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The only official reprint authorized by The Royal Society of London PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. Giving some ACCOUNT OF THE Present Undertakings, Studies and Labours OF THE INGENIOUS, IN MANY Considerable Parts of the World. VOL. XXIV. For the Years 1704 and 1705. LONDON: Printed for S. Smith and B. Walford, Printers to the Royal Society, at the Prince's Arms in St Paul's Church-yard. MDCCCVI. TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS, THE PRINCE, This Twenty Fourth Volume of Philosophical Transactions is Most Humbly Dedicated, BY His Most Dutiful AND Most Obedient Servant, HANS SLOANE, Soc. Reg. Secret. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. For the Months of January and February, 1704. The CONTENTS. I. Part of a Letter from Mr Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, F. R. S. concerning Worms he observed in Sheep's Livers and Pasture Grounds. II. Solutio Problematis. A Clariss. viro D. Jo. Bernoulli in Diario Gallico Febr. 1403. Propositi. Quam D. G. Cheynæo communicavit Jo. Craig. III. Part of a Letter from John Fuller of Sussex, Esq; concerning a strange effect of the late great Storm in that County. IV. A Letter from the Reverend Mr William Derham, F. R. S. Containing his Observations concerning the late Storm. V. Part of a Letter from Mr Anth. van Leeuwenhoek, F. R. S. giving his Observations on the late Storm. VI. Part of two Letters from Mr Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, F. R. S. concerning the Figures of Sand. VII. Part of two Letters from Mr Thoresby, F. R. S. to the Publisher, concerning an Earthquake, which happened in some places of the North of England, the 28th of December, 1703. VIII. An Account of a Book, viz. Euclidis quæ superflunt omnia Gr. & Lat. ex recensione Davidis Gregorii, M. D. Astronomiae Professoris Savilianus & R. S. S. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. For the Months of March and April, 1704. The CONTENTS. I. A Letter of Dr William Oliver, F. R. S. concerning a Calenture. II. Carigueya, Seu Marsupiale Americanum Masculum: Or, The Anatomy of a Male Opossum: In a Letter to Dr Edward Tyson, from Mr William Cowper, Chirurgeon, and Fellow of the Royal Society, London. To which are premised some further Observations on the Opossum; and a New Division of Terrestrial Brute Animals, particularly of those that have their Feet formed like Hands. Where an account is given of some Animals not yet described. By Edward Tyson, M. D. Fellow of the College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society. III. A Letter to Dr Edward Tyson, giving an Account of the Anatomy of those parts of the Male Opossum that differ from the Female. By William Cowper. F. R. S. IV. Tractatus de Ambaro, a Reverendo, D. D. G. J. Camello, communicatus D. Jacobo Petiverio Societatis Regiae Socio. V. A Letter from Dr William Oliver, Physician and Fellow of the Royal Society, to Mr Jailes Petiver, F. R. S. concerning the Jesuits Bark. VI. Part of a Letter from Mr Caswell of Oxford, F. R. S. to the Reverend Mr Flamsteed, M. R. S. giving an account of a new Baroscope invented by him, and communicated by Mr Hodgson, F. R. S. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. For the Months of May and June, 1704. The CONTENTS. I. Part of two Letters from Mr Edward Lhwyd, Keeper of the Ashmolean Repository in Oxford, to Mr Samuel Dale of Braintree in Essex, concerning Fossils. II. A Letter from Mr Samuel Dale to Mr Edward Lhwyd, Keeper of the Ashmolean Repository in Oxford, concerning Harwich Cliff, and the Fossil Shells there. III. An Instrument, for seeing the Sun, Moon or Stars, pass the Meridian of any Place. Useful for setting Watches in all parts of the World with the greatest exactness, to correct Sun-Dials; to assist in the discovery of the Longitudes of Places, &c. By the Reverend Mr William Derham, F. R. S. IV. A Supplement to the account of the Pediculus Pulsatorius, or Death-Watch, in Philos. Trans. No 271. Serving to the more perfect Natural History of that Insect. By the Reverend Mr William Derham, F. R. S. V. An Extract of a Letter from Mr Ralph Thoresby, F. R. S. to Dr Nehemiah Grew, Fellow of the College of Physicians and R. S. concerning a Ball voided by Stool. VI. Defectus Lunae Observatio, die Solis 12° Decembris, habita prope Mercatorium Regium Londini, a J. Hodgson, R. S. S. tempore mutatino, A. 1703. VII. An account of Books. 