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honourable company ; in the mean time it is needful to advertise the reader, 

 that in making the experiment herein-mentioned, the water used had been 

 salted to the same degree as is the common sea-water, by the solution of about 

 a 40th part of salt. 



Some Observations of a Solar Eclipse, May 1, 1687, O. S. made in several 

 Places. N° 1 89, p. 370. Translated from the Latin. 

 This eclipse, though a small one, and could not be perceived by the naked 

 eye, yet it seems to be very convenient for the accurate determination of the 

 moon's parallax and latitude. The observations were the following: 



1. At London, separately by Messrs. Hook and Halley. Because of the 

 oblique incidence of the moon, the moment of the beginning could not be 

 rightly determined : but at ih. l6m. the eclipse was very sensibly begun. The 

 middle of the eclipse was about ih. 40m. The chord of the part eclipsed, or 

 that between the horns, was g' 30", answering to an arch of 30° ; but in the 

 diameter only l'30". The end exactly at 2h. 3m. 



2. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, by Mr. Flamsteed. At the mid- 

 dle, the chord of the eclipsed part was 9' 54". The end 2h. 4m. I5s. 



3. At Totteridge, near London, Mr. Haines saw the end at 2h, 2m. The 

 quantity half a digit from the south. 



4. At Bridgetown, Barbadoes, Mr. Frank found the end at 7h. 56m. 458. 

 A. M. He judged the greatest quantity to be 2 digits from the south. 



5. At Nuremburg, by J. P. Wurtzelbaur. The beginning ih. 584m. The 

 middle at 2h. 36^m. when the quantity was 2 digits. The end 3h. 13m. 33s. 



6. At Ulm, in Suabia, by M. Honold. The beginning at ih. 48m.; the 

 greatest quantity 2-^ digits. The end 3h. l6m. 



7. At Leipsic, by M. Kirck, the eclipse was observed at 2h, 20m. 10s.; at 

 2h. 47Tin- the digits were about l^-. The end exactly at 3h. 15m. 



8. At Breslaw, in Silesia, D. G. Schultz observed the greatest obscuration 

 rather before 3h. 12-^m. ; the digits were 14. The end at 3h. 37m. 



Memoirs for a Natural History of Animals % containing the Anatomical Descrip- 

 tions of several Creatures, dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at 

 Paris. Translated by Alexander Pitfield, Esq. R. S. Soc. To which is added 

 an Account of the Measure of a Degree of a great Circle of the Earth. 

 Published by the same Academy, and englished by Richard IValler, Esq. R. S. 

 Seer. N° I89, p. 371. 



This book, containing the anatomical observations of 28 species of animals, 

 and about 70 individuals, was published in two very large folios, by the Royal 

 Academy at Paris, and owned by them as their united labours, as a body. The 



