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A description of Mr. John Coniers, apothecary and citizen, his hygroscope, in two several contrivances; together with some observations made thereon: communicated in a letter to the publisher, Octob. 23. 1676
Authors: Conyers John
Published: December 2006

Sir, I thought it neccessary to acquaint you, that in my diversions, among many (at least 40) several trials, made by me for the readiest and best discovery of the change or temperature of the air and weather, I have found out, that by applying a hand and a circular index or a quarter-circle to a pannel made of duly seasoned deal-wood, and that divided or slit in two parts playing loose in a groove, and only fastened to the frame at each end (as you may see by the figures, accompanying these lines,) you have one of the best, if not the very best contrivance for that purpose.
A letter written by D. Lucas Hodgson, physician at Newcastle, containing some observations made by him of a subterraneal fire in a coal mine near that city
Authors: Hodgson D. Lucas
Published: December 2006

I had long since returned my humble thanks to the Royal Society for their candid acceptance of my paper; and particularly to you for your most obliging letter, had I not thought a farther account of what I have observed in the fire, would be more acceptable to that illustrious body; particularly to the honourable Mr. Boyle, for whose ingenious queries I give him most hearty thanks, accounting my self happy, that by this occasion any thing of mine should come under the consideration of so worthy a person.
Dr. Wallis's letter to the publisher, concerning a new musical discovery; written from Oxford, March 14. 1676/7
Authors: Wallis
Published: December 2006

Sir, I Have thought sit to give you notice of a discovery that hath been made here, (about three years since, or more) which I suppose may not be unacceptable to those to those of the
Royal Society,
, who are Musical and Mathematical.
Some observations of a cameleon
Authors: Goddard Jonathan
Published: December 2006

This was a female, as appeared by Eggs found within.
A relation of a monstrous birth, made by Dr. S. Morris of Petworth in Sussex, from his own observation: and by him sent to Dr. Charles Goodall of London; both of the Colledge of Physicians, London
Authors: Morris S. , Goodall Charles
Published: December 2006

At
Petworth, Decemb
. 20. 1677. one
Joan Peto
, a Butchers Wife, after most acute pains was by her Midwife delivered of a monstrous Female Birth.
Societatis Regiæ Anglicæ illustrissimis, celeberrimis atque sapientissimis viris Ismael Bullialdus, S. P. D
Authors: Bullialdus Ismael
Published: December 2006

H
Δnc à me habitam occultationis
Saturni
à
Luna
intercepti observationem ad vos transmittere, à vobis olim in Societatem vestram transcriptus, decrevi
.
Microscopical observations of the structure of Teeth and other Bones: made and communicated, in a letter by Mr. Anthony Leeuwenhoeck
Authors: Leeuwenhoek Antoni Van
Published: December 2006

I Have some time since applyed a Glass, (esteemed by several Gentlemen, who had try'd it, a very good one) to observe the Structure of the Teeth, and other Bones.
Monsieur Gallet's observation of the solar eclips on the 11th of June, 1676. Observatio solaris eclipsis acta Avenione die 11, Junii 1676
Authors: Gallet
Published: December 2006

Diebus præcedentibus, locum aptissimum elegimus in quo aere puro frueremur, videlicet Conventum RR. PP.
Anatomical observations of an abscess in the liver; a great number of stones in the gall-bag and bilious vessels; an unusual conformation of the emulgents and pelvis; a strange conjunction of both kidneys; and great dilatation of the vena cava, communicated by Edw. Tyson A. M. and M. S. Oxon
Authors: Tyson Edward
Published: December 2006

The
Anatomie
of morbid Bodies, as Dr.
Harvey
hath observed, is most instructive; thereby we are acquainted not only with the many Causes that oppress Nature, but likewise with the Liberty She often takes in forming the parts different from her usual Rule; our present subject affords both.
Three papers of Dr. Martin Lyster, the first of the nature of Earth-quakes; more particularly of the origine of the matter of them, from the Pyrites alone
Authors: Lister Martin
Published: December 2006

I Have elsewhere
a
shewn that the breath of the Pyrites is Sulphur
extota
substantia
: Also, that it naturally takes fire of it self: Again, that the material cause of Thunder and Lightning, and of Earthquakes is one and the same;
viz.
.
A letter of Sir R. S. concerning the former relation. Lond. March 8th 1684
Authors: S R
Published: December 2006

Having already given you the Narrative of the Thunder Storm, I add to it this further account, that Mr. Edward Randolph (who has been four times imployed to New England in his Majesties Service; and coming from thence in May last 1683 told Mr. Flamftead in August how much that accident was there discoursed of.
An account of a spot seen in the Sun from the 25th. of April to the 8th. of May instant, with the line of its course predicted, if it make a second return
Authors: Astron I. F.
Published: December 2006

On the 25th. of
April
last past, as I was measuring the
distance
of the
Planet
from the
sun
, about an hour before Noon I discovered a large
spot
entred within his
diske
a little distant from his following
Limb
.
An account of a polypus found in the heart of a person that died epileptical, at Oxon
Authors: Gould William
Published: December 2006

Several authors that have been curious to cultivate the
anatomy of diseas'd bodies
do so frequently mention
preternatural concretions
in the heart and blood-vessels especially of persons dead in lingring and
chronical diseases
, that the present discourse may very well seem
superfluous
to
those
who are
better
instructed elsewhere.
I. Two remarkable cases relating to vision, communicated to the Publisher, by the learned and ingenious Wil. Briggs M. D. fellow of the College of Physicians, and Physician of St. Thomas's Hospital, Lond
Authors: Briggs William
Published: December 2006