1. Epistola D. Guilhelmi Musgrave, S. R. S. ad Editorem missa, in qua ratio reddiatur libri nuper editi, cui titulus, De Arthritide Symptomica Dissertatio. Authore Guilhelmo Musgrave, M. D. Incliti Medicorum Londinensium Collegii, & Regiae Societatis Socio, in 8vo. 2. Specimen Lithographiae Helveticae curiosae, quo Lapides ex Figuratis Helvetici selectissimi Æri incisi sistuntur & describuntur, a Joanne Jacobo Scheuchzerio, M. D. Tiguri, 1732, 8vo. 3. De Locis solidis secunda Divinatio Geometrica, in quinque Libros injuria Temporum amissos, Aristai Senioris Geometrae. Authore Vincentio Viviani, Magni Duci Etruriae Mathematico Primario, & Regalis Societatis Londini Sociati. Opus Conicum in Lucem proutum, Ann. 1701. Folio. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. For the Months of July and August, 1704. The CONTENTS. I. A Letter from Mr Antony van Leeuwenhoek, F. R. S. concerning Cochineel. II. An Experiment, to show the cause of the descent of the Mercury in the Barometer in a Storm. By Mr Francis Hauksbee. II. An Account of some Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, observed by Mr Tho. Brattle, at Cambridge, about four miles from Boston in New-England, whence the Difference of Longitude between Cambridge and London is determin'd, from an Observation made of one of them at London. By J. Hodgson. IV. Observations of the Weather, made in a Voyage to China. Ann. Dom. 1700. by Mr James Cunningham, F. R. S. V. A Register of the Winds and Weather, with the Observations of the Mercurial Barometer, at Chusan, an Island in 30°. 25'. N. Latitude upon the Coast of China. By Mr James Cunningham. F. R. S. VI. An Account of a Book. Lexicon Technicum: Or, an Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, explaining not only the Terms of Art, but the Arts themselves. In Folio. By J. Harris, M. A. and F. R. S. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. For the Months of September and October, 1704. The CONTENTS. I. De Orbita Cassiniana. By Dr Gregory. II. Father Camel de Plantis Philippensibus Scandentibus, sent very lately to Mr James Petiver, F. R. S. to which is added, a Catalogue of such Herbs he formerly sent him, the Designs of which are already Described by that most accurate Botanist Mr John Ray, in the Appendix to his 3d Volume of Plants. III. A Letter from Mr Antony van Leeuwenhoek, F. R. S. concerning the flesh of Whales, Crystaline humour of the Eye of Whales, Fish, and other Creatures, and of the use of the Eye-lids. IV. A Letter from Mr Antony van Leeuwenhoek, concerning the Tubes or Canals that convey the yellow Sap in the Herb called Chelidonium majus, or Celandine, &c. V. A Letter from Mr Antony van Leeuwenhoek, F. R. S. to John Chamberlain, Esq; F. R. S. concerning Tobacco ashes. VI Cuculus Lavis caeruleo flavescens, cui in supremo Capite Bronchiarum Opercula. Or, The Yellow Gurnard. By Edward Tyton, M. D. Fellow of the Coll. of Physicians and R. S. VII. Problema Medicinae Cultoribus Solvendum proponit Gulielmus Cockburn, M. D. R. S. S. VIII Part of a Letter from Dr David Krieg, concerning Cobalt, and the Preparations of Smalt and Arsenic. