio à
Timocharide, Hipparcho
aliisque posteritati consignatas, insigni scientiœ detrimento suppresserit; haud abs re fore videtur,
Albatenii
sive ElBatêni (ut Arabice sonat) medio prœcise loco inter nos ac
Ptolemæum florentis,
ac
Ptolemæi
Sphalmata primum corrigere ausi, Cœlestia Observata in lucem promere, atque à traductoris vel Typographi vel utriusque mendis quâ potui diligentiâ liberare.
VI. Pharmacologia seu manuductio ad materiam medicam in qua medicamenta officinalia simplicia, hoc est mineralia, vegetabilia, animalia eorúmque partes, in medicina officinis usitata, in methodum naturalem digesta sucinctè & accurate describuntur, cum notis generum characteristicis, specierum synonymis, differentiis & viribus. Opus omnibus Medicis, Philisophis, Pharmacopœis, Chirurgis, & Pharmacopolis utilissimum. A Samuele Dale
Authors: Dale Samuel
Published: December 2006

The use of the
Materia Medica
seems to be as old as Mankind, whose Infirmities springing up early, call'd for Remedies, which Instinct of Necessity first dictated, afterwards Observation and Experiment improv'd.
VI. An extract of a letter from Sir R. Bulkley concerning the propagation of elms by seed
Authors: Bulkeley Richard
Published: December 2006

This is to acquaint you that I have discoursed a poor meer
Irish
Labourer (who by having work'd many years under a Head Gardiner in a Gentleman's Garden, has got a Genius of Planting) who has follow'd the Propagating of Elms by the Seed (a Way, if known, totally neglected among all Planters) which Seed he finds in the former part of the Year.
An account of a books. I. Pharmacopœia bateana; or, Bate's dispensatory, translated into English by William Salmon, Professor of physick: Lond. Printed for S. Smith and B. Walford, 1694. in 8vo. - II. Phthisiologia lancastriensis, cui accessit Tentamen philosophicum de aquis mineralibus, &c. Aut. Carolo Leigh, M. D. Lond. Impensis S. Smith & B. Walford, &c. In 8vo. 1694
Authors: Salmon William , Smith S. , Walford B.
Published: December 2006

An account of a books. I. Pharmacopœia bateana; or, Bate's dispensatory, translated into English by William Salmon, Professor of physick: Lond. Printed for S. Smith and B. Walford, 1694. in 8vo. - II. Phthisiologia lancastriensis, cui accessit Tentamen philosophicum de aquis mineralibus, &c. Aut. Carolo Leigh, M. D. Lond. Impensis S. Smith & B. Walford, &c. In 8vo. 1694. The Translator of this Work, in his Preface, gives first an account of Original, that it is a Collection of most excellent
Recipe
's made by Mr.
James Shipton
, who was the Preparer and Maker up of the greatest part of them, tho' their Author was the Famous Dr.
Bate
, whom to name is sufficient, by whose knowledge and experience this work was produced.
IV. Of the use of opium among the turks
Authors: Smith Edward
Published: December 2006

My Residence in
Turkey
having given me an opportunity of Informing my self, how far the
Turks
are gone into the use of
Opium
, and what are the common Effects of it; I humbly presume to offer an Account of my Observations to the Society.
VII. A letter from Mr. Ralph Thoresby, to Dr. Martin Lister, Coll. Med. Lond. & S. R. S. giving an account of a Roman pottery, near Leeds in Yorkshire
Authors: Thoresby Ralph
Published: December 2006

Sir, I Had once the Happiness in my Father's time to see you here, and take very kindly your honourable mention of him in your curious Letter Published in the Philosophical Collect, N° 4.
II. Davidis Gregorii M. D. Astronomiæ Professoris Saviliani & S. R. S. Catenaria. ad Reverendum virum D. Henricum Aldrich S. T. P. Decanum Ædis Christi Oxaniæ.
Authors: Gregory David
Published: December 2006

