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. LXIV Part I.
Description: ..., 1774. 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. pp.(105-123). Disbound, without stitching, in two portions, sl. stained and lightly browned. ¶ Articles comprise XI. An improvement proposed in the cross wires of telescopes, by Dr. Wilson, of Glasgow. In a letter to the Astronomer Royal; XII. The case of a patient voiding stones through a fistulous sore in the loins, without any concomitant discharge of urine by the same passage: In a letter to Dr. Maty, from Mr. S. F. Simmons; XIII. The disparition of Saturn's ring, observed by Joseph Varelaz, Lieutenant of the Royal Navy of the King of Spain, and Professor of Mathematics, in the Academy of Guard-Marine at Cadiz. In a letter to Dr. Morton; XIV. Of the gillaroo trout. A letter from the Hon. Daines Barrington, to the Rev. Dr. Horsley [seemingly the first mention in print of the Gillaroo]; XV. Account of the stomach of the gillaroo trout. In a letter from Mr. Henry Watson to Sir John Pringle; And another incomplete paper.

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