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PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
Aptgufi 8. 1670» 
The CONTENTS. 
IVeir Tneumatical Experiments about Refpiration , mad^ and com' 
munic at hy the Honourable KohtxX. Boyle, in fever ai Heads Yiz.Obfer- 
vations made about the lafting of T>\xcks, included in the Exhaufled Receiver : 
Of the Ph<6nomena afforded by Vipers, Froggs, and Kitlings infuch a Re- 
ceiver : Some Tryals about the Air usually harbour* d in the Pores of water : 
Offome Phdbnomena afforded by Shell-Fiflies, md Scale- Fifties in the Pneu- 
matical Engin : Of two Animals, included ^with large wounds in the Abdo^ 
men-^ as alfo of the A^oti^n of the feparated Heart of a Cold Animal , in the 
fame Engin : A Comparifen of the Time wherein AnimMs may be kj/rdby 
Drowning, or by withdrawing of the Air, The reft refer ved for the next 
Month. AnAccomptofthreeBsoks I. D^- ANGLORUM GENTIS 
ORIGINE, Auth. floberto Sheringham, Cantahrigienfi. II. A Vindi- 
cation of HYDRO LOG I A CHTMICA, ^7 William Sympfon,J/,Z). 
III. A DifcourfeinVindicationof DES-C ARTES'^ Syfieme by M.Dqs- , 
Fourncillis • together with the Syftem General of the fame CART ESIAN 
Philofofhy, by Francis Baylc, D. now both Englijh'd out of French. . 
NEWPNEUMATICAL EXPERIMENTS about RESPIRATION. 
Thefe Experiments , made by that Indefatigable BenefaUour to Philofophj , the 
Honourable Robert Boyle./;^ ^rder to bring fome more Light to the Doctrine 
of RESPIRATION , as well as to mini ft er occajion to Inquifttive Natura- 
hUs to make farther Refearches into the fame^ were by their Noble Author 
communicated to the Publijher of thefe Papers ; who efteem'd it more convent - 
ent to make them a part of thefe Trails ( they taking up the room but of a few 
fheets ) thm to publijb them any other way. 
The I. Title. 
Ob[trvations made about the lafling of Ducks included in the Exhaptfted 
Receiver, 
" V7^^^^^ having, as Zoobgifts teach us, furniflied Duckj and 
^ ther water-Fovv! with a peculiar ftrufture of feme vellels 
about the hearty to enable them , when they have occafion ta 
S Dive^ 