Cum Problema de figura Catenæ (id est lineæ flexilis, versus centrum longinquum gravis, & pondere suodum à duobus extremis immotis dependet incurvatæ) sit inter hujus ævi Philosophos imprimis nobile, ac à Celeberrimis Viris Hugenio, Leibnitio & Bernoullio, plurimæ figuræ istius proprietates fuerint detectæ, & in Actis Eruditorum Lipsia (at sine demonstratione) editæ:
VI. Part of a letter from Mr. Thorseby, dated Leeds, July 10. 1697. to Dr. Martin Lister, Fellow of the Colledge of Physicians and Royal Society; concerning two Roman altars lately found in the North of England: with notes on the same, by Tho Gale, D. D. and F. R. S.
Authors: Thoresby  , Gale Thomas
Published: December 2006

I have drawn the figures of two Roman altars, which my correspondent in the North transmitted to me for my thoughts of them; the former was taken out of the Roman-wall, not far from Collerton, or Chollarton, and may tempt us to believe that the old Procolitia,
VII. A letter of Dr. Wallis, dated Oxford, Sept 6. 1697. Containing some additions to his letter about thunder and lightning, and a correction of his 109th cap. of his Algebra
Authors: Wallis
Published: December 2006

I Find that in your Transactions
Numb
. 231. for the Month of
August
, You have Printed my Letter of July 26.
II. A letter of Mr. W. Derham, Rector of Upminster, dated Jan. 13. 1697/98. to Dr. Sloane, about a contrivance to measure the height of the mercury in the barometer, by a circle on one of the weather plates, with a register of weather, &c. for the year 1697.
Authors: Derham William
Published: December 2006

To my former Observations about the Barometer, give me leave to subjoin a Contrivance for measuring the Height of the Mercury, which hath lately occurred to my Thoughts, and which in some Cases is more commodious, than that way with a crooked Tube (I spake of) This way is by a Circle on one of the Weather-plates, of any convenient Diameter.
VII. Account of books. I. Numismata, a discourse of medals, ancient and modern; together with some account of heads and effigies of illustrious and famous persons, in sculps, &c. To which is added, a digression concerning physiognomy. By J. Evelin, Esq; S. R. S. Printed for Benj. Took, &c. 1697. in Fol., II. Caspari bartholini Thom. F. Speciman philosophiœ naturalis. Accedit de fontium, fluviorumque origine dissertatio physica amstelodam. 1697. 12
mo.
Authors: Evelyn John
Published: December 2006

VII. Account of books. - I. Numismata, a discourse of medals, ancient and modern; together with some account of heads and effigies of illustrious and famous persons, in sculps, &c. To which is added, a digression concerning physiognomy. By J. Evelin, Esq; S. R. S. Printed for Benj. Took, &c. 1697. in Fol., II. Caspari bartholini Thom. F. Speciman philosophiœ naturalis. Accedit de fontium, fluviorumque origine dissertatio physica amstelodam. 1697. 12
mo.
The Ingenious Author of this Treatise, who has so often obliged the World with many useful Pieces, cultivating and advancing as well Natural Philosophy as other Parts of Learning and Arts, has in this Discourse given a Learned Account of Ancient and Modern
Medals
, informing the Reader, in his Epistle, That having begun this Work about Five Years since, he desisted from prosecuting it, upon the Publishing of Mr.
Walker's
Treatise upon the same Subject;
II. Part of a letter from Mr. Anthony van Leeuwenhorek, F. R. S. concerning the Eyes of Beetles, &c
Authors: Leeuwenhoek Antoni Van
Published: December 2006

I Have formerly Spoke of the Multiplicity of Eyes, Wherewith the smaller sort of Insects are endued, as Files are: which Eyes, I have several times shewn to Persons of Quality
XII. Account of Books. - 1. Voyages and discoveries in South America: The first up the river of Amazons to Quito in Peru, and back again to Brazil, performed at the command of the king of Spain, by Christopher D'Acugna. The second, up the river of plate, and thence by land to the mines of Potosi, by M. Acarete. The third, from Cayenne in to Guiana, in search of the lake of parima, reputed the richest place in the world, by M. Grillet, and bechamel. Done into english from the originals, being the only a
Authors: D'Acugna Christopher , Acarete M. , Grillet M.
Published: December 2006

