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PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
For the Months of November and December, 1708. 
' The CON TENTS. " 
I. A Letter from Mr. Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, F.iR. 5 '. 
containing his Obfervations upon the White Matter on the 
Tongues of Fever ijh Perfons^ 8cc. 
II. A Letter concerning a Colliery that took Fire, and was 
blown up near killing 69 Perfons, on Auguft 
18, 1708. Communicated by the Reverend Dr. Ai^tiiur 
Charlett, Mafter of Univerfity College in Oxford. 
III. An Account of the Succefs of an Attempt to continue fe-- 
veral Atmofpheres of Air condensed in the fpace of one, for 
a con fider able time. By Mr. Fr. Hauksbe«, F.R.S. 
IV. An Account of an Experiment touching the Production 
of Light within a Globe Glafs, whofe inward Surface is 
lirddwithSealingAVax, upon an Attrition of its out fide. 
By Mr. Fr. Hauksbee, F. R: S. 
V. An Account of Jeveral Experiments, in relation to the 
Weight of Co?nmon Water, under different Circumjlance^. 
By Mr. Fr. Hauksbee, F. R. S. 
VI. A Relation of fome firange and wonderful Effects of the 
Scurvey, whuh happened at Pms in the Tear 1699. By 
Mr. Poupart. Taken from the Memoirs of the Hiftory 
of the Academy of Sciences. 
yil. An Extract of a Memoir, concerning the Difcovery of 
a Pajfage by Land to California ; with a Map and Defcrip^ 
tionof thatCountry. Prefented to the Royal Council ofGiVi- 
dalaxara in Mexico,^j Francis Maria fkolo.Takenfrom 
the Letters of the Mijjionary Jefuits, printed at Paris. 
yill. De Variis Animalibus Philippenfibus, ex MSS. R.P^ 
. Geo. Jof. Camelii. Communicavit D. Jac.Petiver,iS'.R..S- 
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