The C O N T E N T S. 
X. A Letter from Mr. Timothy Sheldrake to Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. 
Pr. R. S. <d^c. concernin^a Monftrous Child born of a Woman under 
Sente?ice ofTranfortation. 
XI. A Paper concerning the Mola Salviani, or Sun-fifh, and a Glue 
made of it j communicated by the Rev. itfr. William Barlow to the Pre- 
fidenc of the Royal Society. 
XII. An Account of the Difcovery Remains of a City under- 
ground^ near Naples ; communicated to the Royal Society by 
William Sloane, F. R. S. 
XIII. An Account of a Meteor feen in the Air in the Bay-time^ on 
Dec. 8. 1/33 i coinmunicated by Afr. Crocker to Sir Hans Sloancj 
Bart. Pr. R. S. ^c. 
XIV. An Account of a Luminous Appearance in the Sky, feen at 
London on Thurfday March 13. i 734 ' 5 - ^7 John Bevis, M. D. 
XV. An Account of the Cafe of a Calculus making its Way through an 
old Cicatrix in the Perinaeum, by David Hartley, M. A. F. R. S. 
XVI. An Account of a Stone, or Calculus, making its Way out through 
the Scrotum j communicated by Mr. John Silley, Surgeon.^ to Sir 
Hans Sloane, Bart. Pr. R. S. 
XVII. A Letter from Mr. Moreton Gilks, F. R. S. to Dr. Mortimer, 
Sec. R. S. giving fame Account of the Petrefadxions iiear Matlock 
Baths in Derbyfhire 3 vjith his Conjeiiures concerning PetrefaBion m 
General. 
XVIII. Part of a Letter from the Abbe Pluche to Dr. Mortimer, Sec. 
R. S. concerning the Smut of Corn. 
XIX. A Letter from JoimBartram, M. D. to Peter Collinfon, F. R. S. 
concerning a Clufier o/lmall Teeth ohferved by him at the Root of each 
Fang or great Tooth in the Head of a Rattle-Snake, upon differing it. 
XX. Notices of fame Meteors obferved at Philadelphia in North-Ame- 
rica ^/Jofeph Qxdintm\\,extraiiedout of a Letter from him to the Same. 
XXI. A Defcription of the Ca%e of Kilcorny in the Barony of Burrcn 
in Ireland, contained in a Letter from Mr. Charles Lucas, Apothe~ 
cary at Dublin, to Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. Pr. R. S. 
XXII. The Cafe of Grace Lowdell, aged about Sixty Tears, vjho had an 
extraordinary Tumour on her Thigh-, communicated by John Chan- 
dler, F. R. S. from Mt. Mizael Malfalguerat, Surgeon, at St. Ed- 
mundVbury. 
XXIII. An ExtraSi of a Letter from Mr. James Short, of the College 
at Edinburgh, to Mr. Rich. Graham, F. R. S. of an .Aurora Borealis. 
XXIV. A Letter from Mr. John Freke, F. R. S. Surgeon to St. Bartho- 
lomewVHofpital, to the Royal Society, relating a Cafe of extra- 
ordinary Exo {lores on the Back of a Boy. 
E R R AT A. 
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