(605) Numkyt. 
PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
Monday, February To. * ^ 
The Contents. 
O Bfervations and Trials about the Refemblances and Diffe- 
rences between a Burning Coal, and Shining Wood. An 
obfervatien concerning a Blemidi in an Horfes Eye , not hi- 
therto difcever d by any Author , which may be of great ufe in the 
choice of Horfes. An Extras of a Letter, written out of I taly, 
concerning divers Spcts, not long fine e ebferved there in the Pla- 
net Venus. An extract of another Letter , printed at Paris, 
touching a late Cure of an inveterate Phrenzy by the T ransfufioa 
of Bloud, An exact Narrative of an Hermaphrodite , nowin 
London. An Account of fome Books : I. NOUVEAUX 
ELEMENS D E GEO MET RLE. II. SY- 
NOPSIS OPTICA, Authors HONORATO 
FABRI >Soc.#iftt. ill. DE VI PERCUSSIO- 
N IS , JO. ALPHONS. BORELL1. ir. NI- 
COLAI STENONIS M US C U LI Defcriptia 
GEOMET RIGA, &c. 
Obfervations and Tryals 
About the Refemblances and Differences -between a 
Burning Coal and Shining Wood. 
particulars were already in our hands , when we publijht 
i JL lb* Experiments made on Shining W ood andVifh , in the 
lap Papers , imparted then by the jame Noble Author ,Mr , 
Boyle) that thofe were • but wanted then room enough to contain 
thefe , which now follow 5 as they were font in a Letter from Ox- 
ford- , Viz., 
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