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Florence, and of ihe Elrufcan Academy of Cortona 
in Tufcany. p. 80 
XII. A L eftcr from Mr. Thomas W oolcomb, 
Surgeon, to the late DoCior Huxham, F. R. S. on 
the Caje of a Roy , who died of a Gun- foot Wound 
and communicated by the Rev. J. Cor. Huxham, 
M. D. F. R. S. p. 94 
XIII. Journal of a Voyage , made by Order of the 
Royal Society, to Churchill River, on the North 
Wef Coaf of Hud ton’s Bay ; of thirteen Months 
Refdence in that Country ; and of the Voyage back 
to England; in the Tears 1768 and 1769: By 
William Wales. p. 100 
XIV. Obfervations on the State of the Air , Winds , 
Weather , &c. made at Prince of Wales’s Fort, on- 
the North Wejt Coaf of Hud Ton’s Bay, in the Tears 
1768 and 1769: By Jofeph Dymond and William 
Wales. p. 137* 
XV. An Account of fome very perfect and uncommon 
Specimens of Spongire from the Coaf of Italy : in a 
Letter to James Weft, Efquire , Prefdent of the 
Royal Society j from John Strange, Efquire , 
F. R. S. p. 179 
XVI. A Letter from Captain Davies to John Ellis, 
Efquire, F. R. S. on a Method of preparing Birds 
for Prefervation, p. 184 
XVII. A Letter to Dr. Benjamin Franklin, F. R. S, 
giving an Account of the Appearance of Lightning 
on a Conductor fixed from the Summit of the Main-- 
tnafi of a Ship , down to the Water : By Capt. T. L. 
Winn. p; 188 
XVIII. An Invefiigation of the lateral Explcfon, and 
of the Electricity communicated to the electrical 
Circuit T 
