CONTENTS OF VOLUME SEVENTEENTH. 



DPage 

 E LUC, a 2d Paper on Hygrometry. .1, 111 

 Fawkener, on the Production of Ambergris 6 

 Beddoes, Affinity of Basaltes and Granite. . 8 



Herschel, on Nebulous Stars 18 



Barker, Meteorological Register . . 28, 74, 242, 



335, 392, 6l3 



Home, on Horny Excrescences 28 



Pictet, on Measuring an Arch of the Meri- 

 dian and Parallel of Geneva 34 



R.S. Meteorological Register, 38, 192, S06, 3S9, 



535, 752 



Rennell, Rate of Camels' Travelling 38 



Waring, on Infinite Series . . 43 



Beddoes, Change of Cast Iron to Malleable 47, 209 

 Tennant, Decomposition of Fixed Air .... 50 

 Read, Journal of Atmospher. Electricity 52, 207 

 Priestley, Decomposition of Dephlogisticated 



and Inflammable Air 55 



Lane, Experiments on Human Calculi .... 6l 



Roxburgh, on the Chermes Lacca 62 



Dalby, the Longitude of Dunkirk and Paris 67 



Morgan, on Contingent Reversions 72 



Barker, a Chalk-pit found in Rutland 74 



Cavallo, the Mother-of-pearl Micrometer . . 75 

 Vince, on the Sums of Infinite Series .... 78 

 Pearson, Composition of James's Powder. . 8F 

 Macie, Chemical Experiments on Tabasheer 101 

 Herschel, on Saturn's Ring, and 5th Satellite 117 



Miscellaneous Observations .... ]2() 



"Wedg^vood, T. the Production of Light 128, 215 



Thompson, Experiments on Heat 135 



Bennet, New Magnetic Needle, &c 142 



Topping, Measure of a Base in India .... 146 

 Schmeisser, on the Kilburn-Weils Water. . 149 



Hunter, J. Observations on Bees 155 



Sneyd, Substance of a Bird changed to a 



hard Fatty Matter . iy2 



Currie, Effectsof a Shipw., Heat &Cold, &c. 193 

 Biographical Notice of Dr. James Currie . . ibid 

 Tumor, of an Earthquake in Lincolnshire . . 220 

 Pearson, on Decompounding Fixed Air .... 221 

 Schroeter, Atmosphere of Venus and the 



Moon 232, 506 



Abbs, Failure of Haddocks in the North . . 243 

 Fordyce, Weight acquired by Calcined Metals 245 

 Cavendish, the Civil Year of the Hindoos. . 249 



De Luc, on Evaporation 259 



Blagden, Excise on Spirituous Liquors .... 263 



Gilpin, Appendix tp the same 272 



Sturges, Two Rainbows at the same time. . 282 

 Bell, on the Double-horned Rhinoceros. . . . ibid 



a Species of Chcetodon in India 284 



Volta, on the Discovery of Galvanism .... 285 



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Williams, on the Benares Observatory .... 291 



Gregory, on a New Comet 294 



Maskelyne, on the same ibid 



Williams, Ice-making at Benares .... 294, 305 

 Abernethy, Uncommon State of Viscera . . 2y5 

 Shuckburgh, on Equatorial Instruments . . 299 

 Wollaston, F. on a New Transit Circle. . . . 306 



Clarke, uncommon Human Foetus 312 



Schmeisser, Instrum. for Spec. Gravities . . 3l6 



Blagden, on the Tides at Naples 318 



Young, Observations on Vision ibid 



Rennell, the Current near the Scilly Isles . . 325 

 Herschel, Observations on the Planet Venus 330 



Miss, on a New Comet 335 



Fordyce, on a New Pendulum 336 



Home, on Mr. J. Hunter's Croonian Lect. 343 

 Herschel, the Belts on the Planet Saturn . . 346 



Vince, on the Property of the Lever 348 



Herschel, Particulars of a Solar Eclipse. .. . 351 

 Bugge, Latitude and Longitude of Places , . 353 

 Herschel, Rotation of Saturn on his Axis . . 356 

 Thompson, Light from Luminous Bodies . . 359 



on Coloured Shadows 374 



Atwood, Vibration of Watch Balances .... 380 

 Gibbes, Animal Matter changed to a Fatty 



Substance 389 



Blumenbach, on some Egyptian Mummies 3.92 



Hosack, Observations on Vision 403 



Heliins, Halley's Quadrature of the Circle. . 414 

 Morgan, Values of Reversions on 3 Lives. . 417 

 Schroeter, Observations on a Solar Eclipse 422 

 Read, Electrical Exper. and Observations. . 423 

 Gilpin, Tab. for Mixtures of Spirit and Water 426 



Blagden, Explanation of these Tables ibid 



Pearson, on White-lac from Madras 428 



Margrave of Anspach, Caves at Bayreuth . . 437 

 Hunter, J. on the Fossil Bones in the same 440 

 Schmeisser, on the Mineral Strontionite, . . . 446 

 Humfries, on Linseed Oil taking Fire .... 449 

 Wilkins, a Bright Spot seen in the dark part 



of the Moon 450 



Maskelyne, on the same 451 



Home, Experiments on the Eye 453 



Vince, Motion and Resistance of Fluids. . . . 46'6 

 Herschel, Nature of the Sun and Stars .... 478 



Hamilton, Eruption of Vesuvius 492 



Cruikshank, on the Nen'es and Spinal Marr. 512 

 Haighton, on the Reproduction of Nerves. . 519 



Home, Lecture on Muscular Motion 525 



■ Generation of the Kanguroo 535 



Gibbes, Change of Flesh to a Fat Matter . . 544 

 Wells, on Galvani's Exper. on the Muscles 548 

 Smith, on the Structure of Bird's Eyes .... 557 



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