XII. Account of Books. - 1. Voyages and discoveries in South America: The first up the river of Amazons to Quito in Peru, and back again to Brazil, performed at the command of the king of Spain, by Christopher D'Acugna. The second, up the river of plate, and thence by land to the mines of Potosi, by M. Acarete. The third, from Cayenne in to Guiana, in search of the lake of parima, reputed the richest place in the world, by M. Grillet, and bechamel. Done into english from the originals, being the only accounts of those parts hitherto extant, with maps. London, printed for Sam. Buckly, at the dolphin in Fleet street., 2. Traite du cancer, ou l'on explique sa nature. & ou l'on propose les moyens les plus surs pour le guerir methodiquement. Avec un examen du systeme & de la pratique de Mr. Helvetius. par Mr. J. B. Alliot, conseiller du roy, medecin ordinaire de sa majeste, & de la bastille, Paris, 1698. in 8vo. Father D'Acugna, begins with a short Account of some remarkable Attempts that had been made unsuccesfully at several times by the
Spaniards
, to discover the River of
Amazons
; and then proceds to the perfect Discovery of it, by
Don Pedro de Texeira
, who in the Year 1637.
II. Some observations sent from the East-Indies; being in answer to some queries sent thither by Richard Waller, Esq; F. R. S
Authors: Waller Richard
Published: December 2006

It does not appear that the
Maldiva Islands
were ever join'd to the main Land, there being no Soundings, as they call it, between the Island and the Miin, and the Earth, Sand and Shells of the one much differing from the other:
VII. The way of making pitch, tarr, rosin and turpentine near Marseilles; communicated in a letter from Nismes, by Mr. Thomas Bent, to Dr. Welsted
Authors: Bent Thomas
Published: December 2006

Five Leagues from
Marseilles
are very high Mountains, which are (for the most part) covered with Forests of Pine Trees, which there grow wild, half a League out of the Road you see the making in Pitch, Tar, Rosin and Turpentine, which is thus;
viz
.
XIII. A letter of Dr. John Wallis, to Mr. Andrew Fletcher; concerning the strange effects reported of Musick in Former Times, beyond what is to be found in later ages
Authors: Wallis John
Published: December 2006

Sir, The Question you lately proposed to me (by a Friend of yours) concerning
Musick
; was not, Whence it comes to pass that
Musick
hath so great an Influence or Efficacy on our Affections, Passions, Motions, &c.
V. Part of two letters from Dr. Cay, to Dr. Martin Lister, Fellow of the Colledge of Physicians and Royal Society; concerning some mineral waters
Authors: Cay
Published: December 2006

I Had a Mineral, Water sent me, not long Since, by Mr.
Duncan
( a Surgeon in
Alnseick
, pretty well known for his Skill in his own Profession) which he desired me to examine, and give him an account of.
VII. A further account of the contents of the China cabinet mentioned last transaction, p. 390.
Authors: Sloane Hans
Published: December 2006

Fig. 5. represents what is commonly, but falsely, in India, called, The Tartarian Lamb. This was more than a Foot long, as big as ones Wrist, having several Protuberances, and towards the end some Foot-stalks about Three or Four Invhes long, exactly like the Foot-stalks of Ferns, both without and within.
VIII. An account of a book.- Museo de piante rare della Sicilia, Malta, Corsica, Italia, Piemonte e Germania, &c. di Don Paolo Boccone, &c. with additional remarks by Mr. John Ray, F. R. S
Authors: Ray John
Published: December 2006

The learned and ingenious Author of this Work, Signior
Paolo Boccone
, a Gentleman of
Sicily
, Botanist to the Great Duke of
Tuscany
, and now a Monk of the
Cistertian
Order, of the Province of
Sicily
, having changed his
Prænomen
into
Sylvius
, hath rendred himself well known to the learned World, by his Writings published many Years since,
viz
.
V. An account of the vertues of Faba Sti Ignatii, mentioned last transaction
Authors: Sti Ignatii Faba
Published: December 2006

