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PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
For the Months of October, November and De- 
cember , 1714. 
The CONTENTS. 
I. AN Account of the Rain which fell every Tear at Upmin- 
fler in Eflex, for the lafi 1 8 Tears vVith Remarks up - 
on that of the lafi Tear, 1714. By Mr. W. Derham, Reftor 
of Upminfter, and Fellow of the Royal Society. Alfo a. 
Comparifon of what has been obferved of the fame kind at Paris, 
by M. De la Hire. 
II. Solutio Generalis Problematis XV. propofixi a D. de 
Moivre, in tradatu de Menfura Sortis inferto Adis Philo- 
fophicis Anglicanis N° 3 19, pro numero quocunque Collu- 
forum. Per D. Nicolaum Bernoulli Bafilienfem, J. U. D. 
& Regice Societatrs Sodalem. 
III. Solutio Generalis altera prsecedentis Problematis, ope 
Combinationum & Serierum infinitarum. Per D. Abr . de 
Moivre , Reg. Soc. Sodalem. 
IV. An Account of feveral extraordinary Meteors or Lights 
feen in the Sky, By Dr. Edmund Halley, Profeffor of Geo- 
metry at Oxon, and Secretary to the Royal Society. 
V. Some Remarks on the Variations of the Magnetical Com- 
pafs, publifhed in the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of 
Sciences, with regard to the General Chart of Vari- 
ations made by Dr . Halley. As alfo concerning the true Gear 
graphical Longitude of the Magellan Straights. By the fame . 
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