I Received some time since an account of a remarkable Case in
Vision
, from Dr.
Peter Parham
a worthy Physician in
Norwich
; which because it so rarely occurs, and the like is mention'd but by few Authors, I imagin'd that the
following Transcript
of two Letters he was pleas'd to send me about it, might not be unwelcom to you, and therefore I took this opportunity of conveying it to your hands.
The description and use of the pores in the skin of the bands and feet, by the learned and ingenious Nehemiah Grew, M. D. Fellow of the College of physicians and of the Royal Society
Authors: Grew Nehemiah
Published: December 2006

By Pores, Physicians mean no more, than certain Permeable spaces between the parts of Body.
A discourse concerning digestion in a letter to the Publisher from Mr. Charles Leigh of Brasen-Nose Colledge Oxford
Authors: Leigh Charles
Published: December 2006

Sir, Should I reckon up here the many controverted
hypotheses
of
Anatomists
concerning this
Subject
, & set up a new one of my own; it might perhaps seem a piece of fond presumption: I shall not therefore be so vainly
opinionative
as to think that I have here fully explained the nature of
Chylification
, but shall onely give you an account of an
Artificiall
digester which I hope may something illustrate the
naturall
one.
A further account of the bridg at Pont St. Esprit, where of before, Numb. 160. together with a parallel history of some other bridges at Rome: In a letter form the ingenious Mr. Tankred Robinson to Dr. Martin Lister
Authors: Robinson Tancred
Published: December 2006

Since my last concerning the
Bridge
at
Pont
St.
Esprit
, I have found something more in that kind for your further diversion; I doe not doubt but you still retain a fresh
Idea
of the stately ruins of the
Modern Bridge
at
Avignon
, Which hath yielded in many places to the extreme rapidity, and violence of the
Rhosne
.
A discourse concerning the rising and falling of the quicksilver in the barometer; and what may be gathered from its great rise in frosty weather, as to a healthy or Sickly Season; presented the Royal Society Feb. 20. 1683. by the learned Dr. Martin Lister, Fellow of the R. S
Authors: Lister Martin
Published: December 2006

I Do not offer these things
Dogmatically
as though I had light upon certain
Truths
; but only as probable Conjectures, and such as may as well account for the
Phænomena
of the
Barometer
, as any I Know.
Directions for the use of the following Tide-Table, sent by J. F. M. R. & R. S. S. to the Publisher
Authors: R. J. F. M. , S. R. S.
Published: December 2006

Having found my two last- years Tide Tables very agreeable to Experience. I here present you with another for the year ensuing made by the same Theory and Numbers. I must only desire those that use it, to note.
Some observations on boyling fountains, and subterraneous steams
Authors: Robinson Tancred
Published: December 2006

Walking out one day from
Montpelier
in company of my ingenious, and worthy freinds Dr.
Sloan
, and Dr.
Wakely
, in order to visit the famous boyling fountain near
Peroul
A letter from Mr. Nich. Waite merchant of London, to Dr. Rob. Plot; concerning some incomebustible cloth, lately exposed to the fire before the Royal Society.
Authors: Nich Mr.
Published: December 2006

Sir, The great respect and honour I bear to the learned and ingenious Gentlemen of the Royal Society, prevailed with me, within few days after my arrival in this city, to explore to their fight & examination a piece of LinnenCloth, which by their experiment consumed not in the fire: and you being then desirous I would give a Short narrative of what Substance, and in what parts it is said to be made; I here fend you the fame account I received of it, from one Conco, a natural Chinese, resident in the City of Batavia in the North-East parts of India.
Short memoirs for the natural experimental history of mineral waters: by the Honourable Robert Boyle, Fellow of the Royal Society. London. 1685; Octavo
Authors: Boyle Robert
Published: December 2006

The Author divides this Tract into six Sections; the first where of is only introductory, wherein he telIs us that although the best warrant we can have for the use of any of these waters, is the long and sufficient Experience of their good and bad effects, yet since the advice of Physicians to their patients in this case is a thing of so great consequence, the circumstances so many and so necessary to he considered, and since the Cnriosity of men hath been little greater, then to inquire only what Colour the
Mineral water
will strike with Galls or Oaken leaves, and what Kind and Quantity of Salt will remain after evaporation ; upon these and such like considerations our
Honourable Author
hath thought fit to communicate these his
Memoirs
in order to a more full and Methodicall
History
of
Mineral waters
; to the drawing up of which, he thinks these 3 following Observations necessary.
Historiæ convulsionum periodicarum per clariss. D
num
Gui. Cole, Med. Doct. descriptæ, & communicatæ
Authors: Cole William
Published: December 2006

Febres intermittentes minorum gentium (Quotidianas scil. Tertianas & Quartanas) ubivis pullulascere nimis omnes conscii sumus; & quamvis earum causæ in puteo lateant, de typis tamen sat superque omnibus constat.
A discourse on the dissection of a monstrous double catt; read before the Dublin Society by Dr. Mullen
Authors: Mullen
Published: December 2006

Gentleman, I Had given you an account before this time of a
Monstrous Catling
that I lately Dissected, but that my busyness would not give me leave to put it in writing till now.
A letter of Dr Lister's to Mr Ray, concerning some particulars that might be added to the Ornithology
Authors: Lister Martin
Published: December 2006

Sir, In answer to your kind Letter, I send you, what l defined for you some years since,
viz
. an
Abstract
of my Notes about,
Birds
, which may be added to yours and Mr.
Willughby's History
of
Birds
, you think fit; such as they are take them.
Obervations of Dr. Papin, Fellow of the Royal Society, on a French paper concerning a perpetual motion
Authors: Papin Denis
Published: December 2006

The paper printed in
French
and containing a contrivance for a perpetual motion, being set down in such a manner, that can hardly be understood but by those that are much acquainted with such descriptions: I have endeavour'd to explain it as follow's.
An abstract of a letter from Mr. J. Flamsteed. Math. Reg. & F. of the R. S. giving the description & uses of an instrument for finding the distances of 4
s
satellits from his axis, with the help of the table of parallaxes and catalogue of ecliples; printed in the preceding transactions
Authors: Flamsteed John
Published: December 2006

