CONTENTS OF VOLUME SEVENTH. 



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r AHRENHEIT, the Heat of Boiling Li- 

 quors 1 



Biographical Notice of Fahrenheit ibid 



Cmquius, Observ. on the Barometer, &c. . 2 



Dr. Houstoun; Dropsy in the Ovary ibid 



Dr. Woodward, on the Prussian Blue .... 4 



John Brown, Observations on the same ... 6 



Dr. Sprengell, General Mortality Bills 10 



J. Ranby, a Cataract of the Eye 12 



Biographical Notice of Mr. John Ranby . . ibid 



Ja. Bradley, Observations of a Comet .... 13 



Biographical Notice of the Rev. Ja. Bradley ibid 



Ld. Paisley, Observations on a Comet .... 15 



Bianchini, on the same Comet 16' 



Mr. Derhani, Observations on Wasps .... ibid 



Dr. Huxham, Observations in Physic 17 



Tho. Robie, on Inoculation, a Solar Eclipse, 



and the Venom of Spiders 20 



A Lunar Eclipse, Observed in Italy 21 



Fahrenheit, on Freezing Water 22 



Mr. Wasse, Variat. in the Human Height 24 



Wm. Beckett, Remarks on the same .... 25 



Apothecaries Co. Catalogue of Plants .... 27 



Geo. Graham, Magnetic Variations ibid 



Dr. Sprengell, on Eaton's Styptic 29 



Fahrenheit, on Specific Gravities 32 



Dr. Halley, on the Universal Deluge ..... 33 



, Further Thoughts on the same . 35 



Tho. Fairchild, on the Sap in Plants .... 36" 



Mr. Dudley, on Sweating in Hot Turf .... 37 



Dr. Desaguliers, Ebbing and Flowing Ponds 39 



M. Leyal, a Human Body found in a Mine 41 



Fahrenheit, of a New Areometer ibid 



John Bonnet, Preternat. Struct, of Pudenda 42 



Dr . Vater, Partial Sight of Objects 44 



Diss ection of Eyes with Cataracts 45 



Dr. Scheuchzer, Earthquakes in Sicily .... 46 



Hu. Stackhouse, on the Death Watch 49 



Wm. Burnet, Eclipses of Jup. Satellites . . ibid 



Dr. Desaguliers, on Levelling ibid 



J. Lindlestolpe, Intestinum Parturiens ... 53 



M. Burrman, Aurora Borealis at Upsal .... 54 



Fahrenheit, on a New Barometer ibid 



Fa. Carbone, Lunar Eclipse at Lisbon .... 55 



, Eclipses of Jup. Satellites . . ibid 



, Dif. of Long, from Lisbon, Ike. ibid 



Valsalva, Glandula Renalis ibid 



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Dr. Hudson, Currents at the Straits 56 



Dr. Boylston, Ambergris in Whales 57 



Paul Dudley, Plants in New England ibid 



Dr. Desaguliers, Figure of the Earth 6l 



John Ranby, Observations on the Ostrich . . 69 



Dr. Halley, Transit of Mercury, 1723 . . 71 



Paul Dudley, Natural Histoiy of Whales . 78 



John Ranby, Glandula Renalis 84 



Dr. Scheuchzer, on Crystals, &c 85 



Is. Rand, Catalogue of 50 Plants ibid 



Dr. Nettleton, Height of Barometer, &c. . 86 



And. Celsius, a Barometrical Experiment . . 89 



Sir I. Newton, on a Chronological Index . . ibid 



Casp. Neuraan, on Camphor 93 



Biographical Notice of Caspar Neuman. . . . ibid 



Geo. Graham, on the Dipping Needle .... 94 



Jos. Atkinson, Extraor. Case of Tumours . 97 



Desaguliers, Exper. on the Fig. of the Earth 99 



, Cohesion of Lead 100 



Dr. Steigertahl, Uncommon Mole ibid 



On Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis 101 



Dr. Breyne, on the Vegetable Lamb .... 103 



John Brown, on Camphor ibid 



Jos. Wasse, Effects of Lightning 104 



Muschenbroek, on Magnetical Powers 105 



Biographical Notice of Muschenbroek .... ibid 



Dr. Huxham, Small Pox at Plymouth .... 110 



John Strachey, the Strata in Coal-Mines . . 118 



M. Neuman, Proving French Brandy .... 120 



Rob. Payne, a Fork put up the Anus 125 



Dr. Turner, Insects voided by Urine ibid 



Henry de Sauniarez, Marine Surveyor 126 



C. Neuman, Fixed Alkaline Salts 128 



John Burroughs, on a Lunar Eclipse 129 



Dr, Scheuchzer, Petrified Skeletons ibid 



Geo. Graham, on Pendulum Rods ibid 



C. Neuman, Fixed Alkaline Salts 132 



Geo. Lynn, Celestial Observations ibid 



Cap. Jones, High Tide in the Thames .... 133 



H. de Saumarez, Observations on the Tides ibid 



DesagtJiers, Running of Water in Pipes .. 137 



Ja. Bradley, Longitude of Lisbon, &c 141 



Fa. Carbone, Eclipses of Jup. Satellites . . '43 



, on the Latitude of Lisbon .... ibid 



Fa. Laval, Astron Observ. at Toulon .... 144 



Dr. Vater, on Calculous Disorders ibid 



Maclaurin, on Impossible Roots 14 j 



