VI 



CONTENTS, 



Class III. Natural History. 



1. Zoology. 



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Species of Wasp and Txicust, Pel ton 98 



American Armadilla, Watson 9;) 



Cicada of Nortli America, CoUinson 100 



The Batavian Jaculator, Schlosser 110 



The Polish Cochineal, Wolfe 1 10, 320 



A Chinese Pheasant, Edwards 202 



Rhinoceros Double Horns, Parsons 276 



The Jaculator Fish, Hammel 321 



Another Species of Jaculator, Pallas 322 



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An Amphibious Bipes, Ellis 322 



On Amphibious Animals, Parsons 324 



Coluber Cerastes or Horned Vif>er, Ellis . . 355 



An Amphibious Bipes, J. Hunter 360 



Remarkable Aquatic Insect, King 390 



Certain Fish in Wales, Barrington 420 



Different Species of Pinguins, Pennant .... 5\6 



A Species of Camelion, Parsons 552 



On a Strange Monkey, De Visme 607 



Catalogue of 50 Plants, Hudson 



478, 56 1, 667 



The Rhubarb Plant, Hope 262 



The Plant Andrachne, Ehret 403 



2. Botany. 

 1 1 5, 203, 347, The Croton Lucidum 



Bergius 529 



Indigenous Trees, Barrington 594 



On a Rare Plant, Hope 642 



Mineralogy. 



Emery Stone, and Mines, in Spain, Bowles 340 



Formation of Spars and Crystals, King 384 



Very Large Fossil Teeth, CoUinson . . 476, 47S 



Large Fossil Bones, Wm. Hunter , 504 



Fossil Elephants' Bones, Raspe 6l2 



Origin of the Belemnite, Piatt 91 



The Pholas Conoides, Parsons 174 



Specific Gravity of Metals and their Colours, 



Delaval 178 



Mineral Exhalations, &c. Anonymous .... 244 

 Specimens of Native Tin, Borlase 277, 359, 597 



4. Geography, and Topography. ' 



Journey from Cairo to Sinai, Montagu .... 278 Nat. Hist, of the Wolga, Forster 446 



Meas. Degrees of Longitude, Michell .... 29 1 Measure of the Meridian, Liesganig 497 



Ancient Knowledge of India, Caverhill .... 408 Map of the Wolga, Forster 556 



Heat in Bengal, Martin 423 On Mount Vesuvius, Hamilton 592 



5. Hydrology. 

 Remarkable Tide at Bristol, Tucker 109 Rathbone-place Waters, 



Compressibility of Water, Canton 151 



The General Deluge, King 379 



Cavendish 393 



Luminousness of Salt-water, Canton 680 



Class IV. Chemical Philosophy. 



Salt on the Peak of Teneriffe, Heberden 



On the Air in Spa Water, Brownrigg 



Exp. on Factitious Air, Cavendish 



On Rathbone-place water. Cavendish 



Heat of the Bath Waters, Howard 



Heat of Bath and Bristol Waters, Canton. . 



1 . Chemistry. 



195 

 235 

 298 

 393 

 419 

 420 



On some Neutral Salts, Monro 479 



Distillation of Acids, &c. Woulfe 484 



Making of Phosphorus, Canton 579 



Iron dissolved by Fixed Air, Lane 633 



Luminousness of Salt Water, Canton .... 680 



On a Remarkable Meteor, Dunn . . 



The Rain, 8cc. in Cornwall, Borlase 



The Cold in Bedfordshire, Howard 



Fiery Meteors in America, Winlhrop . . . . 



Effects of Lightning, W. Heberden ; . . . . 



Observations on the same, Watson ...... 



Effects of ditto on St. Bride's Ch., Delaval 



The same in Essex-street, Lawrence 



A New Hygrometer, Ferguson 



1. Meteorology. 



39 Effects of Lightning on 3 Ships, Veicht ... 157 



.99 Meteor seen at Oxford, Swinton, 160, 162,401 



114 Evaporation, Air, Water, &c. Hamilton.. 223 



122 Phys. and Meteor. Observations, Franklin. . ibid 



126 Effects of Lightning at Oxford, Griffith . . . 254 



vn Proportion of Snow to Water, Brice 338 



140 The Weather at Quebec, Rose 356 



144 Heat of the Air at Bengal, Martin 423 



151 Cold Weather at London, Watson 474 



