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Concoction, of food, hypothesis of the tv. 400,99 Havers
Concretion, remarkable concretions attached to the body of
a calf, i. 5
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-nature of gouty, and urinary concretions, xviij£213,
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observ. &c. on urinary concretions; xviii. 234, Pearson
see Stone.
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Condamine, Charles Marie de la, biographical account of,
ix. 665,.....
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declination of some southern stars, 1738, ibidoƆ
method of finding the hour of the night at sea, ibid
letter from Rome, on the Mss. and antiquities of Her
culaneum; on the figure of the earth, x. 709JJ
Conductors (of lightning) an apparatus for powder-mills,
xii. 127,....

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.. Day 5, xi. 472, De la Caille 1762, Paris, xi. 645,...... De la Lande -1759, the Hague, xi. 677, ...... Gabry 1764, course of, observed at Paris, xil. 116,.. Messier Confucius, biographical account of, iii. 393,..... Note on the return of the comet of 1682, xii. 263, .. Same Congelation, a phenomenon in, xv. 423, ...v. Hutchins two comets, 1766, observed at Paris, xii. 286, Same; experiments on lowering the point of, xvi. 459, Blagden remarks on the same by M. Pingré, ibid. see Frost, Ice (Artificial) observed April, 1766, at Kirknewton, xii. 287,.. Brice Conic Sections, some new properties in, xii. 124, Waring Jan., 1771, at Paris, xii. 104, Messier conipendious method of deducing, xiii. 458, ...Jones 1770, computation of its periodic tittie, xiv. 485, Lexel Conifera alypi follo, account of, iii. 64, ...or Sloane 1781, observation of, xv. 154, Herschel; 321,.. Note Connecticut, natural curiosities at, i. 421,..... Winthrop 1783, observations of, xv. 464, 621,. Pigott Connor, Bernard, M.D., biograph. account of, iv. 10, Note retum of the comet of 1532, 1661, predicted, xvi. 147,|- of a skeleton with backbone, ribs, &c, united, ibid— Maskelyne Connought worm, (spinx elpenor) remarks on, iii. 120, 1786, observed at Windsor, xvi. 169,.. Miss Herschel Bundarenko gde in hing to go Molyneux remarks on it, xvi. 170, Herschel Conny, Robt. M. D., of a shower of fishes in Kent, iv. 302 observ. of, at Chiselhurst, xvi. 186, Wollaston Conringius, Herman, biographical account of, li. 207, Note 1785, 1788, observations of, xvi. 560,. Herschel Consett, Rev. Thos., meteorological observations at Peters1791, observation or, xvii. 126, Same burg,.... Same Constantinople, latitude of, iii. 255,7.vt. !!!. Greaves Maskelyne, &c. first permission of printing at, vit. 556; ... ... Eames Miss Herschel answers to queries by Dr. Maty, viz., respecting the plague at, x. 580; population, ibid; polygamy, 582; inoculation, ibid; printing, 583; state of learning, ibid, ... ...Parsons Contagion, how communicated, ii, 584, Slare; 585 Note, Conti, Abbé, invention of the differential method or fluxions, Hire vi. 389; Leibnitz's answer, 39016419-da 990'ler Wallis Contrayerva, account of the, vii. 506, MMS Houlston Robins Co Convulsions, remarkable case of, Hi. 197, ....4www.Cole Waddel of a remarkable kind, iv. 564, Freind

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-improvement in the speaking-trumpet, ij. 415
Cook, Wm. rooms warmed by steam in pipes, ix. 125
to stop the leakage of worm-eaten ships, ibid
Cooked Benje, extraordinary damp in a well, viij, 244
- ball of sulphur supposed to have been generated in the
,812air,iviii. 264 1213006

Tafite ball seen at Newport, viii. 550

tro effects of mixing the farina of blossoms, ix. 169
electricity of flannel, ix. 337, 532

mixed breed of apples, from mixing the farina, ix.599, 685
communicating of the jaundice in coitu, ix. 686
Cook, Capt. Jas., biographical account of, xiii. 174, Note
solar eclipse observed at Newfoundland, 1766, xii, 422
astronomical observations at Otaheite, xiii, 174
transit of Venus 1769, at Otaheite, xiii. 176, 177
magnetic-variation tables, observed in a voyage round
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his plan for preserving the crew's health in his voyage
Beround the world, xiy, 58

Cookson, I. M. D., magnetism communicated by lightning,
viii. 24, 25

of a boy with a craving appetite, ix. 126
Cooper, Allen, effects of lightning on a ship, xiv. 510
Cooper, Sam., on a storm of thunder and lightning, xi. 327
Cooper, Wm., M. D., an extraordinary acephalous birth,
xiii. 654

Cooper, Wm., D, D., observations of a meteor, August
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Bee Zoophyta.

