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CAS 



Cameron, Thomas, m. d., fracture of the os pubis, ix. 370 

 Camillis, Joh Fr. de, disorder of Father Bolognini, ix. 16 

 Camps, two ancient camps in Hants, ix. 103, .... Wright 

 < — condition of a Roman camp in Norfolk, ix. 682, Arderon 

 Campani, Joseph and Matthew, some account of, i. 2. Note 

 J., his improvement of optic glasses, i. 2 



■ *s glasses, Auzout on the superiority of, i. 23 



■ ■ ■ ' superiority of, over those of Divini, 



i. 46 



Campbell, Colin, going of a clock in Jamaica, vii. 649 

 Campbell, George, on the roots of affected equations, 



vii. 264 

 Campbell, Robert, of a man's living 18 years on water, viii. 



616 

 Camper, Peter, m. d., biograph. account of, xiv. 503, Note 



— organs of speech of the Orang Outang, xiv. 503 



— of petrified bones found at Maestricht, xvi. 151 

 Camphor, distilled from thyme, vii. 93, 631 .... Neuman 



— opinion respecting, vii. 103, Brown 



— its efficacy in maniacal disorders, vii 206, .... Kinnier 



— experts, on the medicinal nature of, xii. 386,. . Alexander 

 Canal, of Languedoc, plan of, i. 418, more particulars, 723 



Canals, Treatise on, xiv. 593, Mann 



Canary seed, husbandry of, vi. 18 Tenison 



Cancer (disease) nature and cure of, iv. 279* Alliot 



— on the cure of, iv. 470, Geudron 



— extraordinary case of, iv. 643, Kay 



— account of two internal cancers, viii. 572, Burton 



— of the eye lids, nose, &c. called noli me tangere, cases of 



its cure, x. 602 Daviel 



— efficacy of green hemlock, in the cure of.xii. 37, Colebrook 



— observations on the matter of, xvi. 710, Crawford 



Cancer, Major, see Crab. 



Cancer stagnalis, description of this aquatic animal, xii. 390, 



King 

 Candles, on the fluctuations of light emitted by, xvii. 371, 



Rumford 



— comparison of the light produced by wax, tallow, and oils, 



xvii. 372 Same 



Cane, Henry, change of colour in grasses and jessamine, 



vi. 489 

 Canella, see Cinnamon. 

 Cange, C. du Frenedu, biograph. account of, ii. 442, Note 



Cannara, of a pagan temple at, v. 501, Stuart 



Canning, John, of the Arabian drugs tabashir, mamithsa and 



mamiraan, xii. 369 



Cannon-balls, initial velocities of, xiv. 286, Hutton 



Cantharides, internal use of, iv. 696, Yonge 



Canton, the longitude of, iv. 318, Cassini 



Canton, John, a. m., biographical account of, x. 131, Note 



— method of making artificial magnets, ibid 



— electrical experiments, &c. x. 421, 532 



— on the diurnal variation of the needle, xi. 421 



— Transit of Venus over the sun, June 1761, xi. 555 



— of some electrical experts, by Mr. Delaval, xi. 609 



— experts, of the compressibility of water, xi. 665, xii. 151 



— heat of the Bath and Bristol waters, xii. 420 



— easy method of making a sort of phosphorus, xii. 579 



— Transit of Venus and solar eclipse, 1769, xii. 6*32 



— cause of the luminousness of the sea, xii. 681 

 Cantwell, Andrew, m. d., a glandular tumour in the pelvis, 



the effect of crude mercury, viii. 158 



— palsy in the eye-lids, viii. 225 



— account of a monstrous boy, viii. 325 



— success of M. Daviel's method of extracting cataracts, 



xi. 625 

 Canula, see Instruments (Anatomical). 



Capasso, Dominico, lunar eclipse, Nov. 1724, Lisbon, vii. 55 



— observations of Jupiter's satellites, 1723-4, ibid 



Cape Corse, observations at, iv. 201 Hillier 



Cape of Good Hope, manners and Nat. Hist, of, v. 359, 



Maxwell 



— on the longitude of, vi. 414, Halley 



Caracal, [Felis Caracal] description of the, xi. 474, Parsons 



and Note 



Carbone, John Bapt., lunar eclipse, Lisbon, 1724, vii. 55 



— eclipse of Jupiter's first satellite, ibid 



— meridians of London, Paris, and Lisbon, ibid 



— latitude of Lisbon, &c. vii. 143 



— solar eclipse at Lisbon, vii. 203 



— lunar eclipse at Lisbon, ibid 



— astronomical observations at Lisbon, vii. 226, 247 



— lunar eclipse at Rome, vii. 363 

 at Lisbon, vii. 418 



— astronomical observations at Pekin, vii. 440 



Carbon, expts. on carbonated hydrog. gas, xviii. 221, Henry 

 Carbonic acid, experts, on the decomposition of, xvii. 221, 



Pearson 



— See Airs {Chemistry .) 



Cardan, extension of his rule in cubic equations, xiv. 453, 

 624, Maseres 



— on the first invention of his rule for cubic equations, 



xiv. 672, Same 



Cardioide, how to generate the curve, viii. 509, Castillione 

 Caribbee Islands, observables at the, i. 176 



— Queries respecting the natural history of, i. 227 ; an- 



swers to several of the queries, i. 230, Note 



— on the currents of sea at, x. 710, Peyssonel 



Carlsbad, mineral waters, account of, ix.688, .... Mounsey 



— virtue of, in the cure of the stone, xi. 56, . . Springsfield 



— analysis of, xi. 57, Note 



— nature and efficacy of, xi. 68, Miles 



— efficacy in the cure of the stone, compared with that of 



water and soap, xi. 16, Whytt 



Carlisle, George, m. d., of an uncommon large hernia, xii. 



295 

 Carlisle, Anthony., of the distribution of the arteries of 



slowly-moving animals, xviii. 601 

 Carolina, animals and shells from, v. 209, Petiver 



— state of the weather at Charlestown, ix. 514, . . Lining 

 Carp, management of carp in Prussia, xiii. 155, . . Forster 



— description of the cyprinus catostomus from Hudson's 



Bay, xiii 412, Forster 



Carpenter, Lord, a bullet lodged near the gullet, viii. 227 

 Carriage (by land,) improvement of machines for, iii. 62, 



Petty 



— description of a new calesh, iii 170, Sir R. B. 



Carte, Rev. Samuel, a tessellated work at Leicester, v. 643 



Carteia, situation of the ancient, vi. 387, Conduit 



Carteret, Philip, account of the Patagonians, xiii. 7 



— description of the Camelopardalis, ibid. 

 Carthagena, in America, longitude of, vi. 620, .... HaJley 

 Cartilages, nature and use of, iii. 465, Haver* 



— See Articulating Cartilages. 



Casano, Prince of, eruption of Vesuvius, 1737* viii- 36l 



— observation of red lights in the air, 1737* viii. 457 

 Cassegrain, M., invention of a catadioptrical telescope, i. 



711 

 Cassini, James, biographical account of, iv. 228, .... Note 



— Lunar eclipse at Rotterdam, Oct. 1697, ibid. 



— latitude and longitude of Pekin, iv. 233 



Cassini, John Dominic, biographical account of, i. 8. Note 



— on the comet of 1664 and 1665, i. 8 



— rotation of Jupiter on its axis, i. 60 



