CONTENTS. 



Ill 



B". Sherman, Three Cases in Surgery 3?o 



J. Cl;i)'lon, Manners and Customs in Virginia 328 



. , Force of Water Steam 335 



J. Green, on a Girl who was a quarter of an 



hour in water without drowning 337 



Mr. Cox, on a Pestilential Fever by Tapping 



a Corpse dead of a Dropsy 338 



W. Hoxton, Variation of the Compass .... 339 

 Desaguliers, on the Cause of Electricity . . 340 



, on Electrical Experiments .... 346" 



, on the same 350. 351, 352,353, 357 



Dr. Moehring, Botanical Observations . . . 358 



Weidler, on an Authelium ibid 



Chr. Kirch, Occulta of Aldebaran ibid 



Weidler, on the same ibid 



— — , on a Solar Eclipse 359 



J. Derby, a Whirlwind at Come- Abbas . . . ibid 



J. T. Klein, Letters within a Tree . ibid 



Sir John Clark, EtFects of Thunder on Trees 



and on a Deer's Horn within an Oak . . . 360 

 Dr. Mortimer, Rereiarks on the same .... 36 1 



Aragona, Eruption of Vesuvius ibid 



English Gentleman, on the same 368 



Fouchy, on the Lunar Atmosphere 37 1 



P. H. Zollman, large sinking of Ground . . 376 

 Dr. Baster, Worms that destroy Timber . . 378 



Biog. Notice of Dr. Job Baster ibid 



A. Vizoar, Loud Explosions in the Air 383 



Sam. Shepheard, on the same 384 



Isaac Rand, Catalogue of 50 Plants ibid 



Superville, on Generation and Monsters . . 385 



J. T. Klein, Gigantic Bregma, &c 388 



Dr. Zac. Pearce, Account of Fourmont on 



the Histories of the Ancients . . 389 



Biog. Notice of Dr. Zac. Pearce 389 



Da. Nicholson, Scurvy- grass of Greenland 391 



Edm. Stone, two new Curve Lines 392 



Biog. Notice of Mr. Edm. Stone ibid 



Mr. Harris, New Terrestrial Globes 393 



C. Smith, Catodioptrical Telescopes ibid 



H. Temple, Earthquake at Naples 401 



Tim. Sheldrake, a Monstrous Child ibid 



Wm. Barlow, Sun-fish, and its Glue .... 40'2 



Wra. Sloane, Aretina, near Naples 403 



Mr. Crocker, a Meteor in the Air ibid 



Dr. Bevis, Luminous Appearance 404 



Da. Hartley, a Calculus through the Perin. 405 

 J. Sisley, a Calculus through the Scrotum ibid 



Mort. Gilks, Petrifactions at Matlock 406 



Abbe Pluche, on the Smut in Corn 408 



Biog. Notice of the Abbe Pluche ibid 



Dr. Bartram, Teeth of the Rattle-snake . . . 409 

 Jos. Breintnall, Meteors at Philadelphia .... 409 



C. Lucas, Cave of Kilcorny ibid 



M. Malfelguerat, Tumour on the Thigh . . 410 



Ja. Short, Aurora Borealis 412 



J. Freeke, Exostosis on a Boy's Back 413 



J. Eames, Account of Celsius on the Figure 



of the Earth ibid 



J. Alexander, a Place near New York to 



measure a Degree of Latitude 419 



J. T. Klein, Antiquities of Prussia 420 



Du Harael, Madder Root tinges the Bones ibid 



Biog. Notice of Hen. Louis DuHamel .... ibid 



Isaac Rand, Catalogue of 50 Plants 424 



M. de Sigome, Impossibility of Vortices . . ibid 

 Da. Hartley, Account of Dr. Trew on the 



ditf. of the Body before and after Birth . . 425 

 H. Baker, a Beetle lived 3 Years without 



Food 426 



Biog. Notice of Mr. Henry Baker ibid 



H. Baker, a Plant in Seniine 429 



Wm. Barlow, Weights and Measures .... 432 



Account of Weidler on Parhelia 433 



Ste. Williams, Barrows in Cornwall 433 



C. Pademi, Herculaneum at Porlici 435 



Geo. Knaptou, on the same 437 



Mr. Crispe, on the same Subject 43$ 



J. Cagua, Wound in the Head cured 439 



J. Mackarness, Stone voided per Anum . . 441 



H. Baker, Leuwenhoek's. Microscope .... 443 



Anonymous, Dry or Wet Summer 447 



B. Ehrhart, Observ. in the Tyrol Alps .... 4 j 1 



Biog. Notice of Baltha.sar Ehrhart ibid 



Sam. Jenkins, Grinding I^enses ibid 



Dr. Breyne, Calculi in the Stomach, &c. . . 452 



S. Kirkshaw, Two Roman Pigs of Lead . . 453 



H. Ettrick, Machine to reduce Fractures . . 454 



J. T. Klein, on le Bruyn's Petrified Oysters 455 



Biog. Notice of Cornelius le Bruyn ibid 



Chr. Kirch, Observ. of the Planet Mars . . 457 



On the Red Lights seen in the Air 457 



J. Eames, Account of Jurin De Vi Motrice 461 



N. Sherwood, on Stones in the Kidneys . . 462 



J. Fuller, the lake Malholm Tarn 463 



M. de Breraond, Magnetism by Lightning ibid 



P. Pott, Softening of the Bones 464 



Wm. Watson, Part of the Lungs coughed up 468 



Tho. Short, on several Meteors 469 



Dr. Bevis, Conjunc. of Venus and Mercury 470 



G. Graham, Occultation of Aldebaran .... ibid 



Mr. Short, a Solar and Lunar Eclipse .... ibid 



Desaguliers, Expers. on Electricity 470, 472, 473 



Dr. Huxhani, a Hernia Inguinalis 474 



Ja. Short, on the Satellite of Venus 476 



Dr. Bevis, and Ja. Short, Occult, of Jupiter 477 

 Dr. Parsons, Account of his book on Henna- 



phrodites jbij 



Wm. Barlow, Ancient Date at Rumsey . . 473 



H. Baker, Black Currant Jelly 479 



Desaguliers, Electrical Experiments ibid 



Dr. Huxhatn, Extraordinary Venereal Cas-e 480 



Wm. Hanbury, Coal-balls at Liege, &c. . . 483 

 Dr. Mortimer, Account of Dr. Stuart's Paper 



on the Structure of the Heart ibid 



M. Le Cat, Foramen Ovale, and the Urethra 485 



Biog. Notice of Claude Nicholas Le Cat . . ibid 



Geo. Lynn, on the Weather, Kc +80" 



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