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PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
For the Months of January, February, and March, 1712. 
The CONTENTS. 
I. Additional Obfervations upon the ProduUion of Mites , 
See. In a Letter from Mr. Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, 
F.R.S. 
II. Some farther Account of divers Rare Plants, lately oh • 
ferved in fever al Curious Gardens about London, and 
particularly in the Company of Apothecaries Phyjick- 
Garden at Chelfey. By Mr. James Petiver, F. R. S. 
HI. A Relation of an Hydropical Cafe , in which the Gall- 
Bladder was diflended to an unufual bignefs. By Mr. 
James Yonge, F. R. S, Surgeon at Plimouth. 
IV. A Defcripti&n of the Head of a monjlrous Calf In a 
Letter from the Revd. Mr. John Craig, F. R. < 5 . Vicar of 
Gillingham in Dorfetfhire, to Wm. Burner, Efq ^ F.R.S. 
V. An Account of fome Experiments touching the keeping 
of Fijhes in Water under different Circumjiances . By Mr 
Fr. Hauksbee, F. R. S. 
VI. Part of a Letter from Mr. Patrick Blair to Dr. Hans 
Sloane, R. S. Seer. Giving an Account of the Asbeftos, or 
Lapis Amiantus,y»»»^ in the High *1 ands of Scotland, 
VII. The Dimen f on s of fome Hutnan Bones, of an extraor- 
din ary Size , which were dug up near St. Albans in Hert- 
fordfhire. Communicated by Mr W. Chefdden, Surgeon s 
F.R.S. 
