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INDEX. 



BAY 



Barometer, on increasing the divisions of, iii. 343, . . Hook 



— observations on, at Jamaica, iv. 79, Beeston 



— trial of the Torricellian expt. on Snowden, iv, 174, Halley 

 — . on the monument, iv. 225,. . Derham 



— to make a portable barometer, iv. 226, Same 



— measuring the height of mercury by a circular plate, iv. 



231, Same 



— on enlarging the divisions of, iv. 269, Gray 



— 'low state of, iv. 303, Ashe 



— observation on the height of mercury in, iv. 349, Derham 



— altitude of the mercury in China, iv. 426, . . Cunninghame 



— height of the mercury, l699> iv- 483, Derham 



— remarks on Hook's marine barometer, iv. 56l . . Halley 



— of a new baroscope, v. 120 Caswell 



— cause ©f the mercurial descent in a storm, v. 147, 



Hauksbee 



— expts. with in difft. parts of Switzerl., vi. 166, Scheuchzer 



— cause of the variation of, vi. 283, Desaguliers 



— the measuring of heights by, vi. 496, Halley 



— extraordinary height of, vi. 537, Graham 



— observations in 1723, vii. 2, Cruquius 



— height of, at different elevations, vii. 86, .... Nettleton 



— aa experiment with, vii. 89, Celsius 



— on measuring of heights by, vii. 264, .... Scheuchzer 



— of a new barometer, vii. 590 Rowning 



— cause of the rising, &c. of mercury in, vii. 592, Gersten 



— in a storm, observations on, viii. 78, Forth 



— Mr. Orme's improvement of, viii. 198, Beighton 



— rules for foretelling the weather by, viii. 202 



— observs. of differences in heights, viii. 5/8, . . Hollman 



— on its agreement with the weather, ix. 651, .... Same 



— a new portable barometer, xii. 201, Spry 



— improvements of a wheel barometer, xiii. 17, Fitzgerald 



— the measuring of heights by, xiii. 145, Pigott 



— De Luc's rule for measuring heights, adapted to Faren- 



heit's thermometer, and the English measure, xiii. 520, 



Maskelyne 



— measurement of the depth of the mines of Hartz by, xiv. 



180, 574, De Luc 



— description of that used by the r. s. xiv. 52, . . Cavendish 

 — ■ admeasurem. of weights in Savoy, xiv. 203, Shuckborgh 



— on the measurement of heights by, xiv. 226, .... Roy 



— description of a thermometrical barom.,xv. 164,. . Cavallo 



— see Heights. — Meteorological Observations 

 Baroscope, on a new statical baroscope, i. 77, .... Boyle 



— See Barometer 



Barr, Mr., journal of the weather at Montreal, 1777, xiv. 



389, 681 

 Barrattier, (John,) of the early genius of, xiii. 13, Bar- 



rington 

 Barrel, Rev., Edm., on the propagation of misleto, vii. 176 



— shock of an earthquake in Kent, vii. 195 



— difference of sex in misleto, vii. 271 



Barrenness, Bath waters a cure for, iii. 140, Peirce 



Barrington, Hon., Daines, biograph. account of, xii. 421 



— of singularly shaped perch and trout in Wales, ibid. 



— on the change of climate in Italy, &c. from what it was 



17 centuries ago, xii. 508 



— of the indigenous trees of Britain, xii. 594 



— of the early musical genius of Mozart, xiii. 11 



— chesnut trees not indigenous in Britain, xiii, 116 



■ — account of a mole from North America, xiii. 148 



— fall of rain different at different heights, ibid. 



