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BUL 



Breathing, see Respiration. 



Breintnall, Joseph, meteors seen at Philadelphia, viii. 409 



— effects of the bite of a rattle- snake, ix. 229 

 Bremond, M. De, magnetism communicated by lightning, 



viii. 463 

 Brereton, O. S., accident by lightning at East-Bourn, xv. 21 

 Breslaw, population of the city of, iii. 483 

 Brewer, Jas., m. d ., of a bed of oyster-shells in Berkshire, 



iv. 4?1 

 Breyne, Joh. Phil., plants and insects of Spain, v. 239 



— account of a journey through Italy, v. 675 



— the agnus Scythicus, vii. 103 



— of a leaf lodged in a piece of amber, vii. 160 



— account of the coccus Polonicus, vii. 511 

 1 radicum, vii. 574 



— Mammoth's bones dug up in Siberia, viii. 155 



— ill effect of earthy absorbents on the kidneys, viii. 452 

 Brice, Alex, observ. of a comet, 1766, xii. 287 



— method of measuring the velocity of wind, xii. 338 



— to ascertain the quantity of water in a fall of snow, xii. 



339 

 Bricks, method of making in England, viii. 482, .... Note 

 Bride Kirk, see Inscriptions. 

 Bridewell, at Norwich, description of the ancient building, 



ix. 167, .Baker 



Bridge, of St. Esprit in France, description of, iii. 43, 



Robinson 



— other bridges compared with the above, iii. 74, . . Same 



— description of one 70 feet long without a pillar, . . ibid 

 Bridgman, Orlando, storm of thunder, &c, v. 431 

 Bridgnorth, bill of mortality, ancient tumuli, &c, viii. 581 



Stackhouse 

 Briggs, Wm., D. r>., new theory of vision, ii. 540, 6ll 



— two cases of extraordinary vision, iii. 33, 9.9 



— cause of blindness coming on at dusk, iii. 9.9 



— case of jaundice affecting the sight, iii. 652 



Bright, Mr., the fat man of Essex, account of, x. 184, Cole 

 Brimstone-hill, at Guadaloupe, descrip. of, x. 700, Peyssonel 

 Brine, on the formation of salt and sand from, vi. 589, Plott 

 Bristle, lodged in a man's foot, effect of, ix. 244, . . Arderon 

 Bristol, population of, 1741 — 50, x. 379> Browning 



— heat of the waters, xii. 419, Howard 



■ — — xii. 420, Canton 



Britain, on the ancient history of, ii. 292. ....... Sammes 



— if formerly a peninsula, vi. 293, Musgrave 



Brocklesby, R., m. d., biographical account of, ix. 3l6, Note 



— experiments with the Indian poison, ibid 



— on the power of hearing in fishes, ix. 484 



— of a poisonous root found among gentian, ix. 488 



— on the irritability of animal fibres, x. 613 



Brodie, James, foetus voided by the ulcerated navel, iv. 173 

 Bromfield, Wm., biographical notice of, viii. 488, . . Note 



— foetus nine years in the abdomen, ibid 



Bronchocele, remarks on the, iv. 506, Silvestre 



Bronchotome, account of an operation of, vii. 438, . . Martyn 



Brontiae and ombriae, description of, iii. 543, Lister 



Brook, Abraham, of a new electrometer, xv. 308 



— description of his mercurial gage, xv. 702, Note 

 Brooke, Richard, m. p., methods of inoculating, x. 268 



— diaries of the weather in Maryland, xi. 333 

 Brothai, F., curiosities in Upper Egypt, i. 591 

 Brotherton, T., experiments on the growth of trees, iii. 363 

 Brougham, Henry, experts, and observ. on the inflection, 



reflection, and colours of light, xvii. 725, xviii. 196 



— porisms in the higher geometry, xviii. 345 

