PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
March 25. i66p. 
The Contents, 
A Preface to the Fifth jear of thefe Tranfaftions, which is herewith 
hegHn, The Defcriftionof anlnjirument for drawing anjobjeB 
I*;? Perfpedlive, AnOhjervation of Saturn, rebuffing fome for- 
mer obfervations of that Planet, An BxtraSt of a Letter y writ- 
ten from France to the Puhlijher^ concerning the Ordering of 
Melons. An Account of two Books. 1. Renati Francifcs Sk- 
fit MESoLABtlM i 2i Editio anltior. II. TraSiatm de 
CORJ^Ey itemde Motu& Colore SANGUINIS ^&c. A. Ri- 
€hardo Lewer^ M.B. 
A PREFACE 
To this Fifth Year of the Tranfaftions, 
IT way perhaps he expe3^ed^ that here at the Entrance into the Fifth 
Tear of thefe Philojophical Communications y fomething jhould be 
prefacd, as bath been done formerly for an IntroduBion into each of 
the Four precedingjearsy beginning always (^according to the Englifh 
Accompt) in theMoneth ^/M^rch. Briefly then, I (ball make a few 
frefh Refle5fions en what is pajl, to the purpofe of Imprefingjomefem 
things perhaps not altogether inconfiderable 5 And thence offer a Pro- 
fpe5tof wh^t may be hoped to be the Product of our future Endea^ 
voursy as GodfbaU njouchfafe to profperthem, 
InthefirOi Volume y containing the TranfaSiions of Two Tears ^ 
i66^y 1666, thmgh we were fatally interrupted by the Plague^ 
Kkkk ' Wa»^ 
