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Higgins, Bryan, m. d., use of an amalgam of zinc for elect. 



excitation, xiv. 446 

 Higbmore, — , m. d., on the Scarborough spa ; a salt spring 



in Somersetshire ; a medical spring in Dorset, i. 419 

 Hill, the subsiding of part of a, vi. 69, Bishop of Clogher 



— see Attraction, Volcanoes. 



Hill, Mr., on the great age of Henry Jenkins, iv. 167 

 Hill, Sir John, biographical notice of, ix. 200, Note 



— on the seeding of mosses, ibid 



— on Windsor loam, ix. 337 



Hillier, J., observations at Cape Corse, iv. 201 



Himsel, Nic.de, m.d., a rare species oforthoceratites, xi.26l 



— case of palsy cured by electricity, xi. 372 



— production of extreme cold, xi. 480 

 Hind, anatomy of the Sardinian, iii. 392 



Hindoos, table of their eras compared with the Christian, 

 xvi. 74fj, Marsden 



— on their civil year, and account of 3 Hindoo almanacks, 



xvii. 250, Cavendish 



Hippocrates, on squaring the lunula of, iv. 452, Perks, 



Gregory, Caswell, Wallis 



— description of his ambe, viii. 659> Le Cat 



Hire, Philip de la, biograph. notice of, ii. 353 



— new magnetical compass, iii. 381 



Hirst, Wm., a fire ball seen at Hornsey, 1754, x. 530 

 Hirst, Rev. Wm., transit of Venus, 1761, xi. 596 



— an earthquake in the East Indies 1762, xii. 12 



— solar eclipse observed at Ghyrotty, ibid 



— lunar eclipse observed at Calcutta, xii. 13 



— phenomena of the transit of Venus, 1769> xii. 639 

 Hirta, description of the island, and manner of climbing 



the rocks for eggs and sea-fowl, ii. 4l6, Moray 



Hirudinella marina, account of, vii. 424, Garcin 



Hoare, Mr., antique pictures at Herculaneum, ix. 363 

 Hobbes, Thomas, biographical account of, i. 107, .... Note 

 Hobbes's book De principiis geometrarum, animadversions 



on by Dr. Wallis, i. 107 

 Hoboken, Nicholas, biographical notice of, i. 442, . . Note 

 Hobson, Joseph, increase of the seeds of mallow, viii. 63 1 

 Hodgson, James, biographical notice of, v. 134, 481, Notes 



— observation of a lunar eclipse, Dec. 1703. ibid 



— eclipses of Jupiter's satellites, 1732, vii. 481 j 1733, 



vii. 550 ; 1734, vii. 588 ; 1735, vii. 642 ; 1736, viii. 

 1 ; 1737, viii. 55 ; 1738, viii. 84 ; 1739, viii. 141 ; 

 1740, viii. 235 ; 1750, ix. 527 ; 1751, ix. 699 



— on the accuracy of Flamsteed's tables, viii. 1 



— Chinese astronomical observations, viii. 628 



— observations at Pekin of the comet of 1 742, ix. 267 

 Hodgson, John, agitation of the waters at Medhurst, x. 649 

 Hodgson, Lucas, m. d , of a fire in a coal mine, ii. 359 

 Hody, Edw., m. n., a bony substance in the womb, viii. 56 

 Hog, see Musk-Hog. 



Holbroke, William, m. d., disorder from swallowing plum- 

 stones, v. 552 

 Holder, Wm., d. d., biographical account of, i. 242, Note 



— remarks on deafness, ibid 



Holdsworth, Rev. F., agitation of the waters at Dartmouth, 



1755, xi. 1 



Holland, curiosities seen in, v. 45, Oliver 



Holland, Samuel, latitude of the islands of St. John and 



Cape Breton, xii. 507 



— astronomical observations in North America, xii. 642 



— eclipses of Jupiter's satellites, N. America, xiii. 527, 528 

 Hollandia Nova, see New Holland. 



