CONTENTS. 



Page 

 Biographical Notice of Dr. Hugh Hamilton ibid 

 ^os. Wilcox, Subterran. Apartments in Italy ibid 

 G. D. Ehret, on a New Peruvian Plant. . , 708 

 Dr. Taylor, on Two Roman Inscriptions . . ibid 



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K. Fitzgerald, on Friction in Engines 70y 



J. Short, Longitude of Greenwich and Paris 713 



Ja. Ferguson, of a remarkable Fish 717 



P- Murdoch, Refrac. Light made Colourless 718 



THE CONTENIS CLASSED UNDER GENERAL HEADS 



Class I. Mathematics. 



1 . Arithmetic, Annuities^ Political Arithmetic. 

 Population of Britain, BrakenriSge .51 The same subject, Brakenridge 188 



Halley's Tables of Lives, T. W 523 



Population of Holy Cross, More 54 1 



Annuities on Lives, Dodson 55 



Population of Great ShefFord, Forster .... 1 57 

 • - ■ — of England, Forster 186 



Ct. Algebra, Analysis y Fluxions, 



Isoperimetrical Problems, Simpson 238 New Method of Series, Simpson 44 1 



On the Sums of Series, Simpson 278 



3. Geometry, Trigonovietry, Surveying. 



Trigonometry abridged, Murdoch 210 Sections of a Solid, Brakenridge 425 



Isoperimetrical Problems, Simpson 238 



Class II. Mechanical Philosophy. 



Precession and Equinoxes, Walmesley .... 

 Inequalities of the Earth's Mot. Walmesley 

 Horary Alterat. of the Earth's Equat. Simp. 



1 . Dynamics. 



17 Motions of Satellites, Walmesley 25)5 



3 1 Planetarv Motions, Walmesley 579 



170 



2. Statics. 



Specific Gravity of Men, Robertson 71 



3. Astronomy f 



Precession and Equinoxes, Walmesley 



Inequalities of the Earth's Motions, Walmes 

 Observations of Eclipses, Chevalier 



- — on a Comet, Bradley 



Horary Alterat. of the Earth's Equat. Simp. 

 Observations on a Comet, Klinkenberg. . . . 



Geographical Maps, Murdoch 



Maps and Charts, Mountaine 



Observation of a Lunar Eclipse, Wendlingen 



-, the same, Chevalier 



Motions of the Satellites, Walmesley .... 



Account of a Comet, Bevis 



On the same Comet, Munckley 



- — , Short, Michell, Munckley, Day 



Mutations of the Stars, Barker 



Observations of a Comet, De la Caille. . . . 



Transit of Venus, Boscovicb . . 



Annual Parallax of Sirius, Maskelyne .... 

 Latitude by 2 Observations, Pemberton . , 



Eclipse of the Moon, Short 



Parallax of the Moon, De la Caille 



Tables of Jupiter's Satellites, Dunthome . . 

 Transit of Venus at Greenwich, Bliss 



■- at London, Short 



-^— — — — — Canton, Dunn 



^— — — — — at St. Helena, Maskelyne 



Chronology, Navigatimi. 



17 Transit of Venus at Leskeard, Haydon. , 

 at Sweden, Wargentin 



31 

 158 

 169 

 170 

 190 

 215 

 218 

 245 

 284 

 295 

 337 

 ibid 

 428 

 432 

 472 

 500 

 501 

 507 

 510 

 519 

 535 

 532 

 553 

 555 

 557 



— at Paris, Lalande, Ferner. 



— at Constantinople, Porter. 



— Bergman, Bliss, Planman 

 Chappe, Lulofs, Ximene. 



559 

 5t)0 

 562 

 563 

 564 

 571 



Planetary Motions, Walmesley . 579 



Transit of Venus, Mason, Pingre 5g5 



at Madras, Hirst 596' 



Latitude of the Cape of Good Hope, Mason ibid 



Transit of Venus at Bologna, Zanotti .... 5^7 



Going of a Clock at St. Helena, Maskelyne 604 



Horizontal Sun and Moon, Dunn (S\o 



Going of a Clock at St, Helena, Mason . . 6'30 



Short. ... 631 



On a Lunar Eclipse, Bevis, Short 6". 2 



Lunar Method of Longitude, Maskelyne . . 636* 



Lunar Atmosphere, Dunn 644 



Comet observed at Paris, Lalande 645 



Transit of Venus at Calcutta, Magee. ..... ibid 



The Tides at St. Helena, Maskelyne 647 



Lunar Method, &c. F^alande 6'48 



Sun's Parallax determined. Short 649 



Solar Eclipse, Dunn fifty 



Solar and Lunar Eclipses, Lulofs QS9 



The Sun's Distance, Daval ^j 



