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INDEX. 



BER 



Bayreuth, some remarkable caves at, and fossil bones, xvii. 



437, Margrave of Anspach 



Beale, J., d. d., biographical account of, i. 415, .... Note 



— of the barometer, and observ. with, i. 54, 57 



— experiments on shining fish, i. 75 



— on petrifactions, i. 119 



— an operation for the stone, i. 120 



— promiscuous observations in Somersetshire, i. 121 



— efficacy of the Malvern water, i. 132 



— the salt springs of Droitwich andNantwich, i. 132 



— proposal for experiments with the air-pump, i. 150 



— on vegetation and the running of sap, i. 304 



— connection of parts of a tree with the fruit, i. 334 



— observation on the baroscope and thermoscope, i. 415 



— on the origin of mineral springs, i. 420 



— on the generation of minerals, &c. ibid 



— reflections on medicinal springs, i. 423 



— considerations on apple-trees, planting, &c. i. 589 



— use of salt j on sheep, ii. 133 



— miscellaneous remarks, ii. 220 



— remarks on the Vinetum Britannicum, ii. 288 

 ————— shining flesh, ii. 294 



— agrestic observations, ii. 374, 384 



Beans, four sorts from Jamaica cast on shore in Scotland, 



iv. 103, . . Sloane 



Bear, anatomical description of the, i. 372 



Beard, R., m. d., of a person killed by lightning, vii. 153 



— stone voided by a woman by the urinary passage, vii. 175 

 Beasts, see Quadrupeds. 



Beatification, see Electricity. 



Beauchamp, Lord, explosion of a fire ball, viii. 540 



Beaumont, John, growth of rock plants, ii. 351, 647 



— on fire-damps in mines, ii. 474 



— account of the caves about the Mendip Hills, ii. 487 



— on cleaving rocks with gunpowder, iii. 113 

 Beaver, anatomical description of the, i. 371 



— natural history and dissection of, vii. 623, .... Mortimer 



— two species from Hudson's Bay, xiii. 326, Forster 



Beccaria, J., Baptist, biograph. notice of, xii, 291, . . Note 



— experiments in electricity, xi. 435 



— of double refractions in crystals, xi. 6l5 



— experiments in electricity, xii, 291 1 445 



— on electrical atmospheres, xiii. 50 



— colours emitted by phosphorus, xiii. 130 

 Becher, Joachim, biographical account of, i. 620 

 Becke, D., Van Der, volatilization of salt of tartar, ii. 54 

 Beckett, Wm., antiquity of the venereal disease, vi. 368, 



467, 492 



— difference in the height of the human body at morning 



and at night, vii. 25 

 Beckman, John Christopher, account of osteocolla, i. 278 



of an unusual kind of snow, i. 279 



Beddoes, Thomas, m. d., experiments on the production of 



cold, xvi. 279 



— affinity between basaltes and granite, xvii. 8 



— conversion of cast into malleable iron, xvii. 47» 209 

 Beech Tree, letters found in the centre of, viii. 359, Klein 

 Bee-hive, of a sort used in Scotland, ii. 82 



Bees, on an early swarm, i. 580, Reed 



— a strange sort of, at Cayenne, iii. 171 



— natural history and economy of, x. 78, Dobbs 



— a specimen of the apis willughbiella, xi. 496, . . Styles 



— discoveries on the sex of, xiv. 125, Debraw 



— remarks on Mr. Debraw's observations, xiv. 304, Polhill 



— natural history and economy of, xvii. 155, . . ..Hunter 



— see Gall-bee, Insects, Honey. 



Beeston, Sir William, on the barometer, iv. 79 



— efficacy of a hot bath in Jamaica, iv. 79 



Beetle, of a species with horns like a stag's, ii. 311 



— on the numerous eyes of, iv. 26*8, Leuwenhoek 



— which lived three years without food. viii. 426,. . Baker 



— found alive in a cavity of sound wood, viii. 535,Mortimer 

 Behm, Michael, remarks on the serum of blood j on gout j 



the spleen, &c. i. 237 

 Beighton, Henry, biographical account of, rii. 442, . . Note 



— of the London-bridge water- works, vii. 442 



— Mr. Orme's improvement of the barometer, viii. 198 



— a new plotting- table, viii. 502 



Belcher, Mrs., agitation of the waters of the Ontario, x. 695 

 Belchier, John, case of hydrops ovarii, vii. 533 



— bones tinctured red by aliment, viii. 79, 83 



— case of an arm torn off by a mill, viii. 226 

 Belemnites, origin and varieties of, ix. 311, .... Da Costa 



— description of two extraordinary, ix. 599, Cooke 



— description of various, x. 542, Brander 



— origin and formation of, xii. 91* Plott 



Belius, [Bell] Matthew, copper waters of the mines in 



Hungary, viii. 236 



— of an icy, and a noxious cavern in Hungary, viii. 293 

 Bell for Diving, see Diving. 



Bell, George, dissection of a body dead of stone, viii. 557 

 Bell, William, of the double- horned rhinoceros of Sumatra, 

 xvii. 282 



— description of the chaetodon ecan bonna, xvii. 284 

 Bellers, Fettiplace, strata of a coal mine, v. 707 

 Bellini, Laurence, biographical account of, i. 135 



— anatomical engagements of, i. 531 



Bellows, an improvement of the Hessian, v. 226, . . . Papin 



— a centrifugal bellows for ventilations, viii. 12,Desaguliers 



— a new water-bellows, viii. 192, Triewald 



ix. 169, Stirling 



Belluga-stone, account of the, ix. 335, Collinson 



— for Belluga-fish, see Acipenser huso. 

 Belly, see Fcetus, Tumours. 



Belt, see Jupiter, Saturn. 

 Benares Observatory, see Observatory. 

 Benares, method of making ice at, xvii. 294, 305, Williams 

 Benevoli, Antonio, observations on the cataract, vi. 602 

 Benjamin-tree, [Styrax Benzoin] description of, xvi. 287, 



Dryander 

 Bennet, Abraham, a new electrometer, xvi. 173, 176 



— account of a doubler of electricity, xvi. 282 



— new suspension of the magnetic needle, xvii. 142 



— polarity of brass and iron filings, xvii. 145 



Bent, Thomas, method of making tar rosin, &c. near Mar- 

 seilles, iv. 302 



— James, the use of the right arm recovered after the loss 



of the os humeri, xiii. 539 

 Benvenuti, Joseph, m. d., remarkable recovery from fever, 

 xii. 551 



— case of an uncommon large head, ibid 



Bengal, heat of the climate of, xii. 423, Martin 



Bergius, P. J., description of the plant croton lucidum, 

 xii. 529 



— description of the nyctanthes elongata, xiii. 147 



— plants of the Brownaea genus, xiii. 419 



Bergman, Torbern, biographical account of, xi. 506, Note 



— degree of the electricity of water, ibid 



— transit of Venus over the sun, 1761, xi. 564 



— observations of auroras boreales in Sweden, xi. 615 



— experiments in electricity with crystal, xi. 705 



— letter to Mr. Wilson on electricity, xii. 109 



— electric nature of the tourmalin, xii. 343 

 Berkley, Edward, eruption of Vesuvius, 1717* vi. 3l6 

 Berkley, George, d. d., biographical notice of, ix. 288 



— of tie petrifying quality of Lough Neagh, ibid 



