PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
■^dy 26. 1677. 
The CONTENTS. 
EditraU cf three Letters of Dr, W^Wis ^ ccmermngan un-' 
ufual Meteor [een at the fame time in many diftant 
places of England, Communications touching four forts of 
faSiitious Shining fubfiances. Divers Letters about the late 
Comet, from Signor Cafllni , Monfieur }\t\tVms^and Mr. 
Flamftead. Jn Account of Four Books : I. the Natural Hi- 
ftoryof OXFORD' SHlRE,&c. By Robert Plott,LL. A 
U. VJRCHlTECrURE NAVJLE, avtc leROU- 
HER des Indes Orientates ^ Occident ales $ ^ar le Sieur 
Daffie. III. FhiUfophical Dialogues concerningthe Frinci- 
pies of Natural Bodies ; by W.Simpfon,^.Z>. J V. J New 
Treatife of CHYMlSTRYi mitten in French by Chrifto- 
pher Glafer, and now EngUfhed by R. S. jln Jdvertife^ 
ment of a New Ma^p of England. 
Jfn Extras of two Letters , written by Dr. W^\\iS to the Fub- 
li(berthe 20th and ^othof January la/l^ concerning a conjidera- 
ble Meceor feen in many diflant places of England 
at the f4me time +. ^ , + ^'^'•^ "'^ 
' publijhed foon- 
tfibecaufe more particulars were exp(&id both from 
othtr places of Enahtidy aad from Forrei^n parts, 
S I R, 
1D0 not know, whether in your TranfaSions you have any 
where taken notice of that unufual Meteor which happened 
on Wednefday Sept. 2otk laft paft, about Seven of the clock 
at night or foon after ; which, though it Teemed very low, was 
SX feen 
