Numb. 423.
PHILOSOPHICAL
TRANSACTIONS.
For the Months of April, May and June, 1732.
The CONTENTS.
I.An abstract of the Meteorological Diaries communicated to the Royal Society, with remarks upon them by W. Derham, D.D. Canon of Windsor, and F.R.S.
II.The Description of a new Quadrant for taking Altitudes without an horizon, either at Sea or Land.Invented by Mr. John Elton.
III.A remarkable Case of a Gentlewoman who died of a Hydrops Ovarii, in the Thirty-third Year of her Age, after having been tapped Fifty-seven times.By Mr. John Belchier, Surgeon.
IV.A Letter from Mr. Stephen Gray to Dr. Mortimer, Secr. R.S. containing a farther Account of his Experiments concerning Electricity.
V. An
