IV CONTENTS. 



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Toads and Spiders Innoxious; by Dr, N. Fairfax , ' i4g 



Account of Books, viz. 1. Descartes, Lettres de; 2. Riccioli Astrononiia Reformata; 3. G. 



Blasii Anatome Medullae Spinalis, &c ', 147" 



Biographical Notice of M. Descartes ibid 



Biographical Notices of J. B. Riccioli and of Gerard Blasius 148 



Load-stone dug out of the Ground in Devonshire ; by Dr. Edw. Cotton 149 



Remarks on Load-stones and Sea Compasses; by Mr. Oldenburg ibid 



Effects ol'the Air-pump on Plants, Seeds, and Eggs of Silk "Worms; by Dr. Beale 150 



Observations on Ants ; by Dr. Edmund K ing ibid 



Account of Sig. Chapuzeau's book, Histoire des Joyaux, &c 152 



The Directions for Seamen explained 153 



An easier and safer Way of Transfusing Blood; by Dr. Edmund King 158 



Another Experiment of the Transfusion of Blood; by Dr. T. Coxe 159 



Letter on the Transfusion of Blood; from M. Denis ibid 



Reuniting of the separated Bark of Trees ; by Dr. Merret 1()0 



To recover Cherries almost withered ; by the same ibid 



The American Aloe with indented Leaves; by the same l6'l 



On Gascoigne's Micrometer; by Mr. Rd. Townley ibid 



The Nebulosa in Andromeda, and the Star in the Whale's neck; by M. BuUiald l6'2 



Communication of the Thoracic Duct with the Emulgent Vein; by M. Pecquet i6"3 



Biographical Notice of M. Pecquet ibid 



Description of several Kinds of Granaries 1()4 



Inquiries for Hungary, Transylvania, Egypt, and Guinea ibid 



Experiments for improving the Art of Gunnery; by Sir Robert Moray l65 



Magnetical Experiments ; by Mr. Sellers l66 



Effects of the Transfiision of Blood at Paris, and of two Monstrous Births ifiT" 



Account of two Monstrous Births in' Devonshire; by M. Colepress ibid 



Some Observations made both in Mines and at Sea 1()'8 



Hail-stones of an unusual Size; by Dr. Nath. Fairfax ibid 



Account of a number of Stones found in one Bladder; by the same ibid 



A Well and Earth in Lancashire taking Fire at a Candle; by T. Shirley, Esq 169 



Account of A. Kircher's China Illustrata ibid 



On the Invention of the Transfusion of Blood ; by Mr. Oldenburg 170 



Injection of Liquors into the Veins of Animals; by Sig. P'racassati ibid 



Discoveries on the Brain and the Tongue; by Sig. Malpighi 171 



Biographical Notice of Marcellus Malpighi ibid 



Experiment on Blood grown cold ; by Sig. Fracassati 170 



Quicksilver at the Roots of Plants, and Shells on Mountains ; by Sig. Septali 173 



Observations on a Voyage to the Caribbee Islands ibid 



Magnetical Experiments, &c. ; by Mr. Colepress 177 



Account of two Books, viz. 1. Sprat's History of the Royal Society; 2. Needham de FormaLo 



Foetu, &c ibid 



Biographical Notice of Dr. Walter Needham ibid 



Account of more Trials of Transfusion of Blood, &c. ; by Mr. Oldenburg I83 



On the Mendip Lead Mines; by Mr. Joseph Glanvil 186' 



Magnetical Variations ; byM. Petit 187 



Biographical Notice of Dr. Gilbert ibid 



Biographical Notices of Wm. Burrowes, Edmund Gunter, and Henry Gellibrand 189 



Account of Books ; viz. I.Boyle's Considerations on Subordinate Forms; 2. Swammerdam de 



Respiratione et Usu Pulmonum; 3. Observ. sur un Grand' Poisson, &c. ; 4. Klobii Historia 



Ambrse igo 



Biographical Notice of Dr. Swammerdam ibid 



Of preserving Annuals by blowing into their Lungs; by Mr. Hook 194 



Description of Mr. Gascoigne's Micrometer ; by Mr. Hook 195 



On a Dog drawing breath like a wind broken Horse; by Dr. Lower 197 



Biographical Notice of Dr. Lower ibid 



Anatomical Observations on a Human Body; by Dr. Fairfax 199 



vOtlier obsei-vations and peculiarities both in Men and Brutes ; by the same 200 



