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PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
For the Months of April, May, June, and July , 1 745 . 
The CONTENTS. 
J. Two "Letters from the Rev. Mr. Granville Wheler,. F.R.S. to the 
Prefident, concerning a rotatory Motion o/Glafs Tubes about their 
Axes 3 when placed in a certain Manner before the Fire. p. 341.’ 
II. An Attempt by John Ward, Rhet. Prof. Grefh. F. R. S. to 
explain fome Remains of Antiquity lately found in Hertfordfhire 3 
and communicated to the Royal Society fy' .William Freeman, Efq; 
one of their Members , February 14. 1745’. 349. 
III. A Letter from Gowin Knight, M. B. to the Prefident 3 con- 
cerning the Poles of Magnets being varioufly placed. 3 61 . 
I’V. An Account of fome very curious Wafps Nefs made of Clay in 
Penfilvania; by Mr. John Bartram: Communicated by Mr. Peter 
Collinfon, F.R.S. 363. 
V. Extract of a Letter from Mr.H — B — r, containing an Account^ 
in Pounds and Ounces , of the furprifmg Quantities of Food devoured 
by a Boy, 12 Tears old , in 6 fuccejjive Days , who laboured under 
a Canine Appetite, at Black Barnfley in Yorkshire. Communicated 
by Dr. Mortimer, Secret. R. S. 3 66. 
VI. Of an Iliac Paffion, occafioned by an appendix in the Ilion : By 
the late Claudius Amyand Efq 3 Serjeant -Surgeon to His Majefty, 
and F. R. S. 369 
VII. A Propofal for Warming Rooms by the Steam of boiling Water 
conveyed in Pipes along the Walls : And a Method of preventing 
Ships from Leaking, whofe Bottoms are eaten by the Worms : 
By Colonel Wm. Cook. 370. 
VIII. De Lapide Ofteocolla Inquiftio, AuSiore Ambrofio Beurero 
Neurembergenf ; communicata per Dominum Petrum Collinfonum, 
R.S.S. 373. 
IX. A Letter from J. Cookfon, M. D. to Mr. Latouche at Little 
Chelfea, concerning the Boy who has an extraordinary Boulimia, 
or craving Appetite : Communicated to the Royal Society by John 
Martyn, F.R.S. <& Prof. Botan. Cantab. 380. 
X. Philippi Frederici Grnelin, Med. Licent. Wurterbergenfis ad 
Martinum Folkes Reg. Soc. Prafd. Epiftola de Radice Ipecacuanhas, 
Obfervationes quafdam medico-phy fcas , <fy de fallaci Vifione per 
Microfcopia compofita notata nonnulla continent. 382. 
