C O N T E N T S, 
Greek and Parthian Legend , never before publijhed. 
In a Letter from the Rev. John Swinton, M. A . 
of Chrift-Church, Oxon, F. R. S. to the Rev . 
Tho. Birch, D. D. Secret. R. S. p. lyg. 
XXIII. An Account of a Red Coral from the Eaft- 
Indies, of a very fingular Kind : In a Letter from 
Mr. John Ellis, F.R.S. to Mr. Peter Collinfon, 
F. R. S. p. 189. 
XXIV. An Account of the EffeAs of a Storm at 
Wigton in Cumberland. Commwiicated by Mr. 
Philip Miller, F. R. S. p. 194. 
XXV. An Account of the EffeAs of Lightning upon 
the Steeple and Church of Leftwithiel, Cornwall ; 
in a Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of 
Macclesfield, Prefident of the R.S. By Mr. John 
^Smeaton, F.R.S. p.198. 
XXVI. An Account of the Cafe of the late Right 
Honourable Horace Lord Walpole ; being a Sequel 
to his own Account publijhed in the Philofophical 
Tranfadti.ons, Vol. xlvii. p. 43 and 472. p. 205. 
Pojlfcript to Dr. Whytt'r ObJ'ervations on Lord 
WalpoleV Cafe. ' p.385. 
XXVII. An Account of the Virtues of Soap in dif- 
folving the Stone , in the Cafe of the Rev. Mr. 
Matthew Simpfon. Communicated by John Pringle, 
M. D. F. R. S. p. 22 1 . 
XXVIII. An Account of the Impreffions of Plants 
on the Slates of Coals : In a Letter to the Right 
Honourable George, Earl of Macclesfield, Prefident 
of the R.S. from Mr. Emanuel Mendes da Cofh, 
F.R.S. p.228. 
XXIX. A Catalogue of the Fifty Plants from Chel- 
fea Garden, prefented to the Royal Society by the 
worjhipjul Company of Apothecaries , f or the Tear 
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