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PHItpSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
H'.JI— ■■T™^ — 
For the Months of QBob. ]SloV. and Decemh, 1 7 1 7. 
-ta/V’ Tfhc^ O N T E N T- S. ’ 
I. An Advertifentent fo 'Aftronomers, <>7 Advantages that Tn<*y 
accrue from the Ohfervation of the hA,o6n s fre<^ttent A’ppuljes to 
Hyades, during the-threemekt infumgTears.- 
II. Solatia Prohlematis d Dom. G. G. Leibnitio Geometris Anglis 
nuper propafiti. ; Per Brook Taylor, LL. £). ^ R. S, Seer. 
III. ! ExiraSlof a Lettet of Dr. Q.hf. Hunter, M.D. to £)r. J.VVood* 
ward, M.D. & K, S. S.from Durham, giving an Account of a, 
/ Rojnan infeription, lately dug up in. the North (^England; 
, with fime Hifianicahand Chrondogical Retnarks thereon. ; -f 
IVi. A Genus 0 / P L A N T S, call’d Araliaftrum, of 
which the famous Ntn-ztn or Ginfeng of the Chinefes, is a 
•Species. Communicated by A/r. Vaillant Prademoti/lrat'or at 
. the Royal Garden at Paris, to the Learned Dr. Will. Sherrard, 
• LL. D. late Conful Smynia,! and by him to the Royal 
-Society. i c i, i 
V. ExtraPi of a o/" A/r. Ed w. Berkley /rew Naples, giv- 
ing Jeveral curious Objervationt and Remarks on the Eruptions of 
Fire and Smoak from Mount V E S U V I O. Communicated 
by. Dr, John Arbuthnoc, M. D. and R. S. S, 
VI. An Account of an extraordinary Tumour or Wen lately cut 
off the Cheek of a Perfon in Scotland. Communicated to the 
Royal Society by Dr. Thomas Bower, M.D. and F. R. S. 
VII. An Account of an Experiment to prove an interfpers’d Va- 
cuum,* or to jhew that all Places are not equally full. By the 
Reverend J.Theoph. Defaguliers, M, A. and R. S. S. 
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