CONTENTS. 



Ill 



Page 

 Dr. Rob. St. Clair, on a new kind of Lamp . . ibid 



R. P. on an Eruption of Water 322 



Mr. Desmasters, Experiments on Freezing . . . ibid 

 Dr. Plot's Catalogue of Electrical Bodies , . . 32.1 

 Account of Tournefort's Histoire des Plantes .ibid 

 Biographical Notice of Jos. de Touniefort. . . . ibid 



Mr. Buckly, on a China Cabinet 32+ 



Ja. Petiver, on some Maryland Animals, &c. . ibid 

 Capt. Lnngford's Observations on Hurricanes. . 330 

 Mr. Ballard, on the Magneti.sm of Diills .... 332 

 George Lewis, on some Indian Manuscripts . . 334. 

 Dr. E. Baynard, Swallowing of 2 Farthings . . 333 

 R. Sault on the Curve of swiftest Descent .... ibid 



M. GeoftVoy, on Mineral Waters, &c 336' 



Biographical Notice of Ste. Francis Geoffroy ibid 

 Experiments and Observations on Sounds. . . . 337 

 Mr. Desmasters, further Exper. on Freezing. . 340 

 Mr.Boaavert, a Stone at theRoot of the Tongue ibid 

 Dr. Musgrave, on a Piece of Antiquity, &c. . .341 

 On the Oxford Catalogue of Manuscripts .... ibid 

 Dr. Sloane, further Ace. of the China Cabinet 345 

 Ace. of Boccone's Museo di Plante Rara, &c. 34ti 

 Geo. Camelli, on the Tugusor Amomum .... 347 



Ph. Ja. Hartman's Account of Amber ibid 



D. Caslone, on the Generation of Flees 348 



M. Geoffroy, on mixing Inflammable Liquors ibid 



Dr Sloane, again on the China Cabinet 349 



Wm. Derham, on the Barom. and Weather . . ibid 

 Rd. Townley, on the Quantity of Rain, &c. . . 350 



Mr. Dale, on several Insects ibid 



Ra Thoresby, on a Man killed by Lightning. . 351 

 Account of Boccone's Museo di Fisica, &c. . . ibid 



. Dr. Herman's Paradisus Batavus 352 



Dr. Sloane, again on the Chinese Cabinet .... ibid 



Mr. Maleverer, on Coal-Bormgs 353 



M. Cassini, on a Comet observed at Paris . . . 354 

 Dr. Cay, on the Virtues of the O-tracites . . . 355 



Fr. Joannes, on the Faba Sancti Ignatii 356 



Fa. Camelli, on the same Seed ibid 



Wm. Clerk, on Stones in the Stomach, &c. . . 357 



M. Bussiere, on Cutting for the Stone 358 



Mr. Petto, on Some Solar Parhelia 36l 



SirPaul Ricault, on Sable Mice in Lapland. . . . ibid 



Dr. Sloane, on Some Plants in Jamaica 362 



Dr. Fern, on a Fcetus without the Womb .... 365 



Mr. Stephen Gray, on Solar Parhelia 367 



Dr. Tho. Molyneux, on Scolopendra Marina. . 368 

 M. Dupre, on the Muscles in the Neck .... ibid 



, on a Deformed Human Skull .... 372 



M. Bussiere, on a Child without a Brain .... 373 



M. Geoffroy, Regulat. of the Royal Acad 374 



Ace. of Allen's Nat. Hist, of Chalyb. Waters 375 



Dr. Sloane, on a Dropsy in the Ovary ibid 



Wm. Cowper, on curing a cut Heel Tendon. . 376" 