The little Circle in the middle represents the
Planet Jupiter
, the four concentrick Circles the proper Orbits of his four
Satellits
, duly proportioned to the breadth of his body; the distances betwixt the
parallel
lines intersecting them, being each equall to one of his Semidiameters.
III. A letter from Sir Robert Redding, late Fellow of the R. S. concerning pearl-fishing in the North of Ireland; communicated to the publisher by Dr. Lister. R. S. S
Authors: Reading Robert
Published: December 2006

Dear Sir, Being in the North in
August
last, and calling to remembrance your Desires to have some of the Muscle-shells sent you wherein the Pearls were found, I stayed behind my Company one day like an old Hound from following the Stag, and bestowed it in Enquiries from others, and some small Trials in the Rivers;
VIII. An arithmetical paradox, concerning the chances of lotteries
Authors: Robartes Francis
Published: December 2006

As some Truths (like the
Axiomes
of
Geometry
and
Metaphysicks
) are self-evident at the first view, to there are others no less certain in their Foundation, that have a very different Aspect, and without a strict and careful Examination rather seem repugnant.
VI. Anatomical observations in the heads of fowl made at several times. By the late Allen Moulen, M. D. S. R. S. Read before the Royal Society, Feb. 1. 1687/8
Authors: Moulin Allen
Published: December 2006

In the Heads of all the Fowl that I had an opportunity to examine, I constantly found only one
Aquæductus
, or Passage from the Ears into the Pallat; whereas in Men, Quadrupedes, and some Amphibious Fish, there are always two, one on each side below the entrance of the Nostrils into the Pallat, and opening towards the Nostrils, for the more convenient reception of Air, as is supposed.
III. Edvardi lvidii apud oxonienses cimeliarchæ ashmoleani, ad Clariss. V. Christophorum Hemmer, Epistola; in qua agit de lapidibus aliquot perpetuâ figurâ donatis, quos nuperis annis in oxoniensi & vicinis agris, adinvenit
Authors: Hemmer V. D. Christophorum
Published: December 2006

Lubenter accepi (Vir ornatissime) quas ad nos per Clariss.
I. A query put by Dr. N. Grew, concerning the food of the Humming Bird ; occasioned by the description of it in the transactions. Numb. 200
Authors: Grew Nehemiah
Published: December 2006

Sir
, Since I shewed you the Description of the
Humming Bird
, with the Letter in which it came to me : I learn, that Mr.
Hamersly
of
coventry
is the Author of it. You see it believed he feeds on some Juice he sucks off, or out Flowers.
II. Some observations made by Mr. Paschall, on the motions of diseases, and on the Births and Deaths of men, and other animals in different times of the Nuxθńµεν
Authors: Paschall
Published: December 2006

Some Months since I sell into a Suspicion, that the causes of
Tides
at Sea do also continually exert their Power in other places, though the Effects thereof may not be sensibly perceived on the solid as the fluid parts of this
Terraqueous
Golbe.
III. Dr. Mullineux his account of a stone of an extraordinary bigness, spontaneously voided through the urethra by a woman in Dublin
Authors: Molyneux William
Published: December 2006

Women are made by Nature of a more nice Composition, and weaklier Frame than Men, and are therefore liable to many Infirmities that Men are not the least subject to.
VI. A paper of Mr. Flower, containing some unknown ancient characters, with remarks thereon by Francis Aston Esq; S. R. S
Authors: Flowers  , Aston Francis
Published: December 2006

These Characters being Two and Twenty in Number, are all that could be distinctly Collected out of the Ancient sculptures, to be found this day extant at the admired Hills of
Canary
;
VIII. Part of a letter from Mr. T. M. in Salop, to Mr. William Baxter, concerning the strange effects from the eating dog mercury with remarks thereon by Hans Sloan M. D. and S. R. S
Authors: Molyneux Thomas , Sloane Hans
Published: December 2006

W.
Matthews
, his Wife and Three Children, have been lately very ill, and like to dye; the occasion and manner of their Sickness was very odd, and therefore I shall give you a particular account of both.
II. An extract of a letter from Dr. William Oliver, communicated by Walter Moyle, Esq;
Authors: Oliver William
Published: December 2006

Sir
, When we Cruised in the Bay of
Biscay
,
June
the 8
th
, and had a hundred Fathom of Water, we took a Quart Glass Bottle stopt with a large Cork, and after tyed down with a Strong Packthread, as we use to for Bottle Syder, or Ale fastening our Bottle to our Plumbing rope and with as soon as we perceiv'd, we drew it up again, and Found the Cork quite prefs'd thro' the neck of the Bottle into its cavity and the Bottle full of Salt Sea Water.
V. Mr. Zachary Mayne's Letter, 1694. Con­cerning a spout of water that happened at Topsham on the river between the Sea and Exeter
Authors: Mayne Zachary
Published: December 2006

I Received yours, and should have given my self much sooner the Satisfaction of Answering it, had I not met with hindrances; l have taken pains to get the best Information that I could, and hope I have with some difficulty pickt out a little Truth out of a vast heap of Falshoods.
I. A relation of one Hannah Taylor, a very extraodinary child of about six years of age, who in face, & c. Was as large as a full grown woman; and of what appeared on the dissection of her body: By Dr. Hen. Sampson, Fellow of the Colledge of Physicians, London
Authors: Sampson Henry
Published: December 2006

Hannah Taylor
was born in
Crouched Fryars June
12 1682. She was till three Years old very sickly, lean, and not able to go alone; but about
Bartholomewtide
, 1685.
IV. The quadrature of a portion of the epicycloid
Authors: Caswell John
Published: December 2006

