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Fossils, further account of the same fossil, x. 106, Mortimer 



— description of a curious spheroidal stone, x. 107, Same 



— remarks on the Dudley fossil, x. 401, Da Costa 



— impression of a fish in a stone, x. 628, Byam j further 



particulars of the same stone, ibid, Pond 



— of coralloid fossil bodies, x. 688, Pennant 



— Donati's opinion respecting marine fossils found inland, 



xi. 84, Trembley 



— found at the Isle of Shepey, xi. l65, Parsons 



— curious stone near Christchurch, xiii. 418, . . Barrington 



— on the cause of fossil vegetables, &c. xviii. 481, De Serra 



— see Shells; Glossopetrx ; Belemnites ; Echinites; Nauti- 



lites; Orthoceratites ; Star-Stones. 

 Fothergill, Anth., m. d., effects of the frost, 1776, xiv. 116 



— St. Vitus's dance cured by electricity, xiv. 476 

 Fothergill, John, m. d., biographical account of, ix. 9, Note 



— on the origin of amber, ibid. 



— observations on manna, ix. 31 



— recovery from suffoca. by distending the lungs, ix. 103 



— rupture of the diaphragm in an infant, ix. 187 



— account of Gmelin's Flora Sibirica, ix. 491 



— account of Knight's magnetical machine, xiv. 117 

 Fouchy, J. P. G., on the lunar atmosphere, viii. 371 

 Fountains, see Springs. 



Fouquet, J.Fran. new Chinese table of chronology, vii. 427 

 Fowke, Gen., earthquake, Nov., 1755, in Barbary, x. 663 

 Fox, of the arctic fox, [canis lagopus,] xiii. 326, . . Forster 

 Fracassati, Charles, injecting of liquors into the veins of 

 animals, i. 170 



— experiment on blood become cold, i. 172 



Fractions, on infinitely infinite, ii. 502, Wood 



— on a passage in Girard on converging, x. 430, Simson 



— theorems for resolving fractions, x. 46*9, Landen 



Fracture, seeOsFemoris, Frontis, &c. ; MachinesChirurgical. 



Frankfort, births, deaths, &c. at, 1695, iv. 169, Slare 



Frankland, SirThos., the welding of cast steel, xvii. 572 

 Franklin, Benj., ll. d., biograph. account of, x. 189, Note 



— nature and effects of electricity, ibid. 



— electrical experiments on the effects of lightning, x. 212 



— description of the electrical kite, x. 301 



— electrical experiments at Philadelphia, x. 629 



— observations on the nature of electricity, x. 632 



— effects of electricity in paralytic cases, xi. 189 



— explanation of electrical exper. by Beccaria, xi. 435 



— letter respecting some electrical experiments, xi. 609 



— an aurora borealis seen at London, 1757, xi. 6l4 



— physical and meteorological observations, xii. 223 

 — on the stilling of waves by oil, xiii. 568 



Franklin, J. observ. of a luminous arch, Feb., 1784, xvi. 631 

 Frantz, Father, observ. at Vienna, of a comet, 1743, viii. 681 

 Fraser, Rev. James, account of Loch-Ness, iv. 398 

 Fraxinus Sylvestris, [sorbus aucup.] an excellent liquor from 



the berry of, i. 305, Beale and Tonge 



Freeman, Wm., calculous concret. under the tongue, ix. 6l8 



— description of Herculaneum, x. 166 

 Freezing, see Ice (artificial), Frost. 



Friend, John, m. d., biogrophical account of, iv. 423, Note 



— a hydrocephalus and dissection of the head, ibid. 



— of a remarkable kind of convulsion, iv. 564 

 Freke, John, exostosis on a boy's back, viii. 413 



— machine for reducing a dislocated shoulder, viii. 706 

 Frewen,T., m.d., effects of the small-pox at Hastings,vii.480 



— a stone voided through the perinceum, xi. 571 



— case of a man stupified by sea-coal, xi. 608 

 Friction, medical effects of, i. 67, Oldenburg 



— of machines reduced to calculation, vii. 539, Desaguliers 



— of pulleys, experiments on, vii. 566, Same 



— in engines, to lessen the quantity of, xi. 709, Fitzgerald 



Friction, experiments of its effect on motion, xv. 654, Vince 



— on the source of heat excited by, xviii. 278, . . . Rumford 



Fright, the use of speech recovered by, ix. 465, Squire 



Frisi, Paul, biographical notice of, x. 305, Note 



— form and magnitude of the earth, ibid. 



