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Beginning Vol. XL. 
PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS 
For the Months of January , February, March, April, 
May and June, 1737. 
The CONTENTS. 
I. A Catalogue of the Fifty Plants, from Chelfea-Gar~ 
den, prefented to the Royal Society by the Company ^Apo- 
thecaries, for the Tear 1J35. purfuant to the Direction of 
Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. Med. Reg. id Soc . Reg. Prcef. by 
Ifaac Rand, Apothecary , F. R.S. HorL CheL Prcef ac 
Prcelec.. Botan. 
IL The Cafe of a Lad bitten by a mad Dog, communicated iw 
a Letter from Mr. Edward Nourfe, F. R. S. and Chirur- 
geon to St. Bartholomew^ Hofpital, to Cromwell Mor- 
timer, M. D . Seer. R. S. 
III. An Explanation of the Runic Characters of Hellingland,. 
by Mr. Andrew Celfius, R. S. Suec . Seer. F. R . S% and. 
Profeffor of Aftronomy at Upfal. 
IV. A Collection of the Obfervations made on the Eclipfe of 
the Moon, on March 15, 1735-6. which were communi- 
cated to th& Royal Society. 
V. Inveftigationes aliquot , ex quibus probetur Terra figuram 
fecundum Leges attractions s in ratione inverfd quadrats dift an- 
tiarum maxime ad Ellipfm accedere debere , per Dn. Alexin, 
Clairaut, Reg. Society Lond. id Reg. Scient . Acad. Parif. SoL. 
VI. Extrabi of a Letter from Stephen Williams, M, B. 
F. R. S. concerning the Viper- catchers, (mention'd in 
N° 443. of thefe TranfactionsJ and the JEjfcacy of Oil of: 
: Plives in curing the Bite of Vipers, 
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