L 480 j 
a Copy of, and he only telling me, it was a pretty 
Hypothecs, I never refk&ed upon fince, till thefe 
eledricai Experiments lately read before the Society , 
and thofe Accounts of luminous Emanations from 
human Bodies, had brought them back to my Mind .; 
and I think 1 have now fet them a little beyond a 
mere Hypothecs. I. am,. 
SIR: , 
Tour moft obliged , 
'Devoted, humble Servant , 
Cromwell Mortimer. 
July 4. 1 745 • the Society adjourned to Oft. 24. 
Printed for C. Davis, over-againft Graf s -Inn Gate 
in Holbourn, Printer to the Royal Society, 
M.dcc.xlv. 
N. B. A Letter from Dr. Miles to Mr .Baker having been publifhed 
in the Phil. Tranf. N°. 469. as that Gentlemanhas nothing in View 
but the Difcovery of T ruth, he thinks proper to redtify a Miftake 
he then made, in fuppofing certain Bodies to have been animal Sub- 
ftances, from their feeming to have a fpontaneous Motion in Water: 
it having fince appeared to him that they were only the Seeds of the 
Bidens foliis tripartito divifis. Ccefalp. 488. TOURNEFORT. 
p. 462. Tab. 262. that had fallen into the Water, and were pollibly 
poflefs’d by fome Infects which might give them that Motion. 
ERRATA 
In Tranfafiion 475. pag. 285. 1 . 24. for Calender, read Calendar: 
ib. p. 286. /. 1. for D, G, N and O, read G, D, N, and O. . 
In Page 373. Line 23. of this Tranfaftion for Snonebergam read 
Sonnebergam : Ib. p. 393. 1 . 1. for Mr. read Dr. B amber : Ibid. 
p. 457. /. ic). for Adt Med. Phil. & Hafn, read Ada Med, & Philof. . 
Hafnienf. 
