vi CON T'E N T S. 



IV. Ext raB of a Letter from Mr. George Wichetl, 

 F. R. S. and M after of the Royal Academy at 

 Portfmouth, to Charles Morton, M. D. Sec. R. S, 

 inckfng fome Aecowit of a Solar ILclipfe obferved at 

 George's I (land, by Captain Wallisj and feverai 

 Ajironomical Objervations made at Portfmouth. 



P- 33 



-V. ExiracJ cf Mr. T. Barker's Regijler at Lyndon 



in -Rutland, in a Letter to James Weft, Efq. Pref. 

 R. S. p, 42 



VI. Directions for uftng the common Micrometer* 

 taken from a Paper in the late Dr. Bradley's 

 Hand-Writing ; communicated by the Rev. Nevil 

 Mafkelyne, Aftronomer Royal, and F. R. S. p. 46 



VII. A Letter from Mr. John Reinhold Forfler, 

 F.R.S. to William Watibn, M. D. giving fome 

 Account of the Roots ufed by the Indians, in the 

 Neighbourhood of Hud ion's -Bay, to dye Porcupine 

 Quills. " p. 54 



VIII. An Account of a S liberated Denarius 0} the 

 Plaetorian Family y adorned with an Ecru/can In- 



Jcription on the Reverfe, never before publijhed or 

 explained. In a Letter to Mathew Maty, M. D. 

 Sec. R. S. from the Rev. John S win ton. B. D. 

 F. R. S. Cujlos Archivorum of the Univer/ity of 

 Oxford, Member -'of the Academy degli Apatifli at 

 Florence, and of the Eirufcan Academy of Cor- 

 tona in Tuicany. p. 60 



IX. A Deduction cf the Quantity of the Suns Par- 

 allax from the Comparijon of the feverai Gbjer- 

 vations of the late Tranftt 0/ Venus, made in 

 Europe, with thofe made in George I (land in the 

 South Seas : Communicated by Mr. Euler, fun. 



Secretary 



