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PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS 
For the Months of March , April r and May, 1747. 
The CONTENTS. 
I. Of Birds ofP adage, by Mr. Mark Catesby, 
F. R. S. 435. 
II. A Letter from Mr. John Freke F. R. S. 
Surgeon to St. Bartholomew’* Hof pi tab t0 
the Prelident of the Royal Society, inclofing 
a Paper of the late Rev. Mr. Creed, con- 
cerning a Machine to write down Extem- 
pore Voluntaries , or other ‘Pieces of Mulic. 
445 - 
III. The Fig ure of the Muftela foffilis ; com- 
municated from Dr. Gronovius at Leyden 
to Mr. Peter Collinfon, F. R. S. 451. 
IV. Some Obfervations on the Belluga-Stone, 
by Mr. Peter Collinfon, F. R. S. ibid. 
V. An Obfervation on an Occultation of Cor 
Leonis by the .Moon, on Thurfday, March 
12. 1747, in Surrey-Street in the Strand, 
London, with a refolding Telefcope> made 
by Mr. Short, F. R. S. which magnified 
about 100 times ; communicated to the Royal 
Society by J. Bevis, M. 2 X 45 y. 
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