Numb. 471. 
PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
For the Months of November and ^December , 1743. 
The CONTENTS. 
I. Of the Bafes of the Cells wherein the Bees depofite their 
Honey. Part of a Letter from Mr. Mac Lauvin, Pro - 
feffor of Mathematics at Edinburgh, and F. R.S. to 
Martin Folkes, Efq , Pr. R. S. Page 565. 
II. A Letter from Mr. John Winthrop, Hollifian Profefor 
of Mathematics and Aftronomy at Cambridge in New- 
England, to C. Mortimer, M. D. Sec. R. S. concerning 
the Tranlit o/‘Mercury over the Sun, ApEl 21. 1740. and 
of an Eclipfe of the Moon, Dec. 21. 1740. 572. 
III. An Account of the Tranlit of Mercury o r ccr the Sun, 
0 £t. 25. 1743. in the Morning , cbfirvcd at Mr. , Geo. 
Graham’.? Houfe in Fleetlfreet. 578. 
IV. An Eclipfe of the Moon, Oct. 22. 1743* in the Morning, 
obfirved at Mr. Graham’ j Houfe in Fleetilreet. 580. 
V . Part of a Letter from the Right Reverend Father in 
God Robert Lord Bifkop of Corke, and F. R. S. to the 
Right Honourable John Earl of Egmont, F. R. S. con- 
cerning the Remains of an antient Temple in Ireland, of 
the fame fort as the famous Stonehenge, and of a Stone 
Hatchet of the antient Iriffi. 581. 
VI. A Letter from the Reverend Mr. Griffith Hughes, Mi- 
nijler of St. Lucy’j Parifh in Barbadoes, to Martin 
Folkes, Efq 3 Pr. R. S. concerning a Zcophyton, jomc- 
what refembling the Flower of the Marigold. 590. 
VII. A Letter to the Rev. Mr. Roger Pickering, V. D. M. 
to Cromwell Mortimer, M. D. Seer. R. S. concerning 
the Seeds of M ufhrooms. ^ p 5 • 
VIII. 
