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FLU 



Fire (subterraneous) eruption of, from the ground in Italy, 



iv. 320, , St. Clair 



— - of a subterraneous fire in Kent, vii. 195, Nesbitt 



— among the snows in Italy, cause of, x. 52, More 



— issuing from the earth in Dorsetshire, xi. 537, Stephens 



— cause of subterraneous fire, xi. 539, Same 



— from a rock, and a well, in India, xi. 600, Wood 



— see Damps. 

 Fire-ball, see Meteor. 



Fire-engine, method of working ventilators in mines by, xi. 

 26b', Fitzgerald 



— see Steam-engine. • 



Fish, to catch by tickling, ii. 78, Templer 



— conjectures on the bladder of air in, ii. 211 



— on the condensing or dilating of, in the water, ii. 212 



— of poisonous fish at the Bahamas, ii. 213 



— of several poisonous sorts, and their effects, ii. 213, Note 



— remarks on the swimming bladders of, ii. 218, .... Ray 



— of the rish yielding the purple dye, iii. 252, Cole 



— physiological remarks on, iii. 258, Willughby 



— on the interior structure of, iv. 138, Preston 



— of a shower of small fishes in Kent, iv. 302, .... Conny 



— necessity of air to fishes, v. 669, Hauksbee 



— duration of life out of water, vi. 46, Richardson 



— observ. on the muscular fibres of, vi. 523, Leuwenhoek 



— on the organ of hearing in, viii. 551, Klein 



— to prepare specimens of, viii. 559, Gronovius 



—way to keep them in glass jars, ix, 180, 322, 511, Arderon 



— easy method of catching fish, ix. 180, Same 



— on the power of hearing in, ix. 465, Same 



— of the fish called, in Russia, quab, ix. 470, .... Baker 



— on the power of hearing in, ix. 485, Brocklesby 



— effect of keeping roach in glass jars, ix. 511, . . Arderon 



— Mr. Tull's method of castrating, x. 554, Watson 



— four undescribed fishes from Aleppo, x. 667, .... Russel 



— of the Antilles which produce purple, xi. 227, Peyssonel 



— remarks on the fecundity of , xii. 441, Harmer 



— proportions in the quantity of spawn, xii. 444,. . . . Same 



— instances of sea fish living in fresh water, xiii. 154, Note 



Barring ton 

 ■ — of a poisonous nature in the South sea, xiv. 108, Arderon 



— see Acipenser huso, Burbot, Cachelot, Carp, Chimoera, 



Chxtodon, Char-Jish, Cod, Cuttle-Jish, Exoccctus volitans, 

 Frog-Jish, Gillaroo trout, Gurnard, Gwiniad, Gymnotus, 

 Haddock, Jaculator, Limpet, Lophius, Ophidium, Pen- 

 Jish, Perch, Physeter, Pike, Porpoise, Purple-fish, Prickle- 

 back, Quab, Shark, Smelt, Soal, Star-Jish, Sturgeon, 

 Sun-fish, Sword-Jish, Tetrodon, Torpedo, Trout, Unicorn- 

 fish, Whale, Zeus. 



— see Shell-Jish. 



Fistula, a wound in the side, which became fistulous, vi. 480, 



Steigertball 

 Fistula lachrymali*, operation of, viii. 17, Hunauld 



■ a new treatment of, xiv. 679> « • Blizard 



Fits, see Epilepsy, Convulsions. 



Fitzgerald (Keane) application to the steam-engine of Dr. 

 Hales's method of distillation, xi. 81, 157 



— to work ventilators by the steam-engine, xi. 266 



— description of a metalline thermometer, xi. 49 1 



! — on checking the luxuriant growth of fruit-trees, xi. 524 



— new thermometer and barometer, xi. 543 



— on lessening the quantity of friction in engines, xi. 709 



— improvements in his wheel barometer, xiii. 17 



— cultivation of Chinese hemp-seed, xv. 180 

 Fixed air, see Air. 



