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PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
For the Months of June, July, <a»<^Auguft, 1696. 
The CON TE NTS. 
I. A Letter giving an Account of one Henry Jenkins a 
jfl Yorkfliire Man, who Attained the Age of 169 
Tears. Communicated hy Dr.Tancred Robinfon, F, of 
the Coll, of PhyficianSy and R. S. with his Remarks 
en it. II. An Extra£l of a Letter from Mr Ltcwcn- 
hoek, Dated the 10th of July, 1696. Containing Mi* 
crofcopical Ohfervations on Eels, MiteSy the Seeds of 
Figs^ Strawberries^ &c. IH. Several Microfcopical 
Otfervation^ and Experiments^ made by Mr, Stephen 
Gray. IV. Of the Vfe of Opium among the Turks. 
By Dr. Edward Smyth, F. R. S. V. An Account of a 
Book. Catalogus Plantarum quse in infula Jamaica 
fponte proveniunt vel vulgocoluntur, cum earundem 
fynonymis & locis natalibus ; adjedtis ahis quibuf- 
dam quse in infulis Maderas, Berbados, Nieves, & 
Sandi Chriflophori nafcuntur, feu prodromi Hiftori^e 
naturalis Jamaica pars prima. Autore Hans Sloane 
M. D. Coll. Reg, Lond. Soc. Londini Impenfis Dan. 
Brown, ad Infigne cygni, bihliorum extra port am 
vulgo di£lam Temple-bar. 1696. 8^ With fome 
Remarks on it, by John Ray, A M, & F. R: S. 
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