Suppose
D P V
to be half of an exterior Epicycloid,
V B
its Axis,
V
the Vertex,
V L B
half of the generant Circle,
E
its Center;
D B
the Base,
C
its Center:
III. An account of a strange kind of earth, taken up near Smyrna, of which is made soap, together with the way of making it, Communicated by Dr. Edward Smith, F. R. S
Authors: Smith Edward
Published: December 2006

There is a considerable natural Curiosity in the Neighbourhood of
Smyrna
, call'd by the
Franks Soap-Earth
, and has no other proper distinguishing Name among the
Turks or Greeks
.
V. A catalogue of plants growing within the fortisications of Tangier, wrote in the Year 1673. by Mr. Spottswood (a surgeon, who lived there, and gathered plants and seeds for Mr. Balaam and Dr. Morison) which by the author was given to Dr. Love Morley, who communuicated it
Authors: Spottswood
Published: December 2006

Absinthum vulgare latis. romanum. Angelica. Anethum. Atriplex latisol. vel pes Anserinus. Atriplex angustisol. Fætida. Althea.
III. Several microscopical observations and experiments, made by Mr. Stephen Gray
Authors: Gray Stephen
Published: December 2006

Having not long since attempted to make some of these Microscopes, which Mr.
Butterfield
describes and instructs to make,in the Philosophical Transactions, N° 141. P. 1026. of the manner then lately brought out of
Holland
by Mr.
Hugens
; but for want of such a Lamp, as the before named Person mentions, I proceeded after a some what different Method.
III. An account of a stone of the bladder, which weighted 51 ounces, or three pounds three ounces, and a stone out of the bladder successfully, which adhered to it
Authors: Preston Charles
Published: December 2006

In the Hospital at
Paris
called,
L' Hopital de La charité
, there is preserved, amongst the great number of Stones, Extracted from the Bladder, by the Operation of
Lithotomy
, one of a prodigious bigness, weighing about Fifty one Ounces, which makes Three Pounds and Three Ounces;
VIII. A letter from Sir Robert Sibbald to Dr. Martin Lister Coll. Med. Lond. & S. R. S. Containing an account of several shells observed by him in Scotland
Authors: Sibbald Robert
Published: December 2006

Sir, I Received yours, and the
Exercitationes Medicinales
, for which I give you many thanks.
III. An account of several observables in Lincolnshire, not taken notice of in Camden, or any other author, by Mr. Christopher Merret, Surveyor of the Port of Boston
Authors: Merrett Christopher
Published: December 2006

That part of the Country of
Lincoln
, that lyeth towards the Sea, is a Level about Fifty Miles long, viz. from
Grimsbye
to
Crowland
; and broad from the Sea to
Woulds
(or High-Lands) 10.
II. The true theory of the tides, extracted from that admired treatise of Mr. Isaac Newton, intituled, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica; being a discourse presented with that book to the late King James, by Mr. Edmund Halley
Authors: Newton Isaac , Halley Edmund
Published: December 2006

It may, perhaps, seem strange, that this Paper, being no other than a partite Account of a Book long since published, and whereof a fuller Extract was given in
Numb. 187.
of these Transactions, should again appear here; but the Desires of several honourable Persons, which could not be withstood, have obliged us to insert it here, for the sake of such, who being less knowing in Mathematical Matters; and therefore, not daring to adventure on the Author himself, are notwithstanding, very curious to be informed of the Causes of Things; particularly of so general and extraordinary
Phaenomena,
as are these of the Tides. Now this paper having been drawn up for the late King
James's use
(in whose Reign the Book was published) and having given good satisfaction to these that got copies of it; it is hoped that the Savans of the higher Form will indulge us this liberty we take to gratifie their Inferiours in point of Science; and not be offended, that we here insist more largely upon
Mr. Newton's Theory of the Tides,
which, how plain and easie soever we find, is very little understood by the common Reader.
I. Part of a letter from Dr. Richardson, containing a relation of subterraneous trees, dug up at youle in Yorkshire
Authors: Richardson Richard
Published: December 2006

I have had the opportunity since I was with you last, to see several Subterraneous Trees, dug up at a place called
Toule
, about Twelve Miles below
York
, upon the River Humber.
II. An extract of a letter from Dr. Wallis, of May 4. 1697, concerning the cycloeid known to cardinal cusanus, about the Year 1450; and to Carolus Bovillus about the Year 1500
Authors: Wallis John
Published: December 2006

Enarrat
Torricellius
, inter opera sua Mathematica Anno 1644 edita, Quod
Cycloidem
consideraverat
Galilæus
tum ante annos 45, (adeoq; Anno saltem 1599, aut adhuc prius:) Quodque adjacentis Figuræ Quadraturam aggressus fuerit (& quibus modis sit aggressus;) sed non est assecutus.
III. A method of raising an infinite multinomial to any given power, or extracting any given root of the same
Authors: Moivre Abraham De
Published: December 2006

Tis about two Years Since, that considering
Mr. Newton's
Theorem for Raising a Binomial to any given Power, or Extracting any Root of the Same; I enquired, whether What he had done for a Binomial, could not be done for an infinite Multinomial.
IV. A demonstration of an error committed by common surveyors in comparing of surveys taken at long Intervals of time arising from the variation of the Magnetick Needle
Authors: Molyneux William
Published: December 2006

The Variation of the Magnetick Needle if so commonly known, that I need not insist much on the Explication thereof, 'tis certain that the true Solar Meridian, and the Meridian_Shewn by a Needle, agree but in very few places of the World; and this too, but for a little time (if a Moment) together.
V. Extract of a letter from Mr. de Vallemont & c.concerning a small Egg being found within an ordinary one, taken from the Journal des Savans of the 7th of Jan. 1696
Authors: Vallemont De
Published: December 2006

