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able antiquities, in the actual survey that he made of those places to render 

 the work more complete. But what relates more immediately to these Phil. 

 Trans, is the annexed catalogue of the authors Musaeum, justly celebrated for 

 antiquities and for natural and artificial curiosities. The catalogue of the coins 

 and medals is very copious and valuable. 



The natural curiosities are ranked in the following method. 1. Human 

 Rarities. 2. Quadrupeds, viviparous (multifidous and bifidous) and oviparous, 

 with an account of certain balls and stones found in the stomachs of several 

 animals. 3. Serpents. 4. Birds, land and water-fowls, with their eggs. 

 5. Fishes, viviparous and oviparous, scaled and exanguious. 6. Shells, whirled 

 and single, double and multiple. 7. Insects, with naked and with sheathed 

 wings, and creeping insects. 8. Plants, which begin with Dr. Nicolson*s 

 collection of above 800 dried plants ; the rest are reduced to the accurate 

 method of Dr. Sloane, in his Cat. Plant, in Insula Jamaicae, proceeding from 

 the corals and other submarines to the fruits and parts of trees. 9. Formed 

 Stones, which are ranged according to Mr. Llwyd's curious tract, Lithophylac. 

 Britan. only to the crystals and diamonds are premised the Margaritas Cum- 

 brenses, some of which have as good a water as the oriental. After the fossil 

 shells and stones of the turbinated kind, the bivalves and shells amassed together 

 into great stones by a petrified cement, follow the marbles and other irregular 

 stones. 10. The metals, ores, salts and ambers, of which one with a fly, 

 another with a spider inclosed. 



The artificial curiosities relate to war, as Indian and Persian bows, arrows, 

 darts, armour, shields, targets, tomahawks, poisoned daggers : to the mathe- 

 matics, to household- stuff, habits, &c. from the remotest parts of the habitable 

 world; not neglecting those that are obsolete of our own nation. Then follow 

 statues, bass relieves, seals, impressions, copper-plates, heathen deities, amu- 

 lets, charms and matters relating to Romish superstitions. 



Some /Accounts of the late great Solar Eclipse on April 22, 1715, in the Morn" 

 ing. Communicated to the Royal Society from abroad. N° 345, p. 314. 



Since the publication of the late account given in Phil. IVans. N° 343, of 

 what was observed in England, and particularly at London, of this eclipse, we 

 have received from foreign parts the following observations ; which seem not 

 unworthy the acceptance of the curious. And first, Mr. John Edens, who has 

 obliged us with the following most particular relation of the Peak of TenerifF, 

 and of the ascent to it, being on his voyage to that island, observed the eclipse 

 at sea, in latitude, by observation 34° 20', and longitude O^ 54™ west from 

 London, as he concluded by their distance and position from the island Forte 