Ellis
Cork, experiments on the specific levity of, xil. 204,
Wilkinson

Cork, Bishop of, bones of a skeleton conjoined, viii, 516
ancient temple in Ireland yiii. 715; a stone hatchet an ibid."
Cor Leonis, occulted by the moon, ix. 336 ...... Beris
Cormorant, anatomy of the, iii. 391
Corn, cause of the smut of, viii. 408,
on worms in the smut of, viii, 732,.
nature and cause of the blight in, ix. 611,

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ix. 612, xii. 209.. Notes.. Banks
Corn, account of various diseases of, xii. 208. Tissot
Cornea, see Eye, Cataract.
Cornel-caterpillar, account of the, ix. 500........ Skelton
Cornelian, a specimen of white found at the Giant's Cause-
way in Ireland, x. 382

Cornelio, Thos., M. D., of persons pretending to have been
bitten by tarantulas, i. 719; a disorder called in Italy

the coccio maligno, ibid

Cornish, Jas., on the torpidity of swallows, &c., xiii, 660
Cornwall, Capt., magnetic variations on a voyage, vi, 569,
Cornua ammonis, see Ammonita,

Coronopus, efficacy against hydrophobia, viii. 269, Steward
Corpse, see Bodies (Human).
Corrêa de Serra, see Serra.

Corse, John, natural history of the elephant, xviii. 4411
different species of Asiatic elephants, and on their
mode of dentition, xviii. 509

Cortex Eleutheria, quantity of resin in, vi. 579, Brown
Cortex Winteranus, account of, iii. 586,
Sloane
Corundum stone from Asia, account of, xviii. 357,

Cooper, Astley, effect of the destruction of the membrana
o tympani of the ear, xviii. 626
Copenhagen, account of the plague at, 1711, vi. 75,-specific gravity of, xviii. 377,..

— analytical description of the crystals of, Greville

Chamberlayne
Copernicus, a portrait of, presented to the R. S., xiv. 127,

Wolfe

Davies

Povey
Baynard

Cope, John, an ancient date in Indian figures, viii. 32, 37
Copper, account of a mine at Herrngronndt, i. 450, Brown
account of some copper works, iii. 536,
transmutation of, into brass, iii, 535,
effect of swallowing it, iv. 335,
>preservation of a dead body in a mine, yii. 41,... Leyel
from the waters of the Hungarian mines, viii. 236, Bell
of the Wicklow copper-springs, x. 280, 338,- Henry
X. 366,
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of the springs in Pennsylvania, xi. 3,
new method of assaying the ore, xiv. 608,,... Fordyce
discovery of gold at the Cronebane copper-mines, xvii,
677,A
.....Lloyd
chemical examination of some ancient copper arms and
Sutensils, xviii., 41, ...
Pearson
Copperas, art of manufacturing, ii. 461,
Colwall
Coral, where found and how produced, i. 443,.... Gansius
nature and origin of, ii. 117 to

microscopical observations on, v. 266, 426, Leuwenhoek
natural history of x. 154, the madrepora described,
159; the myriozoon, 160,..
Donati
-origin, its uses, of the animal causing it, &c. x. 257,
bonumco wod .n. Peyssonel
of the isis ochraces from the East Indies, xi, 109

Corallines, observations on the sertularia peritina, x, 345
different sorts of, x. 453, ka • HOLOODS• (APIDYaTing Ellis
animal nature of, x. 490,-
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opinion of the vegetable nature of, xi, 184. Baster
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Various authorities

Costa, Emanuel Mendes da, on belemnites, ix. 311 Note
two beautiful echipites, ix. 665


remarks on the Dudley fossil, x. 401
impressions of plants on the slates of coals, xi. 123
on tincturing marble, xi, 32+

remarks on the terra tripolitana, xi, 372
of a giant's-causeway in Scotland, xi. 535

