CONTENTS. XV 
LXII. Obfervation of the Tra?ifit of Vqvius, on June 
3, 1769. In a Letter from John Leeds, Lfguire, 
Purveyor General of the Province of Maryland, to 
John Be vis, M. D. F. R. S. ' p. 444 
LXIII. Experiments to prove that the Liiminoiifnefs of 
the Sea arifes from the PutrefaSiion of its Animal 
Sulfiances. By John Canton, M. A. and F. R. 
p.446 
LXIV. A Series of Ajlronomical Obfervations made 
at the Obfervatory of the Marine at Paris, to wit,, 
1°. Obfervations of Jupiter’s Satellites in the Tears 
ij 6 y and 1768. 2°. Obfervations on the Shadows 
of Jupiter’s Satellites. 3°. On the Variation of the 
Belts on the Life of that Planet. 4°. Obfervation 
of a Spot on the Difc of the Third Satellite. 
5°. Obfervation of the Belts of Ft^itmn. 6 °. Obfer- 
vation of the Moon’s Paffage over the Pleiades, in 
1767. 7°. Obfervation of a partial Eclipfe of the 
Moon, January 3, and of a total one, December 
23, 1768. 8°. Obfervations of Two Auroras Bo- 
reales, Auguft 6, and December 5, of the fa?ne 
Tear. By M. Mefficr, Afronomer of the Marine, 
F. R. S, and of the Academies .of Holland and 
Italy. ^ ^ P- 454 - 
LXV. Ajlronomical Obfervations made by Order of the 
Royal Society, at Prince of Wales’s Fort, 07 i the 
Nerth-we/i Coaf of Hudfon’s Bay. By William 
Wales and Jofeph Dymond. p. 467 
LX VI. Extract from the ^journals of the Royal So- 
ciety, June 23, 1768, refpedimg a Letter addrejfed 
to the Society by a Member of the Honfe of Jefuits at 
Pekin in China j by Charles Morton, M. D, 
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