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PHILOSOPHICAL 
For the Months of April, May , and June, 1732. 
The CONTENTS. 
I. An AbftraSl of the Meteorological Diaries com- 
municated to the Royal Society, with (Remarks 
upon them by W. Derham, D. T). Canon of 
Windfor, and F. 
II. The Pefcription of a new Quadrant for taking 
Altitudes without an Horizon , either at Sea 
or Land. Indented by Mr, John Elton. 
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III. A remarkable Cafe of a Gentlewoman who died 
of a Hydrops Ovarii, in the Thirty-third 
Year of her Age, after haying been tapped 
Fifty- feVen times. (By Mr. John Belchier, 
Surgeon. 
IV. A Letter from Mr. Stephen Gray toT>r.~. 
.Mortimer, Seer. R. S. containing a farther 
.Account, of his Experiments concerning Elec- 
tricity. 
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