Costard, Rev. George, biographical account of, ix. 168, Note
observation of a fiery meteor, July 1745, ix. 168
chronology and astronomy of the Chinese, ix, 343
on the year of the eclipse foretold by Thales, x. 310
an eclipse mentioned by Xenophon, x. 356
on the ages of Homer and Hesiod, x. 440
translation of a passage in Ebn Younes, xiv. 133137
Costiveness, extraordinary case of, v. 247,....
Cotes, Roger, biographical account of, vi. 77,
logometria,

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account of a meteor, March 1715, v. 477
Cotton, microscopical observations on, ii. 404, Leuwenhoek
the seeds of, iii. 589,.. Same

Cotton, Rev. Edw. D.D., of a loadstone dug in Devonshire,
1.: 149
Couching, see Cataract, Eye,
Coughs, efficacy of blisters in, xi. 220,
Courten, Wm., effects of poisons on animals, v. 684
Courzier, M., effect of the blood of a person dead of plague,
vi. 586

Cow, anatomy of the Barbary cow, iii, 391

see Distemper

Cowper, Wm., biographical account of, iii. 615, ..
experiments with Colbatch's styptic, ii, 615
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Cowper, process of chylification, iv. 81

case of a diseased kidney, iv. 105
remarks on M. Dupré's tract relating to muscles of the
neck, and a deformed human skull, iv. 368, 372
cure of the tendon of Achilles snapped asunder, iv. 376
discovery of two glands with excretory ducts in the
urethra, iv. 415

polypus in the vena pulmonalis, iv. 563

Crocus autumnalis sativus, (see Saffron).
Cromertie, Earl of, account of the mosses in Scotland, v. 6 3
Crotch, Wm., his early musical genius, xiv. 513, Burney
Crotor spicatum (lucidum) account of, xii. 529, .... Bergius
Croone, Wm., M.D., biographical account of, iii. 135, Note
Croonian lectures, (see Muscles).

Crow, two species of, from Hudson's Bay, xiii. 332, Forster
Croy, Prince of, solar eclipses, 1765-6, at Calais, xii. 347

on the extremities of the arteries and veins, &c., iv. 680 Croyland Abbey, see Shrine.
on aposthumations of the lungs, v. 41
anatomy of the male opossum, v. 111

ossifications and petrifactions of the arteries, v. 215
remarks on a case of costiveness, v. 248

of hydatids in a sheep's kidney, v. 315
remarks on the effect of a gangrene, v. 398
dissection of Mr. Dove's body, v. 698

— a body dead of asthma, v. 705

Cox, Mr., of a pestilential fever caught by tapping a dropsi-
cal corpse, viii. -338

Coxe, Dan., M. D., volatile salt from vegetables, ii. 124

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158, 166

improvement of soil in Cornwall with sea-sand, ii. 206
Coxe, Tho., transfusion of blood from a mangy to a sound
dog, i. 159

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Crabs, description of the Molucca crab (monoculus poly-
phemus) iv. 325,
natural history and economy of the cancer major, ix. 203,
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— on the casting of their shells, x. 254,
Crabs' eyes, remarks on, iv. 519,
-and other earthy absorbents, ill effects of, viii. 452, Breyne
- produced from crawfish, and description, ix. 470, Baker
Crabtree, Mr., remarks on the solar spots, v. 626
Craddock, Zach., a fiery meteor, May, 1744, ix. 46
Craig, Rev. John, quadrature of figures geometrically irra-
tional, iv. 202

quadrature of the logarithmic curve, iv. 318

on the curve of quickest descent, iv. 542

solid of least resistance, iv. 544

Cruikshank, Wm., experiments on the nerves and their
reproduction; on the spinal marrow, xvii. 512

observ. on the ova of rabbits after impregnation, xviii.129
Cruquius, Nich., barom. thermom., &c. observations, vii. 2
Crural artery, see Artery.

Crusio, Charles, a remarkable cutaneous disease, x. 475
Cruwys, Samuel, Aurora borealis in Devon, vi. 442, 523
Crystal, experiments and optical observations on a sort of
crystal from Iceland, i. 545, ....
Bartholin

- nitrous crystals exhaled from the ground, i. 720, .. Lana
microscopical observations on, v. 204, Leuwenhoek

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- discovery of some rare crystals, vii. 187,.... Scheuchzer
minute.crystal stones, ix. 145, ...
Parsons
attempt to account for the formation of, xii. 384, .. King
on the crystallizations of glass, xiv. 102,.
Keir
Crystalline humour of the eye, observations on, iii. 91,v.155,
Leuwenhoek

Mr. Hunter's observations on the nature and use of, xvii.
343,....

