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INDEX. 



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Bagford, John, on the invention of printing, v. 350 



Bahama Islands, of poisonous fish at, ii. 213 



Bailey, Edw., M. D., stone in the colon of a horse, ix. 278 



— ■ stones in the intestines of a mare, ix. 279 



Bailly, John Sylvain, biographical account of, xiii. 429, Note 



— on perfecting the theory of Jupiter's satellites, xiii. 422 

 Baillie, Matthew, M. D., case of transposed viscera, xvi. 483 



— on the formation of hair, &c. in the ovarium, xvi. 535 

 Baker David Erskine, a tripos and inscription, ix. 174 



— property of water-efts to slip off their skins, ix. 349 

 — • two extraordinary belemnites, ix. 597 



— comparison of a dwarf with a child of 4 years, x. 53 



— an earthquake at York, 1754, x. 469 



Baker, Henry, biographical account of, viii. 4:6 .... Note 



— a beetle which lived 3 years without food, ibid. 



— discovery of a plant in the seed, viii. 429 



— description of Leuwenhoek's microscopes, viii. 443 ; fo- 



cusses compared with those of Mr. Folkes, 444, 445 



— virtue of black currants for a sore throat, viii. 479 



— of a woman who spoke after losing her tongue, viii. 586 



— observations on a dried polypus, viii. 725 



— description of the eye-sucker, ix. 15 



— method of procuring the impression of coins, &c. ix. 30 



— large fossil elephant's tooth, ix. 110 



— architecture of the Bridewell at Norwich, ix. l67 



— a curious echinites, ix. 326 



— clay moulds for Roman coins, ix. 356 



— grass in Norfolk destroyed by grubs, ix. 366 



— of the fish called quab in Russia, ix. 470 



— experiments in medical electricity, ix. 497 



— description of a fossil nautilus, ix. 632 



— microscope observ. on minute seeds of plants, x. 8 



— account of several aurora; boreales, x. 63 



— a fire-ball seen in the air, July 1750, x. 126 



— some uncommon fossil bodies, x. 347 



— case of disordered skin, x. 562 



— - effect of the opuntia and of indigo in colouring the juices 

 of living animals, xi. 137 



— description of the American cuttle-fish, xi. 286 



— calculus taken from the colon of a horse, xi. 484 



— account of Torre's microscope glasses presented to R. s. 



