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V O L. LVI. 
I. /fBJ'ervations of the Eclipfe of the Sun on the 1 6th 
^ of Auguft, 1765, made at Colombes, near 
Paris, at the Ohfervatory of the Marquis of Cour- 
tenvaux, f 13,8" North of the Royal Ohfervatory , 
and 20" 4 in Time to the Eaft. By M. Me filer, 
Afronomcr, Keeper of the 'Journals , Plans , and 
Maps , belonging to the Marine of France, Fellow of 
the Royal Society in London, and Member of the 
Society of Sciences in Holland • tranflated from the 
French, by Mathew Maty, M. D. Sec . R. S. p. i. 
II. Remarks on the Palmyrene Infcrjption at Teive. 
In a Letter to the Rev. Thomas Bircn, D. D. Secre- 
tary to the Royal Society , from the Rev. John 
Swinton, B. D. F. R. S. Member of the Academy 
degli Apatifti at Florence, and of the Etrufcan 
Academy of Cortona in Tufcany . p. 4. 
III. A Letter to William Heberden, M. D. Fellow 
of the Royal College of B by f dans in London, and 
of the Royal Society , from Daniel Peter Layard, 
M. D. 