- experiments on the same subject, xvii. 453,
Cube, on the doubling of the, i. 328,
Cubic Equations, see Equations.

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Cuculus indicator, (Honey-bird,) description of, xiv. 128,
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Cuckoo, natural history of the, xvi. 432,...
Cudworth, Ralph, D. D., biograph. account of, ii. 422, Note
Cullum, Sir Dudley, a stove for hot-houses, iii. 658
Cullum, Rev. Sir Jn., a remarkable frost, June 23, 1783,
xv. 604

Cumberland, Capt., art of bending planks by sand-heat,

vi. 577

- method of determining the quadrature of figures, v. 24 Cuninghame, James, shells of the Island Ascension, iv. 418
solution of Bernoulli's prob. on curves, v. 90

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on the length of curve lines, v. 406

method of making logarithms, v. 609
head of a monstrous calf, v. 668

Cramer, Gabriel, biographical account of, vii. 393,.. Note
unusual aurora borealis at Geneva, ibid
Cramp, followed by mortification, vi. 479,.... Steigerthall
Crane (Bird) anatomy of the demoiselle (Numidian) iii. 392

species of, from Hudson's Bay, xiii. 342, ...... Forster
Crane (Machine) improvements in the, vii. 369. Desaguliers
Crawford, Adair, power of animals to produce cold, xv. 147
observations on the matter of cancer, xvi. 710

of the air extricated from animal substances by distillation
and putrefaction, xvi. 715

- on sulphureous hepatic air, xvi. 726

Credibility of human testimony, on the degrees of, iv. 438
Creed, Rev. Mr., a machine for writing extempore volun-
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Currie, James, M. D., biograp. account of, xvii. 193,.. Note
effects of immersion in hot and cold, fresh and salt wa-
ter, on the living body, xvii. 193

Curteis, Wm., on raising bulbous roots in water, vii. 642-*
Curtis, Roger, natural history and population of Labradore
xiii. 547,

Curves, on the quantities of, i. 251,.
two problems on, solved, iv. 129,

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investigation of the curve of swiftest descent, iv, 335,

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methods of measuring curved figures, iv. 488, Wallis
solution of the probable curve of quickest descent, iv.
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method of squaring some kinds of, iv, 658,.... Demoivre
solution of Bernoulli's problem on, iv. 90, ...... Craig
length of curve lines, v. 406, ...
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of the 3d order, quadrature of, vi. 183,
solution of a problem concerning, vi. 211,....Newton
solution of Leibnitz, problem on, vi. 309,......
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construction and measure of, vi. 356,
of swiftest descent, vi. 374,...

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Dampier's powder, efficacy of for the bite of a mad dog,
viii. 204,
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Cuttle-fish, description of the American, xi. 286,.... Baker
Cyanus [centaurea orientalis] account of, ix. 31,... Haller
Cycloids, synchronism of vibrations in. ii. 64, .. Brouncker
on quadrable cycloidal spaces, iv. 39,

Wallis
and epicycloids, proposition for measuring, iv. 47, Halley
of descents in, &c. iv. 140,

knowledge of, as early as 1450, iv. 169,........ Wallis
see Epicycloid.

Miles

Cyder, on the management of apple-trees for, i. 581.. Reed
and perry, hints for improving, ix. 165, ...
Cygnus, figure of, and a new star in, i. 137, .... Hevelius
Cylinders, best proportions of, for steam engines. x. 187,
Blake
Cylindroid, generation of a hyperbolical, i. 353,; application
of to the grinding of hyperbolical glasses, ibid.. Wren
Cyprianus, Dr., child born with a wound in the breast,
iv. 102

Cyprus [lawsonia inermis] account of the, ix. 583, Garcin
Cyrillus, Nich., use of cold water in fevers, vii. 353
eruption of Vesuvius, March 1730, vii. 554

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an earthquake in Naples 1731, vii. 606
meteorological history of 1732, vii. 629

