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Cassini, John Dominic, period of the rotation of Mars, 

 i. 81 



— spots discovered in the planet Venus, i. 217 



— account of the comet of 1668, i. 250 



— spots discovered in the sun, i. 6l5 



— spots in Jupiter, cause of, &c. i. 706 



— observation at Paris of the comet of 1672, i. 70S 



— letters on his hypothesis of the sun's motion, i. 733 



— discovery of two new planets about Saturn, ii. 50, 377 



— on Hook's method of observing the earth's motion, ii. 135 



— remarks on his and Flamsteed's observations of the lunar 



eclipse of Dec. 1675, ii- 280 



— configuration of Jupiter's satellites, ii. 324 



— spot in the sun, August, 16*76, ii. 332 



— appearance of Saturn, 1676, ii- 333 



— observation of the comet of 1677, ii. 390 



— occultation of Jupiter by the moon, l679> ii- 481 



— account of two new satellites of Saturn, iii. 292 



— theory of Saturn's satellites corrected, iii. 363 



— calculation of eclipses of Jupiter's first satellite, iii. 673 



— longitude of Canton, iv. 318 



— comet of Feb. l699> observed at Paris, iv. 354 



— remarks on his orbit of the planets, v. 1 52, .... Gregory 

 1 — on the relative positions of Greenwich and Paris, xvi. 218 

 Cassowary, anatomy of the, iii. 393 



Castagna, M. Ant. a mineral balsam found in Italy, i. 672 



Castillione, remarks on a passage in his life of Sir I. Newton, 



xiii. 518, Winthrop 



— John, formation of the cardioide curve, viii. 509 



— on Newton's binomial theorem, viii. 571 



Castle-!eod waters, account of, xiii. 271 , Monro 



Castles, John, observations on sugar-ants, xvi. 688 

 Castor, a receipt for preserving it, iii. 442 



— - the nature of, iii. 442, Note 



— found on dissecting a beaver, vii. 623, Mortimer 



— of the animal which produces it, ix. 688, .... Mounsey 

 Castration of fish, Mr. Tull's method, x. 554 .... Watson 

 Castro, Dr. de, case of an iliac passion from palsied intes- 

 tines, x. l64 



Castro Sarmento, Jacobus de, see Sarmento. 



Caswell, John, biographical notice of, iv. 40, Note 



■ — quadrature of a portion of the epicycloid, iv. 40 



— quadrature of the lunula of Hippocrates, iv. 455 



— of a new baroscope, v. 120 



Cat, dissection of a double cat, iii. 267, Mullen 



— see Tyger-cat 



Cat, Claude Nich. le, m. d. biographical account of, viii. 

 485, Note 



— on the foramen ovale of adults, ibid 



— figure of the urethra, ibid 



— on the formation of hydatids, viii. 495 



■ — consequences of an incomplete hernia, viii. 497 



— a hammock for dressing- the wounds of unwieldy patients, 



viii. 654 



— machine for reducing luxations of the arm, viii. 659 



— on the operation for the stone, ix. 127 



— an operation for the stone with the high apparatus, ix. 238 



— double foetuses <.f calves, ix. 555 



— glasses for preserving anatomical preparations, &c. ix. 6l8 



— cure of clry gangrenes, ix 6'43 



— instrument for extracting deep tumours, ix 645 



— operat on for the stone on women, and instruments, ix. 650 



— phenomena of the glass drop [Lacryma Batavica] ; the 



tempering of steel ; cause of effervescence, ix. 6'75 



— a new trocart, x. 204 



— on fungous excrescences of the bladder 3 a cutting forceps 



and canula for operating on, x. 214 



Cat le, C.N. cases of hernias with sacks, x. 221 



— a blind duct produced by the peritonaeum, x. 222 



— strictures and carnosities of the urethra, ibid 



— dissection of a rupture, x. 227 



— malignant fevers at Rouen, 1753-4, x. 567 



— extraction and regeneration of part of the arm-bone, xii, 



3*9 



— a monstrous human foetus, xii. 362 



— of a hydro-enterocele appearing like a hydro- sarcocele, 



xii. 445 

 Catacombs, of Rome, historical disquis. of, iv. 511,. . Monro 

 Catadioptrical telescopes, with glass spec. viii. 393, Smith 



— see Telescopes 



Catalepsy, case of, viii. 15 Reynell 



Cataract (of the eye) observations on, vi. 602, . . Benevoli 



— dissection of eyes affected with, vii. 45 



— on the substance of the, vii. 200, Rhaetus 



— Mr. Daviel's method of couching, x. 287, Hope 



xi. 625, . . Cantwelt 



— method of opening the cornea, x. 357> 414, .... Sharp 



— see Eye 



Cataract (waterfall) in Gottenburg river, iv. 525,. . Gordon 



Catarrhal disorder, remarks on, i. 612, Lower 



of an influenza in London, 1752, xi. 667 , Watson 



Catenaria, on the properties of this curve, iv. 184, 456, 



Gregory 

 Caterpillars, that infest fruit-trees, origin of, iv. 233, Garden 



— and locusts at Wittemberg, 1732, vii. 645, . . Weidler 



— account of the cornel-caterpillar, ix. 500, .... Skelton 



— on the respiration of, ix. 504, Bonnet 



— descript. of the black canker-caterpillar, xv. 386, Marshall 

 Catesby, Mark, biographical account of, vii. 432, .... Note 



— on birds of passage, ix. 327 



Catheter, a new one for the stone, viii. 526, Cleland 



Catlyn, John, synopsis of Mercury's transit over the sun, 

 October, 1743, viii. 612 



— observation of a lunar eclipse, June, 1750, x. 72 

 Catoptrics, universal spherico-catoptric theorem, v. 184, 



Ditton 



— a catoptric microscope, viii. 73, Barker 



Cattle, see Distemper 



Caumont, Marquis de, an extraordinary stone from the blad- 

 der, viii. 240 



Cavallo, Tiberius, electricity of the atmosphere, Oct., 1775, 

 xiv. 60 



— new electrical experiments, xiv. 129, 180, 60S 



— thermometrical experts, and observs. xiv. 740, xv. 157 



— a luminous appearance in the heavens, xv. 114 



— description of an improved air-pump, xv. 453 



— a meteor observed at Windsor, 1783, xv. 477 



— magnetical experiments and observations, xvi. 57 



— account of different electrometers, xvi. 354 



— on the temperament of musical instruments, xvi. 442 

 Cavallo, description of a collector of electricity, xvi. 449 



— micrometer for measuring small angles, xvii. 75 

 Cave, see Cavern. 



Cavendish, Lord Chas., thermo. for particular uses, xi. 138 

 Cavendish, Hon. Henry, experts, on factitious airs, xii. 298 



— experiments on the Rathbone- place water, xii. 393 



— electrical phaenomena accounted for, xiii. 223 



— experiments to ascertain the nature of the electricity of 



the torpedo, xiv. 23 



— account of the meteorological instruments of the r. s., 



xiv. 49 



— of a new eudiometer, xv. 354 



— on experiments of mercurial congelation, xv. 420 



— experiments on air, xv. 481, 510 •> xvi. 15 