In the
Journal des Scavans
of the 7th
Jan
. 1696. is an account of a small Egg of about 7 Lines from end to end, 4½ of bigness, which was included in a Hens Egg, which appeared to have nothing extraordinary on its outside, and which they were breaking to make an
Ommelette
of. The small Egg-shell was fastened to the shell of the greater by one of its Extremities.
VIII. Account of book. Philippi Cluverii introductio in universam geographiam, tam veteremquam novam tabulis geographicis XLVI. ac notis olim ornata à Joanne Bunone; jam vero locupletata additamentis & annotationibus Joh. Frid. Hekelij & Joh. Reiskij. in quarto. Amst. typis Joannis Wolters. Londini prostant apud Sam. Smith & Benj Walford, in Cœmeterio D. Pauli. 1697
Authors: Cluverii Philippi
Published: December 2006

P
hilippus Cluverius
, this Famous Geographer was born at
Dantzic
in the Year 1580. where his Father, being Master of the Mint, took great Care to educate him in the best manner; at Fifteen Years of Age he sent him into
Pologn
; afterwards to
Leyden
in order to study the Civil Law, for which he had no, Taste nor the least Inclination, all his Passion running wholly upon Geographical Studies, being a Matter in the Art of Designing and Surveying.
I. An account of the tongue of a pastinaca marina, frequent in the seas about Jamaica, and lately dug up in Mary-Land, and England
Authors: Sloane Hans
Published: December 2006

Dr.
Tancred Robinson
, Fellow of the College of Physitians and
Royal Society
, did me the favour some time since; to show me a considerable number of fossil Bones and shells of several sorts he had latley come to his hands from
Mary-Land
.
IV. De figurarum geometricè irrationalium quadraturis
Authors: Craig John
Published: December 2006

Sit ACF Semiciruculs, cujus Diameter est AF, ADEC Curva Geometricè irrrationalis, cujus Ordinatim applicata BD secat Semicirculum in C.
V. Part of a letter from Mr. Aubry, F. R. S. dated Feb 24. 1695/6. to Sir John Hoskyns, V. P. of the R. S. concerning a medicated spring in Glamorganshire
Authors: Aubrey John
Published: December 2006

In
Lancarim
(the next Parish) is a Medicated Spring, much frequented from several Counties, time out of Mind for the Kings Evil.
VI. Several observations in the North Islands of Scotland
Authors: Martin Martin
Published: December 2006

All tribes of fowls are observed to have their sentinels, especially in the night, the watchfulness of the scart is true to a proverb
III. Wilhelmi ernesti tentzelii historiographi ducalis saxonici epistola de sceleto elephantine tonnæ nuper essosso, ad virum toto orbe celeberrimum antonium magliabechium, serenissimi magni hetruriæ ducis bibliothecarium & consiliarium
Authors: Tentzelii Wilhelmi Ernesti
Published: December 2006

Tanta nominis TVI apud omnes eruditos pridem invaluit admiratio, Magliabechi Illvstrissime, ut quem isaaco casaubono defuncto cultum decernebat mortonus, in epitaphio exclamans
III. A true and exact relation of the dismal and surprising effects of a terrible and unusual clap of thunder with lighting, that fell upon the Trumbull-Galley, on Thursday the 26th Day of November, 1696. Communicated in a letter unto Mr. W. Griffith, M. A. by Mr. Robert Mawgridge, Kettle Drummer unto his Majesty, and then Chirurgeon of the Said Galley
Authors: Mawgridge Robert
Published: December 2006

I here give you a faithful Account of a sad and astonishing Accident, that happened unto our
Galley
by
Lightning
and
Thunder
.
I. Part of a letter of Mr. William Derham, Rector of Upminster, dated Dec. 6. 1697. Giving an account of some experiments about the heighth of the mercury in the barometer, at top and bottom of the monument: and about portable barometers
Authors: Derham William
Published: December 2006

Some time, since, I had occasion to satisfy my Curiosity, concerning the Variation of the Mercury on different heights; and accordingly in
Sept
. 1696.
III. Some additional remarks on the extracting the stone of the bladder out of those of the female sex
Authors: Molyneux Thomas
Published: December 2006

About Six Years since, a Paper of mine was read before our Philosophical Society here in
Dublin
, and after publish’d in the Philosophical Transactions,
Numb
. 202.
III. Part of a letter from Mr. George Dampler, dated, Exmouth, November 10. 1697. to Mr. William Dampier, his brother, concerning the cure of the bitings of mad creatures. With a remark on the same by Hans Sloane, M. D
Authors: Dampler George , Sloane Hans
Published: December 2006

Your Last I did not answer sooner, because I had no Opportunity of sending the Herb you sent for (if I may call it so);
I. Historia; & explicatio figurarum, embryon quatnor septimanarum, & placentam cotiledoniformen exhibentium, autore Philippo Jacobo Hartmanno, Phil. & Med. D. &c
Authors: Hartmann Philip Jacob
Published: December 2006

Matrona quadraginta circiter annorum,
tertium
hunc
abortum
faciebat, anno 1685.
Septemb
. 27. ante quatuor Septimanas ipsi menses adhuc fluxerant, tertio autem qui abortum præcessit die linteis lævigandis operam navans, & cylindris ducendis manum admovet, exin die dicto sanguis grumosus magnâ copiâ erumpere, quum aliàs Uteri hæmorrhagiæ esset obnoxia;
II. Of the use of the root Ipecacuanha, for loosenesses, translated from a French paper: With some notes on the same, by Hans Sloane, M. D
Authors: Sloane Hans
Published: December 2006

