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CONTENTS. 



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P. Wargentin, on the same Transit 651 



Dr. Alex. Wilson, on the same 652 



Biog. Notice of Dr. Alex. Wilson ibid 



Dr. James Lind, Transit of Venus 655 



Lieut. Jardine, on the same 657 



J. Winthrop, on the same 658 



Dr. Wm. Heberden, Rain at DifF. Heights 659 

 Dr. Ja. Lind, Obs. of a Lunar Eclipse .... 66 1 

 J. Swinton, on Two Aurora Boreales .... ibid 

 M. De Lalande, Transit of Venus, &c. . . . 663 



Biog. Notice of M. de Lalande 66'4 



Alex. Aubert, Transit of Venus 665 



Biog. Notice of Alex. Aubert, Esq ibid 



Dr. Watson, the Oil from Ground Peas . . ibid 



Wm. Hudson, Catalogue of 50 Plants 66? 



Hen. Watson, Lymph, of the Urethra, &c. ibid 

 N. Maskelyne, Astron, Observations .... 670 



Page 

 Dr. Wilson, Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites 670 



B. Ferner, Transit of Venus, &c 67 1 



Fra. WoUaston, Transit of Venus 672 



Owen Biddle, Transit of Venus 67 3 



Daniel Harris, on the same 676 



J. Swinton, on Two Samnite Coins 677 



J. Leeds, on the Transit of Venus 679 



J. Canton, Lurainousness of the Sea 680 



M. Messier, Astronomical Observations . . 682 

 W.Wales and J. Dymond, Transit of Venus ibid 



Biog. Notice of Mr. Wm. Wales ibid 



Wm. Wales, Magnetic Variations 684 



Dr. Morton, Chinese and Egyptian Lang. . . 685 



J. Winthrop, Transit of Mercury 691 



Ja. Short, on Working Telescope Glasses 

 Truly Spherical ibid 



THE CONTENTS CLASSED UNDER GENERAL HEADS. 



Class I. Mathematics. 



1 . Arithmeticy Annuities, Political Arithmetic. 



A Problem in Chances, Bayes 14 Circulating Decimals, Robertson , 



On a Rule in Chances, Price I60 Population and Value of Lives, Price .... 



Population of Madeira, T. Heberden 475 



2. Algebra, Analysis, Fluxions. 

 Certain Infinite Series, Bayes 14 Algeb. and G^omet. Problems, Waring . , 



3. Geometry, Trigonometry, Land-surveying. 



Geom. and Algeb. Problems, Waring .... 19 On the Ellipse and Polygons, Waring 



Locus for 3 and 4 Lines, Pemberton 60 On the Mechanical Curve, Fantoni , 



Properties in Conic Sections, Waring .... 124 New Method of Curve Areas, Landen ... 



Surveying with Hadley's Quadrant, Michell 197 



Class II. Mechanical Philosophy. 



1. Dynamics. 



The Force of Percussion, Richardson 498 A Law of Motion, &c. Robertson 



1. Astronomy, 



Eclipse of the Sun, Ferguson 



Solar Eclipses and Earthquakes, Hirst .... 



Sun"s Parallax determined. Short 



On the Sun's Parallax, Hornsby 



Moon's Dist. and Parallax, Murdoch 



Of a Solar Eclipse, Short 



On the same, Bevis 



Of a Lunar Eclipse, Bevis 



Observation of Eclipses, Ferguson 



On the same, Dunn 



Of a Solar Eclipse, Bliss 



On the same, Hornsby 



Observation of Eclipses, Raper 



555 

 611 



19 



222 

 446 

 544 



Chronology, Navigation. 



5 On a New Comet, Messier 



12 On the Sun's Parallax, Pingre 



22 Transit of Venus, Mayer 



44 Astronomical Observations, Mayer , 



87 Of a Solar Eclipse, Murray 



1 1 2 On the same, the Jesuits 



ibid Refraction and Parallax, Maskelyne 



1 13 Transit of Venus, Winthrop 



ibid Lunar Method of Longitude, Horsley . . , . 



114 Equation of Time, Maskelyne 



115 Astronomical Observ. at St. Helena, Id. . . 

 ibid Barbadoes, Id. . . 



116 Time in a Number of Lunations, Ferguson 



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