Author: Royal Society
Title: PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World. EXTRACT from Vol. LIII For the Year 1763
Description: ..., 1764. 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. pp.(240-264). Disbound, without stitching, sl. stained and lightly browned. ¶ Article comprises XXXVIII. An account of the eclipse of the Sun, April 1, 1764: In a letter to the Right Honourable George Earl of Macclesfield, Pres. R. S. from Mr. James Ferguson; XXXIX. An account of an Earthquake at chattigaon: Translated from the Persian by Mr. Edward Gulston, in the service of the Honourable East India company, and communicated by him to the Reverend Mr. Hirst; XL. An account of an earthquake in the East Indies, of two eclipses of the Sun and Moon, observed at Calcutta: In a letter to the Reverend Thomas Birch, D. D. Secret. R. S. from the Reverend William Hirst; XLI. Extract of a letter from Mr. Edward Gulston, at Chittigong, to Major John Carnac, at Calcutta; and anothr incomplete paper.

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