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Numb. 245. 
PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTI O NS. 
For the Month of February, 1699. 
The CONTENTS. j 
I. An ExtraB of a Letter from Legho'-n to Dr..Martia Lifier, 
November 34 1698. concenartg Seignior K^d^i^s ManufiriptSy 
and the Generation of Fkas, IL A way to make Two clear 
Spirituous^ Inflamwahle Liquors^ which differ very little in Tafle 
and Smell, and being mixed together , do give a fine Car?satiofi 
Colour^ without either fen fihle Fermentation or Alteration. Com- 
municated hy Mchfaur Geofrroy, F, R S. III. A f farther 
Account of the China Cabinet y hy Hans Sloane^ M. D, IV. 
Part of a Letter from Mr, William Derham, to Dr. Sioane | 
accompanying his Obfervations of the Height of the Mercury in 
the Barometer, Rains JVinds^^c, for the Tear 1698. V. An 
Account of what Rain fell at Towniy in Lancaftire, in tbi 
Tears 16975 and 1698. with fome other Obfervations off the 
Weather ; bQing part of a Letter of the izth January, 1698, 
from Richard Towneley, Efq\ to -Mr. William Derham. 
VI. An Account of feveral Cunedties relating to Amber ^ late- 
ly fent to the Royal ' Society from Phiiippus Jacobus Hart- 
mannus (Author of the Account of it piihlifl)ed la ft Tranfacti- 
on) and which are now in their Repofitory at G re (ham -College. 
Vil. fart of a Letter of Mr* Dale from Bratntree, Feb. i. 
1^99, to Dr. Martin Lifter, Fehw of the College offhyficians 
and R» S. concerning feveral Infers, Vill. An Account of a 
IDmng Man flain with Thunder and Lightning, Dec. 22. 1698. 
ffm Ralph Thoresby, Efq^ F. R. S. to Dr^ Mum Lifter, 
