CONTENTS OF VOLUME FOURTEENTH. 



Clayton, an Account of Falkland Islands. . 1 



Price, on the Values of Annuities, &c. . . 5 



Planta , on the Romansh Language 7 



Percival, on tlie Population of Manchester. 17 

 Hutchins, on Freezing Quicksilver and the 



Dipping Needle '2'> 



Pigott, Astronomical Observations 22 



Cavendish, on the Torpedo and Electricity. 23 



Priestley, on Respiration and the Blood ... 34 



Jngenhousz, Experim. of Airs and Platina. 38 



Masson, Journeys in Southern Africa .... 43 



Royal Society, Meteorological Journal ... ibid 



Dr. Horsley, Observations on the same. ... 44 



Farr, Meteorological Journal at Bristol. ... 47 



Barker, Ditto at Lyndon 48 



Barker, Fresh Water from Salt by Freezing 48 



Cavendish, Meteorol. Instrum. of the r. s. 40 



Capt. Cook, on the Health of his Ship's Crew. 58 



Cavallo, on Electricity of tlie Atmosphere . 60 



J. Hunter, Recovery of Drowned People. . 63 



Nourse, on die Cure of Wounded Intestines ibid 



Small, on tlie Island of Minorca 6'8 



Capt. Cook, on the Tides in the South Seas. 71 



Smeaton, Experim. on Mechanical Power. . 72 



Hutton, On Quickly Converging Series. ... 84 



Henly, Effects of Lightning on Bullocks. . 9" 



Fordyce, on the Light by Iiiflammation. ... 93 



Biograph. Notice of Dr. Geo. Fordyce .... ibid 



Roebuck, Experiments on Ignited Bodies . . [6 



Henly, Machine for Perpetual Electricity. . i)7 



Pallas, on the Iron Ore in Siberia 99 



Keir, on the Crystallizations in Glass 102 



Messier, on a Belt on the Disc of Saturn. . 108 



Anderson, Poisonous Fish in South Seas. . . . ibid 



Whitehui'st, Expts. on Ignited Substances . 112 

 Hamilton, on the Suppression of Urine cured 



by piefcing the Bladder by the Anus. ... 113 



A. Fothergill, on the late Frost at Northamp. 1 16" 



J. Fothergill, on Dr. Knight's Mag. Mac. . 117 



Hutton, Demonstr. of Geomet. Theorems. . 120 



Woulfe, Experim. on Mineral Substances. . ibid 



Mackenzie, on a'woraan living without food. 121 



Marshara, Washing Trees to prom, growtli. 124 



Debraw, Discov. on the Sex of Bees .... 125 



Wolf, on a Portrait of Copernicus 127 



Sparman, on a New Species of Cuckoo. ... 128 



T. Cavallo, New Electrical Experiments . 1 29 



Dicquemare, a 3d Essay on Sea Anemonies ibid 



Henly, Exper. and Obs. in Electricity.. .. 130 



Toaldo, on tlie Tides in tlie Adriatic ibid 



Wargentin, Longit. of Paris and Greenwich. 131 



Maseres, on the Value of an Infinite Series, ibid 



Costard, on a Passage in Ebn Younes 133 



Dobson, On Evap. as a test of Dryness. ... 1 37 



Huddart, on Persons not disting. Colours. 143 



Landen, New Theory of Rotatory Motion. . 144 



Mudge, Making the Metal of Reflect. Teles. 1 57 



Barker, Meteorological Observations 178 



Farr, Meteorological Journal 179 



R. Soc, The same at R. S. house ibid 



West, on a Volcanic hill near Inverness. . . . ibid 



Cavallo, Electrical Expts. and Observations. I 80 



De Luc, Baromet. Obs. in the Hartz Mines, ibid 



Glenie, on the Laws of Universal Proportion. S3 



Fynney, the Surgical Case of A. Davenport. 1 80" 



