Numb. 458. 
PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
For the Months of September > Qffiober, November , 
and ‘December , 1740. 
The CONTENTS. 
I. An Account of the Analogy betwixt Englifh 
Weights and Meafures of Capacity, by the Rev 4 
Mr- William Barlow o/Plymouth. Tag . 457. 
II. An Account of a Trad intituled , Jo. Fri- 
derici Weidleri Commentatio de Parheliis 
Menfe Januario Anni 1736. prope Petro- 
burgum Angliae & Vitembergae Saxonum 
vifis. Accedit de Rubore Cceli igneo Menfe 
Decembri Anni 1737. obfervato Ccrol- 
larium. Vitemberga?, 1 7 38. 4 0 . Drawn 
up by Tho. Stack, M. D. F, R. S. 459. 
III. An Attempt to examine the Barrows in Corn- 
wall, $j?Steph. Williams, M. 2 ). F. R.S. 465. 
IV- Extrads of Two Letters from Sig r - Camillo 
Paderni at, Rome, to Mr. Allan Ram fay, 
Tainter , in Covenr-Garden, concerning feme 
antient Statues, Pictures, and other Guriojities , 
found in a fubterraneous Town , lately difco- 
vered near Naples. Tranflated from the Ita- 
lian 