Index virtutum quas experti sumus in fructu quodam amarissimio Philippinarum qui dicitur de caba longa.
I. An observation concerning a very odd kind of dropsy, or swellings in one of the ovaries of a woman, by Hans Sloane, M. D
Authors: Sloane Hans
Published: December 2006

Mrs. Browne, Aged about Twenty nine, of a Sanguine Complexion, had been Married about Four Years, in which time she had had one Child: her Belly swell'd, and she thought she was with Child; she had often great Hysterick Fits, something like those of an Epilepsy, lying in her Fit sometimes without sense or Motion, at other times with great Screaming and idle talk.
III. An account of Mr. Tho Savery's engine for raising water by the help of fire.
Authors: Savery Thomas
Published: December 2006

Mr. Savery, June 14. 1699. Entertain'd the Royal Society with shewing a small Model of his Engine for raising Water by the help of Fire, which he set to Work before them; the Experiment succeeded according to Expectation, and to their Satisfaction.
II. A letter of Dr. Wallis to Dr. Sloan, Secretary to the Royal Society, giving an account of some late passages between him and Myn Heer Leibnitz, of Hannover
Authors: Wallis John
Published: December 2006

Sir
, I Received lately a Letter from Myn Heer
Leibnitz
, of
March
30
th
. 1699.
An account of books, geography anatomiz'd, or the compleat geographical grammar. Being a short and exact analysis of the whole body of modern geography, after a new and curious method. The second edition, much impro'd and enlarged. The celestial world discover'd, or conjectures concerning the inhabitants, plants and productions of the worlds in the planets. Writ in Latin by Christianus Huygens, and inscribed to his brother Constantine Huygens, late secretary to His Majesty King William. Orang
Authors: Gordon Patrick
Published: December 2006

The Principal Design of this excellent Treatise, is (in the Words of its Ingenious Author)
To present the younger sort of our Nobility and Gentry with a compendious, Pleasant, and Methodical Tract of Modern Geography, that most useful Science which highly deserves their Regard in a peculiar manner
.
I. Part of a letter from Mr. James Cuningham to the publisher, from the Cape of Good Hope, Ap. 6.1700. giving anaccount of his observations on the thermometer and magnetick needle in his voyage thither
Authors: Cunningham James
Published: December 2006

I Have not time now to give you a particular account of the Thermometer, with the variation and inclination of the Needle, only in general, that the greatest height the Spirit did arise to in the Thermometer, wea two divisions below extream hot. when we were near the Æquinoctial;
II. Of an accident by thunder and lightning at Leedes
Authors: Thoresby Ralph
Published: December 2006

On
Saturday
evening the 27th of
April
, we had a pretty severe storm of Thunder and Lightning, one clap particularly was very loud, and seem'd to me to be very low and near us, and so it appeared to be by the effects, which, tho not satal, yet somewhat remarkable;
III. The dimension of the solids generated by the conversion of Hipppocrates's Lunula, and of its parts about several axes, with the surfaces generated by that conversion, by Ab. De Moivre, F. R. S
Authors: Moivre Abraham De
Published: December 2006

Let B C A (Fig. I.) be an Isoscelles Triangle right angled at C. with the Center C, and distance CB, describe the Quadrant B F A; on B A, as a Diameter, describe a Semicircle B K A; the Space comprehended between the Quadrantal are B F A, and the Semicircumference B K A, is call'd
Hippocrates's Lunula
.
VI. A letter of the Reverend Mr Abr. de la Pryme to the publisher, concerning Broughton in Lincolnshire, with his observations on the shell-fish observed in the quarries about that place
Authors: Pryme Abraham De La
Published: December 2006

I Heartily thank you for your kind acceptance of my last Letter, which you thought worthy to insert into the Transactions: In answer to your further enquiries be pleas'd to understand, as follows.
III. De iride, sive de arcu cælesti, dissertatio geometrica, quo methodo directâ iridis utriusq; diameter, data ratione refractionis, obtinertur: Cum solutione inversi problematis, sive inventione rationis istius ex data arcus diametro. Per Edm. Halley Reg. Soc. Soc
Authors: Halley Edmond
Published: December 2006

