xii CONTENTS. 
XL VI. An Account of a very remarkable Meteor feen 
at Oxford. In a Letter to Mathew Maty, 
M. D. Sec. R. S . from the Reverend John Swinton, 
B. D. F. R. S. Cufos Archivorum of the Univerfity 
of Oxford, Member of the Academy degli Apatifti at 
Florence, and of the Etrufcan Academy of Cortona 
in Tnfcany. p. 532 
XLVII. A Letter from Richard Price, j D. D. 
F. R. S. to Benjamin Franklin, LL. D. F. R. S. 
on the Effeffi of the Aberration of Venus during the 
lafl Tranjit over the Sun. p. 336 
XLVII I. A Catalogue of the Fifty Plants from Chelfea 
Garden, prefented to the Royal Society by the wor- 
fldpjul Company of Apothecaries, for the Tear 1767, 
purjuant to the Direction of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. 
Med . Reg. et Soc. Reg. nuper Preefes : By William 
Hudfon, Societatis Regies & clarif. Sccietatis 
Pharmaceut. Lond. See. Ilort. Chelfean. P ree- 
fed us et P reeled or Botanicus. P- 54 1 
XLlX. A Jhort Account of the Obfervations of the 
late Trarfit of Venus, made in California, by Order 
oj his Catholic Majejly ; communicated by his Ex- 
cellency Prince Mafferano, Ambaffador from the 
Spanifh Court , and F. R. S. p. 549 
L. Extratt of a Letter , dated Paris, Dec. 17, 1770, 
to Mr. Magalhaens from Mr. Bourriot, containing 
a fort Account of the late Abbe Chappe’s Obferva - 
ticn of the Tranft of Venus in California. Tranf 
lated by Dr. Bevis, F. R. S. p. 531 
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