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PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
For the Month of December, 169%. 
The CONTENTS. 
% A Letter from Mr. John Clayton, ReStor 
/\ of Crofton at Wakefield in York- 
{hire, to the Royal Society , giving a farther 
Account of the Soil of Virginia, and Planting of 
Tobacco therewith the Draining of Sn>amps y &cc* 
As lihgtvife a Defcription of the feveral Species 
of Birds ebferved there by himfelf with feveral 
Curious Remarks on the Heads of Fowl, more 
particularly of their Ears, compared with thofe of 
the Mole, &c. II. Some Queries concerning the 
Nature of Light and Diaphanous Bodies^ propo- 
fed to the Royal Society by Mr. Edm. Hal ley , 
S. R. S. III. An Account of two Books. \. Phar* 
imcopoeia Bateana, by Mr. William Sal- 
mon, Profejfor of Phyftcl^ 2. Phthifiologia Lan- 
caftrienfis cui accejpt Tent amen Philofoph. de aqttk 
Miner alibu*^ &c. Auth. Carolo Leigh, M. D. 
Ooo I. Mr^ 