When the Remedies commonly used in the Practice of Physick, have not been able to cure Dysenteries, and obstinate Loosenesses, the most famous Physitians have in all times been obliged to leave them to Nature, which, in such Cases, seldom ends favourably for the Patient.
V. Part of a letter from Mr. Ray, F. R. S. to Dr. Sloane, giving an account of the poysonous qualities of Hemlock-water-dropwort
Authors: Ray John
Published: December 2006

I Shall now communicate to you, a Story or Two of the direful Effects of
Oenanthe aquatica
,
Cicutæ facie succo Viroso of Lobel
, which we may English Hemlock-Water-Dropwort, upon several Persons that eat of the Roots of it, sent me not long since in a Letter from Dr.
Francis Vaughan
, a Learned Physitian in
Ireland
, living at
Clonmell
, in the County of
Tipperary
.
I. Part of a letter from Mr. Benjamin Bullivant, at Boston, in New England; to Mr. James Petiver, Apothecary, and Fellow of the Royal Society, in London. concerning some na­tural observations he had made in those parts
Authors: Bullivant Benjamin
Published: December 2006

Sir, The last I addressed. to you, was by our ingenious Friend Mr.
Trott
, who went hence in
October
; I have since received from you Mr.
Josselin’s
Book of
New England Rarities
, and observe him to be short, but nervous.
IX. An extract of a letter from Dr. Robert St. Clair, to Dr. Rob. Hook, F. R. S. giving an account of a very odd eruption of fire out of a spot in the Earth near Fierenzola in Italy, with an easy contrivance of a lamp to be kept always full whilst it burns
Authors: St. Clair Robert
Published: December 2006

Sir, Having lately had an Observation communicated to me by my Brother, which he made when he travelled through
Italy
last, differing from any I have hitherto met with in Natural Histories, I presume you may think it not unfit to be communicated to the Publick, and so give it a Place in the next, Philosophical Transactions.
VII. Curvæ celerrimi descensus investigatio analytica excerpta ex literis R. Sault, Math. Dº
Authors: Sault R
Published: December 2006

Cum me novissimé Societate tua dignatus es, collocuti sumus de
Curva Celerrimi Descensus
, Mundo Mathematico, Domino Bernoulliano, proposita.
II. Some experiments and observations concerning sounds.
Authors: Walker
Published: December 2006

Intending to try the Swiftness of Sounds, I provided a Pendulum which had Two Vibrations in 1” of Time; this I carefully adjusted at a Watch-maker's; it was a Piece of small Virginal Wire with a Pistol Bullet at the end of it, the Length of it was 9 8/10 Inches to the middle of the Bullet:
I. A description and figure of the true amomum, or tugus
Authors: George Camelli
Published: December 2006

Racemoso tugus, feu birao, aliis caropi viso slorum fasciculo : degustato ejusdem uvæ acinis, feu oblongo femine & facta collatione cum botanicorum amoni descriptionibus tugus legitimum dioscoridis esse amomum decrevi.
IV. Part of a letter from William Derham, to Dr Slaone: accompanying his observations of the height of the mercury in the barometer, rains, winds, &c for the year 1698.
Authors: Derham William
Published: December 2006

If an explication be needful to these tables, i refer you to Philos.Trans. Numb. 237.
II. Of coal-borings, communicated by Dr. Martin Lister, Fell. Coll. Phys. & R. S. which role or record he had from Mr. Maleverer, of Arncliffe in Yorkshire
Authors: Maleverer
Published: December 2006

Thomas Waike
bored for Coal
at Mauston
near
Leeds,
in the Grounds bereafter named
, May
the
20
th
, 1639.
VII. An account of a stone found in the stomach of a lady on dissection, another in the left kidney, and some smaller ones in the gall-bladder.
Authors: Clerk William
Published: December 2006

In the year 1690. having the Curiosity to visit the Mineral Wells, called Moffet Wells, in the County of Annandale in Scotland, I had there an occasion of Dissecting a Lady who had been drinking of the Waters, by advice of her Physicians, for a Distemper in her Stomach, viz.
IV. An observation of some parelii seen at Canterbury
Authors: Gray Stephen
Published: December 2006

February
the 26th, 1699/8. being
Sunday
, about half an Hour after Three in the Afternoon, chancing to look out of a Window that faced South-East, I saw not far from the South to the Westward, an Appearance of somewhat not much unlike the Sun, when seen through Clouds,
viz
. with its
Periphery
not exactly defined, from which it likewise differed, in that one half of it was coloured deep Red and Yellow, the other White.
II. A short discourse concerning concoction: Read at a meeting of the Royal Society, May 1699, by Clopton Havers, M. D. Fellow of the Royal Society
Authors: Havers Clopton
Published: December 2006

The Manner in which the Digestion of the Aliment is performed, is a thing not very easie to be understood and explain’d.
IV. Illustrissimo celeberrimoque viro d. godesred gulielmo leibnitio, Hanoveræ
Authors: Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm Von
Published: December 2006

Illustrissime Vir
, Tu novis me continue cumulas benesiciis: Talia siquidem reputo tuas Literas.
V. A letter from Dr. Wallis to Dr. Sloan, Secretary to the Royal Society, concerning some supposed alteration of the Meridian Line; which may affect the declination of the magnetical needle, and the poles elevation
Authors: Wallis John
Published: December 2006

Sir
, I Received (two days since) a Letter (to me directed) from an unknown Person (without any name Subscribed, or mention of the Place from whence,) containing a Suggestion about some
Variation
of the
Meridian Line
, (which, is so, may consequently affect the variation of the
Magnetick Needle
, and the Elevation of the
Pole
,)
A letter communicated from Mr. Thoresby F. R. S. to John Evelyn Esquire, concerning the cures done by Mr. Greatrix the stroker
Authors: Greatrakes Valentine
Published: December 2006

