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INDEX. 



GRA 



Giants, extraord. size of Edra. Melloon, iv. 273, Musgrave 



— remarks in support of their existence, iv. 470, Molyneux 



. — existence of, before the Flood, vi. 85, Mather 



. — of a gigantic bregma, with rules for calculating the 



giant's size, viii. 388 Klein 



— gigantic people of Magellan Straits, xii. 391, . . . Clarke 



— see Bones. 



Giant's Causeway, in Ireland, descrip. of, iii. 529, Sir R. B. 



__— — ~ — — ■ iii. 656", , . . Foley 



___ iii. 657, iv. 281, Molyneux 



ix. 457, x. 382, . . Pocoke 



— in Scotland, like that in Ireland, xi. 533, Bp. of Ossory, 

 xi. 535,. . Da Costa 



— see Basaltes. 



Gibbes, Geo. Smith, on the conversion of animal muscle 

 into fat, xvii. 389, 544 



Gibraltar, of currents at the Straits, iii. 30, Smith 



Giffard, Mr., delivery of a foetus at the anus, vii. 433 



Gilbert, Dr., biographical notice of, i. 187, Note 



Gilding, method of gilding silver, iv. 305, Southwell 



Giles, , a tumour in the lower part of the belly, iv. 132 



— origin of a polypus in the nose discovered, iv. 152 

 Gilkes, Moreton, of petrifactions at Matlock ; cause of 



petrifactions in general, viii. 406 



Gillaroo trout, account of the, xiii. 509, Barrington 



Gilpin, George, on the expansion of fluids, xvii. 272 



— method of ascertaining the respective quantities of mixed 



spirits and water, xvii. 426 

 Ginseng, [panax quinquefolium] descrip. of, vi. 56, Jartoux 

 .__ account of the genus araliastrum, vi. 314, . . . . Vaillant 

 Gioeni, Count de, of a remarkable sort of rain which fell 



on Mount Etna, xv. 165 



Gizzard, a pin in a fowl's gizzard, v. 240, Regnart 



Gizzard trout, see Gillaroo Trout. 



-Glands, of the glandulae renales in infants, ii. 450, . . Tyson 



— of the mucilaginous glands, iii. 464, Havers 



— discovery ©f two new glands, iv. 445, Cowper 



— figures of the glandulae renales, v. 323, Douglas 



— excretory duct from the renal gland, vii. 55, . . Valsalva 



— examination respecting the above discovery of Valsalva, 



vii. 84, 163, Ranby 



Glanvil, Joseph, on the Mendip lead mines, i. 186, 276 



— nature and efficacy of the Bath waters, i. 36l 



Glaser, Christian, biographical notice of, ii. 395,. . . . Note 

 Glass, method of making red glass, i. 270, .... Colepresse 



— to make the globe looking glass, iv. 317, • . . . Southwell 



— to paint glass in marble colours, iv. 317, Same 



— on the breaking of Bologna bottles, ix. 102, .... Bruni 



— experiments on unanneal'd glass, ix. l6l, .... Allamand 



— antiquity of in windows, xi. 232, 539i Nixon 



Glass (electricity) experiments on the attrition of, v. 307, 



324, 344, 355, 41 1, Hauksbee 



— electricity of glass that has been exposed to fire, ix. 681, 



Bose 



— see Electricity. 



Glass, (optics) a glass to refract rays at a greater distance 

 than usual, i. 6'8, Hook 



— to make convex glasses on a plane, i. 298,. . . . Mancini 



— see Object Glasses, Optic Glasses, Telescopes, Micro- 



scopes, &c. 

