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Bulkley, Sir R., propagation of elms by seed, in. 599 



Bullet voided by urine, i, 286, Fairfax 



lodged in the head 30 years, extracted, v. 489, Fielding 



. near the gullet, viii. 227, Lord Carpenter 



Bulliald, Israel, biographical account of, i. 141 



— of the new star in the whale's neck, and of that in An- 



dromeda's girdle, i. 142, 143, l6"2 



— lunar eclipse observed at Paris, 1671, i. 639; 1675, ii. 



187; 16'75, 221 



— occultation of Saturn by the moon, 1678, ii. 432 



— solar eclipse at Paris, 1684, iii. 69 



Bullivant, Benj., natural history of New England, iv. 267 

 Bullock, Win. d. d., of the earthquake, Nov. 1, 1755, as 



felt in the lead mines, Derbyshire, x. 656* 

 Bull's eye, occultations of, by the moon, l6'80, ii. 521, 522 

 Bunting, two species of, from Hudson's Bay, xiii. 340, Forster 



Burbot [Gadus Lota] description of, xiii. 410, Forster 



Burman, E. J., Aurora Bprealis at Upsal, vi. 54 

 Burnet, Tho., d. d., biographical account of, ii. 515 

 Burnet, Win,, of the ice mountains in Switzerland, v. 488 



— longitude of New York by observation, vii. 49 



— of a monstrous double female, xi. 144 



Burney, Cha., Mus. D , of an infant musician, xiv. 513 

 Burning glasses, form and efficacy of, M. Villette's, i. 34 ; 

 of a larger one of M. Villette's, 367 



— account of Mr. Smethwick's, i. 226 

 Signor Settala's, i. 284 



— of iron melted sooner than gold by the, i. 672 



— immense effect of a new one in Germany, iii. 385 



— expert, of the fusion of metals with, v. 501, . . Geoffroy 



— effects of M. Villette's, vi. 405, . . Harris & Desaguliers 



— M. de Buffon's, which burns at 66 feet distance, ix. 344, 



Needham 



— of the same burning at 150 feet, ibid, Nicolini 



— of his own constructing, descript. of ix. 558, . . Buffon. 



— of Kircher's opinion of those of Archimedes, x. 488, 



Parsons 



— of Hoesen's parabolic mirrors, xii. 589, • •• Wolfe 



Burning mountain, see Volcanoes 



Burning rock, in the East Indies, account of, xi. 600, Wood 



Burns, remedy for, ii. 475, Note 



Burrampooter (river) description of the, xv. 48, . . Rennell 

 Burrough, James, m. d., account of a boulimia, iv. 503 

 Burroughs, John, lunar eclipse, 1725, Bristol, vii. 129 

 Burrow, Sir James, biographical account of, xi. 235 . . Note 



— earthquake in Surrey, 1758, ibid. 



Burton, Wm., m. d. viper-catchers' remedy for the bite 

 of vipers, viii. 84 



— histories of internal cancers, viii. 572 



Burton, John, situation of the ancient Delgovitia, ix. 352 



— extirpation of an excrescence from the womb, x. 71 

 Bury, Dr. Arthur, manuring in Devonshire with sea-sand, 



v. 432 

 Bussiere, Paul, an egg in the tuba fallopiana, iii. 605 



— ways of cutting for the stone, iv. 358 



— child born without a brain, iv. 373 



— of a polypus in the lungs, iv. 488 



— case of a triple bladder, iv. 545 



— anatomy of the heart of a land-tortoise, v. 598 

 Bustard, anatomy of the, iii. 392 



Butter, a substance like, falling in Ireland, iv. 78, Vans 



— same subject, ibid, Bp. of Cloyne 



Butterfield, Mr., way of making microscopes, ii. 445 



— of some magnetical sand, iv. 310 



Byam, Francis, impression of a fish on a stone, x. 628 



— fall of rain at Antigua, 1751-4, ibid 



Byrd, Wm., account of a spotted negro, iv. 221 



Byres, James, heat of the weather at Rome, 1/68, xii. 579 

 Byrom, John, on Mr. Jeake's plan of short-hand, ix. 530 

 Lodwick's plan of short-hand, ix. 534 



Byssus, remarks on the vegetable, x.425,Bozej 426 Watson 



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Cabbage-bark- tree, of Jamaica, description of, xiv. 200, 



Wright 

 Cacao Tree, description of, ii. 59 

 Cachalot, description of the blunt-headed, [Physeter cato- 



don] xiii. 57 Robertson 



Cactus Opuntia, of the insect bred thereon, xi. 674, Ellis 

 Caesar (Julius) time and place of his descent on Britain, iii. 



438, Halley 



Caesarian Operation, performed by a butcher, viii. 517 



Cagua, John, cure of a fractured head, viii. 439 



Caille, Abbe de la, biographical account of, xi. 472, Note 



— observations of the Comet of 1760, ibid 



— observations of the lunar parallax, proposed by Dr. Mas- 



kelyne, to be made at St. Helena, xi. 519 

 Calamine, way of digging and preparing, iii. 515, . . Pooley 

 Calandrini, John, an aurora borealis, Oct. 1726, vii. 159 

 Calcination, cause of the increased weight of metals by, 



xvii. 245, Fordyce 



Calculus, experiments on human calculi, xvii. 6l Lane 



— nature of gouty and urinary concretions, xviii. 213, 



Woolaston 



— experiments and observations on urinary concretions, 



xviii. 254, Pearson 



— for all cases of Calculi, see Stone. 



Calendar, historical view of the changes in, ii. 496, Wood 



— disadvantage of adopting the Gregorian, iv. 434, Wallis 



— report on Mr. Dee's proposal for reforming the, iv. 437 



— objections to the above plan of Mr. Dee, ibid. . . Greaves 



Calenture, account of a phrenitis, v. 105, Oliver 



Calep, Ralph, loss of the leg and thigh, by gangrene, v. 397 

 Calesh, description of a new sort of, iii. 170,. ... Sir R. B. 

 Calf, account of a monstrous calf, i. 5, Boyle 



— with two heads, iv. 240, Southwell 



— of a monstrous calf, v. 365, Adams 



— instance of a cow with six calves, v. 486, .... Derham 



— monstrous head of, v. 668, Craig 



— double foetuses of calves, ix. 555, Watson 



Calf (Sea) see Sea Animals. 



California, account of, v. 458, Picolo 



Call, John, ancient carvings of the zodiac, in India, xiii. 321 

 Callus, supplying the loss of the os humeri, v. 378, Fowler 



part of the os femoris, v. 532, 



Sherman ; another case of the same nature, viii. 326 j 

 another, viii. 503, Wright 



— of the hands and feet, microscopic observ. on, vi. 594, 



Leuwenhoek 

 Camels, on the rate of travelling by, xvii. 38, .... Rennel 

 Camelli, George Joseph, description of the tugus, or 

 amomum, iv. 347 



— medicinal virtues of the ignatia amara, iv. 356 



— birds of the Philippine Isles, v. 45 



— a treatise on amber, v. 119 



— climbing plants of the Philippines, v. 155, 169, 184,188 



— fishes, &c. of the Philippine Isles, v. 243 



— quadrupeds of the Philippine Isles, v. 280 



— serpents of the Philippine Isles, v. 307 



— shells of the same, v. 363 



— reptiles and insects of the same, v. 46l 



— spiders, beetles, &c. of the same, v. 640 

 Camelopardalis, description of, xiii, 7, Carteret 



