VOL. XXVIII.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRAXSACTIONS. *J^ 



but the arteries only are here expressed; and that the spleens in each body, 

 taken together, were only equal in magnitude to the one we usually meet 

 with. 



A heart, with the vena azygos inserted into the right auricle ; and the 

 descending cava coming round the basis of the heart, above the aorta and pul- 

 monary vessels^ to enter the auricle at the lower part with the ascending 

 cava. 



A ureter double two-thirds of its length next the kidneys, and distended by 

 stones passing through it. 



The tubse Fallopianae impermeable, and without alee vespertilionis; the outer 

 ends being connected to the testes. 



An Account of a Book, entitled, Julii Fitalis Epitaphium ; cum Notis Criticis 

 Explicationeque, V. C. Hen. Dodwelli, et Commentario Guil. Musgrave. hcce 

 Damnoniorum. Sumptihus Philippi Yeo. 17 11. N° 337, art. 39, p. 283. 



This book contains a description, with many critical notes, of a stone dug up 

 near Bath, 17O8, and is said to be set up in a wall at the east end of the church, 

 in the Abbey-green. The author thus reads it at length, according to the 

 modern way of writing Latin. 



Julius Vitalis, Fabricensis Legionis Vicesimae Valerianae Victricis, stipen- 

 diorum novem, Annorum viginti novem, Natione Belga, ex Collegio Fabri- 

 censium elatus, hie situs est. 



END OP VOLUME TWENTY-EIGHTH OP THE OBIGINAL. 



Logometria Auctore Rogero Cotes,* Trin, Coll, Cantab, Soc, Astr, et Ph, Exp, 

 Professore Plumiano, et R. S, S, N° 338, p. 5. Vol, XXIX, 



This paper is omitted here, because it was from hence extracted into the 



* Roger Cotes was an eminent mathematician of the Newtonian school. He was bom l682, at 

 Burbach in Leicestershire, where his father was rector. At 12 years of age he discovered a strong 

 inclination to the mathematics > which induced his uncle, the Rev. Mr. John Smith, to take him Xo 

 his house in Lincolnshire, to assist him in those studies. From hence he was removed to St. Paul's 

 school, London, and in due time to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his degrees, and 

 became fellow. In 1706 he was appointed professor of astronomy and experimental philosophy, on 

 the foundation of Dr. Plume, Archdeacon of Rochester> being the first that enjoyed that office. In 

 1713 he entered into ordersj and the same year at the desire of Dr. Bentley, he published the second 

 edition of Newton's Principia, inserting in it all the improvements the author had made to that time. 

 To this edition Mr. Cotes prefixed an excellent preface, in which he pointed out the true method of 



