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camentorum, an cerevisæ illius, an naturæ benefic io disrupti & expulsi sint. Ex segmentis frustulorum valde convexis, quæ hic mitto, & quæ adhuc adservo, judicare licet, vix ullum illorum calculorum nucem moschatam superasse, plures vero minores fuisse. Interea tamen solutionem calculorum in vesica haud prorsus impossibilem esse, mihi evincere videntur, licet res forte quam rarissime contingat. Vale mihique save.

Dab. Helmstadii in Amcademia Julia ipsis Calendis Octobris, m dcc xxx.



IV. A Letter from the Reverend William Derham, D. D. Canon of Windsor, and F. R. S. to Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. Pras. Coll. Med. & R. S. concerning the FROST in January, 1730/1.

THE late Frost having been almost as intense as any that hath been for many Years, I send you my Account of it; which if you think Worth the Cognizance of the Royal Society, be pleased to impart it to them.

In the Philosophical Transactions for November and December, 1709, Numb. 324, I have given an Account of some of the most remarkable Frosts that I could find any Relation of; and particularly of that great and, I had almost said, universal one in 1708, which the Society had very good Histories of from divers Parts, and which, in that Transaction, I have given an Account of from the Original Papers, whichthe