Friuli, of the mines of mercury at, i. 10, p pe 



Frobenius, Sig. Aug., m.d., experts, with ether, vii! 394 



— experts, with ether, and phosphorus of urine, vii. 594 



— collection of his papers on ether, viii. 586, . . .Mortimer 

 Frogs, on the generation of, ii. 664, Leuwenhoek 



— remarks on the spawn of, Hi. 456, Waller 



Frog-fish [lophius piscatorius] descrip. of, ix. 658, Parsons 



— of Surinam [rana paradoxa] xi. 474, Edwards 



Froidour, M. De, on the canal of Languedoc, i. 723 

 Frost, effects of a remarkable frost, ii. 37 



— observations on the above-mentioned, ii. 56, Wallis 



— effects of severe frost on trees, &c. iii. 89, Bobart 



— account of the great frost, 1708-9, v. 533, Derham 



— account of the frost in 1730-1, vii. 448, Same 



Feb., 1767, xii. 474, Watson 



— effects of the frost in Jan., 1776, xiv. 116, . . . Fothergill 



— comparative temperature of hoar-frost, and the air near 



it, xiv. 705 j xv. 129, Wilson 



— a remarkable frost, June 23d, 1783, xv. 604, . . Cullum 



— see Winter, Meteorological Observations. 



Fruit, to make grow in winter, and to preserve, iv. 230 



Southwell 



— bad effect of swallowing stones of, iv. 710, . . Vaughan 



— see Cherries. 



Fruit-trees, to promote the fruitfulness of, i. 333, . . Tonge 



— to graft upon pieces of root, ii. 79, Lewis 



— to check the too luxuriant growth of, xi. 524, Fitzgerald 



— fruitfulness promoted by washing the stems, xiv. 124, 



xv. 138, Marsham 



— see Farina. 



Fuel, contrivance for saving, iv. 154, Papin 



Fuller, John, a storm of salt rain in Sussex, v. 91 



— efficacy of Dampier's powder in the bite of a mad dog, 



viii. 204 



— meteoric lights observed December 1737, viii. 46l 



— explosion of a fire-ball, viii. 540 



— description of a large lake in Yorkshire, viii. 463 

 Fuller, Rose, m. d., comet of 1737, at Jamaica, viii. 154 

 Fuller, Steph , a hurricane in Huntingdonshire, viii. 530 

 Fuller's earth, pits of, in Bedfordshire, vi. 674, Holloway 

 Fungus, of a subterraneous fungus, ii. 119, Lister 



— of the generation of fungi, vi. 195, Marsigli 



— poisonous nature of some fungi, ix. 43, Watson 



— a new species of, ix. 99, Martyn 



— account of Schaeffer's natural history of, xi. 6l5 



— of the lycoperdon phalloides, xv. 607, .... Woodward 



— see Agaric, Lycoperdon, Mushrooms, Truffles. 



Furze, utility for making dam-heads, &c. xi. 514, . . Wark 

 Fynney, Fielding Best, of a hard substance extracted from 

 the coecum, xiv. 186 



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Gabry, Peter, aurora borealis, 1750, x. 134 



— observations of a comet, 1759, at the Hague, xi. 677 

 meteor, 1758, at the Hague, ibid 



Gaertner, Jos., m. n., of the urtica marina [actinia] xi. 525 

 Gailhard, M., observations on dissected bodies, iv. 207 

 Gale, Benj , m. d., of inoculation in America, xii. 229 



— efficacy of salt in curing the bite of a rattlesnake, xii. 244 

 Gale, Roger, Roman inscription at Chichester, vi. 667 



— Roman inscription near Lancaster, vi. 364 



— remarks on an ancient chirograph, viii. 64 



— vegetation of old melon seeds, ix. 100 



