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INDEX. 



AMY 



Air-pump, experiments on various animals, ii. 271, Huygens 



and Papin 



— various experiments with, ii. 272, Same 



4- an experiment with, ii. 488, Sturm 



— effect of the pressure of atmospheric air on two hemi- 



spheres in the receiver, v. 356, , Hauksbee 



— see Vacuum. 



Air-balloon, on giving a direction to, xv. 625 Galvez 



Akenside, Mark, m. d., biograph. account of. xi. 145. . Note 

 — origin and use of the lymphatics, xi. 145 

 — effects of a blow on the heart, xii. 39 



Albatross, description of the, xiv. 4, Clayton 



Alcanna, manufacture and use of, iv. 304 

 Alchorne, Stanesby, chemical examination of ores, xiv. 

 585 



— experiments of mixing gold with tin, xv. 622 

 Alcyonium, description of, x. 670, Schlosser 



— remarks on the same specimen, x. 671, Ellis 



Aldebaran, occulted by the moon, 1681, ii. 510, Hevelius 



1736, viii. 137, ..Bevis 



1738, viii. 358, . . Kirch 



1738, viii. 470, Graham 



Aldrovandus, Ulysses, biographical account of, 442, Note 

 Ale, method of preserving at sea, i. 174 



Aleppo, journey thence to Palmyra, iv. 33, Halifax 



— Account of the plague at, 1758, &c. xi. 687. . Dawes 

 Alexander, J. place for ascertaining the earth's figure, viii, 



419 



— medicinal effects of Camphor, xii. 386 

 Alexandrinus Diophantus, biographical notice of, i. 605 

 Algae, of the alga marina latifolia, xi. 241, . . . . Peyssonel 



— on the fructification of submersed algae, xviii. 68 



Correa de Serra 



Algebra, usefulness of, ii. 307, Prestel 



— - some improvements in, iii. 38, Collins 



— excellence of the modern, iii. 593, Halley 



— algebraic and geometrical problems, xii. 19, . . Waring 



— on finding the values of algebraic quantities, xvi. 191 



Same 



— algebraic demonstration of Newton's binomial theorem, 



xviii. 33, Sewell 



t— see Equations, SfC. 



Alhazen, solu- of his prob., ii. 97, 107, Huygens and Sluse 

 Aliment, see Food. 



Alimentary canal, uncommon formation of the, xvii. 298, 



Abernethy 

 Alkalis, of the quantity of fixed air in, xii. 299, Cavendish 



— chemical analysis of mineral alkali, xv. 241, . . Kirwan 

 volatile alkali, xv. 242, .... Same 



— a test liquor for, xv. 605, , Watt 



— formation of volatile alkali, xvi. 493, Austin 



Alkalizate of vegetables, remarks on, ii. 124, 158,166, Coxe 



Allantois, discovery of the human, iv. 577, Hale 



Alleman, Didier, L', description of a celestial globe, ii. 405 

 Allemand, M. experiments on unannealed glass, ix. l6l 



— agitation of the waters in Holland, 1755, x. 655 



— earthquake in Flanders, 1755, x. 687 



Holland, 1756, x. 696 



Allen, Benj., generation of eels, iv. 199 

 4 — account of the gall-bee, iv. 319 



— description of the death-watch, ibid. 



Allen Thos., m. r>., description of an hermaphrodite, i. 223 

 Alligator, description of those at Jamaica, i. 295, Norwood 



— - fossil bones of, near Whitby, xi. 259, Chapman 



— xi. 289, Wooller 



Almanack, specimen of a perpetual, ii. 495, Wood 



— derivation of the word al-mon-ac, ibid, note 



— account of 3 Hindoo almanacks, xvii. 250, , .Wilkins 



Almon, Rev. Edm., account of a gigantic child, ix. 95 

 Aloe, American, observations on the, i. 161, .... Merret 



— of the sap tubes in the leaves of, v. 157, • • Leuwenhoek 

 Alston, Chas. m. d., biographical notice of, x. 204, Note 



— experiments on lime-water, ibid 



— experiments on quicklime, x. 204 



Alum, efflorescence of crude alum, ii. 179» Lister 



— of the English alum works, ii. 458, Colwall 



— analysis of, ibid, note 



— method of making it in Naples, iv. 508, .... Silvestre 



— see Salfs (chemistry) 



Alphabet, essay for an universal, iii. 310, Lodwick 



— the Palmyrene, x. 522, Swinton 



Alpine mouse, see Marmot, 



Alprunus, experiments on the pus of the plague, ii. 491 



— preservative from the pestilence, ii. 492 

 Alsace, of a remarkable oily spring at, i. 49 



Altar, of a Roman altar dug up at Chester, iv. 110, Halley 



— of two Roman altars, iv. 198, Thoresby 



— a Roman altar and inscription, x. 3l6, Ward 



— see Inscriptions. 



Alternations, and combinations, doctrine of, v. 209, 



Thornycroft 

 Altitude, see Heights, Barometer. 

 Altitudes, on finding time by, xiii. 735, Aubert 



— see Instruments (mathematical.) 



Amand, (St.) on the mineral waters of, iv. 336, Geoffroy 

 Ambe of Hippocrates, for luxations, improved, viii. 659> 



Le Cat 

 Amber, answer to a query respecting it, i. 126 . . Hevelius, 



— , ibid Scheffer 



— a specimen of soft amber, i. 515, Hevelius 



— a piece of white, in an inland lake, i. 722, .... Kirkby 



— on the nature and origin of, iv. 347, Hartman 



— phosphoric quality of, v. 408, Wall 



— of a leaf lodged in a piece of, vii. 160, Breyne 



— on the nature of, viii. 631, Beurer 



— on the origin of, ix. 9, Fothergill 



Ambergris, nature and origin of, ii. 94, Boyle ; Note ibid 



— thrown on shore at Jamaica, iv. 205, Tredway 



— of a piece 182 pounds weight, iv. 500, .... Chevalier 



— found in whales, vii. 57, Boylston 



— from the spermaceti whale, vii. 78, Dudley 



— nature and properties of, vii. 66l, Neuman 



— experiments on, vii. 668, .... Browne and Hanckewitz 



— an account of, xv. 389, Schwediawer 



— on the production of, xvii. 6, Fawkener 



Ames, Joseph, case of the plica polonica, ix 356 

 America, distance of Asia from, ix. 341, Dobbs 



— of the languages, manners, &c. of the Indians of North 



America, xiii. 406 , Johnson 



American Indians, see Indians 



Amianthus, of a sort found in Italy, of which may be made 



incombustible paper, or candle-wicks, i. 599 



— see Asbestos 



Amlwch, of the vitriolic waters at, xi. 429. Rutty 



Ammonitae, description of a curious fossil, ix. 632, Baker 

 Amnii liquor, the faetus in part nourished by, x. 619, Fleming 

 Amomum, or Tugus, description of the, iv. 347, • • Camelli 

 Amphibious animals, on animals commonly called amphi- 

 bious, xii. 324, Parsons, 



— on Linnaeus's class of amphibia, xvi. 521, Gray 



— see Alligator, Crocodile, Chamcelion, Ejt, Frog, Lizard, 



Salamander, Tortoise 



— see also Sea animals 



Amyand, Claudius, of an idiot who swallowed iron, v. 433 



— child born with the bowels hanging out, vii. 52y 



— case of suppressed urine in a woman, vii. 529 

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