-Numb. 455. 
PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
Por the Months of Non)ember and December, 1739. 
The C O N T E N T S. 
I. A Letter from hts Excellency N icolas-Michael 
d’Aragona, Prince of Caflano, and F. R. S. 
to the Prefidenc of the Rotal Society, 
containing an Account of the Eruption of 
Veruvius in May 1757. Tranjlated from 
the Italian hy T. S* M. D. F, R. S. 
II. An Abjlraii of a Letter from an Englifh 
Gentleman at Naples to his Friend in Lon- 
don, containing an Account of the Eruption 
of Mount V May 18. and the foU 
lowing LlaySy 1737. N,S, 
III. De Atmofphara Lunari, F)iJfertatio Afiro^ 
nomica, Au 6 lore fD""" Johanne Paulo Grand- 
jean de Pouchy, in fuprema Galliae Rationum 
Curia Senatore^ & Reg. Scient, Acad. Parif. 
Socio, 
IV. A 
