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(Numb, 205, 
PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
For ike Month $ x of Jknmty, February* and March, 
“TheX^N T E N T S. 
I. A Letter from Mr Ralph Thoresby fF: & S. to Dr flans 
Sloane, JL 8. Seer, concerning feme Roman Inscriptions 
found at York 5 proving that the Ninth Legion fometim 
refided there. 
If. DeSjtadrupedibus Philippenfibus Traiidt. a Reverend a 
Georg. Jof. Camel. tranfmjffus Jacobo Petiver, Pharma- . 
cop. CfSociet. Re-gi£ Soc. Londini. 
Iff. Microfcopical Obfervations on the Seeds of fever at EalH 
India Plants, by Mr Authony van Leeuwenhoek, F* R:3. 
IV. A Letter from the Reverend Mr Morton, A , M. and 
$. R. S. to Dr Hans Sloane, S. R, Seer . Containing a di e 1 
l at ion of River and other Shells diggd *np, together with 
• various Vegetable Bodies y in a Bituminous Marfhf Earth, 
near Mears-Afeby /^-Northanaptonlhire : With -fame Re- 
flexions thereupon l; As alfo an Account of the Progrefr he 
has made in the Natural Hijiorji 0 / Northamptonshire. 
V. An account pf a. very large Tumour in the fore-part of the 
Neck , in which was contain d a Bony fubjlance % &c* By 
Dr Jamei Douglas. 
VI. Part of a Letter from the Revere nd Mr W. Derharn, 
F. R. S. concerning a Glade of Light obferved in the 
Heavens r' 
Vff. An Account of an Experiment made before the Royal 
Society , touching the Proportion of the Weight of Air,* to 
the Weight of a like Bulk of Water, without knowing the 
quantity of either. By Mr Fra. Hauksbee, K R, S. 
VIEL An Experiment made ^Grefhani College, fhemng- th'xP 
the fecmingly fponlaneam AfcenJionofiVater, in fm'ull Tubes* 
open at both ends, is the fame in Vacuo as its the open Air, 
By Mr Fr. Hauksbee, F. R*8> 
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