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evident marks of being fossil, as well as the preceding, and is farther re- 

 markable, as a petrifying substance being got between the lamellae has very 

 considerably separated and divided them from each other, in such a manner, 

 that they appear to have been set very loose. 



N° 427, of his collection of quadrupeds and their parts, is part of an ele- 

 phant's skull, which was found at Gloucester after the year l630, with some 

 large teeth, some 3, others 7 inches in compass, according to a short inscrip- 

 tion written on this very piece. 



A Solar Eclipse, and other Astronomical Observations, near Lisbon. N" 403, 

 p. 471. From the Latin. 



Sept. 15, 1727, N. s. in the morning, Father Carbone observed this eclipse 

 at a place more westerly than St. Anthony's college by 4 seconds of time, and 

 its lat. 38° 42' 58." When the sun rose, about 4 digits were eclipsed. The 

 greatest observation was at 6^ IS"" 29% when 8 dig. l'48" were eclipsed ; and 

 the eclipse ended at 7^ Q"" 2% true time. 



Oct. 15, with a 22-foot telescope, F. Carbone observed an immersion of 

 Jupiter's nearest satellite, at 9^ 10*" 54^ And Nov. 7, he observed the same 

 at 9'' 25" 45^ 



The same eclipse, of Sept. 15, was observed at Rome, at the foot of the 

 Quirinal hill, as follows : 



At 7"^ O"* O^ true time after midnight, the eclipse had been begun. 



7 46 O greatest obscuration, about 6i digits. 



8 44 10 the end of the eclipse. 



A Solar Eclipse observed Sept. 14, 1727, n. s. in the Observatory of Bononia. 

 By Sig. Eust. Manfredi.* N° 403, p. 477. From the Latin. 



The beginning of the eclipse could not be seen for clouds. 



* Eustachio Manfredi, a celebrated astronomer and mathematician, was bom at Bologna in l674. 

 His genius and actions were always above his years. Hence he wrote ingenious verses while he was yet 

 a child ; and hence while very young he formed in his father's house an academy of youth of his own 

 age, which grew up to be the academy of sciences, or the celebrated institute of Bologna, which 

 still exists there. He became professor of mathematics at Bologna in 169S, and superintendant of 

 the waters there in 1704 : also in the same year he was placed at the head of the college of Montalte, 

 founded at Bologna for young men designed for the church. And in 1711 he was appointed to the 

 office of Astronomer to the institute of Bologna. He became member of the Academy of Sciences 

 of Paris in 1726", and of the Royal Society of London in 172.0 ; and he died in 1739- The works 

 of Manfredi are chiefly the following : 



1. De Construe. Equat. Differentialium, 4to. Bonon. 1707. 



2. Epheraerides Motuum Coelestium ab anno 1715 ad annum 1750; 4 vols, in 4to. In cohi» 