Flame, exper. on the transparency of, xvii. 373, Rumford 

 Flamingo [phcenicopterus ruber] descr. of, vi. 268, Douglass 



Flamsteed, John, biographical account of, i. 414. . . Note 



— prediction of the celestial phenomena of 1670, i. 414 



— appulses of the moon, i. 649, ii. 118 



— appearances of Saturn in 1671, i. 660 



— latitude and distance of the Pleiades, i. 673 



— two observations of Jupiter, i. 706 



— astronomical observations and predictions, ii. 5. 



— calculation of the parallax of Mars, ii. 34 



— inclination of Jupiter to the ecliptic, ii, 65 



— parallax of Mars, and of the sun, ii. 90 



— place and motion of the moon, ii. 177 



— new solar tables, ii. 178 



— on Mr. Horrox's lunar system, ii. 220 



— on the inequality of natural days, &c. ii. 236 



— of spots in the sun, observed 1676, ii. 333 



— observation at Greenwich of the comet of 1677, ii. 393 



— on a corrected tide-table, ii. 555 



— lunar eclipse, 1682, Greenwich, ii. 587; 1684, iii. 69 



— conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn, ii. 637 



— eclipses and ingresses of Jupiter's satellites, 1683, ii. 660 



— calculation of eclipses of Jupiter's satellites, 1684, ii.679 



— eclipses of Jupiter's satellites predicted, 1685, iii. 89 



— a new tide-table aud directions for, iii. 3 



— of a spot in the sun, 1684, iii. 20 



— solar eclipse July 1684, Greenwich, ibid ; 1706, v. 294 



— his predictions verified of these eclipses, iii. 234 



— instrument to find the distances of Jupiter's satellites 



from his axis, iii. 246 



— eclipse of the moon, at Lisbon, 1685, iii. 336 

 Jupiter by the moon, 1686, iii. 336 



— celestial observations at Greenwich, vi. 17, 168 



— observs. of the accuracy of his tables, viii. i , Hodgson 

 Flannel, on the electricity of, ix. 337, 532, Cook 



— usefulness of, as a dress, xvi. 260, , . . . . Rumford 



Fleming, Malcolm, m. d., nourishment of the foetus by the 



liquor amnii, x. 619. 

 Fleas, on the generation of, iv. 348, Cestone 



— structure of the proboscis of, v. 316, .... Leuwenhoek 



— of the pulex penetrans of Brazil, ii. 434, Guattini 



Flesh, of a bird converted into fat, xvii. 192, Sneyd 



— on the conversion of into fat, xvii. 389, 544>. . . . Gibbes 

 Flies, of a viviparous sort, i. 600, Lister 



— efficacy of elder in preserving plants from, xiii. 319, 



Gullet 



Floating bodies, on the theory of, xvii. 682, Atwood 



Florentine philosophers, of the Acad, del Cimento, iii. 87, 



Note 

 Flowers, to preserve in winter, iv. 230, Southwell 



— observ. on the farina fcecundans of, ix. 230, 234, Badcock 

 Flower, Mr., some unknown ancient characters, iii. 574 

 Floyd, Edw., description of locusts in Wales, iii. 6l7 



— of fiery and infectious exhala. in Pembrokeshire, iii. 6l8 

 Floyer, Sir John, biographical account of, iv. 458,. . . . Note 



— of two monstrous pigs, and a double turkey, iv. 458 



— to discover the properties of plants by the taste, iv. 676 

 Fluents, of multinomials, and converging series, ix, 513, 



Simpson 



— theorems useful in resolving, x. 469, ........ Landen 



— disquisition on certain fluents, xiii. 150, Same 



— method of finding, by continuation, xvi. 150,.. . Vince 

 Fluid (Animal), existence of, in the nerves, vii. 550, Stuart 



— experiments on animal fluids in the exhausted receiver, 

 xiii. 536, Darwin 



Fluids (Natural Philosophy) figures of contiguous surfaces, 

 ii. 362, 372 Boyle 



— laws of the motion of, iii. 308, Mariotte 



— effect of heat and cold in the expansion, &c. of, iii. 505, 



Halley 