xii. 287 

 Baker, Thomas, a wound in the cornea of the eye, viii. 324 

 Balance, proposition respecting the balance, viii. 348, 



Desaguliers 



— paradox relating to the, vii. 482, Same 



— a new balance for thread, xii. 233, Ludlam 



Balcarras, Earl, dissection of the body of, i. 30 

 Baldwin, Christianus Adolph., biograph. account of, ii. 368 



— accidental discovery of a species of phosphorus, ii. 368 

 Balguy, Chas., m. d., dead bodies preserved from decay in 



peat-moss, vii. 666 

 Ball, Wm., method of preserving ice with chaff, i. 50 



— observation of two rings of Saturn, i. 54 

 Ballard, Mr., on the magnetism of drills, iv. 332 

 Ballasore, astronomical observations at, ii. 525, . .Halley 

 Banister, John, biographical account of, iii. 515, Note 



— account of several insects in Virginia, iv. 565 

 Banyer, Henry, m.d., extraordinary haemorrhage, viii. 727 



— ascites cured by tapping, viii. 729 



Barbadoes, remarks on the Nat. Hist, of, ii. 228,. . Towns 

 Barbary, some characteristics of the Moors of, iv. 407, Jones 

 Barbosa, J. M. S., lunar eclipse, 1755, at Elbing, x. 621 

 Barde, John, cure of a fractured arm retarded by pregnancy, 



x. 28 

 Barham, Henry, meteoric stone in Jamaica, vi. 368 



— production of silk worms in England, vi. 426 



Bark, (Peruvian) opposition to its use, iii. 534, . . Morton 



Bark, (Peruvian) of the tree producing it, v. 119, ..Oliver 



— microscopical observations on, v. 372, .... Leuwenhoek 



— of its efficacy in mortifications, vii. 572, .... Douglas 

 — __ — _ _____ vii. 574, .... Shipton 



— first used in cases of mortification by Mr. Rushworth, 



vii. 574, Note 



— account of the Peruvian bark tree, viii. 14?, .... Gray 



— preventive of colds, ix. 184, Arderon 



— use of, in the small pox, ix. 369, "Wall 



— - efficacy of, in mortification, xi. 159, Grindall 



— in the delirium of fever, xi. 235, Munckley 



— description of the bark tree of Jamaica, xiv. 199, Wright 



— cabbage bark tree of Jamaica, xiv. 200, Same 



— descript. of the bark tree of St. Lucia, xv. 619, Davidson 



— (of willow) efficacy of, in agues, xii. 1, Stone 



Barks, effects of cutting, i. 305, 306, Beale, Tonge 



— season and method of barking, iii. 420, Plott 



— observs. of the growth and texture of, v. 188, Leuwenhoek 



— of the quantity of tanning principle and gallic acid in 



various barks, xviii. 527, Biggin 



Barker, Robert, a catoptric microscope, viii. 73 



— Sir Robert, thermometrical observations at Allahabad, 



1767, and on a voyage to England, 1774, xiii. 631 



— general state of the weather at Bengal, xiii. 632 



— process of making ice in the East Indies, xiii. 643 



— description of the Benares Observatory, xiv. 214 

 Barker, Rev. Robert, horns and head of a large stag found 



i n Derbyshire, xvi. 9 

 Barker, Thomas, biographical notice of, x. 645, . . v . Note 



— meteor seen in Rutland, 1749, ix. 698 



— calculation of the return of a comet, x. 645 



— on the mutations of the stars, xi. 432 



— of a remarkable halo, xi. 514 



— plan of his rain-gage, ibid, xiii. 131 



— meteorological observations, at Lyndon, &c, xiii. 131; 



for 1771, 277; 1773, 530; 1774, 631; 1775, xiv. 

 48; 1776,178; 1777,389; 1778,592; 1779,711; 

 1780, xv. 118; 1781, 277; 1782, 396; 1783,543; 

 1784, xvi. 30; 1785, 95; 1786, 306; 1787, 507; 

 1788, 563; 1789, xvii. 28: 1790, 74 * 1791, 242; 

 1792, 335; 1793, 392; 1794,613; 1795, xviii. 64; 

 1796, 300; 1797, 442; 1798, 580 



— separation of salt from salt water by freezing, xiv. 48 



— on the annual growth of trees, xvi. 507 



— discovery of a chalk-pit in Rutland, xvii. 75 



— on the recovery of injured trees, xviii. 442 



Barlow, Rev. Wm., population and mortality at Stoke- 

 Damerel, viii. 53 



— of the sun-fish, and glue made of it, viii. 402 



— analogy of English weights and measures, viii. 432 



— an ancient date in Arabian figures, viii. 478 

 Barnacles, description of, ii. 415, Moray; correction of an 



erroneous opinion respecting them, 4l6, Note 



— description of some rare species of, xi. 307, Ellis 



Barnard, Wm., method of saving a stranded ship, xiv. 625 

 Barometer, accountof the, and observns. with, i. 54, 57, Beal 



— observations on the baromer, i. 60 



— directions for making observations with, i. 62, . . Boyle 



— a new wheel-barometer, i. 72, ............ Hook 



— measuring of heights by, not a recent discovery, i. 80, note 



— and thermometer, observations with, i. 415, Beale 



, — , 416 Wallis 



— the running of sap, a good barometer, i. 559, . . Tonge 



— cause of the suspension of mercury at the top of a small 



tube, ii. 1, Huygens ; otherwise accounted for, 3, Note 



— cause of the suspension of mercury, ii. 44,. . . . Wallis 



— on the rise and fall of mercury in it, iii. 9^> Lister 



— heightof the mercury at differ, elevations, iii. 300, Halley 



