( 297 ) Numb,2ax 
PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
For the Months cj September and Oftober, 1696. 
The CON TE NTS, 
L A ^^^^^^^f ^^^^ S^^^^ of fi range Beans t frequent- 
Jf\ ly cafl on Shoar on the Orkney Ifles, with fome 
Conjehures about the way of their heing brought thither 
from Jamaica, where three forts of them grow. By 
Hans Sloane. Col. Med. Lond. & S. R.S. If. A Let- 
ter from Mr. William Cowper, giving an Account of 
a very large Difeafed Kidney ^ found on the Dtffe3:ionof 
a Lady^ with the Symptoms of the Difeafe before her 
Death , and an Explanation of their Phasnomena. 
III. An Account of a Stone of the Bladder, which 
weighed 51 Ounces, or Three Pounds Three Ounces^ and 
a Stone cut cit of the Bladder fuccefsfullyphich adhered 
to it. By Dr. Charles Prefton. IV^. Part of a Let^ 
ter to Dr. George Garden, giving an Account of the 
Effeils of a very extraordinary Thunder near Aberden 
in Scotland. V. An Extract of a Letter Written by 
Mr. S^viardy Sworn Surgeon at Paris, giving an Account 
of a Foetus lying without the Uterus in the Belly ; ta- 
ken from the Journal Dgs S^avans, of the z6th of 
Nov. 1 696. Wl. Part of a Letter from Mr. Udlky at 
Cheft€r,Ofl:ob.26. 1696. givingan Account of an Ani- 
mal refembling a Whelp voided per Anum, by a Male 
Greyhound, and of a Roman Altar found there^ &c. 
¥11. A Letter from ^r.RalphXhoresby, to Dr.Martin 
Y y Lifter 
