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INDEX. 



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Cowper, process of chylification, iv. 81 



— case of" a diseased kidney, iv. 105 



— remarks on M. Dupre's tract relating to muscles of the 



neck, and a deformed human skull, iv. 368, 372 

 — - cure of the tendon of Achilles snapped asunder, iv. 376* 



— discovery of two glands with excretory ducts in the 



urethra, iv. 445 



— polypus in the vena pulmonalis, iv. 563 



— on the extremities of the arteries and veins, &c, iv. 680 



— on aposthumations of the lungs, v. 41 



— anatomy of the male opossum, v. 1 1 1 



— ossifications and petrifactions of the arteries, v. 215 



— remarks on a case of costiveness, v. 248 



— of hydatids in a sheep's kidney, v. 315 



— remarks on the effect of a gangrene, v. 398 



— dissection of Mr. Dove's body, v. 698 

 a body dead of asthma, v. 705 



Cox, Mr., of a pestilential fever caught by tapping a dropsi- 

 cal corpse, viii. 338 

 Coxe, Dan., m. d., volatile salt from vegetables, ii. 124 



— alcalizate not in vegetables previous to action of fire, ii. 



158, 166 



— improvement of soil in Cornwall with sea-sand, ii. 206 

 Coxe, Tho., transfusion of blood from a mangy to a sound 



dog, i. 159 

 Crabs, description of the Molucca crab (monoculus poly- 



phemus) iv. 325, Petiver 



natural history and economy of the cancer major, ix. 203, 



x# 134^ Collinson 



on the casting of their shells, x. 254, Parsons 



Crabs' eyes, remarks on, iv. 519, King 



and other earthy absorbents, ill effects of, viii. 452, Breyne 



produced from crawfish, and description, ix. 470, Baker 



Crabtree, Mr., remarks on the solar spots, v. 626 

 Craddock, Zach., a fiery meteor, May, 1744, ix. 46 

 Craig, Rev. John, quadrature of figures geometrically irra- 

 tional, iv. 202 



— quadrature of the logarithmic curve, iv. 318 



— on the curve of quickest descent, iv. 542 

 , solid of least resistance, iv. 544 



— method of determining the quadrature of figures, v. 24 



— solution of Bernoulli's prob. on curves, v. 90 



— on the length of curve lines, v. 406 

 <— method of making logarithms, v. 609 



— head of a monstrous calf, v. 668 



Cramer, Gabriel, biographical account of, vii. 393, . . Note 



— unusual aurora borealis at Geneva, ibid 



Cramp, followed by mortification, vi. 479, Steigerthall 



Crane (Bird) anatomy of the demoiselle (Numidian) iii. 392 



— species of, from Hudson's Bay, xiii. 342, Forster 



Crane (Machine) improvements in the, vii. 369, Desaguliers 

 Crawford, Adair, power of animals to produce cold, xv. 147 



— observations on the matter of cancer, xvi. 710 



. of the air extricated from animal substances by distillation 



and putrefaction, xvi. 715 



— on sulphureous hepatic air, xvi. 726 



Credibility of human testimony, on the degrees of, iv. 438 

 Creed, Rev. Mr., a machine for writing extempore volun- 

 taries, ix. 332 

 Crell, F. L. F., m. d., experiments on putrefaction, xii. 163 



— a new animal acid, xiv. 666, xv. l6'8 



•— decomposition of the acid of borax, xviii. 4.57 

 Cressener, Rev. II., lunar eclipse, Streatham, 1710, v. 548 

 Crispe, Mr., articles found at Herculaneum, viii. 438 

 Crispina, see Coin. 



Crocker, - - , a meteor seen in the day, Dec. 1733, viii. 403 

 Crocodile, of the lacerta Gangetica, x. 712, . . . .Edwards 



Crocus autumnalis sativus, (see Saffron). 

 Crornertie, Earl of, account of the mosses in Scotland, v. 63 

 Croich, Wm., his early musical genius, xiv. 513, Burney 

 Crotor spicatum (lucidum) account of, xii. 529, .... Bergius 

 Croone, Wm., m.d., biographical account of, iii. 133, Note 

 Croonian lectures, (see Muscles). 



Crow, two species of, from Hudson's Bay, xiii. 332, Forster 

 Croy, Prince of, solar eclipses, 1760-6, at Calais, ' xii. 347 

 Croyland Abbey, see Shrine. 



Cruikshank, Wm., experiments on the nerves and their 

 reproduction; on the spinal marrow, xvii. 512 



— observ. on the ova of rabbits after impregnation, xviii. 129 

 Cruquius, Nich., barom. thermom., &e. observations, vii. 2 

 Crural artery, see Arteru. 



Crusio, Charles, a remarkable cutaneous disease, x. 475 

 Cruwys, Samuel, Aurora borealis in Devon, vi. 442, 523 

 Crystal, experiments and optical observations on a sort of 



crystal from Iceland, i. 545, Bartholin 



■ — nitrous crystals exhaled from the ground, i. 720, . . Lana 



— microscopical observations on, v. 204, .... Leuwenhoek 



— discovery of some rare crystals, vii. 187, ... . Scheuchzer 



— minute crystal stones, ix. 145, Parsons 



— attempt to account for the formation of, xii. 384, . . King 



— on the crystallizations of glass, xiv. 102, Keir 



Crystalline humour of the eye, observations on, iii.91,v.l55, 



Leuwenhoek 



— Mr. Hunter's observations on the nature and use of, xvii. 



343 > • : t Home 



— experiments on the same subject, xvii. 453, Same 



Cube, on the doubling of the, i. 328, Slusius 



Cubic Equations, see Equations. 



Cuculus indicator, (Honey-bird,) description of, xiv. 128, 



Sparman 



Cuckoo, natural history of the, xvi. 432, Jenner 



Cudvvorth, Ralph, d. d., biograph. account of, ii. 422, Note 

 Cullum, Sir Dudley, a stove for hot-houses, iii. 658 

 Cullum, Rev. Sir Jn., a remarkable frost, June 23, 1783 



xv. 604 

 Cumberland, Capt., art of bending planks by sand-heat 



vi. 577 

 Cuninghame, James, shells of the Island Ascension, iv. 418 



— state of the barometer in China, iv. 426 



— observ. of the thermometer andneedle near theCape,iv.500 



— particulars of a voyage to Chusan in China, iv. 693 



— list of plants from Chusan, v. 52 



— journals of the weather at China, v. 149 

 Cuntur of Peru, (vultur gryphus) described, iii. 622, Sloane 

 Cupping application of the pneumatic engine for, iv. 451, 



Luf kin 

 Curiosities, description of some natural curiosities, iv. 644, 



Thoresby 



— seen in Denmark and Holland, v. 45, Oliver 



Currants, black, virtue of, for sore throats, viii. 47p, Baker 

 Currents, of under-currents at the Straits, iii. 30, .... Smith 



— currents at the Straits accounted for, vii. 56 



— of sea at the Antilles, x. 710, Peyssonel 



— on a current to the west of Scilly, xvii. 325, . Rennell 



Currie, James, m. d., biograp. account of, xvii. 193,. . Note 



— effects of immersion in hot and cold, fresh and salt wa- 

 ter, on the living body, xvii. 193 



Curteis, Wm., on raising bulbous roots in water, vii. 642 

 Curtis, Roger, natural history and population of Labradore 

 xiii. 547, 

 Curves, on the quantities of, i. 251 , Gregory 



— two problems on, solved, iv. 129, Newton 



— properties of the catenaria, iv. 184, 456, Same 



— on the quadrature of, iv. 202, Craig 