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. For the Months of November and December, 1704. The CONTENTS. I. Observations made by Captain Stannyan of the Spots that appear'd upon the Body of the Sun, in the Months of May, June and July, in the year 1704. Communicated by Mr Hodgson, F. R. S. II. Georg. Joseph. Camel. De Plantis Philippensibus Scandentibus; Pars 2da. Ad Jacobum Petiver, S. R. S. nuper transmissa. III. A Letter from Mr Antony Van Leeuwenhoek, F. R. S. Concerning some Fossils of Switzerland, &c. IV. Experiments about the Motion of Pendulums in Vacuo. By the Reverend Mr W. Derham, F. R. S. V. An Account of a Book. Apicij Coelij de Opsonijs & Condimentis sive Arte Coquinariâ Libri Decem. Cum Annotationibus Martini Lister è Medicis Domesticis Serenissimae Majestatis Reginae Annae, & Variis Lectionibus integris Humelbergij, Barthij, & Variorum. P p p p p p p p p p I. Ob- PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. For the Month of January, 1705. The CONTENTS. I. A Letter from Mr Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, F. R. S. concerning Animalcula on the Roots of Duck-Weed, &c. II. Observations on staining the Fingers with a Solution of Silver in Aqua Fortis, &c. In a Letter from Mr Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, F. R. S. III. A Letter from Dr W. Mufgrave, F. R. S. to Dr Hans Sloane, S. R. S. concerning Hydatides voided by Stool. IV. A Letter from Mr John Thorpe, M. A. of University College in Oxford, to Dr Hans Sloane, S. R. S. concerning Worms in the Heads of Sheep, &c. V. An Account of very large Stones voided per Urethram. In a Letter from Mr Edw. Lhwyd, Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, to Dr Hans Sloane, S. R. S. VI. An Experiment made at a Meeting of the R. Society, Decemb. 20. 1704. Of firing Gun-powder on a red hot Iron in Vacuo Boyliano. By Mr Francis Hauksbee. VII. An Account of an Experiment made Decemb. the 26th, 1704. To try the Quality of Air, produced from Gun-powder, fr'd in Vacuo Boyliano. By Mr Fr. Hauksbee. VIII. Georg. Joseph. Camel. De Plantis Phillippensibus Scandentibus; Pars Tertia. Ad Jacobum Petiver, S. R. S. nuper transmissa. IX. Theorema Spherico-Catoptricum Universale. Per D. Humfredum Ditton. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. For the Month of February, 1705. The CONTENTS. I. R. P. Geo. Jos. Cameli, De Plantis Philippensibus Scandentibus, Pars Quarta. Ad D. Jacobum Petiver, S. R. S. nuper transmissa. II. A Letter from Mr Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek, F. R. S. concerning the Barks of Trees. III. Part of a Letter from Mr Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek, F. R. S. to John Chamberlayne, Esq; F. R. S. concerning the Vitrified Salts of Calcined Hay. IV. An Account of Insects in the Barks of decaying Elms and Ashes. In a Letter from Sir Matthew Dudley, Knight, F. R. S. V. Part of a Letter from Mr Ralph Thoresby, F. R. S. to Dr Hans Sloane, S. R. S. concerning a Leaden Coffin, &c. taken out of a Roman Burying-place near York. VI. Experiments on the Production and Propagation of Light from the Phosphorus in Vacuo, made before the Royal Society, by Mr. Fra. Hauksbee. Cc ccccccccccc I. R. P. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. For the Month of March, 1705. The CONTENTS. I. Observations on the Seed-Vessels and Seeds of Polypodium. In a Letter from Mr Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek, F.R.S. II. Part of a Letter from Mr Ralph Thoresby, F.R.S. concerning Pewter Money, Coyn'd in Ireland, by the late King James. III. A Prospect of the Weather, Winds, and Height of the Mercury in the Barometer, on the first day of the Month; and of the whole Rain of every Month in the Year 1703, and the beginning of 1704. Observed at Towneley in Lancashire, by R. Towneley, Esq., and at Upminster in Essex. By the Reverend Mr W. Derham, F.R.S. IV. Astronomiae Cometicæ Synopsis, Autore Edmundo Halleio apud Oxonienses Geometricæ Professore Saviliano, & Reg. Soc.: S. V. Part of a Letter from the Reverend Dr Rich. Wroe, Warden of Manchester College, to Dr Hans Sloane, S.R.S. concerning Horn-like Excrescences growing on the Fingers, &c. VI. An Extract of a Letter from Mr Ralph Thoresby, F.R.S. to Dr Hans Sloane, S.R.S. concerning some Swedish Coins; and a Calculation for the finding of Easter. VII. An Account of an Experiment made at a Meeting of the Royal Society at Gresham College, upon the propagation of Sound in Condensed Air, together with a Repetition of the same in the open Field. By Mr F. Hauksbee. VIII. An Experiment made at a Meeting of the Royal Society, touching the Diminution of Sound in Air rarify'd. By Mr Fr. Hauksbee. