"Numb. 482. 
PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
For the Months of January and February , 1747. 
The CONTENTS. 
I. A Letter from Mr. Wm. Fidge, Surgeon , to C. 
Mortimer, Sec. R. S. concerning a Stone taken out 
of the Bladder of a Dog, with a Piece of Dog- 
Gra is in its Center. p. 3 3 y. 
II. An uncommon Dropfy from the Want of a Kidney ; 
and a large Saccus that contain d the Water •, by 
Samuel Glafs, Surgeon, fent to Dr. Mead, p.337. 
III. An Explanation of an ancient Infcription at Ilut- 
chefter, upon the Roman Wall, 1744J by John. 
Taylor, LL. D. and Chancell. ^Lincoln, p. 344. 
IV. An Abftraff of the Rev. Mr. Gould’j Account 
<y r Englifh Ants ? by the Rev. Henry Miles, D.D. 
and F. R. S. p. 3 5 r-. 
V. A Remark on F. Hardouin’s Amendment of a 
‘Pajfage in Pliny’s Nat. Hift. Lib. II. § 74. by Martin 
Foikes, 12 /^. P.R.S. p. 365. 
VI. A Letter from the Rev. Mr. Mafon, Woodward. 
Prof, at Cambridge, and F. R. S. to the Pr. R. S. 
concerning Spelter, Melting Iron with Pit-coal, and 
a burning Well at Brofeley. p. 370 
VII. Part of a Letter from Mr. John Browning, of 
Briftol, to Mr. Henry Baker, F.R S. concerning the 
EffeB of Ele&ricity on Vegetables. p. 373. 
VIII. Mercurius fub Sole vifus in Specula aftronomica 
Acad. Giefenfs , 5 Nov. 1743. a Chriftiano Lud. 
Gerften, Math. Prof, et R. S. Lond. Sod. p. 376. 
IX. Obfervations upon fo much of A/.leMonnier jun.’s 
Memoir, lately prefented to the R. S. as relates to 
the 
