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PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANS ACTI O N6'. 
For the Month of November, 1698. 
The CONTENTS. 
I. An Acceunt of a China 6abinet^ jilled tPtth 
fever al Inftruments^ Fruit &a ufed in 
China , fent to the Koyal Society by Mr. Buck- 
ly, chief Surgeon at Fort St. George. By 
Hans Sloane, M. II Kemarh^ by 
Mr. James Petiver, Apothecary, and Fellow 
of the Royal Society , on fome Animals, 
Plants, &c. fent $0 him from M2ityhndj by 
the Reverend Mr. Hugh Jones, lit Captain 
h^ngfmdsObfer vat ions of his own Experience 
upon HuricaneSj and their Frognofiich^, Com* 
mnnic4ted by Mr. Bonavert. IV. Concerning 
the Magnetifm of Drills by Mr. Ballard. 
Communicated ^;>£)n William Mufgrave, FeU 
!oxp of the Coliedge of Fhyjicians and R. 
V. Part of a Letter from the Reverend 
Mr. George Lewis, at Fort St. George ; to 
the Reverend Dr. Arthur Charlett, and the 
M m m late 
