350 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1707. 



err; for, in all such acts of nature, the coition of both sexes is requisite, ac- 

 cording to the old, or either of the new hypotheses de generatione animalium, 

 which in the girl of Deal was wanting; she being found, upon a very nice 

 and strict scrutiny, to die a virgin, untouched. 



We are told by many authors of the best credit, that great quantities of hair 

 have been found in all the parts of human bodies, the fluids not excepted. Dr. 

 Tyson published a large collection from them. He reasons like a philosopher, 

 on the nature and production of air in human bodies, living or dead ; espe- 

 cially in those parts we are writing of: but the teeth and bones seem too hard, 

 even for so acute an investigator. He has indeed given some very fine 

 thoughts, and ingenious conjectures, concerning their origin and production. 

 This is the only difficulty that all those accounts I have related from others are 

 incumbered with ; but mine has another, no less hard to resolve. It is obvious 

 how those things were got out of the women that died ; but my patient, who 

 survived the evacuation, puzzles me to find the ductus for such a lump to pass, 

 from without the womb into the vulva. It was certainly lodged without the 

 uterus; but which way could such a lump of greasy hair, with a bone, and a 

 large membrane adhering, pass into it ; I know none but the tuba Fallopiana ; 

 but the orifice of that into the womb is so small, that it sometimes will not ad- 

 mit an egg the size of a peppercorn to pass: whence those conceptions which 

 are made in that trunk are occasioned. It will distend very largely, so as to 

 hold a large foetus; but where it is inserted to the matrix, the foramen is too 

 narrow for substances of such magnitude to pass, unless some very extraordi- 

 nary accident expanded it; and what that can be, I cannot apprehend. 



A Lunar Eclipse, observed at Zurich, April 17, 1707. By Dr. John James 

 and John Scheuchzer. N° 310, p. 2394. 



At f2h. 18m. 40s. the beginning in the true shadow. — ih. 23m. 20s. the 

 greatest obscuration. — 3h. Qm. 40s. beginning of the emersion. — ih. 46m. 30s. 

 duration of the total obscuration. — 4h. 14m. 20s. end of the emersion. — 

 3h. 55m. 50s. the total duration. — ih. 5m. 40s. from the beginning to the 

 total immersion. — ih. 5m. 40s. from the emersion to the end of the eclipse. 



An Essay on the Invention of Printing, by Mr. John Bagford; with an Account 

 of his Collections for the same, by Mr. Humphrey fVanley, F.R.S. N° 310, 

 p. 2397. 



It is the general notion of most authors, that we had the first hint of print- 

 ing from the Chinese; but I am far from being of that opinion-, for at the time 

 of the discovery we had no knowledge of them. I think we might more pro- 