 Glass (Nat. Philos.) rotation of tubes of, ix. 114, Wheler 



— phenomenon of the glass drop, ix. 675, Le Cat 



— of crystallizations observed in, xiv. 102, Keir 



Glass (Samuel) a dropsy from the want of a kidney, ix. 292 



Glauber salt, how produced, viii. 11, Note 



Glenie, J., division of right lines, surfaces and solids, xiii. 729 



— laws of universal proportion, xiv. 183 



Glisson, Francis, m.d., biographical account of, i. 323, Note 

 Globe, curious celestial globe, by l'Alleman, ii. 405 



— account of Senex's globes, viii. 176 



— asterisms of the ancient celestial, viii. 501, Latham 



— position of the colure in the ancient, viii. 607,. . . . Same 



— improvement of the celestial globe, ix. 351, . . Ferguson 

 Glossopetrae, remarks on, i. 225, Steno ; Note, ibid. 



ii. 180, Lister 



Glover, Thomas, account of Virginia, ii. 301 

 Glow-worms, remarks on, i. 603, Templer 



— description of the cicindela volans, iii. 109, Waller 



Glue, a strong sort prepared from sturgeon, ii. 345 



— difference of mucilage, size, and glue, xviii.725, Hatchett 

 Gmelin, Phil. Fred., observations on ipecacuanha, ix. 126 

 Gnats, microscopical observations on, iv. 477, Leuwenhoek 



— uncommon swarms at Oxford, 1766, xii. 402, Swinton 

 Gobien, Father, Le, account of the Philippine Isles, v. 442 

 Goddard, Jo. m. d., biograph. account of, ii. 426, . . Note 



— observations on a chamaelion, ii. 418 



— on refining of gold with antimony, ii. 426 



Godden, Mich., irregularity of the tide in the Thames, x. 6Q3 

 Gold, mines of in Hungary, and working, i. 437, . . Brown 



— modern method of amalgamation, i. 439* Note 



— incalescence of quicksilver with, ii. 267, B. R. 



— method of refining with antimony, ii. 426, . . Goddard 



— on the minute divisibility of, iii. 459, Halley 



— to gild silver, iv. 305, Southwell 



— experiments of mixing gold with tin, xv. 6'22, Alchorne 



— discovery of native gold in Ireland, xvii. 677, .... Lloyd 

 xvii. 679, Milk 



— of the action of nitre on, xviii. 139, Tennant 



Goniometry, equations of goniometrical lines, ix. 357, Jones 

 Gooch, Benjamin, morbid separation of the cuticle from the 



cutis, xii. 647 



— on amputation above the knee, xiii. 666 



— of aneurisms in the thigh, ibid. 



Goodricke, John, observ. of the star Algol, xv. 456, 545 



— variation of light of /3 Lyrae, xv. 653 

 ^Cephei, xvi. 56 



Goodyer, A. symptoms attending a serpent's bite, iv. 311 

 Goose, ten species of anas from Hudson's Bay, xiii 344, 



Forster 

 Gooseberries, observ. on the seeds of, iii. 591, Leuwenhoek 



Gordius Medinensis, account of the, iv. 137, Lister 



Gordon, Rev. Pat., a cataract in Gottenburg river, iv. 525 



— account of Tycho Brache's observatory, ibid. 



— of a water-spout in the Downs, iv. 564 

 Gordon, William, explosion of a fire-ball, viii. 559 

 Gotee, Father, of the island raised from the sea near San- 



torini, v. 647 

 Gorgonia, on the animal nature of, xiii. 720, Ellis 



— see Zoophyta. 



Gorsuck, Rev. Wm., bills of mortality of Holycross, 1/60, 

 —1770, xii. 94; 1770,-1780, xv. 183 



Gossamer, how produced, ix. 324, Arderon 



Gostling, Rev. Wm., explosion of a fire-ball, viii. 541, 560 

 Gottwald, J. C. m. d., of the plague at Dantzic, 1709, vi. 23 

 Gould, W., increase in weight of oil of vitrol, exposed to 

 the air, iii. 11 



— of a polypus in the heart, iii. 21 



Gourdon, Sir Robt.,recipe for the bite of mad dogs, iii. 362 

 Gout, remarks on, i. 237, Behm 



— cure of the, ii. 300, BuschofF 



— remedies for, v. 362, Musgrave 



— enquiry into the causes of, vii. 254, Pinelli 



— nature of gouty concretions, xviii. 213, Wollaston 



Graaff, Regnerus de, biographical account of, i. 241, Note 



