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PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
For the Months of July , Augujl and September , 1 7 1 6. 
The C O N T E N T S. 
I. Account of the Caufe of the late remarkable Appearance of 
the Planet Venus, feen this Summer , for man-) Days together , in 
the Day time . By Edm. Halley, £. Seer . 
II. Letter of the Reverend Mr. John Sackette, A. M. 
Dr. Brook Taylor, Reg. Soc. Seer, Giving an Account of a 
very uncommon finking of the Earth , near Folkeftone /tf Kent. 
III. Mifcellaneous Obfervations made about Rome, Naples and 
fome other Countries, in theTear 1683 and 1684; and commu- 
nicated to the Publijher by Tancred Roblnfon, M. D. R. S. S. 
IV. An Account of the Mifchiefs enfuing the fir allowing of the 
Stones of Bullace and Sloes. By the Reverend^ illiam Derham, 
Prebendary of Wind for, and F. R. S. 
V. Obfervations and Experiments relating to the Motion of the Sap 
in Vegetables. By Mr. Richard Bradley, R- S. S. 
VI. Some Microfcopical Obfervations, and Curious Remarks on the 
Vegetation and exceeding quick Propagation of Moldinefs, on 
thp Subfance of a Melon ; Communicated by the fame. 
VII. ihe Art 0/Living under Water : Or, a Difcourfe concerning 
the Means of fur nijhing Air at the Bottom of the Sea, in any or- 
dinary Depths. By Edm. Halley, LL> D. Secretary to the 
Royal Society. 
VIII- Obfervations on the Glands in the Human Spleen 5 and on a 
Fradure in the upper part of the Thigh-bone. By J. Douglafs, 
M- D. and R. S. S. 
IX- An Account of a Book. DISSERTATED de DEA 
SALUTE, In qua illius Symbola, Templa, Status, Num- 
mi, Infcriptiones exhibentur, illuftrantur. Audore Gull- 
helmo Mufgrave G. F. eColl. Exon Oxonii : Typis L . Lie h fields 
Impenfis Phil. Teo, Bibliopolse Exon. Anno MDCCXVI. 
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