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. For the Month of April, 1705. The CONTENTS. I. A Letter from Mr Anthony van Leeuwenhoek. F. R. S. concerning the Figures of the Salts of Crystal. II. A Register of the Weather for the year 1692, kept at Oats in Essex. By Mr John Locke. III. Memorabilia nonnulla Lacûs Vetteri, Auctore Urbano Hearne, M. D. Serenissimæ Reg. Majest. Suecica Archiatro, & Conciliario Collegij Metallici ord. nec non Societat. Regiæ Londinensis Socio. IV. Experiments on the Resilition of Bodies in Common Air, in Vacuo, and in Air Condens'd, made at meeting of the Royal Society at Gresham College. By Mr Fr. Hauksbee. V. An Experiment on the descent of Malt dust in the Evacuated Receiver, made at Gresham College. By Mr Fr. Hauksbee. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. For the Month of May, 1705. The CONTENTS. I. An Account of Animals and Shells sent from Carolina to Mr James Petiver, F. R. S. II. The Doctrine of Combinations and Alternations, Improv'd and Compleated, by Major Edward Thornycroft. III. Of Ossifications or Petrifications in the Coats of Arteries, particularly in the Valves of the Great Artery, by William Cowper, Surgeon, and F. R. S. IV. An Account of a Dropsical Body dissected by Mr John Lafage. An Account of a Book, By James Douglas, M. D. V. De Aure Humana Tractatus; In quo integra Auris Fabrica, multis novis Inventis, & Iconis mis illustrata, describitur; omniumque ejus Partium Usus indagantur. Quibus interposita est Musculorum Uvulae, atque Pharyngis nova Descriprio, & Delineatio. Auctore Antonio Maria Valsalva Imolensi, Philosophiae & Medicinae Doctore, in Bononiensi Universitate ad Incisionem & Ostensionem Anatomicae Professore Conducto, necnon Nosocomii Incurabilium Chirurgo. Bononiæ MDCCIV. In Quarto. X x x x x x x x x x I. An PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. For the Month of June, 1705. The CONTENTS. I. Part of a Letter from Mr D. Papin, to Dr Frederick Slare, Fellow of the College of Physicians and of the Royal Society, concerning an Improvement of the Hessian Bellows, &c. II. Part of a Letter written to a Most Reverend Prelate, in answer to one written by his Grace, judging the Age of MSS, the Style of Learned Authors, Painters, Musicians, &c. By Mr Humfrey Wanley. III. An Account of a Person deceased of a Scirrhous Tumor in his Breast. By Mr Tho. Greenhill, Surgeon. IV. An Abstract of a Book, Entituled, Olaui Rudbeckij Atlanticae, sive Manhemij pars secunda. In qua Solis, Lunae & Terrae Cultus descriptur, omnisque adeo superstitionis hujusc Origo parti Sueoniae Septentrionali, Terrae puta Cimmeriorum vindicatur, ex qua deinceps in orbem reliquum divulgata est, &c. Accedunt demonstrationes certissimae, quae Septentrionales nostros, in maxime genuinum Solis ac Lunae motum, indeq, pendeitem accuratissimam temporum rationem, multo prius felicius quam gentem aliam ullam penetrasse declarant. Upsalæ. In Folio. Eeeeeeeeeee I. Part PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. For the Month of July, 1705. The CONTENTS. I. Catalogus Concharum fossilium, Metallorum, Mineralium, &c. quæ a Cl. D. Johanne Jacobo Scheuchzero, M.D. Tiguri, & Societat. Reg. Angl. Soc. nuper accepit D. Jacobus Petiver, S. R. S. II. Epistola D. Joannis Philippi Breynii, M.D. & Societat. Reg. Soc. De Plantis & Insectis quibusdam rarioribus in Hispania observatis. III. Part of a Letter from Mr N. Regnart, concerning a Pin found in the Gizard of a Fowl. IV. Olavi Rudbeckij Atlanticæ, seu Manheimij Pars Tertia. In qua vetustissima majorum nostrorum Atlantidum lapidibus, fago, ari, sive cortici Runas suas incidendi ratio, una cum tempore, quo illa primo cæperit, exponitur. Necnon Aurei numeri singulis annis tributi, & Signorum Coelestium, quæ abhinc ad Graecos & Latinos sunt translata, vera origo & significatio traditur. Et illæ a diluvio Noachi prime ætates, atque in illis prima Atlantidum nostrorum forma describuntur: quæ migrationes & bella sub Boroco, seu Saturno, ejusq; filio Thoro seu Jove gesta sunt, recensentur: & denique Scytharum, PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. For the Month of August, 1705. The CONTENTS. I. Mineralia quaedam, Conchylia petrefacta, & alia Fossilia Berolina à Clariss. Christian. Maximiliano Spener, D.D. Med. Reg. Pruss. Aul. Acad. S. R. S. Cur. & Soc. Scient. Reg. Brandenburg. Colleg. ad Amicum suum curiosissimum D. Jacob. Petiver, Pharmacop. Londin. & Societ. Reg. Soc. missa. II. De Piscibus Moluscis & Crustaceis Philippensisibus, &c. MSS. R. P. Geo. Jos. Camelli ad D Jacobum Petiver, S. R. S. transmissis. III. Epistola Viri Reverendi D. Georgii Hickes, S. T. P. ad D. Hans Sloane, M. D. & S. R. Secr. De varia lectione inscriptionis, qua in statua TAGIS exaratur, per quatuor Alphabeta Hetrusca. IV. The Theory of Musick reduced to Arithmetical and Geometrical Proportions, by the Reverend Mr Tho. Salmon. V. Part of a Letter from the late Sir Philip Skippon, Kt, to the late Reverend Mr John Ray, concerning the Bones of a Humane Foetus voided thro' an Impostume in the Groin. Communicated to the Publisher, by Mr Samuel Dale. VI. An Abstract of a Book, Entitled, NEKROPHÆIA: Or, The Art of Embalming; wherein is shewn the Right of Burial and Funeral Ceremonies, especially that of Preserving Bodies after the Egyptian Method. Together with an Account of the Egyptian Mummies, Pyramids, Subterranean Vaults and Lamps, &c. Part I. Illustrated with a Map and fourteen Sculptures. By Tho. Greenhill, Surgeon. In 4to. London, 1705. VII. An Extraordinary Case of a Cystive Person, in a Letter from Mr B. Sherman, to Dr Beeston of Ipswich; with a Note on the same, by Mr William Cowper, F. R. S. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. For the Months of September and October, 1705. The CONTENTS. I. Epistola D. Antonii Mesaporiti, M. C. Genuensis ad Cl. Antonium Vallesnerium, Med. Praet. Prof. P. Patavin. de Eruptione Sanguinis e singulis fere corporis humani partibus; & de dolore Ventris ab intestinis in crassam & Cartilaginem substantiam concretis orto. II. Gulielmi Cockburni M. D. Solutio Problematis de Purgantium & Emeticorum Medicamentorum Dosibus determinandis in quacunque Hominis Aetate, Temperamento, Temperamenti varietate per universum Terrarum orbem, ab ipso mensae Martio proxime elapso, in Actis Philosophicis propositi. Et Illustri admodum Docto D. Edwardo Southwell, Annae Reginae à Secretis Hibernicis, &c. consecrata. III. An Explanation of the Rule for the finding of Easter. In a Letter from the Reverend Mr J. Jackman to Dr Hans Sloane, S. R. S. IV. Part of a Letter from Mr Thoresby, F. R. S. to Dr Hans Sloane, S. R. S. concerning some Norman Coyns found at York. V. Several Experiments on the Mercurial Phosphorus, made before the Royal Society at Gresham College. By Mr Fra. Hauksbee, F. R. S. VI. An Account of some Magnetical Experiments and Observations. By W. Derham Rector of Upminster in Essex, F.R.S. VII. Farther Observations and Remarks on the same subject. VIII. A Letter from Mr Ralph Thoresby, F.R.S. concerning a Roman Inscription lately found at York, &c. IX. An Account of some Roman Coyns found at Clifton near Edlington in Yorkshire. By Mr Ralph Thoresby F.R.S. X. Joh. Conradi Beckeri, Paradoxi Medico Legale de diversorum Mortis sine pota Aqua, Aliquot Cadaverum sefixum detectum & principis mechanicis illustratum, &c. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. For the Months of November and December, 1705. The CONTENTS. I. Several Microscopical Observations on the Pumice-Stone, Coral, Spunges, &c. In a Letter from Mr Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek, F. R. S. II. Part of a Letter from Mr Ralph Thoresby, F. R. S. concerning a large Ball voided by Stool. III. Several Experiments on the Attrition of Bodies in Vacuo. Made before the Royal Society at Gresham College, by Mr Fr. Hauksbee, F. R. S. IV. Part of a Letter from Dr Samuel Brady, to Dr William Cockburn, F. R. S. giving an Account of a Puppy in the Womb that receiv'd no Nourishment by the Mouth. V. A Relation of an extraordinary sleepy Person, at Tinsbury, near Bath. By Dr William Oliver, F. R. S.