31(5 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO I676, 



consist of vessels or pores ; as these also which in fig. 9 are cut off along the 

 wood, and run through the said vessels, as CD. 



I have now some French wine of the growth of the year past, which has a 

 very delicate taste. The vessel wherein this wine is, was very good and sweet 

 when the wine was put in, and a coarse linen cloth dipped in melted brimstone 

 and kindled had been hung over the vessel before it was filled. In this wine I 

 have often observed small living creatures, shaped like little eels, as appear in 

 AB, fig. 11, having on their forehead a round convexity like a crescent without 

 having any thing else that I could see on the forepart of their body, and that 

 part looked no otherwise than crystal ; but towards its middle it was made up of 

 nothing but globules, which I could very plainly discern ; and the hinderpart of 

 the body of these little animals appeared as clear and transparent as the forepart, 

 and running to a very sharp tail. 



Eclipse of the Sun, u4nno 1675, June 23, in the Morningy New Style. Observed 

 at Dantzic. By Hevelim. N*' 127, p. 660. 



Calcul. by the Rudolphine Table. 



h. m. s. 



Beginning at Dantzic . . 4 31 42 



Greatest obscuration . . 5 28 20 



End of the eclipse .... 6 24 58 



The duration 1 53 16 



The quantity 6° 5' 



Observed at Dantzic. 



h. m. s. 



4 44 O 



5 39 O 



6 33 30 

 1 50 O 

 6° 42' 



Differences, 

 min. 

 12 

 11 



9 

 3 



37 



M. Hevelius also communicated his observation of the figure of Saturn, as it 

 appeared to him in August 1675, as exhibited in fig. 1, pi. 10. 



Mr. Flamsteed's Letter, concerning his Observations, and those of Mr. Townly, 

 and Mr. Halton, of the late Eclipse of the Sun, June 1, 1676. N° 127^ 

 p. 662. 



In conducting these observations, I w^as assisted by my friend Mr. Halley. 

 We had prepared two tubes; the one I964- inches long, having one of Town- 

 ly's micrometers, with which I took the measures of the first eight phases. 

 The other was only 103-i- inches long, with my own micrometer, and with 

 which Mr. Halley took the observations. But in the last two observations, with 

 this tube, (the micrometer of which is fitter for this use than the other) I took 

 the distance of the azimuths falling by the sun's lucid limb and the nearest cusp of 



