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PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
for the Months of ‘January t February-, Marchy Airily 
May, and Juncy 1740. 
The CONTENTS. 
L A Catalogue of the FiftyPlant sfroj» Chelfea Garden^ pre- 
fented to the Royal Society by the Co?npany of Apothecaries^ 
for the Tear 1738. purfuant to the Direiiion of Sir Hans Sloancj 
Bart. Med. Reg. ^ Soc. Reg. Praf. By Ifaac Rand, Apothecaryy 
F. R. S. Hort. Chel. Praf. ac Pruelec. Botan. 
II. Some RefleSiions on Generation, and on Monfters, mith a Defcriptio?i 
of fome particular Monfters ; By Daniel de Superville, Privy-Coun~ 
fellor and chief Phyf dan to his mofi Serene Highnefs the Margrave 
of Brandenburg-Bareith, Prefdent of the College of Phyf dans, Di- 
rePtor of the Mines and of all Medicinal Affairs in the Margravite, 
filemher of the Imperial Acade?ny Naturae Curioforum, and of the 
Royal Society of Berlin. 
III . Offs Bregmatis Giganteas Magnitudinis Icon, Tab. I. Fig. 2. 
Tab. II. Fig. i, cum Prohlemate de Gigantis Statura determinanda 
fecundum Regulas Artis Delmeatoria : qua adlllufir. Regal is 
Societatis Pnefdem !)«>« Hans Sloanc, Bart, tranfmiftjic. 
Theodor. Klein Reipubl. Gedan. a Secretis, cfy Reg. Soc. Lond. Soc. 
iV. An Account by the Rev. Zachary Pearce, D. D. F. R. S. of a Book 
intituled. Reflexions Critiques fur les Hiftoires des Anciens Peuples, 
(fyc. Paris, 1735 in % Vol. 
V. A Query propofed to fuch curious Perfons as ufe the Greenland 
Trade, occafoned by the annexed Better from Mr. David Nicolfon, 
Surgeon, to Dr. Mortimer, Sec. R. S. rovcerwwg Scurvy-grafs. 
N\. A Better from Edmund Stone, F. R. S. to " • concerning 
two Species of Lines of the Third Order, not mentioned by Sir Ifaac 
Newton, nor Mr. Sterling. 
VII. An Account of an Improvement on the Terreflrial Globe, by 
Jofeph Harris, Gent. * 
VIII. A 7iew Method of improving and perfeSiing Catadioptrical Tele- 
fcopes, by forming the Speculums of Glafs inflead o/Metal. By Ca- 
leb Smith. 
Df. BxtraSi of a Better from the Hon^i^ Henry Temple, Efq-, to his 
Father the Right Hon^i^ the Bord Vifcount Palraerfton, concerning 
an Earthquake at Naples 1732. communicated to the Royal Society by 
Claudius Amyand, Efq-y F. R. S. Serg*- Surgeon to his Majesty. 
