CONTENTS. 
XI. An uncommon Anatomical Ohfervaiion addrejjed to 
the Royal Society^ by John Baptift Paitoni, Phy~ 
fician at Venice : Pranjlated from the Italian, p. 79. 
XII. An Account of a New Improvement of the Port- 
able Barometer. By Edward Spry, M. D. of 
Totnefs, Devon: In a Letter to the Right Ho- 
nourable James Eatd oj Morton, Prefdent of the 
Royal Society. P* ^3* 
XIII. A Letter from Mr. Woolcombe, Surgeon at 
Plymouth Dock, to Dr. Huxham, F. R. S. con- 
cerning the Cafe of a Locked faw. p. 85. 
XIV. A Defcription of a beautiful Chinefe Phea- 
fant', the Feathers and Drawing oJ which were 
fent from Canton to John Fothergill, M. D. F.R. S. 
By Mr. George Edwards, F.R. S. p. 88. 
XV. A Catalogue of the Fifty Plants from Chelfea 
Garden, prefented to the Royal Society by the wor- 
fdipful Company of Apothecaries^ for the Tear 1764, 
purfuant to the Dirediion of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. 
Med. Reg, et Soc. Reg. aliquando Prcefes : By John 
Wilmer, M. D. clarijf. Societatis Pharmaceut . 
Lond. Soc. Hort. Chelfean. PrafeSlus et Praledlor 
Botanic. P- 
XVI. A Courfe of Experiments to afcertain the fpe- 
cific Buoyancy of Cork in different Waters : The 
refpelHve Weights and Buoyancy of fait Water and 
frejh Water : And for determming the exaSi Weight 
of human and other Bodies in Fluids. By John 
Wilkinfon, M. D. F.R. S. of London a?jd Got- 
tingen. p. 95. 
XVII. An Account of the Difeafe, called Ergot, in 
French, from its fuppofed Caufiy viz. vitiated Rye. 
In a Letter Jrom Dr. Tiflbt, of Laufanne, to 
George 