As to Mr.
Greatrix
's Cures, because I was not willing to trust too much to my own Memory at that distance of Time (it being near 20 Years since I saw him stroke any) I have not writ of any, but such as I have still some Friends living who were Eye-witnesses as well as my self, with whom I have compared Notes Yesterday, and give you nothing but what they think exactly true.
II. Epistola D. Raymundi Vieussens, M. D. & S. R. S. ad Societatem Regiam Londinensem missa, de organo auditus
Authors: Vieussens Raymond
Published: December 2006

Viri Clarissimi, Cum nihil mihi jucundius atque gloriosius esse possit quarn vobiscum colloqui, ne miremini quæso quòd vos supplex rogare ausim.
V. Part of a letter from the Reverend Mr. Hugh Jones to the Reverend Dr. Benjamin Woodroofe, F. R. S. concerning several observables in Maryland
Authors: Jones Hugh
Published: December 2006

Honoured Sir
, As for this Country which you desire me to send you an account of, the following Particulars, I hope, will give you an Idea thereof, and of our way of Living.
II. Part of a letter from Mr. Antony Van Lewenhoek, F. R. S. dated at Delft in Holland, Sept. 25. 1699. concerning the circulation and stagnation of the blood in tadpoles.
Authors: Leeuwenhoek Antoni Van
Published: December 2006

In the beginning of May last I saw in a moat of a friends country-house, a great many little tadpoles, that change into frogs; and when some learned men of this country sent me word, that is it did consist with my conveniency, they had a mind to come and give me a visit.
III. A relation of the cutting an ivory bodkin out of the bladder of a young woman in Dublin, by Mr. Proby; communicated by Dr. Thomas Molyneux, F. R. S.
Authors: Proby Tho.
Published: December 2006

Dorcas Blake, a full bodied sanguine Maid, of about twenty years old, whilst in her Fathers house, in Fishamble-street, Dublin, was much troubled with an hoarseness last winter, for which she was desirous to take a Vomit; but her friends not consenting to it, the endeavour'd to provoke one, by thrusting her singer into her throat on the fifth of January, 1694. which not answering her desires, she drew an Ivory Bodkin of four inches long out of her hair, and thrust the small end forward into her Throat, upon which she heav'd so often as put her out of breath, and oblig'd her to stand upright to draw some air, which she did without taking the Bodkin out of her Throat, and at that instant it slipt out of her singers, and pass'd into her stomach.
VIII. The method, manner and order of the trasmutation 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, tho as they now lye, are barren and poor, might be rendred rich and useful were sufficent encourgaement given to the diging and raising thereof, and the poor thereabouts might be put in a good way of livelihood;
II. An essay concerning Giants. Occasioned by some further remarks on the large Humane Os Frontis, or Forehead-bone, mentioned in the Philosophical Transactions of February 1684/85, Number 168
Authors: Molyneux Thomas
Published: December 2006

Among all the various works of Nature, tho there are none but what are turly admirable, and well deserve our consideration, yet her vast and largest productions in each kind, as they seem master stokes of her art, and the extraordinary efforts of her power, demand in a more especial manner our regard, and usually excite in us curiosity of making more strict and particular observations on them whene're they come in our way:
V. An extract of a letter from Dr. James Burrough, to Mr. Houghton, F. R. S. concering a bulimia
Authors: Burrough James
Published: December 2006

About a month ago at
Stanton
(Seven miles off this place) a labouring man, of middle age, had for some time so inordinate an Appetite, that I had it attested to me from an Eye-witness, that he eat up an ordinary Leg of Veal roasted at a meal;
A letter from Dr Peter Silvestre, F. R. S. to the publisher, concerning the state of learning, and several particulars observed by him lately in Italy
Authors: Silvestre Pierre
Published: December 2006

Since you desire to be more particularly informed of the
Virtuosi
I have seen in
Italy
, and of the stated of Learning there, chiefly as to
Natural Philosophy
and
Physick,
I send you this, that you may take as a Supplement to my former Letter.
III. A letter from Mr Charles King to Mr Sam. Doudy, F. R. S. concerning crabs eyes
Authors: King Charles
Published: December 2006

Sir, I Cannot give you any satisfactory account of the Stones in the Heads of Craw- fish, for I never made any observations but casually, and without any design of a particular account of them, having not so much as made any note of the months that they first appear, and what time they grow to perfection.
An account of Mr Sam. Brown his second book of East India plants, with their names, vertues, description, &c
Authors: Petiver James
Published: December 2006

The following
Plants
were gathered the 27th and 28th of
April
1696. at
Pearmeedoor
, about 16 or 17 miles from
Fort St George
.
VIII. Part of a letter from Mr Stephen Gray to the Publisher, containing his observations on the fossils of reculver clisse, and a new way of drawing the meridian line, with a note on this letter by the publisher
Authors: Gray Stephen
Published: December 2006

Sir, I received the Transaction for the months of
September
and
October
, 1700. most gratefnlly.
III. Part of a letter of Mr Anthony Van Leuwenhoeck, F. R. S. concerning excrescencies growing on willow leaves, &c
Authors: Leeuwenhoek Antoni Van
Published: December 2006

I Took the Leaves of Willow Trees, such as were much larger and greener than the rest, and open'd the Knotty part which are found in some of them, wherein I frequently discover'd more than one sort of Worms;
IV. Some observations concerning insects made by Mr John Banister in Virginia, A. D. 1680. with remarks on them by Mr James Petiver, apothecary and Fellow of the Royal Society
Authors: Banister John , Petiver James
Published: December 2006

V
espæ Ichneumones
. Here are divers kinds, long and slender wasted all, these make their Nests of Dirt, and are therefore called
Dirt Wasps
.
I. A letter from Dr Davies to Sir Charles Holt, containing a relation of a person who voided many hydatides in her urine
Authors: Davies Dr
Published: December 2006

