VI 



CONTENTS. 



Curious Spheroidal Stone, Jos. Piatt 



Platina, a new Semi-metal, Wra. Watson 



On the same, Dr. Brownrigg 



Petrified Insect, Dr. Cha. Lyttleton 



On the same. Dr. Mortimer 



Curious Spheroidal Stone, Mortimer 



Discoveries on Coral, Donati 



Treatise on Coral, Peyssonnel 



Copper Springs of Wicklow, Kenroy 



Corals, Corallines, &c. Dr. Parsons. ... . 

 Copper Springs of Wicklow, Dr. Henry . 



Remarkable Coralline, J. Ellis 



Uncommon Fossils, Henry Baker 



Copper Springs of Wicklow, J. Bond . . . 

 Giants' Causeway in Ireland, Dr. Pocock 382 



Mineralogy. 



Page Pase 



77 A Fossil found at Dudley, Da Costa 401 



97 A Species of Coralline, J. Ellis 453 



98 Elepluint's Bones in Sheppy Isle, Ellis .... 489 



105 On the Belemnites, G. Brander 542 



106' Mountain of Iron Ore, P. Ascanius 564 



107 A Petrified Echinus, Dr. Parsons 594 



154 On Toxicodendron, M. Mazeas ibid 



257 On the same. Ph. Miller 596" 



280 Impression of a Fish on a Stone, Byam . . 6'28 



282 On the same, Arthur Pond 628 



338 A Coral-like Substance, Schlosser 670 



345 Remarks on the same, J. Ellis 671 



347 Coralloid Fossil Bodies, T. Pennant 688 



366 Basaltes in Germany, Trembley 703 



, 383 Adriatic Natural History, Trembley 704 



4. Geography and Topography 



Chinese Geography, Fa Gaubil 6 Oporto Earthquake 



Keswick Inundation, J. Lock 18 



Earthquakes in various places, Mortimer . . 108 



The Grotto de Cani, M. NoUet 137 



Vesuvius Eniption, R. Supple 220 



Pike of Teneriffe, Dr. T. Heberden 230 



Eruption of Mount Vesuvius 245 



On the same, J. Parker 270 



Figure of the Earth, Ja Short 305 



Scilly Islands, Wni. Borlase 324 



Figure of the Earth, M. Clairaut 328 



Giants' Causeway in Ireland, Pocock, 382, 383 



Observations on China, D'lncarville 387 



Observations at Pekin, Gaubil 411,412 



Earthquake in Yorkshire, H. Baker 469 



Weather, &c. in Madeira, Dr. T Heberden 488 

 Sheppy Isle, Elephant's Bones, Jacob .... 489 

 Constantinople Earthquake, Mackenzie . . 548 



Vesuvius Eruption, Jamineau 563 



Constantinople Remarks, Porter 580 



■ Earthquakes, Ja. Porter . . 587 



Etna Eruption, Magistrates of Mascali . . . 6O8 



Madrid Earthquake 



Cadiz Earthquake, Bewick, &c 



Barbary ditto, Fowke 



Madeira ditto, Heberden, &c 664 



Geneva ditto, Trembley 



Boston ditto, J. Hyde 



New-York ditto, Colden 



Pennsylvania ditto 



Manilla, Description of, Wm. P)'e 



Glasgow Earthquake, Dr. Whytt 



Dumfries, Motion of Waters, Kilpatrick . . 



Holland ICarthquakes, AUemand, &c 



Brussels ditto. Dr. Pringle 



Sinking of a River, Matthews 



Scotland, Motion of the Waters, Pringle. . 



Guadaloupe Observation*, Peyssonnel 



Dover, &c. Earthquake, Warren 



Germany Basaltes, Trembley 



Adriatic Natural History, Trembley 



Turin Earthquakes, Donati 



Brigue ditto. College of Jesuits 



Herculaneum Antiquities, Condamine .... 

 Structure of the Earth, Condamine 



Derbyshire Earthquakes, Bullock 656 



Lisbon Earthquakes, Wolfall 656 



On the same, by Latham, &c 659, 660 



5. Hydrology. 



Irregular Tides in the Forth, Wright 31 Robertson, &c. 647, 649, 650, 651, 652, 



To Sweeten Sea-water, Wm. Wat'ion 327 653, 655, 673, 692, 693, 694, 695, 697, 



Extraordinary Agitation in the Waters, by 710. 



Class IV. Chemical Philosophy. 



661 

 662 

 662 



6«3 



665 

 6(i(i 

 ibid 

 667 

 ibid 

 673 

 687 

 692 

 696 

 ibid 

 ibid 

 G97 

 701 

 703 

 ibid 

 704 

 707 

 ibid 

 709 

 ibid 



On Purging Waters, Dr 



Putrefaction, &c. Dr. Pringle 57, 7S, 84 



Poison of Lamas and Ticunas, Herissant. . 144 

 Sweetening Sea-water, Wra. Watson .... 327 

 Lime-water preserves Flesh, &c. Hume . . 358 

 On the same, by Dr. Hales 551 



J . Chemistry. 



Hales 48 On Antimony, Dr. Huxham 554 



Action of Quicklime, Schlosser b'jo 



Ventilating Distillations, Hales 635 



■ Ships and Milk, Hales 641, 642 



Malvern Waters, Dr. Wall 673 



Aurora Borealis, J. Martyn, Dr. Miles, 3, 12 



Fireball, Mr. Chalmers 19 



Aurora Borealis, Dr. Huxham, H. Baker, 54, 6'3 

 Heat of the Weather, Dr. Miles, W Arderon, 94 

 Various Earthquakes, Mortimer 108 



Dr. Hales's Distillation, Brownrigg 694 



2. Meteorology. 



Fireball in the Air, Wm. Smith 124 



( )n the same, Henr)' Baker 126 



.Aurora Borealis, P. Gabre 134 



All Inverted Iris, Ph. C. Webb 2OI 



Elfects of Lightning, Franklin, Jos P.ilmer 2 1 2,223 



