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Contents ar Number 260. • 



LXIX. Contmaatlonoftbelteply to Mr. Riddle's Re. 

 marks on Mr. Meikle's r>aper «< On the Luaar Observa- 

 tionc." ByMr.MaiKXE. - - ~ Fage iOl 



LXX. Memoir on a new and certain Method of ascertaining 

 the Fignre of the Earth by nieans of Occultations of the 

 fixed Stars. By A. CAGtJOx.i. With Notes andan Appendix 

 by Francis Baily. ' , " * '' 



LXXf. Report from tlie Select. Committee appointed to 

 consWer the Validity of the Doctrine of Contagion in tlie 



^, . - - - 417 



Plague. * - 



LXXtl. Memoi^ofthels^teJAMEsWATT.Esq. F.R.S. 440 1 



LXXIII. OVi the Effects of a.nplniing the Stems and 

 Branches of Fruit Trees with Oil, and on tlie means of de- 

 stroying Insects. BySirG.S.MACKEN2if,Barr. 



LXXIV. Notices respecting New Books. 



LXXV. Proceedings of Learned Societies. 



LXXVI. Inteirigence and Miscellaneous Articles.— 

 Boracic Acid.-Gehlenite, ^eedle-Stone, and- Datolite— 

 Tiumum found in oxidulated Iron Qre.— Poisons.— Egypt. 

 -New Island in the Bay of Bengal—The Adriat.c- 

 Narthern ExiJedition.~.Ealthquakes.-On the Nautical Al- 

 manac-White's EphemerIs.-^New Planet—New Comet. 

 -Early Severity of the Winter—Accidents at Coal, Pits- 

 New Method of grafting Trees-To i^otest Turnip? from 

 ti,«Triy..^Patents.-Meteoix,logicalTabks— Index. 4..0-.4/b 



™^,™ TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



^m The Paper of a Naval Surgeon on Damp Decks. &c. came too 

 late for Insertion this Month. , 



** Communications for this Work, addressed to the Editor, 

 Pitkelt-Place, Temple Bar, will meet with every attention. ^ 



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HURlAYtOR, PRINTERS, SHO€ LANE, LONDON. 



