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Bose, Geo. Matth., electricity of glass which has been 

 strongly heated, ix. 681 



— lunar eclipse, June, 1750, x. 94 



— account of the vegetable byssus, x. 425 



Botany, on the early cultivation of, in England, xiii. 383 



— See Plants. 



Bourbon, Count de, analytical description of the crystalline 



forms of Corundum, xviii. 368 

 Bourdilot, Abbe, biographical notice of, i. 654 Note 



— on the poison of vipers, i. 654 



Bourzes, F., luminousness of the water in the Indian seas, 



vi. 53 

 Bourgignon, M., new volcanic island near Santerini, v. 446 

 Boulimia, see Appetite. 



Boutan, vegetable and mineral productions of, xvi. 539, 



Saunders 



— diseases of, xvi. 549, Same 



Bovey Coal, see Coal, 



Bowditch, Samuel, of a woman living six days under now, 



vi. 69 

 Bowels, instance of inverted bowels, ii. 154, .... Sampson 



— case of transposition of the viscera, xvi. 483, .... Baillie 



— uncommon formation of the viscera, xvii. 295, Abernethy 

 Bower, Thomas, m. d., tumour in the cheek, vi. 319 

 Bowles, Wm., geological remarks on the North of Spain, 



xii. 340 



— formation of the emery stone, xii. 341 



Box, observations on the pores of the leaves of, vi. 541, 



Leuwenhoek 

 Box Hill, when first planted, xii. 595, Note 

 Boy, a gigantic boy with extraord. genitals, ix. 95, Almond 

 Boyle, Hon. Robt, some account of, i. 4 Note 



— his experimental history of cold, i. 4. 17 



— account of a monstrous calf, i. 5. 



— a monstrous head with eyes united, i. 29 



- — account of an earthquake near Oxford, i. 60 



— directions for making observns. with the Barometer, i 62 



— heads for the natural history of a country, i. 63 



— account of a book on the origin of forms and qualities, 



i. 65 



— preserving birds taken from the egg, i. 66 



— on a new statical baroscope, i. 77 



•— experiments for suddenly producing a great degree of 

 cold, i. 86 j method of cooling liquors, i. 87 



— inquiries concerning the sea, and sea-water, i. 119 

 mines, i. 123 



— Dr. Lower's method of transfusion of blood, i. 128 



— trials of transfusion of blood proposed, i. 143 



— experiments of injecting liquors into blood, i. 201 



. ■ - withdrawing air from shining wood and 



fish, i. 211 



— comparison of burning coal and shining wood, i. 215 



— weight of water in water with common balances, i. 374 



— new pneumatical experiments, i. 473 j continued 490 



— observations on shining flesh, ii, 31 



— effect of a varying atmosphere on bodies in water, ii. 42 



— nature of ambergris, ii. 94 



— account of Van Helmont's laudanum, ii. 155 



— experiment on the dilatation of fish, in water, ii. 212 



— new essay instrument, ii. 214 



— experiments on air, ii. 246 



— superficial figures of contiguous fluids, ii. 362 



— same experts, continued, particularly of water, ii. 370 



— a newly invented lamp, ii. 498 



— account of a self-moving liquor, iii. 222 



— his discovery of phosphorus, iii. 478, and Note 



— way to ascertain the degree of saltness in waters, iii. 496 



Boylston, m. n., of ambergris found in whales, vii. 57 

 Bozes, Claude Gros de, on the medals of Pescennius Niger, 

 x. 50 



Tetricus, x. 349 



Bradley, Richard, experiments on the motion of sap, vi. 254 



— vegetation of mouldiness on a melon, vi. 257 

 Bradley, James, d. d., biographical account of, vii. 13. Note 



— observation of the comet of 1723, vii. 13 j of 1737, viii. 



149; of 1757, xi. 169 



— longitude of Lisbon, vii. 141 



— apparent motion of the fixed stars, vii. 308 j ix. 417 



— observations with isochronal pendulums, vii. 649 



— directions for using the common micrometer, xiii. 277 



— calculations of the latitude of Greenwich, xvi. 224 

 Bradley, John, Venus occulted by the moon, x. 188 

 Brady, Samuel, of a puppy alive in the matrix without a 



mouth, v. 276 

 Brady, Terence, m. d., description of some polype insects, 

 x. 617 



— a bone found in a man's pelvis, xi. 476 



Brahe, Tycho, biography of, i. 312 j remarkable supersti- 

 tion, 313 



— account of his observatory, iv. 525, Gordon j v. 46, Oliver 

 Braikenridge, Rev.W., a method of describing curves, viii. 5 



— population within the London bills of mortality, 1704 

 to 1753, x. 535 



— on a table of the probabilities of life, x. 598 



— method of enumerating the population of England, x. 



621 j xi. 186 



— increase of the population of Britain and Ireland, xi. 51 



— on the sections of a solid, xi. 425 



Brain, observations on the brain, i. 171, 323, . . Malpighi 



— pathology of the brain and nerves, i. 214, . . ♦ . . . Willis 



— discourse on the anatomy of, i. 387> Steno 



— microscopical observations on, ii. 150, 402; iii. 122, 



Leuwenhoek 



— a petrified glandula pinealis, iii. 340, King 



— of a child born alive without a brain, iv. 149, . . Preston 

 ————— depressed into the hollow of the vertebrae, iv. 



1 64, Tyson 



— one hemisphere sphacelated, and a stone in it, iv. 165, 



Same 



— of a child born without, iv. 373, Bussiere, 



— see Dura Mater, Epilepsy. 



Bramins, religion, notions, manners, &c. of, iv. 534, 



Marshal 

 Bramin's observatory, see Observatory. 

 Brander, Gustavus, description of belemnites, x. 542 ' 



— remarkable echinus at the Isle of Bourbon, x. 628 



— effects of lightning on a church, x. 629 



Brandy, how to prove it French, vii. 120, .... Newman 

 Brass, transmutation of copper into, iii. 535, . . . Povey 



— on giving magnetism and polarity to, xi. 985, . . Arderon 



— on the magnetic properties of, xvi. 57, 170, . . Cavallo 



xvii. 145, Bennet 



Brass wire, bad effects on the hands from cleansing, xi. 



510, More 



Brattle, T., solar and lunar eclipses at New England, v. 148 



— lunar eclipse, New England, 1707, v. 379 



Brown, Prof, exper. on the congelation of mercury, xi. 544 



Brazil, of the Pharaos lice at, ii. 434, Guattini 



Bread, from turnips, method of making, iii. 599, . . Dale 

 Bread-fruit tree, description of the, xiv. 572, . . Thunberg 



Breast, a gibbosity of the sternum, ix. 649, Huber 



Breasts, excessive swelling of a woman's, i. 393, 402, 



405, Durston 



Breath, observ. on shortness of, iv. 671, Leuwenhoek 



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