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C60 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO I67I. 



tables were not correct, as to the late eclipse of the moon, Sept. the 8th. 

 We found here also, that the moon emerged out of the shadow of the earth 

 before 9 o'clock. 



The solar spots we have observed at Hamburg, from Aug. 26, old stile, be- 

 ing nearly the day they first began to appear, as far as to Sept. 5, when they 

 approached very near to his limb. In which interval they traversed nearly over 

 the whole solar disk, by the centre of it. 



Extracts of two Letters from Mr. JohnFlamsteed, on some late Ap^ 



pearances of Saturn: dated Derby, Nov. 21 and Dec. 2, 16? 1, 



iV«78, p. 3034. 



Oct. 12, at my first viewing Saturn with my smaller tube, I thought I saw 

 something on each side of him, amidst the colours of my glass and the spurious 

 rays of his body. Directing my longer tube, of 14 feet, to him, I could see 

 his anses somewhat more distinctly, but very slender, and, to one that thought 

 not of them, scarcely discernible. 



Nov. 30, I observed Saturn with my 14 feet telescope, the aperture being 

 14- inch, and its eye-glass drawing two inches. He appeared perfectly round, free 

 from rays and colours, and no ansae to be seen. My worthy friend Mr. Townly, 

 in his last to me, of Nov. 20, 1671, desires me to continue the observations 

 of Saturn ; telling me that he looked at him one night, and could hardly dis- 

 tinguish his line of the ansulae, but plainly saw a dark line through him near, 

 his upper part. 



A week or two after the observation of Saturn, which I made Oct. 1 2, and 

 sent you in my former, I had frequently the same appearance, though in a 

 wider aperture than I use at present, &c. 



Some further Observations of Mr. John Temple r, about the Shining 

 ofGlotV'Jrorms.* N' 78, p. 3035. 

 Nothing in this paper worth reprinting. 



Jn Account of some Boohs. N''^^, p. 3037- 



I. The Anatomy of Vegetables begun ; with a general account of Vegetation, 

 founded thereon : by Nehemiah Grew,-}- M. D. Fellow of the Royal Society. 

 1671, in 12mo. 



* See Number 72, of these Tracts. 



■\ Nehemiah Grew, an ingenious and learned physician, was the son of Mr. Obadiah Grew, 

 sometime minister of the parish of St. Michael in Coventry. Having been sent to a foreign univer- 



