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The following is the Obf creation that was made 
of the laft Eclipfe of the Sun, at the Obfervatory 
Royal at Berlin. 
1748. July 2y. N.S. The Beginning of the Eclipfe 
was not obferved, the Sun 
having been covered with 
Clouds. 
h / // 
The Annulus was completed at 11 52 yi ant erne rid* 
broken 1 1 13 
The End of the Eclipfe 1 9 pojl.merid. 
The Diameter of the Sun was 3 1 '- 43 " 
This Eclipfe was Tikewife obferved annular at 
Francfort upon the Oder , but not fo exadly as at 
Berlin . 
IX. A Letter f rom James Parfons M. D- 
F. R. S. to the Prefident, containing an 
Account of a preternatural Conjunction of 
two Female Children. 
SIR, 
Head Nov. 17. A BOUT the middle of September la ft 
1748 ’ a Woman in Holborn was deliver'd 
with much Difficulty of two Gills join'd together by 
the Bellies in fo fingular a manner, as to deferve a par- 
ticular Defcription to be laid before you and the 
Society , as a very curious Subjed. 
The Care of preparing thefe Children for keeping 
in Spirits was committed to Mr. James Sherwood Sur- 
geon, \Vho was fo kind to fend for me to obfervethem 
with him ,* and it was refolved to inject them, in order 
to make our anatomical Examination the more accu- 
lately. 
