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Convulsions, some extraordinary effects of, xi. 272, Watson 



— see Musk, JVorms. 



Conyers, John, a new hygroscope, ii. 346 



— a cheap and useful pump, ii. 396' 



— improvement in the speaking-trumpet, ii. 445 

 Cook, Wm. rooms warmed by steam in pipes, ix. 125 



— to stop the leakage of worm-eaten ships, ibid 

 Cooke, Benj., extraordinary damp in a well, viii. 244 



— ball of sulphur supposed to have been generated in the 



air, viii. 26'4 



— a fire ball seen at Newport, viii. 550 



— effects of mixing the farina of blossoms, ix. l69 



— electricity of flannel, ix. 337, 532 



— mixed breed of apples, from mixing the farina, ix.599, 6*85 



— communicating of the jaundice in coitu, ix. 686 

 Cook, Capt. Jas., biographical account of, xiii. 174, Note 



— solar eclipse observed at Newfoundland, 1766, xii. 422 



— astronomical observations at Otaheite, xiii. 174 



— transit of Venus 176'9, at Otaheite, xiii. 176', 177 



— magnetic-variation tables, observed in a voyage round 



the world, xiii. 169 



— of the tide in the South Sea, xiii. 323, xiv. 71 



— his plan for preserving the crew's health in his veyage 



round the world, xiv. 58 

 Cookson, I. m. i>., magnetism communicated by lightning, 

 viii. 24, 25 



— of a boy with a craving appetite, ix. 126 

 Cooper, Allen, effects of lightning on a ship, xiv. 510 

 Cooper, Sam., on a storm of thunder and lightning, xi. 327 

 Cooper, Wm., m. d., an extraordinary acephalous birth, 



xiii. 654 

 Cooper, Wm., n, d., observations of a meteor, August 



1783, xv. 480^ 

 Cooper, Astley, effect of the destruction of the membrana 



t} mpani of the ear, xviii. 626 

 Copenhagen, account of the plague at, 1711, vi. 7 '5, 



Chamberlayne 

 Copernicus, a portrait of, presented to the r. s., xiv. 127, 



Wolfe 

 Cope, John, an ancient date in Indian figures, viii. 32, 37 

 Copper, account of a mine at Herrngroundt, i. 450, Brown 



— account of some copper works, iii. 536, Davies 



transmutation of, into brass, iii. 535, Povey 



"~" effect of swallowing it, iv. 335, Baynard 



preservation of a dead body in a mine, vii. 41, . . Leyel 

 ' from the waters of the Hungarian mines, viii. 236, Bell 



— of the Wicklow copper-springs, x. 280, 338, . . Henry 

 — . x. 366, Bond 



— of the springs in Pennsylvania, xi. 3, Rutty 



— new method of assaying the ore, xiv. 608, ... Fordyce 



— discovery of gold at the Cronebane copper- mines, xvii. 



677, Lloyd 



— chemical examination of some ancient copper arms and 



utensils, xviii. 41, Pearson 



Copperas, art of manufacturing, ii. 46 1, Col wall 



Coral, where found and how produced, i. 443, .... Gansius 



— nature and origin of, ii. 117 



— microscopical observations on, v. 266, 426, Leuwenhoek 



— natural history of 5 x. 154, the madrepora described, 



159 ; the myriozoon, 160, Donati 



— origin, its uses, of the animal causing it, &c. x. 257, 



Peysson el 



— of the isis ochracea from the East Indies, xi. 109 

 Corallines, observations on the sertularia neritina, x. 345 



— different sorts of, x. 453, Ellis 



— animal nature of, x. 490, Same 



— opinion of the vegetable nature of, xi. 131, .... Baster 



Corallines, reply in refutation of their vegetable nature, 

 xi. 134, j Ellis 



— see Zoophyta. 



Cork, experiments on the specific levity of, xii. 204, 



Wilkinson 

 Cork, Bishop of, bones of a skeleton conjoined, viii. 5l6 



— ancient temple inlreland viii. 715 ; a stone hatchet an ibid. 



Cor Leonis, occulted by the moon, ix. 336 Bevis 



Cormorant, anatomy of the, iii. 39 1 



Corn, cause of the smut of, viii. 408, Pluche 



— on worms in the smut of, viii. 732, Needham 



— nature and cause of the blight in, ix. 6ll, Same 



ix. 612, xii. 209. . Notes. . Banks 



Corn, account of various diseases of, xii. 208 Tissot 



Cornea, see Eye, Cataract. 



Cornel-caterpillar, account of the, ix. 500 Skelton 



Cornelian, a specimen of white found at the Giant's Cause- 

 way in Ireland, x. 382 



Cornelio, Thos., m. d., of persons pretending to have been 

 bitten by tarantulas, i. 719 } a disorder called in Italy 

 the coccio maligno, ibid 



Cornish, Jas., on the torpidity of swallows, &c, xiii. 660 



Cornwall, Capt., magnetic variations on a voyage, vi. 569 



Cornua ammonis, see Amnonitw. 



Coronopus, efficacy against hydrophobia, viii. 269, Steward 



Corpse, see Bodies {Human). 



Correa de Serra, see Serra. 



Corse, John, natural history of the elephant, xviii. 444 



— different species of Asiatic elephants, and on their 



mode of dentition, xviii. 509 

 Cortex Eleutheriae, quantity of resin in, vi. 579>- • . . Brown 



Cortex Winteranus, account of, iii. 586, Sloane 



Corundum stone from Asia, account of, xviii. 357, Greville 



— analytical description of the crystals of, xviii. 368, 



Count de Bourbon 



— specific gravity of, xviii. 377 > Various authorities 



Costa, Emanuel Mendes da, on belemnites, ix. 311 Note 



— two beautiful echinites, ix. 665 



— remarks on the Dudley fossil, x. 401 



— impressions of plants on the slates of coals, xi. 123 



— on tincturing marble, xi. 324 



— remarks on the terra tripolitana, xi. 372 



— of a giant's-causeway in Scotland, xi. 535 



Costard, Rev. George, biographical account of, ix. 168, Note 



— observation of a fiery meteor, July 1745, ix. 168 



— chronology and astronomy of the Chinese, ix. 343 



— on the year of the eclipse foretold by Thales, x. 310 



— an eclipse mentioned by Xenophon, x. 356 



— on the ages of Homer and Hesiod, x. 440 



— translation of a passage in Ebn Younes, xiv. 133 



Costiveness, extraordinary case of, v. 247, Sherman 



Cotes, Roger, biographical account of, vi. 77, Note 



— logometria, ibid 



— account of a meteor, March 1715, v. 477 



Cotton, microscopical observations on, ii. 404, Leuwenhoek 



the seeds of, iii. 589, • - Same 



Cotton, Rev. Edw. d.d., of a loadstone dug in Devonshire, 



i. 149 

 Couching, see Cataract, Eye. 



Coughs, efficacy of blisters in, xi. 220, Whytt 



Courten, Wm., effects of poisons on animals, v. 684 

 Courzier, M., effect of the blood of a person dead of plague, 



vi. 586 

 Cow, anatomy of the Barbary cow, iii. 391 



— see Distemper. 



Cowper, Wm., biographical account of, iii. 615, .. . .Note 



— experiments with Colbatch's styptic, iii. 615 



