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PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
For the Month of November, 1693* 
The CONTENTS. 
t A N Extratt of a Letter from Sir Ricb.Bulkley.S.fl.S. 
±\ to Dr. Lifter, concerning the Improvement to be 
made ly the Cultivation of Maize in Ireland ; with a Re- 
ward thereon, by Mr. John Ray, S.R. S. II. A Letter from 
Mr. John Clayton, Refforof Crofcon in Yorkfhire; being 
a Continuation of his Account ofVugmizjouching the Earth 
and Soyl thereof-, voith fome Obfervations on the Planting of 
Tobacco,/>r omife J in Tranfadt. Numb. 20 1. III. An Extrati 
of a Letter from Mr. Anth.Van Leeuwenhoek 3 S.#.£. to the 
Royal Society, containing his Obfervations on the Seeds of 
Cotton,Dates 3 Cloves,Currans } Goofeberries,@c. the Scales 
0/Fiih, Pores of the Skin, Salts in fever al Liquors, &c 
IV. An Inflame of the Excellence of the Modern Algebra, 
in the Resolution of the Problem of finding the Foci of 
Optick Glaffes univerfally, by Mr. E, Hailey, SRS. V. An 
Abflrattof part of a Letter from Mr. Samuel Dale, to Mr. 
John HaughtonjS.fl.S. concerning the making of Turnep- 
bread, in Eflex. .VI. An Extrati of a Second Letter from 
Sir R. B. concerning the Prorogation of Elms ly the Seed. 
VII, An Account of a Book e.dituled, Pha'xinologia nova 
five Obfervationes de RarioviOus quibuscum Batenis in 
Scotias Littus ; nuper ejeftis, &c, Auth. Roberto Sibbald. 
Edinburgw"«4° 1691. 
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