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INDEX. 



ATM 



Arderon, heat of the weather, July 1750, x. 95 



— on the severe cold of the winter of 1754, x. 454 



— magnetism and polarity of brass, xi. 285 



-f- fall of rain at Norwich, 1749—1762, xi. 678 



Areas, see Curves. 



Areometer, description of a new one, vii. 41, Fahrenheit 



Areometry, essay on, xiv. 387, De Luc 



Aretina, discovery under ground of the ancient city, viii. 

 402, Sloane 



— see Herculancum 



Arithmetic, account of negativo-afhrmative, vii. 163, Colson 



— of an arithmetical machine, viii. 25, Gersten 



— Chinese arithmetical instrument, ix. 624, . . Smethurst 



— of impossible quantities, xiv. 356, Playfair 



Arm, torn off by a mill, case of, viii. 226, Eelchier 



— cure of a fracture retarded by pregnancy, x. 28, . . Barde 



— remarkable operation on a fractured humerus, xi. 475, 



White. 



— extraction and regeneration of part of the bone, xii. 349, 



LeCat. 

 — - see (Os humeri) . 



Armadilla, account of the American, xii. 99, .... "Watson 

 Aromatariis, Jos. de, on seeds of plants, generation of animals, 

 iii. 650 



Arsenic, and cobalt, way of preparing, v. l65, Kreig 



Arteries, remarks on the circulation of blood, &c. iv. 6'80, 



Cow per 



communications of with the veins, v. 44, Same 



petrifactions and ossifications of, v. 205, Same 



, ossification of the crural artery, vi. 538, Naish 



of two, leading to the ovaria, vii. 163, Ranby 



— peculiar distribution of, in slowly-moving animals, xviii. 



601, Carlisle 



Arteries, see particular arteries individually. 



Arteries of leaves (see Leaves). 



Arthritis, distinctions of, v. 135, Musgrave 



— see Gout. 



Articulating cartilages, structure and diseases of, viii. 686, 



Hunter 

 Articulations, as applied to the alphabet, i. 352, .... Holder 

 Artocarpus, see Bread-fruit Tree. 



Asa faetida, description of the plant yielding it, xv. 642, 



Hope 

 Asbestos, found in Wales, paper made of, iii. 105, . . Lloyd 



— experts, on incombustible cloth, iii. 178, Waite 



— history and manufacture of incombustible cloth, iii. 179, 



Plott 



— of different sorts, and manner of weaving, iv. 604,Ciampini 



— of a sort found in Scotland, iv. 635, Wilson 



— v. 671, Blair 



— on the nature of, xi. 494, Needham 



— see Amianthus. 



Ascanius, Peter, m. d., a mountain of iron ore in Sweden, 



x. 564 

 Ascites, dissection of a body dead of, iii. 606, Turner 



— cured by tapping, viii. 729, Banyer 



— improved method of tapping for, ix. 5, 40, .... Warrick 



— see Tapping. 



Asellius, Caspar, biographical notice of, i. 247 

 Ash, Geo., Bp. of Cloyne, on mathematical demonstrations, 

 iii. 64 



— of horns growing on the body of a girl, iii. 229 



— force of imagination in pregnant women, iii. 375 



— effect of the power of imagination, iii. 375 



— of a butter-like dew in Ireland, iv. 78 



— low state of the barometer, &c. iv. 303 



Ashes, a shower of, in the Archipelago, i. 140, . . Badily 

 ■ at sea 25 leagues from land, x. 6*87, . . Whytt 



Ashes, see Dust. 



Asia, observations in parts of, ii. 343, 355, .... Tavernier 



— merchandize of the Mogul Empire, 356*, Same 



— Russian discoveries on the h. e. coast of, ix. 320, Euler 



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



Asperia arteria, peculiar structure of in several birds, xii. 



329, Parsons 



in the land-tortoise, xii. 334, Same 



Assaying, new method for copper-ore, xiv. 6*08 

 Asterias Caput Medusae, description of, i. 422, Winthrop 

 Asthma, dissection of a body dead of, v. 705, . . Cowper 

 — ■ xii. 145, Watson 



— see Breath 



Aston, Francis, some unknown ancient characters, iii, 574 

 Astroites, see Star stones. 



Astronomy, advantage of the earth over other planets for 

 astronomical observation, v. 15, Gregory 



— on the motion of celestial bodies, vi. 395, .... Demoivre 



— Newton's tables of astronomical refractions, vi. 519, 



Halley 



— advantage of taking mean observations, x. 579, Simpson 



— method of observing the heavenly bodies out of the 



meridian, xii. 543, Smeaton 



— three astronomical problems solved, xiii. 348, Pemberton 



— on the construction of the heavens, xv. 6ll, 6*80, 



Herschel 



— on the chief problems in nautical astrononomy, xviii. 



95, Mendoza Rios. 



— see Eclipse, Parallax, Planets, Stars, Sfc. 

 Astronomical Observations at Ballasore, in India j and 



corrections of some errors of eminent astronomers, 

 ii. 525, H alley 



— in China, iv. 233, Cassini 



— at Wansted, vi. 212, *.-... Pound 



— at Southwick, vii. 132, Lynn 



— at Toulon, vii. 144, Laval 



— at Vera Cruz, vii. 224, Harris 



— at Pekin, vii. 273, Kogler 



— at Ingolstadt, vii. 274 



— at Pekin, vii. 440, Carbone 



— at Paraguay, ix. 6l5, 619, Sarmento 



— at Pekin, x. 2, Hallerstein 



x. 3, Gaubil 



— in London, x. 408, Bevis and Short 



— at Swelzingen, xii. 1 19, Mayer 



— at Vienna, xii. 220, Liesganig 



— at Naples and Malta, xii. 554, Zannoni 



— in Pennsylvania, xii. 578, Mason and Dixon 



— North America, xii.. 642, xiii. 527, Holland, &c. 



— at the North Cape, xii. 6*44, Bayley 



— at Hudson's Bay, xii. 682, ...... Wales and Dymond 



— near Cavan, xiii. 80, Mason 



— in the West Indies, xiii. 81, Pingre 



— at K. Charles's Island, xiii. 174, Green 



— at Portsmouth, xiii. 276, Witchell 



— at Pekin, xiii. 492, . Cipolla 



— in the Austrian Netherlands, xiv. 22, 401, Pigott 



— at Cork, xiv. 511....... Longtield 



— in Glamorganshire, xv. 118, Pigott 



— at Chiselhurst, xiii. 382, 532, 6*50, xv. 519, 



Wollaston 



— see Sun, Moon, Venus, Saturn. 



Atkins, John, meteorological journal at Minebead, 1782, 



xv. 477 

 Atmosphere, effect of its changes on the weather, iii. 157, 



Garden 



— remarks in reply to the above, iii. 16*2, Wallis 



— of the moon, remarks on, viii. 371, ......... . Fouchy 



