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Child, Wm., effects of lightning, use of conductors, x. 634 

 Child-birth, delivery of a child though the vagina was 

 closed up, iv. 234 



— see Parturition, Foetus, Monsters, Spc. 



Childrey, Jos., annual vicissitudes of tides, in animadversion 

 on Wallis's hypothesis on the flux and reflux of the sea, 

 i. 5l6; Wallis's reply, 520 

 Chimsera, (fish) description of the chimsera monstrosa, i. ipi 

 Chiruney-pieces, curiously wrought in stone, iii. 98, Wallis 

 China, of the bridges, and great wall at, i. 169, . .Kircher 



— manner of printing in, i. 36 1, Webb 



— essay on the Chinese characters, iii. 285, R. H. 



— chronology of Confucius, iii. 393 



— account of the Islands Chusan and Ponto, iv. 69^, 



Cunninghame 



— account of the chronology of, vii. 427 



— chronology and astronomy of, ix. 343, Costard 



— observations on natural history at, x. 387, D'Incarville 



— idea of the universal deluge at, x. 390, ........ Same 



— letters from, x. 411, Gaubil 



China cabinet, the contents of a, iv. 324, 345, 349, 352, 



Sloane 

 China ware, on the manufacture of, i. 36 1, Webb 



— a manufacture at Milan, equal to real, i. 44 



China stoves, description of the, xiii. 9^, Gramont 



China varnish, way of making several sorts, iv. 482, Sherard 

 Chirac, Peter de, biographical account of, iv. 497 • • Note 

 Chloranthus, description of the plant, xvi. 302, . . Swartz 



Chirograph, remarks on an ancient, viii. 64, Gale 



Choroides, see Vision. 



Chorography, solution of a chorographical problem, i. 563, 



Collins 



— three chorographic problems, iii. 235 



Christian missionaries to the East, early success of, i. 122 

 Chronology, of the Indian Yugs, iv. 536, Note 



— Sir I. Newton's chronological index, vii. 89, . . Newton 



— remarks on Dissertations published in Paris respecting 



Sir Isaac Newton's index, vii. 172, 191, Halley 



— curious questions in, solved by Saunderson's method of 



unlimited equations, xii. 519, Horsefall 



— of the Hindoos, xvi. 742, Marsden 



— For Chinese chronology, see China. 

 Chronometer, see Clock. 



Churchman, Walter, machine for raising water, vii. 663 

 Chusan, particulars of a voyage to, iv. 6y3, . . Cunninghame 

 Churchill river, longitude, latitude, and magnetic declination, 



viii. 597 ', Middleton 



Chyle, passage of, into the lacteal veins, ii. 75, 554, . . Lister 



— experts, to ascertain the nature of, iii. 102 .... Musgrave 



— see Blood. 



Chylification, on the process of, iv. 81, Cowper 



Chymistry, of a salt extracted from a metal afterwards con- 

 verted by heat into a gold-coloured liquid, i. 672, . . Lane 



— accidental discovery of a self-moving liquor, iii. 222, 



Boyle 



— see Acids, Salts, Colours, Effervescence. &c. 

 Ciampini, John J., biographical account of, iii. 135, . . Note 



— account of the comet of 1 684, iii. 135 



— remarks on asbestos, and on weaving it, iv. 604 

 Cicada, description of the cicada rhombea, xii. 99, . . Felton 



■ septendecim, xii, 100, Collinson 



Cicindela volans, see Glow-Worm. 



Cicuta, see Hemlock. 

 Cinchona, see Bark Peruvian . 



Cinnabar, experiments on, iii. 537, Leuwenhoek 



Cimento (Academy of) historical account of, iii. 87, . . Note 

 — — — ■ philosophical experts, of, ibid. 



Cinnamon, method of extracting the oil, i. 307, . . Vernati 



— of the wild cinnamon tree, iii. 427, Sloane 



— of Ceylon, some particulars respecting, iv. 650, Strachan 



— cultivation of, at Ceylon, and varieties, vii. 340, Seba 



— account of "the laurus cinnamomum, x. 217, Watson 



— difference betweeen that of Ceylon and Malabar, xi. 313 



White 

 Cipolla, Rev. Lewis, astronomical observations at Pekin, 



xiii. 492 

 Circle, on the quadrature of the, i. 232, 251, .. Gregory 



— on Hobbes' doctrine of the quadrature, i. 623, . . Wallis 



— quantity of a degree in English measures, ii. 305 



— quadrature of, ii. 547, Leibnitz 



: — on squaring the lunula of Hippocrates, iv.452, Wallis, &c. 



— construction of a quadratrix to, iv. 462 



— properties of the circle, x. 469, Landen 



— proportion of the diameter to the circumference, xiv. 84 



Hutton 



— improvement of Halley's quadrature of, xvii. 414 Helling 



— see Equations, Triangles, Polygons. 



Cirillo, Dominico, m. d , description of the manna tree, 

 xiii. 46 



— inoffensiveness of the tarantula's bite, xiii. 47 

 Civet-cat, on the anatomy of, ii. 291 



Civita Turchino, subterraneous apartments and inscription* 

 discovered at, xi. 706, Wilcox 



Clair, Father Paul, account of the New Phdippine Isles, 

 v. 442 



Clairaut, Alexis., biographical account of, viii. 118, Note 



— on the elliptical figure of the earth, viii. 1 19 



— figure of the planets, viii. 207 

 earth, x. 328 



— refrangibility of the rays of light, x. 530 



Ctetck, Timothy, m. d., anatomical discoveries and obser- 

 vations, viz. on injection of liquors into the blood, on 

 transfusion, on the seminal vessels, &c. i. 246 



— opinion respecting the testicles, i. 393 



Clark, Sir John, effect of thunder on tree?, viii. 360 



— a deer's horn found in the heart of an oak, ibid 

 Clarke, Mr., Roman antiquities found near Devizes, iv. 548 

 Clarke, Charles, Patagonians of Magellan Straits, xii. 391. 

 Clarke, Joseph, m. d., causes of the greater mortality of 



males than females, xvi. 122 

 Clarke, John, m. d., a monstrous birth with remarks, xvii. 

 312 



— of a tumour in the placenta, xviii. 338 



Clarke, Rev. John, bill of mortality in Bridgetown, Barba- 



does, ix. 5l6 

 Clarke, Robert., of a dog killed by the noise of musquet 



firing, iv. 221 



— viscous excretions about the lungs, ibid. 



Clarke, Rev. Robt., calculus between the glans and pre- 

 puce, ix. 635 

 Clarke, Sam., d. d., biographical account of, vii. 219, Note 



— on the force of moving bodies, ibid. 

 Clays, a table of, iii. 85 



Clayton, John, d. v., account of Virginia, iii. 544, 588, 

 600, 639 



— experiments on the spirit of coals, viii. 295 



— experiments on the nitrous particles in the air, viii, 296 



— answers to queries relating to Virginia, viii. 328 



— elasticity of steam, viii. 335 



Clayton, Wm., account of the Falkland Islands, xiv. 1 

 Clegg, James, observations on dying black, xiii. 493 

 Cleland, Arch., a new catheter for the stone, viii. 526 



— instruments for operations on the eye and ear, viii. 528 

 Clepsydra, description of a water-clock, ix. 236, !ian;ilton 



