CONTENTS. 
known by the Appellation of Platina, Platina di 
Pinto, Juan Blanca. By William Lewis, M. B. 
F.R.S. p.638. 
LXXXV1I. An Explication of all the Infer ipt ions 
in the Palmyrene Language and Character hi - 
therto publifhed. In five Letters from the Re- 
verend Mr. John Swinton, M. A. of Chrift- 
Church, Oxford, F.R.S. to the Reverend Tho- 
mas Birch, D. D. Secret . R. S. p. 690. 
LXXXVIII. Extract of a Letter from John Lining, 
M. D. of Charles Town, in South Carolina, to 
Charles Pinckney, Efcji in London: IVith his 
Anfwers to fever al Queries Jent to him concern- 
ing his Experiment of Electricity with a Kite . 
P* 7 f 7 - 
LXXXIX. An Anfwer to Dr. LiningT Query re- 
lating to the Death of Profejfor Rjchman. By 
Mr. William Watfon, F. R. S. p. y6f. 
XC. Extract of a Letter from John Henry Wink- 
ler, Profeffor of Natural Philofophy at Leipfic, 
and Fellow of the Royal Society , to Thomas 
Birch, D. D. Secretary of the Royal Society , 
relating to Two electrical Experiments ; tranfi 
lated from the Latin. p. 772. 
XCI. An Account of a Fire-Ball, feen at Hornley, 
by William Hirft, F. R. S. communicated in a 
Letter to Samuel Mead, Efq-, F.R.S. p. 773. 
XCI I. A Letter from Monfieur Clairaut, Member 
of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, and 
F.R. S. to Thomas Birch, D D. Secret. R. S. 
containing a Comparifon between the Notions of 
M. de Courtivron and Mr. Mclvil, concerning the 
Difference of Ref tangibility of the Rays of 
Light. p. 77 6 . 
XCIII. 
