CONTENTS OF VOLUME EIGHTH. 





Page 



Isaac Rand, catalogue of 50 PlanU .. 1 



Ja. Hodgson, Eclipses of Jupiter's Satel. . . ibid 



. — , On the same ibid 



, Again on the same ibid 



Ste. Gray, on the Electrical Light 2 



Wm. Braikenridge, Description of Curves 5 



Geoffroy, on Seignette's and other Salts . . 10 



Biograph. Notice of M. Seignelte ibid 



Desaguliers, on ventilating close Rooms . . 12 

 , Velocity of the Air in Ventila- 

 tion 13 



, Uses of the Machine in ditto . . 15 



Rd. Reynell, on a Cataleptic patient .... ibid 



Hunauld, on the Fistula Lacrymalis 17 



Biog. Notice of Fr. Jos. Hunauld ibid 



Geo. Hadley, on the general Trade Winds 19 



Paul Dudley, Earthquakes in New-England 22 



Dr. Cookson, Magnetism by Lightning . 24 



, on the same 25 



C. L. Gersten, an Arithmetical Machine . . ibid 



Ja. Stirling, Figure of the Earth 26 



Dr. Vater, Mexican Filtering Stone 30 



Dr. Mortimer, on Catesby's Nat. Hist. Ca- 

 rolina 32 



Revillas, a Halo observed at Rome ibid 



John Cope, on an Ancient Date ibid 



John Ward, on the same ibid 



John Cope, Ancient Indian Dates 37 



John Ward, on the same 39 



Colin Maclaurin, Description of Curves ... 41 



. , On the same Subject .... 4.3 



Ste. Gray, Electrical Experiments 51 



Wm. Barlow, Number of Persons at Stoke 



Damerel 53 



C. Amyand, Foramen Ovale open 54, 



Isaac Rand, Catalogue of 50 Plants ibid 



Ja. Hodgson, Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites ibid 



J. Hadley, Combinations of Lenses ibid 



Dr. Ed. Hody, A bony substance in the 



Womb 56 



Ja. I/)gan, Impreg. of the Seeds of Plants . . 57 



Geo. Lynne, Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites. . 58 



Tho. Jones, High Tide in the Thames .... 59 



Dr. Vater, Singular Cutaneous affection . . ibid 



Dr. Derham, Vibrations of Pendulums .... 60 



John Colson, on Spherical Maps 61 



Roger Gale, on an Ancient Chirograph ... 64 



Ste. Gray, Electrical Rotations in Bodies . . 65 



De Lisle, Quicksilver Thermometer, &c. 6'6" 

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Dr. Houston, Perforations in the Thorax . . 6"8 



Weidler, Observ. Astron. Phys &c ibid 



Ja. Logan, Zigzag Figure of Lightning . . . ibid 



Andr. Celsius, Aurora Borealis 69 



Dr. Rob. James, Exper. on Mad Dogs .... ibid 



Biog. Notice of Dr. Robert James ibid 



Dr. Mortimer, on Catesby's Nat. Hist. Carol. 73 



Dr. Rob. Barker, Catoptric Microscope ... 73 

 Martin Folkes, Standard Measures at Rome 74 



Weidler, Observ. Astrop. Pbys. &c 76' 



Cap. Middleton, on the lat. and Variations, &c. 76 ■ 



Desaguliers, Damps or foul Air in Mines . . ibid 



John Maud, on Inflammable Air 77 



Henry Forth, Account of a Storm 78 



John Belch ier. Bones coloured red by Food 79 



Dr. Stuart, a white Liquor from blood ... ibid 



Dr. Madden, a Plum-slone in the Rectum 80 



Celsius and Revillas, Solar Eclipse at Rome 82 



John EUicott, Expansion of Metals by heat ibid 



J. Belchier, Bones changed red by Food . . 83 



J. Hodgson, Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites 84 



Dr. Burton, Remedy for the Bite of Vipers ibid 

 Dr. Mortimer, on the same, and on Mad 



Dogs ibid 



J. Fames, on Newton's Fluxions by Colson 88 



CI. Amyand, Inguinal Rupture, &c 89 



Boerhaave, Experiments on Quicksilver . . 9,; 



Weidler, a Lunar Eclipse 96 



Duke of Richmond, Earthquake in Sussex ibid 



Dr. Edw. Bayley, on the same ibid 



Jos. Wasse, Earthquake in Northampton . . 98 



Boerhaave, Experiments on Quicksilver . . . ibid 



Mart. Triewald, Improv. on the Diving Bell ibid 

 Sam. Dale, tlie Moose Deer, a Stag, and a 



Flying Squirrel 102 



Desaguliers, on the Horizontal Moon 105, io(j 



Dr. Atwell, on the Bite of Vipers !07 



J. Logan, on the Horizontal Sun and Moon 112 



Isaac Rand, Catalogue of 50 Plants ns 



A. Celsius, on some Runic Characters. .. 114 



Lunar Eclipse, by Graham, Halley, Celsius 1 16 



The same, by Dr. Bevis iip- 



Biog. Notice of Dr. John Bevis ibid 



The Lunar Eclipse, by Mr. John Milner . . 118 



Alexis Clairaut, on the figure of the Earth ibid 



Biog. Notice of Alexis Claud. Clairaut .... ibid 



Ste. Williams, Cure for the Bite of Vipers J 24 



De Lisle, Measure of the Earth in Russia . . ibid 



De Ijisle, Measure of a Base for tlie same . . 134 



Tim. Neve, Parhelia and Aurora Borealis,. . ibid 





