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Num. 133.
Beginning the Thirteenth year.
Beginning the Thirteenth year.
PHILOSOPHICAL
TRANSACTIONS.
March 25. 1677.
The CONTENTS.
Preface to the Thirteenth year of these Tracts. Some Observations and Advertisements, tending to improve Gardens and other Land. Observations concerning various little Animals, in great numbers discover'd by Mr.Leewenhoeck in Rain- Well- Sea- and Snow-water, as also in water wherein Pepper had lain infused. Some new Observations made by Signor Cassini concerning the two Planets about Saturn, not long since discover'd by the same. An Account of some Books: I.
PHARMACOPOEIA Collegii Regalis Londini; II. Catalogus PLANTARUM ANGLÆ, &c. Edit. secunda; operâ Johannis Raii, M. A. è Soc. Regia; III. Aero-Chalinos, or, A Register of the Air, &c. Edit. secunda: By Nathan. Henshaw M. D. Fellow of the Royal Society; IV. A Philosophical Essay of Musick.
A Preface to March 25. 1677.
I Have little to say for a Preface to this my Twelfth Volume (which by the Divine Assistance I now begin:) For that so many of the chief Universities in Christendom have already formed themselves into Philosophical Societies; and have so largely contributed their Aydes to advance the Lord Bacons Design for the Instauration of Arts and Sciences, that it is now become above my abilities to direct or propose those rare and excellent things, which are suggested to many worthy Authors by their own happy Genius. Many