Physici omnes, quotquot Naturæ Historiam aggressisunt, Iridem Meteoron coloribus suis præprimis spectabile necessario descripsere, causasq; ejus deinde perpenderunt.
IV. Dissectio puerperæ, comunicata a Petro Silvestre, M. D. Soc. Reg. Socio
Authors: Silvestre Pierre
Published: December 2006

M. Duchesne quadraginta Circiter annos nata, plethorica, & quæ sæpius etiam gravida menstruum patiebatur fluxum, cæterum optimè valens & obesa, jamque Vigesimum prægnans, urgente legitimo partus tempore, Circa quartam pomeridianam die Novembris 12. Anno 1697.
II. Epistola D. Johannis Friend ad editorem missa, de spasmi rarioris historia
Authors: Friend D. Johannis
Published: December 2006

Eâ humanitate, Vir Clarissime, nuperum illud de Hydrocephalo à me diffecto Scriptum amplexus es, utvereri debeam ne id mihi jure succenseas, si Patrocinium Tuum, ad quod me ita ingenuè provocâsti, tanquam non invitatus desugerem.
II. The
Humane allantois
fully discovered and the reasons assigned why it has not hitherto been found out, even by those who believed its existence. With an answer to their objections, who deny it still.
Authors: Hale Richard
Published: December 2006

No point in anatomy has been, and still is, more controverted by the greatest masters of it, than the existence, shape, &c. of a humane allantois.
III. A letter of Dr Wallis to Captain Edmund Halley; concerning the captains map of magnetick variations; and some other things relating to the magnet
Authors: Wallis John
Published: December 2006

Sir, I Sent you a Letter about three weeks since, (which, I hope you received,) with my hearty Thanks for the Present you had then sent me; your Map of the
Magnetick Variations
.
VI. Observations on the class of sweet tastes, made by comparing the tastes of sweet plants with monsieur L'emery's chymical analysis of them, in his treatise of drugs,
Authors: Floyer John
Published: December 2006

I Observe that by our Taste we may discern all the Chymical Principles in Plants before their distiliation, and that for want of a due observation of their Tastes, Mr
L
'
Emery
has not fully described the chymical Principles which Plants do yield in Distillation.
III. The description and manner of using a late invented set of small pocket-microscopes, made by James Wilson; which with great ease are apply'd in viewing opake, transparent and liquid objects: as the farina of the flowers of plants, &c. The circulation of the blood in living creatures, &c. The animalcula in semine, &c.
Authors: Wilson James
Published: December 2006

The use of Microscopes is so well known, that it's as needless to attempt their Recommendation to the Inquisitive, as it would be tedious to numerate their particular advantages in Natural Inquiries.
IV. Part of a letter from the Reverend Mr Abraham de la Pryme, F. R. S. to the publisher, concering a Spout observed by him in Yorkshire
Authors: Pryme Abraham De La
Published: December 2006

Having observed in the Transactions for
January
last, Mr
Stewart's
Ingenious Account of some Spouts that he beheld in the
Mediterranean
Sea; it brought into my mind the memory of one that I saw, and was very near in this Country some years ago, which having then committed to paper, I shall now present you with the relation of.
V. An account of a book, entituled, consilium Ætiologicum de casu quodam epiletico: quo respondertur epistolæ doctiss. Viri Thomas Hobert M. D. Annexa disquisitione de perspirations insensibilis materia, & peragendæ ratione
Authors: Cole Gulielmo
Published: December 2006

The Author having received a very curious letter From Dr.
Hobart
of
Cambridge
, Containing a remarkable Case of a Person. Newly Become his Patient, afflicted for font Years with an
Epilepsy
, on Which he requests his Opinion, and his Thoughts concerning the method of cure, to be used in it; adding withal several short, but material, remarks concerning the
Inefficacy of Specificks
, the interpolate use of
Purgatives
according to Dr
Sydenham
, &c. Endeavours, in complyance with his desire, first, to give an account of the particular Seat of the
Matter of Epilepsies in the Brain
; then to consider the Method of
Cure
, and to answer several questions and doubts hinted in the Letter.
IV. Ejusdem viri clarissimi ad eundem epistola posthuma. De generatione animalium, & de palpitatione diaphragmatis
Authors: Leeuwenhoek Antoni Van
Published: December 2006