Dr. Cockburn, on a Blister in Fevers 378 



Wm. Aglionby, on the Nature of Silk 380 



Two Propositions proposed to be answered . . ibid 



Mr. Llwid, on a Figured Stone 381 



Sir CharUs Holt, on Swallowing Stones ibid 



Dr. John Woodward, Exptr. on Vegetation . . 382 



Account of Savery's Sieam Engine 398 



James Eraser, Account ot Loch-Ness ibid 



Dr. Clopion Havers, on Concoction 400 



Jer. Jones, on the Moorish Cookery 407 



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Page 

 Account of Dr. Wallis's Opera Math. vol. 3.. 410 

 Leuwenhoeck, on the Animal, in Sem. Masc. .412 

 Dr. Wallis's Correspond, with M. Leibnitz ... 413 

 Account of Charmoye's Origin of Nations. . . . ibid 

 Dr. Wallis's Answer to Leibnitz's Letter .... 414 



■ on the MeridianLine 415 



Tho. Luffkin, on the Numeral I'igures ibid 



James Petiver, on the Virtues of Herbs 4l6 



James Cuninghame's Catalogue of Shells, &c 418 

 Leuwenhoeck on the Animal, in Sem. Human. 419 

 Ph. Lloyd, on Diseases in the North Nations 420 



John Houghton's History of Coffee Ibid 



Dr. Freind, on a Hydrocephalus 423 



Biographical Notice of Dr. John Freind ibid 



J. Cunningham, Barometer and Weather .... 426 



Dr. Dan. Giegory, on a SolarEclipse ibid 



Dr. Lister, on the Origin of white Vitriol. . . . 427 



Mr. Thoresby, on Mr. Greatrix's Cures ibid 



Account of Pat. Gordon's Geography 428 



Huygens's Celestial Worlds .... 429 



Dr. Tyson's Orang Outang .... 431 



J. Lowthorp, on the Air's Refraction 432 



Dr. Wallis, on the Julian and Gregorian Cal. . 434 



Ld. Burleigh's Report on the Calendar 437 



John Greaves's Reflections on the same ibid 



Credibility of Human Testimony 438 



Account of Swammerdam de Apibus, &c. . . . 442 



D'Amerique's Analysis Geomet. . ibid 



Biographical Notice of Swammerdam ibid 



Wm. Cowper, on 2 new glands 445 



Dr. Vieussens de Organo Auditus 44S 



Dr. Wm. Musgrave, on Laryngotomy ibid 



Tho. LutFkin, on Cupping Glasses 451 



Quadrature of Hippocrates's Lunula, by Wallis, 



Perks, Da. Gregory, and John Caswell .... 452 

 Dr. Da. Gregory's Defence of the Catenary 456 



Sir J. Floyer, on Monstrous Pigs, &c 458 



Biographical Notice of Sir JohnFloyer ibid 



Hugh Jones's Account of Maryland 460 



On the Quadratix to the Circle 462 



Leuwenhoeck, Circulat. in Tadpoles 46^ 



Dr. Molyneux, on a Bodkin in the Bladder. . 468 

 Sir Theo. Mayerne. on the Viper and Poisons 469 



Account of a double Pear 470 



Number of Births, Burials, sec. in March .... ibiJ 



Tho. Povey, on making Brass ibid 



Account of Geudron's Cure of Cancers ibia 



Dr. James Brewer, on beds of Oyster-Shells. . 471 



Dr. Tho. Molyneux, on Giants ibid 



Number of Births, Burials, &c. in Branden. . 477 

 Leuwenhoeck, Worms in Sheeps' Livers, &c. ibid 

 Capt. South, on the Houses, &c. in Dublin . .481 



, No. of Seamen, &c. in Ireland. . ibid 



, No. of People in Ireland 4-82 



, No. of Romish Clergy in Ireland ibid 



Dr. Wm. Sherard, on China Vanishes ibid 



Mr. Derham's Observations on the Weather . 483 



M. Homberg, on Acid salts ibid 



Biographical Notice of M. Homberg ibid 



Mr. Gray, on a Parhelion and Halo 436 



Dr. James Wallace, Account of Darien, &c. . 437 

 Ace. of Dr. Wallace, on the Orkney Islands. . ibid 



M. Bussiere, on a Polypus in the l.ungs 488 



Dr. Wallis, on measuring curved Figures. . ibid 

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