CONTENTS of NUMBER X. 



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I. Account-of areiparkableFjeiy Eruption from the Earth, 

 in Iceland, in the Year 1783. By S. M. Holm,S. S.ThcoL . 



-il' An Account of Toaldo's Syflem rtfpefting tlve Pro- 

 bability of a Change of Weather at the different Changes of 



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1 l in.°°On the prefent Slate of Surgery in Turkey. By 



W 'l V T °Acfo2nt of the Method of catchingWild Elephants 



at Tipura in the Eaft Indies. By John Corse, Efq. ■ 13° 



V Obfc- vations on the bodily Conformation and rr*nta.l 

 Capacity m the Negvbes. By ProfeiTor ^Blumenbach - W 



VI Atrenda, or a Colle&ion of Obfervations and Re- 

 searches, tie llefnits of which may ferve as the 'Foundation S 

 torn Theory of the "Earth. By U.Dz Saussum - - 147 



VII. Obfervations en the Winter Sleep or Animals and 

 Plarfts. BvFroftlTor Fabricius - - * *$° 



• Vill". Experiments made to afcertam the Compofitipn ot 

 the Swediih Stone Paper or Artificial State. By J. G . Geokg. } S 8 



IX On the to called Sea Froth and other Subllances ot 



' which' the Bowls of the Turkifli Pipes arc made - - 165 



X A lingular Phenomenon reipefting Snow, Tome ot 

 which 6f«a Kd Colour was found on the Alps. By WU 

 DoSaussuee - " * .. " 

 . XI Befcription of an Aoparatns propofed to be applied 

 to m' "Rung wit's Diving Machine, to enable it to be ufcd 



at greater I\T-hs than it othenvile could - r - >7 Z 



XII. Singular Inlranoe of the Attachment of Birds of Prey 

 t^'tlieir Yotinff. By M. Cronstedt - - - i;t> 



XIII. A fhort 7?k*. of the Mitchillian Theory of Fever, 



and of Contagious Difeafes jn general - - " 177 



XIV Dcfcriotion of a Machine for drawing Bolts inland 

 eat of Ships. Invented by Copt. W^mam Bolton of the 



^ XV. Defection and Ufe of C. Guyton's Eudiometer - 19 r 



XVT On the Component Parts of lron-ftones, and how _ 

 .theV in the manufacturing nfled the Quality of Crude Iron. 



Mr. David Musket, of the Clyde Iron-works - - .193 



'XVll. A' remarkable Cafe of internal Pam m the Heel, 

 ■ and an incipient Mortification, cured by the .Inhalation ot 

 Vital &tt 



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 Learned Societies. Royal Society of London.-A new 



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