Stewart, on the Kingdom of Thibet 18S 



Stedman, on Winds proper to move Mills. . 198 

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Wright, the Jesuit's Bark Tree of Jamaica. . I. 99 



the Cabbage-bark Tree of do 200 



Shuckburgh, Barometrical Obs. in Savoy . . 20:i 



Biog. Notice of Sir G. Shuckburgh, Bt ibid 



Barker, Bramin's Observatory at Benares. . 214 

 Dr. Hunter and H Watson, on Dr. Maty's 



Illness and Death 217 



Nairne, Experim. with Smeaton's Air-Pump 220 

 Bastard, on the Culture of Pine-Apples . . . 224 

 Col. Roy, on Meas. Heights by the Barom. . 226 



Biog. Notice of Col. Wm. Roy ibid 



Boscovich, a new Microm. and Megameter. 248 

 Maskelyne, on the Prismatic Micrometer. . 250 

 R. Society, on the Use of Thermometers . . 25S 

 Hamilton, on Volcanos near the Rhine . . . 276 

 Hunter, Heat of Animals and Vegetables . . 278 

 Hutton, on the Force of Fired Gunpowder. 282 



Darwin, A New Case in Squinting, 295 



Partington, Muse. Contrac. cured by Elect. 302 

 Anderson, of a large Stone near Cape Town. 303 

 Polhill, on Debraw's Culture of Bees .... 304 

 Macbride, Improvement inTanning Leather, ibid 

 Haygarth, Population and Diseas. of Chester. 311 



Swift, Electrical Experiments 314 



Miller, on the Island of Sumatra 315 



Roxburgh, Meteorol. Diary in the East Indies. 322 

 White, Experiments on different Effluvia. . ibid 

 Henry, on die Earthquake at Manchester 330 

 Papers on the Accid. by Lightn. at Purfleet, viz. 

 Nickson's Report of it to the Board of Ord. . 333 

 Report of die Committee of the R. Soc. . . . ibid 

 Wilson's Dissent from Committee's Report. 334 

 Letter to the R. S. from the Board of Ordn. 336 



Wilson, New Expts on Conductors 337 



Playfair, Arithm. of Impossible Quantides. . 356 

 Milner, on die Communication of Motion. 36 S 

 Milner, on Limits of Equations, also on the 



number of Athrmadve &: Negative Roots. 382 

 Dalrymple, Voyage to the East Indies. . . . 3^6 



De Luc, Pyrometry and Areometiy ,587 



Barker, Meteorological Journal 3,sq 



Barr, Idem at Montreal ibid 



M<^Gouan, Idem near Edinbuigh 390 



Farr, Idem at Bristol ibid 



Lloyd, Idem near Manchester & Leeds. ... 39 1 



Royal Society, Idem in London ibid 



Masson, Island of St. Miguel 3y2 



Scott, Imperfection of Sight 394, 



Pulteney, Populat. of Blandford Forum . . 3t)5 

 Guthrie, Antiseptic Regimen in Russia .... iljid 

 Biog. Nodce of Dr. Matthew Guthrie . . . ibid 



Pigott, Astronomical Obsenations 40O 



De Mertans, Observations on die Scurvy . . 401 

 Shuckburgh, Barometrical Meas of Heights. 405 

 Hutton, on the Mean Density of the Earth 



from the survey at Schihallien 4O8 



Watson, jun on the Blue Shark 4.03 



Brown, on the Flying Fish ibid 



Nairne, on Pointed Electrical Conductors . . i27 

 Musgrave, Dissent from the Electrical Com. 440 

 Higgins, Amalgam of Zinc for Elect. Excita. 446 



Watson , Experiments on Lead Ore 44.7 



Ld Malion, Securing Buildgings from Fire, ibid 

 Maseres, on very Slowly Converging Series. 451 



Maseres, Extension of Cardan's Rule 433 



Le Cerf, Propor. force of lever, and wheel 



and pinions 4154 



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