 Broughton, in Lincolnshire, account of, iv. 521, De la Pryme 

 Brouncker, Lord, biographical account of, i. 233, Note 



Brouncker, Lord, on the squaring of the hyperbola, ibid 



— synchronism of vibrations of a cycloid, ii. 64 



— on a right line equal to a curve, ii. 113 

 Broussonnet, P. M. Aug., description of the ophidium bar- 



batum, xv. 134 

 Brown, Edw., m. r>., biographical notice of, i, 436 



— two parhelia seen in Hungary, i. 349 



— on damps of mines in Hungary, 356 



— on the quicksilver mines in Friuli, i. 407 



— account of the lake of Zirchnitz, i. 409, ii- 170 



-— on the mines, baths, &c. of Hungary, Transylvania, 

 and Austria, L 436 



— copper mine at Herrngroundt, i. 450 



— baths of Austria and Hungary j stone quarries, &c. i. 450 



— dissection of an ostrich, ii. 535 



Brown, John, a human liver appearing glandulous, iii. 248 



— quantity of resin in the cortex eleutheriae, vi. 579 



— experiments on Epsom salts, vi. 662 



— observations and experiments on Prussian blue, vii. 6 



— opinion respecting camphor, vii. 103j reply by Caspar 



Neuman, 631 



— experiments on ambergris, vii. 668 



Brown, Mr., (of Salisbury) success of inoculation at Salis- 

 bury, x. 303 

 Brown, Rev. Lit., the monoculus apus described, viii. 163 

 Brown, Thomas, description of the flying fish, xiv. 423 

 Brown, Samuel, account of some Indian plants, iv. 310, 501, 



586, 608, 636, 712, v. 61 

 Browning, J. effect of electricity on vegetables, ix. 306 



— account of a dwarf, x. 209 



— population of Bristol 1741 to 1750, x. 379 

 Brownrigg, Wm., m. d., of the new metal platina, x. 98 



— remarks on Dr. Hales's method of distilling, x. 695 



— experimental inquiry into the air in Spa water, xii. 235, 



xiii. 541 



— specimens of native smalts, xiii. 575 



Brownaea, descrip. of plants of this genus, xiii. 419, Bergius 

 Bruckman, Ernest, salt-works in Hungary, vii. 386 

 Bruce, James, biographical account of, xiii. 672, .... Note 



— of the myrrh from Abyssinia, xiii. 672 



Bruce, Rob., if. d., sensitive quality of the tree averrhoa 



carambola, xvi. 10 

 Bruni, Jos. Lawrence, m. d., of the Bologna bottles, ix. 102 



— of a family overwhelmed, in their cottage, by the fall of 



snow, xi. 41 



— of the hot baths of Vinadio in Piedmont, xi. 495 

 Bruyn, Cornelius le, biographical notice of, viii. 455. . Note 

 Brydone, Patrick, palsy cured by electricity, xi. 163, 26*2 



— a meteor observed at Tweedmouth, 1772, xiii. 415 



— electrical experiments on hair, xiii. 416 



— fatal effects of a thunder storm in Scotland, xvi. 186 



Bubonocele, case of a, viii. 236, Amyand 



Buenos Ayres, longitude of, vi. 549, Halley 



Buffon, George Louis Leclerc, biographical account of, ix, 



558, Note 



— description of his own burning-glass, ibid 



Bugden, J. unusual formation of the urinary parts, vii. 352 

 Biigge, Thomas, theory of pile driving, xiv. 498 



— heliocentric longitude, and descending node of Saturn, 



xvi. 177 



&c. of Venus and Mars, xvi. 621 



— trigonometrical survey in Denmark, xvii. 353 

 Bulbous roots, rapid flowering of, in wat. vii. 466, Trieuwald 

 vii. 46'7, ..Miller 



— on the raising of, in water, vii. 642, Curteis 



Bulkley, Sir R., on the Giant's Causeway in Ireland, iii. 529 



— utility of cultivating maize, iii. 588 



