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PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
For the Month of Ni2Ly^ 1698. lu^^i^ 
The CONTENTS. 
I. Tan of a Letter -from Mr. Ralph Thoresby^ F. 5'. to 
Dr. Martin Lifter, Fdlow of the Colledge of Vhjftciam^ andB.,S, 
concerning a Roman Sheild, II, A Letter fi-om Dr. Thomas 
Molyneux, to Dp. Martin Lifter, Fellow of the Colkdge of 
fhyficians ^ and R. S, Containing fome additional Ohfer- 
nations cn the Giants Caufway in Ireland. IIL Epifiola 
fcripta a Raymundo VieuJJens DoBore medico MonJ^dienJi ad Cla» 
riffimos Viros Spcietipis Regt^ LondinenJiJ, de Sanguine Human 0, 
Communicatedj^II^^^Sng^^FeLofthe Col.of PhyfandRJ. 
IV. Account pf a j^pk, Meridiana del Tempio de S. Pe- 
tronio, &c, i: ei. :WBf^_Jj^ridiaft Line of the Church of St. Pe- 
tronio^ drawn^d>fil^d^for Agronomical Ohfervations^ in the 
Tear 16 <^^, revifed and refiored in the Tear 16^^. by Signior 
John Dorrslnico CafEni^ Vrimary AJlrommer of the School of 
Bononia Vontificial Mathematician^ of the Royal Academy of 
Sciences^ and Fellow of the R.S. Frinted at Bononia. i6<^f, 
in FoL V. A Catalogue of Books lately printed^ not men- 
tioned in tbefe TranfaEiions. VI. Extracls out of fome late Ac- 
counts and Letters, 
1, Fart of a Letter from Mr. Ralph Thoresby, F. R. S. to 
Dr. Martin Lifter, Fellow of the Colledge of Fhyficiam and 
R, S* concerning a Roman Sheild, 
Since my former J having procured an old Roman Shield, of 
a different form from that I had before, and obierving 
them both to he of different Materials from the ufaal Delcrip- 
'tions of them (which I alio apprehend to be in other parts de- 
li h fedive) 
