568 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1748. 



inclined to the tawny, especially on the side which faced the moon. This para- 

 selene was in the same altitude as the moon. Its tail was much more faint and 

 transparent ; so that Capella appeared through this luminous tail. The lunar 

 circle abcd was much weaker to the south, and there appeared no paraselene on 

 that side. This meteor did not seem to undergo any alteration till Q'^ IS", when 

 the atmosphere was covered with thick clouds. 



The clouds being diminished at g'' 32™, the meteor appeared again, but very 

 different from what it was before ; for, instead of seeing a lunar circle with 4 

 other arches of circles, appeared the lunar circle dabd, fig. 7, and on the south 

 side a faint arch qr of 4°, having the moon for its centre in common with the 

 great lunar circle. There were likewise 2 paraselenes, one of which b was to 

 the north, and the other d to the south. These however did not cast so strong 

 a light as that which had appeared before, nor were they so distinctly formed. 

 On the contrary, the lunar circle was very beautiful, and remarkably bright, till 

 9*^ 50™, when the whole phenomenon disappeared, and the sky grew clear by 

 degrees. The moon's diameter was 30' 30'. On the same night a very beauti- 

 ful lunar circle was observed at Berlin, but without paraselenes. 



The following is the observation that was made of the last eclipse of the sun, 

 at the Observatory Royal at Berlin. 



1748, July 25, N.s. The beginning of the eclipse was not observed, the sun 

 having been covered with clouds. 



The annulus was completed at 1 1'' 52™ 51' a. m. 

 broken 11 54 13 



The end of the eclipse 1 25 Q p. m. 



The diameter of the sun was 31' 43*. 

 This eclipse was likewise observed annular at Frankfort on the Oder, but not 

 so exactly as at Berlin. 



0/ a Preternatural Conjunction of Two Female Children. By James Parsons, 

 M.D., F.R.S. N°489, p. 526. 



About the middle of September last, [1748] a woman in Holbom was deli- 

 vered with much difficulty of 2 girls, joined together by the bellies in so singular 

 a manner, as to deserve a particular description to be laid before the Society, as 

 a very curious subject. 



The care of preparing these children for keeping in spirits was committed to 

 Mr. James Sherwood, surgeon, who sent for Dr. P. to observe them with him ; 

 and it was resolved to inject them, in order to make their anatomical examina- 

 tion the more accurately, which was executed by Mr. Sherwood, and the state 

 of the children was as follows : 



The skin of part of the breast and belly was continued to each child, from the 