Inter alia ex tuis proximis literies, septimo Kalendas
Julii
datis, intellxi, Sententiam meam de generatione tibi videri firmissunam omnium, hactenus in lucem editarum;
IV. Nobilissimi viri Adami Leyel Reg. Colleg. metallici assessoris narratio accurata de cadavere humano in fodina cuprimontana ante duos annos reperto. Ex actis literariis sueciæ. Ann. 1722. Trimest. I.
Authors: Leyel Adam
Published: December 2006

Animalcula quævis, infecta, pisces, cochleas & con-chylia, fructus quoscunque, arbores, semina, & herbas in lapides abire, & faxeam mutari duritiem, experientia quotidiana, & innumeræ res, lapidea rigiditate asperæ, tam intra Svioniam, quam apud exteros passim obviæ testantur.
II. A letter to Dr. Jurin, F. R. S. giving an account of the condition of the town of Hastings, after it had been visited by the small pox
Authors: Frewen T.
Published: December 2006

Sir, The following is a true Account of the present Condition of the Town of
Hastings
; after its having been visited with the
Small Pox
; which continued there about a Year and half.
Positron Emission Tomography Study of the Alterations in Brain Distribution of [11C]Methamphetamine in Methamphetamine‐Sensitized Doga
Authors: NAKAMURA HITOSHI , HISHINUMA TAKANORI , TOMIOKA YOSHIHISA , IDO TATSUO , IWATA REN , FUNAKI YOSHIHITO , ITOH MASATOSHI , FUJIWARA TAKEHIKO , YANAI KAZUHIKO , SATO MITSUMOTO , NUMACHI YOHTARO , YOSHIDA SUMIKO , MIZUGAKI MICHINAO
Published: December 2006

We newly prepared a MAP‐sensitized dog by repeated MAP treatment and studied the brain distribution of [11C]MAP in the normal and the MAP‐sensitized dog using PET. The maximal level of accumulation of [11C]MAP in the sensitized dog brain was 1.4 times higher than that in the control. No difference was found in the metabolism of MAP between the two conditions. The significant increase of [11C]MAP in the MAP‐sensitized brain indicates that subchronic MAP administration causes some functional change in the uptake site of MAP. The pharmacokinetic change may, in part, account for behavioral sensitization.
Shape Theory for Arbitrary C*‐algebras
Authors: ČERIN ZVONKO
Published: December 2006

In this paper, we describe the *‐shape category Sh* with objects C*‐algebras and with morphisms *‐homotopy classes of fundamental *‐sequences. In other words, we shall define shape theory for arbitrary C*‐algebras. All previous descriptions of shape theories for C*‐algebras only work with separable C*‐algebras. Our method is formally similar to the original Borsuk's description of the shape category of compact metric spaces and uses the *ε‐homomorphisms which are the nonexpansive functions that satisfy conditions of the *‐homomorphism only approximately.
Weak P‐points and Cancellation in βS
Authors: FILALI MAHMOUD
Published: December 2006

Let S be a cancellative semigroup and let βS be the Stone‐Čech compactification of S. Then βS is a semigroup with an operation which extends that of S and which is continuous only in one variable. The points s of S are easily shown to be right (left) cancellative in βS, i.e., ys and zs (sy and sz) are different elements of βS whenever y and z are. It is known that such a property is not valid for all the elements of βS\S. However, we will see that the set of points in βS\S which are cancellative in βS is dense in βS\S. In particular, we will see that the (weak) p‐points of βS\S, which are contained in the closure of some countable subset of S, are (right) cancellative in βS.
On Upper Weightable Spaces
Authors: SCHELLEKENS M.
Published: December 2006

