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CONTENTS. 



Page 

 Herschel, Heat and Light of Prismatic Rays 675 

 Herschel, Refrangibility of Invisible Rays 688 

 Herschel, Solar and Terrestrial Heat Rays 



691, 750 

 Hatchett, on Zoophytes and on Membrane 706 



Pa*e 

 Volta, the Galvanic Pile or Electricity . . 744 

 Home, on the Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus 746 

 Mudge, Trigonometrical Survey of England 787 

 Edit. Davy's Electro. chemical Discoveries 79% 



THE CONTENTS CLASSED UNDER GENERAL HEADS. 



Class I. Mathematics. 



1. Arithmetic, Annuities, Political Arithmetic. 

 Contingent Reversion for 3 J Morgan 5?fi 



2. Algebra, Analysis, Fluxions, Series. 



Binomial Theorem demon- ") ~ ,. „„ On the Roots of Equations, Wood 341 



strated J ewe Resolution of Algebraic i ^yjj son 52 



A Slowly Converging Series, Hellins 312 Equations j 



3. Geometry, Trigonometry, Surveying. 



T E g n OI land triCal ^^ °' } Williams > &c - 236 ^Tland'™* 1 ^^ °! } Mud S e 7 S7 



Geometrical Theorems and j Br ham 345 

 Ponsms J 



Class II. Mechanical Philosophy. 

 1. Dynamics. 



Resistance of Fluids Vince 248 



The Density of the Earth . . Cavendish . . 388 



A Prob. in Physical Astro- j HeUi 



nomy J ' 



1. Statics. 

 On the Stability of Ships . . Atwood 315 



3. Astronomy, Chronology, Navigation. 



On the Periodical Star *"J 



Herculis; on the Rota- I 



tion of Stars on their >Herehel .... 6*1 



Axes; and on the Bright- [ 



ness of the Stars J 



On Horizontal Refractions, Huddart 88 



Problems of Nautical As- 1 Mendoza 05 



tronomy J 



Correction of the observed ^ 



Distance of the Moon >Cavendish. ... 9$ Spa 



and a Star J 



Two Periodical Stars Pigott, Edw 



Third Catalogue of Stars . . Herschel . . 



On Jupiter's Satellites Herschel . . 



Satellites of the Georgium 1 Herschel 



Sidus J 



The Latitude by 2 Alti- 1 Lax 



tudes and the Time . . . . / 

 Fourth Catalogue of Stars. . Herschel . . 

 Telescopic Penetrat. int0 1 Herschel . . 



Space J 



The Force of Fired Gun. 

 powder 



4. Projectiles and Gunnery. 

 Rumford 140 



102 

 171 

 187 



270 



466 

 475 

 580 



