The CONTENTS. 
Y. A Letter from Mr. Martin Triewald, Director 
of Mechanicks to the King of Sweden, and F.%SS. 
of England and Sweden, to Sir Hans Sloane, 
(Bar*. Bref. S. relating to an extraordinary In- 
fiance of the almofi inflantaneous freezing of Wa- 
ter ; and giving an Account of Tulips, and fuch 
bulbous Plan ts, flowering much fooner, when their 
l "Bulbs are placed upon (Bottles filled with Water, as 
in Tab. II. than when planted in the Ground. 
VI. An Account of fo-me Experiments , relating to the 
Flowering of Tulips, Narciflus’s, &c. in Win. 
ter , ' by placing their Bulbs upon Glaffes of Wa- 
ter , made by Monf. Triewald, DireBor of Me- 
chanicks at Stockholm, and F. SS. of Eng- 
land and Sweden, and read before the Royal So- 
ciety May the 7 tb, 1750, as they were tried 
the next Seafon by Philip Miller, F. < 5 ^. S. 
Gardiner to the worfhipful Company of Apothe- 
caries, at their Botanic ^Garden in Chelfea. 
VII. A Letter from T. Madden, M. D. of 
Dublin, to Cromwell Mortimer, M. D. 
<K S- Seer, giving an Account of two Women 
being poifoned by the Simple Distilled 
Water of Laurel-Leaves, and of 
feVeral Experiments upon Dogs j by which it ap- 
pears that this Laurel-Water is one of 
the mofi Dange R O US POISONS hitherto 
kji own. 