— of sea-fish found in fresh water, xiii. 154, Note 



— specific characters distinguishing the rabbit from the 



hare, xiii. 267 



— on the migration of birds, xiii. 314 



— a curious fossil found near Christchurch, xiii. 418 



Barrington, on the nat. history of the ptarmigan, xiii. 433 



— observations on the singing of birds, xiii. 442 



— of the gillaroo trout, xiii. 509 



Barros, M. de, observation on a transit of mercury, x. 426 

 Barrow, Isaac, d. d., biographical account of, i. 633 . . Note 

 Barrows, examination of, in Cornwall, viii. 433, Williams 



— near Bridgnorth, viii. 582 Stackhouse 



Bartholine, Erasmus, biographical notice of, i. 403, . . Note 



— exper. on a crystal-like body, from Iceland, i. 545 

 Bartholine, Caspar, some account of, ii. 360 



— on the salivary vessels, iii. 86. 



Bartholine, Thomas, biographical notice of, i. 247 

 Bartram, John, on the teeth of the rattle-snake,* viii. 409 



— salt and fresh- water muscles of Pennsylvania, ix. 70 



— oysters and oyster-banks of Pennsylvania, ibid. 



— wasps' nests of clay in Pennsylvania, ix. 123 



— of the black wasp of Pennsylvania, ix. 699 



— of the libella or dragon fly of Pennsylvania, x. 4, 28 



— an aurora borealis at Philadelphia, 1757, xi. 614 



— of the yellow wasp of Pennsylvania, xi. 685 



Barytes, chemical experiments on, xv. 544 .... Withering 

 Bas-relief of Mithras found at York, ix. 687 .... Stukely 

 Basaltes, in several parts of Germany, x. 703 . . Trembley 



— Basaltic hills in Hessia, xiii. 222, Raspe 



— of Basaltic columns in Italy, and on their origin, xiii. 



577, 677, Strange 



— affinity between it and Granite, xvii. 8, Beddoes 



— See Giant's Causeway. 



Basil, of remarkable mineral springs at, i. 47 



Bastar, Job, m.d., description of the teredo navalis, viii. 37$ 



— pendulous tumour on an infant's back, viii. 622 



— dissection of a child dead of hydrocephalus, ibid. 



— a foetus with no distinction of sex, x. 57 



— of marine animalcula ; nature of corallines, &c. xi. 131 



— figures of zoophytes, xi. 537 



Bastard, Win,, on the culture of pine apples, xiv. 224 

 Bate, George, m.d., biographical notice of, iii. 601, Note 

 Bate, James, m.d., change of colour in a negro-woman, 



xi. 370 

 Bates, Thomas, distemper among the cows near London, 



1714, vi. 375 

 Bath, (City) particulars of, especially the waters, i. 36l, 



Glanvil 



— effect of the waters in curing palsy, &c. iii. 140, . . Plott 



— degrees of heat of the waters, xii. 419, Howard 



xii. 420, Canton 



Baths, description of, in Austria and Hungary, i. 405, 



Brown 



— ceremony of bathing at Buda, i. 455 



— of the Aponensian baths, i. 720, Doddington 



— of the hot-baths of Vinadio, xi. 495, Bruni 



— see Waters {Mineral and Medicinal) . 



Baxter, Wm., on the hypocausts of the ancients, v. 291 



— halos and parhelia seen in North America, xvi. 1 80 

 Bayes, Rev. Thomas, on certain infinite series, xii. 14 



— a problem in the doctrine of chances, xii. 41, 160 

 Bayle, Francis, m. d., biographical notice of, ii. 435 



— an extra-uterine feetus, ii. 435 



Bayles, John, his death and dissection at 130 years old, v. 



299 Keill 



Bayley, Edw., m. d., earthquake at Havant, 1734, viii. 96 

 Bayley, Joel, transit of Venus and solar eclipe, 1769, at 



North Cape, xii. 644 j going of a clock at the same 



place, ibid 



— transit of Venus, 1769, in Pennsylvania, xii. 673 

 Baynard, Edward, m. d., cause of pain in rheumatism, iv. 9 



— cure of suppression of urine by acids, iv. 10 



— effect of swallowing copper farthings, iv. 335 