Cystis, of a scirrhous tumour inclosed in, vi. 73, .. Russel
watery cystises adhering to the peritoneum, viii, 492,

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on fire-damps in mines, ii. 474,

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of a Newcastle colliery taking fire, v. 450, ..Charrette
machine for extracting it from mines, vii. 208, Desaguliers
effects and properties of, vii. 365,
Greenwood

method of extracting from a coal-pit, viii. 612, Lowther
remarks on the cause of, viii. 77, .... ... Desaguliers
experiments on the inflammability of, viii. 77,.... Maud
- extraordinary damp in a well, viii. 244,
..Cooke
see Mines, Fire, (subterraneous)
Dantzick, of the plague at, in 1709, vi, 23
Darkness, a remarkable, at Detroit in Amer. xi. 695, Stirling
Darwin, Erasmus, M. D., biograph. account of, xi. 124, Note
theory of the ascent of vapour, ibid
uncommon case of homoptysis, xi. 435

experiments on animal fluids in the receiver, xiii. 586

a new case in squinting, xiv. 297

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see Arabian Figures.
Daval, Peter, comparative size of London and Paris, vii. 228
- an extraordinary rainbow, July, 1748, ix. 682
distance of the sun from the earth, xi. 677
Davenport, Francis, of the tides at Tonquin, iii. 66
Davidson, George, of the bark-tree of St. Lucia, xv. 6191
Daviel, M. method of couching the cataract, x. 287
cures of cancerous eye-lids, nose, &c, x. 602
Davies, -, M. D., of hydatids voided with urine, iv. 601
of an unusual colic, iv. 618

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Davis, Edward, child born with its bones displaced, ix. 351
Davis, Rev. John, a siphon similar in effect to the Wurtem-
burg, iii. 111

Davis's quadrant, a water-level for, viii. 260,...... Leigli
mercurial level for, viii. 262
Same
Dawes, Rev. Tho. of the plague at Aleppo, 1758, &c., xi.686
Dawkes, Thomas, account of a gigantic boy, ix. 95
Dawson, Ambrose, M. D., a long suppression of urine, xi. 376
Day, Mark, observations of the comet of 1760, xi. 428
Dead bodies, see Bodies.

Perry

Dead Sea, analysis of the water of, viii. 555,..
Deaf and dumb, method of teaching a language to, i 464,
Wallis
-teaching to speak and understand, iv. 312, ......

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a person who recovered his speech, &c. after a fever, v. 379,.

Martin Deafness, remarks on, 1. 242, Holder; on perforating the tympanum, i. 243, Note

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Deaf and dumb, a person, so born, taught to speak, v. 50, || Dennis, John, cure of a phrensy by transfusion of blood, i. 218; continuation of the case, marks, 404 account of a newly invented styptic, u. 67 yt 4.t° {y"st of an uncommon fœtus, ii. 116 Denmark, curiosities seen in, v. 45,、、 Density, see Earth, Air, Planets, &c., Dent, Rev. Thos., of worms in the tongue, &c. ii, 670 Dentaria heptaphyllos, account of the, x. 250, Watson Derante, Peter, mortification of the os bumeri, vi. 556 Derby, J., whirlwind in Dorsetshire, Oct. 1731, vin. 359 Derham, Wm., D.D., Torricellian experiment on th the mor

two deaf persons who understood from the lips motion, v. 378, Waller instruments for remedying, viii. 529, Cleland efficacy of the cupping glass for its cure, xiii. 536,Darwin see Ear. Dean, Forest, of the iron works at, ii. 418, .. Powle Deaths, by spontantaneous combust, various cases of, ix. 138 other cases, ix. 144, Hilliard .. Allen observations on the, iv. 576. v. 133,.. Derham Debenham, Thos., fœtus extracted from the abdomen, x. 153 Debraw, John, on the sex of bees, xiv. 125

Death-watch, description of the, iv. 319,

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Decimals, of circulating decimal fractions, xii. 555, Robertson
Deer, see Moose-Deer, Horns,

Degg, Simon, M. D., of a large human skeleton, vii. 213
case of longevity, ibid

Degloss, Lewis, transit of Venus, 1769, xiii, 47, Dinapoor
Degrees, see Latitude.

