CONTENTS OF VOLUME THIRTEENTH. 



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Sir Wm. Hamilton, Journey to Mount Etna. 1 



Ph. Carteret, Inhabitants of Patagonia .... 7 



. , on a Camelopardalis 7 



Dr. Johnstone, Uses of the Ganglions .... 8 



Dr. Hampe, New Scaly Lizard 8 



Cap. Cha. Douglas, Temperature of the Sea. .9 



R. S. Raspe, R-oduction of White Marble. 10 



Hon. D. Barringtuu, on a Young Musician. 1 1 



Sam. Dunn, Transits of Venus 14 



K. Fitzgerald, New Wheel Barometer 17 



J. Swinton, on a Greek Coin 18 



T. Woolcomb, a Death by a Gun Shot 



Wound 19 



Wm, Wales, Voyage to and from Hudson's 



Bay , 22 



I — , and Jo. Dymond, on the 



Weather at ditto 32 



J. Strange, Uncommon Sponges 32 



Capt. Davies, the Preservation of Birds. . . 34 



Captain Winn, Light on a Mast Head. ... 36 



Dr. Priestley, Lateral Force of Electricity. 36 



■ — , Experiments on Charcoal. . . 45 



Dr. Borlase, Meteorological Observations. . 46 



Dr. Cirillo, the Manna Tree, and Tarantula. 46 



Capt. Deyloss, on the Transit of Venus. . . 47 

 Mr. Rowniug, Machine for the Roots of 



Equations 48 



N. Pigott, on the Transit of Venus 49 



Dr. Price, Reversions and Survivorships. . . 50 



i. B. Beccaria, Electrical Atmospheres. ... 50 



T. S. Kukahn, Preservation of. Dead Birds. 50 



Ja. Robertson, Blunlheaded Cachalot 57 



Bishop Watson, on the Solution of Salts. . 59 



Wm. Ludlam, Occultation of a Star 59 



J. Winthrop, on the Transit of Venus 60 



Mr. MaUett, Transit of Venus, Pendulums, 



and Declination of the Needle 6 1 



Wm. Hewson, Experiments on the Blood. 64 



Dr. Hunter, Bones in Gibraltar Rock 64 



Bishop Horsley, Newton's Theory of Light. 65 



J. Landen, New Theorems for AJeas 77 



Captain Rose, on the Transit of Venus 78 



J. Latham, on a Periodical Fever 78 



Jos. Warner, on a very Small Fetus 79 



Charles Mason, on the Transit of Venus, &c. 80 



M. Pingre, on the same 81 



Dr. T. Heberden, Eclipses of Jupiter's 



Satellite. 82 



Dr. Smith, &c. on the Transit of Mercury. 83 



J. Robertson, Cases of Compound Interest. 83 



Mr. Ellis, on the Gordonia or Loblolly Bay. 84 



— , on the Starry Aniseed Tree. ... 85 



J. Swinton, on a Remarkable Meteor 6fl 



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 Dr. Price, Aberration of Light at a Transit 



of Venus 89 



Wm. Hudson, Catalogue of 5o Plants. ... pi 



Don V. Doz, on the Transit of Venus. ... 91 



M. Bourriot, on the same 92 



Sir Wm. Hamilton, tlie Soil about Naples . . 9,' 



J. Winthrop, on tlic Transit of Mercury. . . 93 



J. Howard, Heat on Mount Vesuvius 93 



Geo. Edwards, a Bird from the East-Indies. 93 



Wm. Goriuch, Population of Holy Cross. . 94 



Ste. de Visnie, on the Chinese Stoves .95 



Fa. Gramont, on the Cliinese Stoves 95 



A. Williams, a remarkable Thunder Storm. S8 



J. Swinton, of an Liedited Coin 101 



, on Two Etruscan Coins 101 



, on Two Punic Inscriptions.... 103 



M. Messier, on a New Comet, 104 



Edw. Nairne, Equatorial Observatory 104 



P. Woulfe, on the Auruni Mosaicum. . . . 106 



Dr. Hanley, Tumour in the Abdomen. ... 108 



Dr. Ducarel, concerning Chestnut Trees. . . 1 10 



Mr. Thorpe, on the same subject 1 16 



Edward Hasted, on the same 1 16 



Daines Barrington, on the same. 1 16 



Dr. Hunter, on the Nyl Ghau 117 



Dr. Richardson, on the Aphides of Linnaeus. 120 



Dr. Borlase, Meteorological Observations. 126" 



J. Smeaton, of a New Hygrometer 127 



J. B. Beccaria, on Phosphoric Colours 130 



Bishop Watson, Effects of a great Cold. ... 131 



Tho. Barker, Quantity of Rain at Lyndon. 131 



Mr. Muller, Aquatic Bivalve Insects 133 



Mic. Tyson, Singular South Sea Fish 136 



J. Lloyd, on Elden Hole, Derbyshire 137 



Edward King, on the same 1 37 



Biographical Notice of Edward King, Esq. I37 



Thomas Pennant, Two new Tortoises 141 



Nat. Pigot, Meteorological Observations. . . 1 45 



P. J. Bergius, Nyctanthes Elongata 1 47 



Biographical Notice of Dr. P. J. Bergius. . . I47 



Daines Barrington, an American Mole. ... 143 



, Rain at Difterent Heights. 148 



J. Landen, the Computation of Fluents. . . 150 



J. R. Forster, Management o( Carp 154 



Alexander Wilson, Severe Cold at Glasgow. 1 6 1 



Dr. Crell, Experiments on Putrefaction. ... 163 



J. Swinton, Ancient Persian Coins 169 



R. H. Waring, some English Plants 171 



S. Alchome, Catalogue of 50 Plants 173 



Charles Green, Transit of Venus 174 



Captain Cook, on the same 174 



Biographical Notice of Capt. James Cook. . 174 



Captain Cook, Variation of the Compass. . . 17.8 



