CONTENTS. 



Wilson, Termination of Elec. Conductors. . 458 



Wales, Observations on a Solar Eclipse, . . . 46o 



Ludlam, on the same 46l 



Ingenhousz, to light a Candle byElectricity. 46..' 



Ingenhousz, Expts. with die Electrophoms. 463 



Henly, on the same 473 



Pickersgill, Voyage to Davis's Straits, &c. . 47;') 



A. Fothergill, St. Vitus's Dance cured by Elec. 476 



Orred, Head of theOs Humeri sawn off. ... 4/7 



Woulfe, Experiments on Minerals ibid 



King, a Petrefaction of Sand, &c 47 .s 



Wilson, Knight's way of making magnets . . 480 



Latham, Extraordinary Dropsical Case... 4S1 



Waring, Problems on Interpolations 483 



Lexell, on the Periodic Time of a Comet. . 485 



Waring, Soiut. of Algebraical Equations . . 487 



Don Ulloa, Annular Eclipse of the Sun. . . . 495 



Bugge, on t'ne Theory of Pile-Driving .... 4.98 



Jeaurat, of an Iconantidiptic Telescope. ... 501 



Camper, Org.of Speech of the OrangOutang. 503 



Biog. Notice of Dr. Peter Camper ibid 



Cooper, EftVcts of Lightning on a Ship 510 



Longfield, Astron. Observations at Cork .. 511 



Maskelyne, the Longitude of Cork, determ. ibid 



Stevens, on the Latitude of Madras 5 1 C 



Burney, the Infant Musician W. Crotch . . 513 



Cazaud, Cultivation of the Sugar-Cane.. 521 



Hunter, on the Free Martin ibid 



R. Society, Meteorological Journal ibid 



Guthrie, on the Russian way of recovering 



from the fiimes of Charcoal, &c 52'2 



Dollond, Correcting the Errors of Refraction. 524 



Ab. Fontana, on Breathing Inflammable Air. 526 



Biog. Notice of the Abbe Felix Fontana . . . ibid 



Shuckburgh, Temperature of Boiling Water. 537 

 Ingenhousz, New kind of Inflammable Air, 



with a new Tlieory of Gunpowder 540 



Ramsden, on two New Micrometers 557 



Fontana, on the Salubrity of different Airs. . 563 



Swift, Experiments in Electricity 57 1 



Thunberg, tlie Sitodium Incis. & Macrocarp. 572 



De Luc, Barometrical Meas, at the Hartz. 574 



Milner, on the Precession of the Equinoxes. 576 



Fordyce, Examination of various Ores 585 



Ingenhousz, Suspending Magnetic Needles. 589 



Barker, Meteorological Journal 592 



Farr, Idem kept at Bristol 593 



Mann, Treatise on Rivers and Canals ibid 



De La Trobe, Meteor. Journal at Labrador. 5^7 

 Ingenhousz, Improvements in Electricit)- . . oi)ii 

 Hutton, Place of great. Attrac. on a Hill. . . . 603 

 Cavallo, New hlectrical Experiments .... 608 

 Fordyce, New way of Assaying Copper. . . . ibid 



Hamilton, Eruption of Vesuvius (}\:} 



Maseres, Extension of Cardan's Rule 624 



Barnard, Saving of a Stranded Ship 625 



Hunter, a child born with the Small-pox . . 628 



Thunberg, A Voyage to Japan 634 



Cockin, Extraordinary Appearance in a Mist. 639 

 Fontana, on the Ainerican Poison Ticunas. . 641 



Crell, on the Acid of Fat QtJG 



Maseres, on Cardan's Rules fur Cub. Equat. . 67 1 



Blizard, on tlie Fistula Lachrymalis 679 



Roxburgh, Meteor. Journal at Coromandel. 681 



Barr, Idem at Montreal ibid 



Royal Society, Idem at London 682 



Hellins, on computing Logarithms ibid 



Cazaud, on Sugar-cane Mills 6S3 



Cheston, on an Ossified Thoracic Duct. 6:s4, 739 

 Nairne, Wire Shortened by Electricity ... 688 

 Herschel, Observ. on the Star CoUo Ceti . . 6S9 



Percival, on preparing Potash Qyi 



Ingenhousz, the Salub. of Sea &: Land Air. ibid 

 Lvidlam, on the Engine for turning Ovals . . 7 00 

 Hutton, Cubic Equations and Inf. Series. . 704 

 Wilson, Great degree of Cold at Glasgow. . ibid 

 Barker, Meteorological Register at Lyndon. 7 1 1 



Schotte, Weatlier, &c. at Senegal ibid 



Herschel, Height of Moon's Mountains.. 717 

 Hunter, of an Extraordinary Pheasant .... 723 



Layard, Distemper among the Caitle ibid 



Vince, Progressive & Rotatory Motion .... 705" 

 Cavallo, Thermometrical Experiments. . . . 740 



THE CONTENTS CLASSED UNDER GENERAL HEADS. 



Class I. Mathematics. 



1. Arithmetic, Annuities, Politicnl Arithmetic. 



Value of Annuities, &c Price 5 Populat. of Blandfoid Forum, . . 



Population of Manchester, .... Percival .. 17 On computing Logantlmis, .. . 

 Populat. and Disea. of Chester, Haygarth. . 311 



9.. Alfrehrn. Analysis, Fluxions. 



Pulteney . 

 Hellins . 



Extension of Cardan's Rules, . . 

 Problems on Interpolations,. . . , 

 On Algebraic Equations, ..... 

 Extension of Cardan's Rule, . . . 



On the same, 



Cubic Equat. and Infin. Series, 



Maseres 

 Waring 



Waring 

 Maseres 

 Maseres 

 Hutton 



Quickly converging Series, .... Hutton . . 84 



Value of Infinite Series, Maseres . . 131 



Laws of Universal Proportion,. . Glenie .... 183 



Arith. of Impossible Quantities, Playfair . . 356 

 Uunits of Kqua., al.so Numb, of 



Affirm, and Negative Roots, Milner. . . . 382 



Slowly Converging Series, .... Maseres . . 45 1 



3. Geometry, Trigonometry, Land-surveying. 

 Demonstr. ofGeom. Prob Hutton .. 120 



Class II. Mechanical Philosophy. — 1. Dynamics. 

 Exper. on Mechanical Power,. . Smeaton . . 72 Connnunication of Motion, .... Milner 

 Theory of Rotatory Motion,,. .. Landen ,. 144 Progressive and Rotatory Motion, Vince . 



395 

 682 



453 



483 

 487 

 624 

 671 



704 



36-3 

 726 