Deidier,, M. D., biographical account of, vi. 557 Note
experiments on bile, ibid. and 561, 586

Delava), Edward, electrical experiments, xi. 334, 589

damage of St. Bride's steeple by lightning, 1764, xii. 140 on lightning conductors, xii. 143

the colours of metals in minute particles dependent on their specific gravity, xii. 179

Delgovitia, situation of the ancient town of, ix. 216,

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Knowlton ix. 352, Burton ix. 354, Drake.

Delirium, a person without an ear for music, singing well youwhen delirious, ix. 370, Doddridge Delisle, Joseph Nich,, biographical account of, vii, 335, Note -eclipses of Jupiter's satellites, at Petersburg, vii. 335 construction of quicksilver thermometers, viii. 66 proposal for measuring the earth in Russia, viii, 124 actual admeasurement of the basis, viii. 134

- parallax of Mars and of the sun, x. 454

Deluge (universal) opinion of, iii. 493,

on the cause of, vii. 33, 35, idea of in China, x. 390, theory of the, xii. 379,

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Demoivre, Abraham, biographical account of, iv. 14, Note use of fluxions in solving geometric problems, iv, 14

· on his multinomial theorem, iv. 176

to extract the root of an infinite equation, iv. 275

to find the solid of the lunula, iv. 505

-method of squaring some kinds of curves, iv. 658

solution of equations of the 3d, 5th, 7th, &c. degree, v. 342

on the doctrine of chances, v. 618

solution of a problem in chances, vi. 98

quadrature of a curve of the 3d order, vi. 183 simple properties of conic sections, vi. 306

➡motions of celestial bodies, v. 395

reduction of algebraic to simple fractions, vi. 595

the section of an angle, vi. 617

reduction of radicals to simpler terms, viii. 271 →method of calculating annuities, ix. 45

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Denis, John,on transfusion of blood, and a new method, i. 159

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to measure the height of merc. by a circular plate, iv. 231 rain fallen in 1698; observ. on the barometer, iv. 348

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- observations of the weather, 1699, iv. 483
observations on the death-watch, iv. 576, v. 133
observations of spots in the sun, v. 79,

- particulars of a storm of salt rain, v. 92

an instrument for finding the meridian of a place, v. 129
motion of pendulums in vacuo, v. 172

comparative fall of rain at several places, v. 200
magnetic experiments and observations, v. 258, 259
of a glade of light observed in the heavens, v. 288
register of the weather at Upminster, 1705, v. 547
observation of a pyramidal light in the heavens, v. 354
experts. and observations on the motion of sound, v. 380
on the migration of birds, v. 425

account of inundations, monstrous births, &c., v. 485,
observations of the solar eclipse, Sept. 1708, v. 487
lunar eclipse, Sept. 1708, ibid

comparison of the weather at Zurich and Upminster, v. 497

account of the great frost of 1708-9, v. 533

- instance of a child crying in the womb, v. 539
dissertation on the above case, ibid

observations of the solar spots from 1703 to 1711, v. 622
subterraneous trees found near the Thames, v. 681 #
lunar eclipse Jan. 1712, v. 700

of a woman recovering from small-pox delivered of a dead child covered with pustules, vi. 43

fall of rain at Upminster for 18 years, vii. 97

mischief arising from swallowing plumstones, vi. 253
the application of telescopic sights to instruments, dis-
covered by Mr. Gascoigne, vi. 2955

on the sexes of wasps, vii. 16

account of the lumen boreale, 1726, vii. 183,

- eclipses of Jupiter's satellites, 1700 to 1727, vii. 227. -longitude of various places compared, vii. 334

uncommon appearances in an aurora borealis, vii, 352 observations on the ignis fatuus, vii. 374

of the frost in 1730-1, vii. 448

- meteorological diaries, vii. 530

observations of the nebulous, stars, vii. 602

meteorological observations at Petersburg, yii. 611

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-remarks on meteorological diaries, vii, 660, 666, 676

experts. on the vibrations of pendulums, viii. 60

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Desaguliers, J. T. LL.D., biograph. account of, vi. 229, Note. experiment on light and colours, ibid

experiment on the refrangibility of light, vi. 239

cause of the variation of the barometer, vi. 283
experiment of an interspersed vacuum, vi. 321, 480
very speedy vegetation of turnips, vi. 404
efficacy of Vallette's burning-glass, vi. 405,

of telescopes without eye-glasses for myopes, vi. 424
resistance of the air to falling bodies, vi. 428, 430

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