A Gentlewoman between 40 and 50 years of age, in the Autumn 97, drank some Aluminous Waters for a month or five weeks, and in a months time alter the use of these Waters, found a pain in the Renal region, where she never had been afflicted with any before; this pain returned after the first Paroxysm in about a months time, and afterwards more frequently, till about the
Christmas
following it visited her every day; about which time she sent for me; and had when I came to her the Symptoms of a Stone in her Left Kidney,
viz
.
II. A description of some shells found on the Molucca Islands; as also an account of Mr Sam. Brown, his fourth book of East India plants, with their names, vertues, & c.
Authors: Brown Sam. , Petiver James
Published: December 2006

The following Shells were brought me from the Molucca Islands, by my Ingenious Friends Mr Sylvanus Landon and Mr Rowleston Jacobs.
IV. Part of a letter from Sir Charles Holt, to the publisher, concerning a child who had its intestines, mesentery, &c. in the cavity of the thorax, and a further account of the person mentioned to have swallowed stones, in no 253. of these transactions.
Authors: Holt Charles
Published: December 2006

Sometimes since I was desired by a Friend of mine to be present at the opening of a Child of his, of about 2 months old, which dyed (as he told me) after an unusual, and extraordinary manner.
I. A letter from Mr Wilson to the publisher, giving an account of the lapis amianthus, asbestos, or linum incombustible, lately found in Scotland
Authors: Wilson
Published: December 2006

Sir, Being sensible of the share you have in advancing the Study into Rarities of Nature, I presume to give you the following relation of what I observed in the
Lapis Amianthus
and Incombustible Lint, which I found out in
Scotland
:
III. A second letter of Dr Wallis to the Publisher, relating to Mr Somner's treatise of Chartham News: And, some magnetick affairs
Authors: Wallis John
Published: December 2006

Sir, Since my Letter of
Septemb
. 20. 1701, (which, with the Post-script, you have thougnt fit to publish in your Transactions, for
October
1701. ) relating to the Discourse called
Chartham-Nems
, in your Transactions for
July
1701, (mis-numbred 271, instead of 272,) written by the inquisitive and learned Antiquary Mr
William Somner
, ( to whom, I since find, we are beholden for divers other Pieces, beside those I rneotioned in that Letter :)
lV. Methodus quadrandi genera quædam curvarum, aut ad curvas simpliciores reducendi. per. A. De Moivre R. S. S.
Authors: Moivre Abraham De
Published: December 2006

Sit A Area Curvæ cujus Abscissa x, & ordinatim Applicata xm √ dx.xx. Sit B Area Curvæ cujus Abscissa eademcum priori, sed ordinatim Applicata xm - n √ dx.xx; ponatur √ dx.xx = y.
V. An account of the appearance of several unusual parhelia, or mock-suns, together with several circular arches lately seen in the air by E. Halley.
Authors: Halley Edmond
Published: December 2006

On the Eighth of April, this present Year, 1702, walking in London Streets about ten in the Morning, the Air being clear, I observed the Sun to shine saintly, or as we call it, waterish;
III. Another letter from the same Mr Leewuenhoek; concerning his observations on rain water
Authors: Leeuwenhoek Antoni Van
Published: December 2006

On the 19th of
Septemb
. 1701. it rain'd a little while about noon, whreupon I intercepted some of the Water in a sine
China
Bason, made as clean as was possible.
I. Observations on the planting and culture of tobacco in Zeylan
Authors: Strachan
Published: December 2006

There are two sorts of Tobacco, which both they call
Dunkol
, the signification is a Smoaking Leaf, for
Dun
is Smoak,
kol
a Leaf, the one they call
Hingele
Dunkol
or
Singele
Dunkol
, for they make no distinction of
H
and
S
; the other is called
Dunkol
Kapada
, which word
Kapada
signifies gelding, and is derived from the
Portuguese
; which Tobacco is very intoxicating, and much stronger than the former, it is the same Plant, the difference is only that
Singelese
Tobacco has little attendance, upon the other a great deal of pains is taken until, it be fit for use, and it is done after the following manner.
I. Part of a letter from Dr Charles Leigh of Lancashire to the publisher, giving an account of strange epileptick fits
Authors: Leigh Charles
Published: December 2006

We have this Year had an epidemical Fever, attended with very surprizing Symptoms, in the beginning the Patient was frequently attacked with the
Colica
Ventriculi
; Convulsions in various parts sometimes violent Vomitings and a Dysentery; the Jaundice, and in many of them a suppression of Urine; and what Urine was made, was highly faturated with Choler.
VI. A letter from Mr Thoresby, F. R. S. to the publisher, concerning the vestigia of a Roman town lately discovered near Leedes in Yorkshire
Authors: Thoresby Ralph
Published: December 2006

Sir, In obedience to your Commands, to acquaint the Society with any thing remarkable that occurs in these parts, this brings you notice of the discovery of the
Vestigia
of a
Roman
Town upon the
Moor
near
Adel
Mill, 4 miles from
Leedes
.
V. An account of a book. - Hippocratis aphorismi, cum commentariolo. Auctore Martino Lister, e medicis serenissimæ majestatis reginæ Annæ. Londini typis W. B. Impensis A. & J. Churchil, ad insigne nigri cygni, in vieo vulgo dicto Paternoster-row. 1703
Authors: Churchil A. J.
Published: December 2006

Hujus Commentarioli rationem reddere idem esset, ac si quis singula in singulos Aphorismos ab Authore dicta, transcriberet.
III. Some observations on the spots of the sun, by the Reverend Mr. William Derham. F. R. S.
Authors: Derham William
Published: December 2006

The two circles represent the suns Disk, and N the northern part thercof, s. the Southern, E. the Eastern, and W. the Western part.