The weightable quasi‐pseudo‐metric spaces have been introduced by Matthews as part of the study of the denotational semantics of dataflow networks (e.g., [6] and [7]). The study of these spaces has been continued in the context of Nonsymmetric Topology by Künzi and Vajner [4], [5]. We introduce and motivate the class of upper weightable quasi‐pseudometric spaces. The relationship with the development of a topological foundation for the complexity analysis of programs [10] is discussed, which leads to the study of the weightable optimal (quasi‐pseudo‐metric) join semilattices.
Direct Topologies from Discrete Rings
Authors: SHELL NIEL
Published: December 2006

An exposition of a portion of Zobel's results on direct topologies is given. A construction by Zobel of direct topologies on the rational field is generalized to produce direct topologies on certain other discretely valued fields.
Covering Dimension from Large Sets
Authors: STONE A.H.
Published: December 2006

The notion of “covering dimension” involves coverings by “small enough” sets; how small is “enough” is investigated for the n‐cube and spherical n‐ball. The results are applied to give a partial answer to a question of J. Tišer about the existence of σ‐discrete open covers of metric spaces (X, ρ) in which the n‐th discrete system consists of sets of small diameters.
Maximally Almost Periodic Groups and a Theorem of Glicksberga
Authors: WU TA SUN , RIGGINS LEMUEL
Published: December 2006

It is well known that if G is a locally compact Abelian group (LCA group) with Bohr compactification (β(G), σ) then σ(G) is normal in β(G) and, by a beautiful theorem of Glicksberg, we have that A⊂σ(G) is compact if and only if σ–1(A) ⊂G is compact. The aim of this paper is to study maximally almost periodic (MAP) groups which have these properties and the results obtained are as follows. (1) If G is a σ‐compact locally compact MAP group with Bohr compactification (β(G), σ) and σ(G) is normal in β(G), then for each gεβ(G), the automorphism induced by σ and conjugation by g is actually a topological isomorphism. (2) A finite extension of a LCA group is a MAP group and it has the property that A⊂σ(G) is compact if and only if σ–1(A) ⊂G is compact, and (3) A discrete MAP group G with Bohr compactification (β(G), σ) satisfying both of the properties being considered must be Abelian by finite, i.e., a finite extension of an Abelian group.
ONITSHA WOMEN
Authors: HENDERSON HELEN KREIDER
Published: December 2006

The Onitsha Igbo (Ibo), whose traditional community is situated on the banks of the Niger River in Southeastern Nigeria, are a linguistic subgroup of the over twenty million Igbo‐speaking peoples. In 1962 (when I conducted my dissertation research), the city of Onitsha was estimated to have a population of 80,000 persons, of which possibly 10,000 were indigenes, i.e., members of localized patrilineages in the Onitsha Inland Town community. The majority of the rest were non‐Onitsha Igbo‐speaking peoples, primarily from the areas to the east and south. When I visited Onitsha in 1992, some residents estimated that the population of the entire city was close to one million, of which perhaps 25,000 (or more) were Onitsha indigenes. When I peak of Onitsha people in this paper, I am referring to persons who call themselves by that name (ndi‐onicha) and identify their home as the Onitsha Inland Town.

The city of Onitsha is famous for its large market and is a major center of commercial activities in Nigeria. There is some agricultural activity in household gardens (especially in the Inland Town), and in farm lands outside the main urban center. Much traditional farm land, however, has now been turned over to modern residences and enterprises.

The city of Onitsha is also known for having excellent secondary schools and a highly literate population. Many Onitsha people have been prominent in the government prior to and since Independence in 1960. Indeed, the first Governor General of Nigeria, Nnamdi Azikiwe, was an Onitsha man. Although a number of Onitsha indigenes work in other regions of Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and the United States, many continue to support their relatives in the Inland Town and participate in traditional activities.

At the end of the 19th century, the Onitsha king and chiefs had great political power: even in the early 1960s the Onitsha king was the president of the Onitsha City Council. At present, the Onitsha women are in a minority as market traders, and the traditional shrines of the Inland Town are jeopardized by city development which is largely under the control of non‐Onitsha Igbos.

The traditional ceremonial cycle is still observed by many Onitsha people who are also affiliated with Christian churches. A number of women in recent years have been asking the king to appoint an Omu (“queen”) to represent their interests—the position having remained vacant throughout this century.