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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. 



[anno 1791' 



V. Abstract of a Register of the Barometer, Thermometer, and Rain, at 

 Lyndon in Rutland. By T. Barker, Esq. ; ivith the Rain in Hampshire and 

 Surrey; for the Year 1789. p. 89. 



F^I. Observations on certain Horny Excrescences of the Human Body. By 

 Everard Home, Esq., F. R. S. p. g5. 



Horny excrescences arising from the human head have not only occurred in 

 this country, but have been met with in several other parts of Europe; and the 

 horns themselves have been deposited as valuable curiosities in the first collections 

 in Europe. Mrs. Lonsdale, 56 years of age, a native of Horncastle in Lincoln- 

 shire, 14 years before, observed a moveable tumor on the left side of her head, 

 about 2 inches above the upper arch of the left ear, which gradually increased in 

 the course of 4 or 5 years to the size of a pullet's egg, when it burst, and for a 

 week, continued to discharge a thick, gritty fluid. In the centre of the tumor, 

 after the fluid was discharged, she perceived a small soft substance, of the size 

 of a pea, and of a reddish colour on the top, which at that time she took for 

 proud flesh. It gradually increased in length and thickness, and continued pli- 

 able for about 3 months, when it first began to put on a horny appearance. In 



