The CONTENTS
V.A Letter from Mr. Martin Triewald, Director of Mechanicks to the King of Sweden, and F.R.SS. of England and Sweden, to Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. Pres. R.S. relating to an extraordinary Instance of the almost instantaneous freezing of Water; and giving an Account of Tulips, and such bulbous Plants, flowering much sooner, when their Bulbs are placed upon Bottles filled with Water, as in Tab II. than when planted in the Ground.
VI.An Account of some Experiments, relating to the Flowering of Tulips, Narcissus's, &c. in Winter, by placing their Bulbs upon Glasses of Water, made by Mons. Triewald, Director of Mechanicks at Stockholm, and F.R.SS. of England and Sweden, and read before the Royal Society May the 7th, 1730, as they were tried the next Season by Philip Miller, F.R.S. Gardiner to the worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at their Botanick Garden in Chelsea.
VII.A letter from T. Madden, M.D. of Dublin, to Cromwell Mortimer, M.D. R.S. Secr. giving an account of two Women being poisoned by the Simple Distilled Water of Laurel-Leaves, and of several Experiments upon Dogs; by which it appears that this Laurel-Water is one of the most Dangerous Poisons hitherto known.