Hollings, , m. d., dissection of a woman supposed 



pregnant, vi. 242 

 Holloway, Rev. B., fuller's earth pits in Bedfords., vi. 674 

 Holly, on the sex of, x. 486, Martyn 



Holly, on Mr. Martyn's opinion of the sex of, x.487, Watson 

 Hollman, Sam. Christ., on vegetable physiology, viii. 513 



— differences of heights of barometers, viii. 578 



— on freezing, ix. 93 



— experiments on electric fire, ix 9* 



— new micrometer, ibid 



— agreement of barometers with the weather, ix. 65 1 



— of fossils in mountains of Germany, xi. 435 

 Holmes, Major, success of pendulum watches for the longi- 

 tude, i. 7 



Holt Waters, nature and properties of, vii. 253, 338, Lewis 

 Holt, Sir C, disorder from swallowing stones, iv. 381, 630 

 — ' a child with the intestines, kc. in the thorax, iv. 630 

 Hoi well, John Zeph., a new specimen of oak, xiii. 306 

 Hollyhock, on the farina fgecundans of, ix. 230, . . Badcock 

 Homberg, M. biographical notice of, iv. 483, Note 



— quantity of acid salts from acid spirits, ibid 



Home, Robert, first joint of the thumb torn away with all 



the flexor tendon, xi. 235 

 Home, Everard, account of a new marine animal, xvi. 1 



— account of a double headed child, xvi. 663, xviii. 443 



— cases of horny excres. from the human body, xvii. 28 



— account of some observations by Mr. J. Hunter on the 



crystalline humour, xvii. 343 



— nature and use of the muscles of the eye, xvii, 453, 660 



— on the principle of muscular motion, xvii. 525 



— organs and mode of generat. of the Kanguroo, xvii. 535 



— anatomy of the sea otter, xviii. 34 



— of the changes which blood undergoes whenextravasated 



into the bladder, xviii. 64 



— on the morbid action of the straight muscles and cornea 



of the eye, xviii. 74 



— on the orifice in the retina of the eye, xviii. 326 



— structure of nerves, particularly the optic, xviii. 430 



— dissection of an hermaphrodite dog, xviii. 485 



— observations on hermaphrodites, ibid 



— on the teeth of graminivorous animals, xviii. 519 



— structure and use of the membrana tympani, xviii. 566 



— mode of hearing after destruction of the membrana 



tympani, xviii. 630 



— on the head of the ornithorhyncus paradoxus, xviii. 746 

 Hommel, account of the jaculator fish, xii. 321 



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



Hondt, , m. d., agitation of the waters at the Hague, 



1755, x. 655 

 Honey, method of seeking in the woods of New England, 



vi. 509, Dudley 



Honey-combs, form of the cells of, viii. 709, . . Maclaurin 



Honey-bird, see Cuculus indicator. 



Hook, Robert, biographical account of, i. 3, 437, . . . Note 



— observation of a spot in one of Jupiter's belts, i. 3 



— some account of his micrograph ia, i. 13 



— inquiries for seamen on long voyages, i. 53, 153 



— rotation of Jupiter on its axis, i. 60 



— observations on the planet Mars, i. 65 



— a glass with a small plano-convex sphere, to refract rays 



to a focus at a greater distance than usual, i. 66 



— a newly contrived wheel-barometer, i. 72 



— phases of Mars and rotation round its axis, i. 



— observation of the planet Jupiter, i. 83 

 — Saturn, i. 



80 



— exper. of blowing into the lungs with bellows, i. 194 



— description of Gascoigne's micrometer, i. 195 



— contrivance to make the image of a thing appear on a 



wall, i. 269 



— appearance of Saturn's ring, i. 530 



— observation of spots in the sun, i. 648 



— observ. of an eclipse of the moon, 1 671,1. 648; 1 675, ii.l 87 



