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Hook, Robt., account of his philos. collections, ii. 473, Note 



— a help for short sightedness, ii. 508 



— best form of sails for mills and ships, ii. 509 



— essay on the Chinese characters, iii. 285 



— eclipses of Jupiter by the moon, iii. 294 



— to increase the divisions of a barometer, iii. 343 

 Hope, John, M. n., biographical account of, xv. fJ40,Note 



— medicinal quality of the rheum palmatum, xii. 26l 



— of a rare plant of the Isle of Skye, xii. 642 



— description of the asafeetida plant, xv. 640 



Hope, T., m. d., remarkable operation on die eye, ix. 83 



— M. Daviel's method of couching, x. 287 

 Hopkins, J., large stag's horn found in the sea, vii. 528 

 Hopton, Richard, eruption of a boiling spring, v. 6S0 



Horace, remark on a passage in, iv. 712, Molyneux 



Horizon, see Sun, Moon, Quadrant, &c. 



Home, H., of the^iron made from magnetic sand, xi. 689 

 Home, J. Van, biographical account of, i. 241, .... Note 



— on the parts of generation, i. 241, 271 



Horns, on the formation and origin of, iii. 49,. . Malpighi 



— growing on a girl's body, iii. 229, Ash 



— of an immense size found in Ireland, iv. 156, Molyneux 



— horny excrescences on the fingers, &c. iv. i76> • • Locke 



— another similar instance, v. 201 , Wroe 



— found underground in Ireland, vii. 154, Kelly 



— very large found at Wapping, vii. 180, Sloane 



— large stag's horn found in the sea, vii. 528,. . . . Hopkins 



— a deer's horn in the heart of an oak, viii. 360,. . . . Clark 



— horn of a fish in a ship's side, viii. 536, Mortimer 



— uncommon deer's horns in Yorkshire, ix. 225, Knowlton 



— and head of a stag in Derbyshire, xvi. 9, Barker 



— observations on horny excrescences from the human 



body, xvii. 28, Home 



— see Rhinoceros, Monsters, &c. 



Hornsby, Rev. T., on the sun's parallax, xii. 44 



— solar eclipse, 1764, at Oxford, xii. 115 



— proposal for observing the transit of Venus, xii. 265 



— transit of Venus, 17§9> Sherburn and Oxford, xii. 625 



— solar eclipse, 1 7^9 > xii. 626 



— sun's parallax from the transit of Venus, 1769, xiii. 220 



— on the proper motion of Arcturus ; and decreased ob- 



liquity of the ecliptic, xiii. 386, Note 



Horrox, Jeremiah, biographical account of, ii. 12, .. Note 



— remarks on his lunar system, ii. 220, Flamsteed 



Horse, an undescribed blemish in the eye, i. 2l6,. . Lower 



— extraordinary cases of calculus in, ii. 544, 545,. . . . Note 



— staked in the stomach, cure of, iv. 65, Wallis 



— of a horse bitten by a mad dog, x. 54, Starr 



Horsefall, James, on questions in chronology, xii. 519 . 



— transit of Venus, 1769, London, xii. 625 



Horsley, Rev. Mr., fall of rain in Northumb., 1722-3, vi.658 

 Horsley, J., on the lunar method for the longitude, xii. l6l 

 Horsley, Rev. Sam., d. d., biog. account of, xii. 411, Note 



— on the sun's distance from the earth, ibid 



— on the height of the sun's atmosphere, xii. 456 



— sun's distance computed by gravity, xii. 619 



— transit of Venus and solar eclipse, 1769, xii. 629 



— difficulties in the Newtonian theory of light, removed, 



xiii. 65, 210 



— on the sieve of Eratosthenes, xiii. 315 



— notes on Bailly's theory of Jupiter's satellites, xiii. 430 



— on De Luc's rule for the measurement of heights by the 



barometer, xiii. 531 



— state of the weather from the journals of the r. s., xii' 



6l6; xiv. 44 



— of polygons in and about circles, xiii. 653 

 Horticulture, see Gardening. 

 Hosack, David, m. d., observations on vision, xvii. 403 



Hosty, Ambrose, m. d., case of the bones softened and 

 distorted, x. 313 



Hot-houses, a new invented stove for, iii. 659, Cullum 



Hotton, Peter, m. d., on Swammerdam's Treatises, iv. 442 



— virtues of the acmella in the cure of stone, &c. iv. 548 

 Houghton, John, account of coffee, iv. 420 



Hour, of the night at sea, method of finding, ix. 664, 



TT t» , • Condamine 



Houses, see Population. 



Houstown, Robert, m. d., an extra-uterine fcetus, vi. 666 



— cure of dropsy in the ovarium, vii. 2 



— account of the contrayerva, vii. 506 



— on respiration with a perforated thorax, viii. 68 

 Howard, Hon. C, direc. and an engine for tanning, ii. 136 



— of the cultivation of saffron, ii. 423 



Howard, Edward, a new fulminating mercury, xviii. 649 

 Howard, John, extreme cold, Nov. 22, 1763, xii. 1 14 



— heat of the Bath and Bristol waters, xii. 4*9 



— heat of the ground on Mount Vesuvius, xiii. 93 

 Howell, G., stone extract, by an apert. of the urethra, ix. 252 

 Howman, Roger, m. d., case of hydrophobia from the bite 



of a fox, iii. 133 



— case of haemorrhage from the penus, vi. 674 

 Hoxton, Walter, unusual agitation of the needle, vii. 463 



— magnetic variation from London to Maryland, viii. 330 

 Huber, James, m. d., a body without a gall-bladder, ix. 648 



— case of a gibbosity of the sternum, ibid 

 Hubner, Martin, on the terra tripolitana, xi. 372 

 Huddart, Jos., of a person who could not distinguish colours, 



xiv. 143 



— observations on horizontal refractions, xviii. 88 

 Hudson, Wm., biographical notice of, xi. 6l5 t Note 



— of the natural history of Fungi, ibid 



Hudson's Bay, effects of the cold at, natural history, and 

 manners, viii. 591, Middleton 



— of a voyage to, and residence at, xiii. 22, Wales 



— description of the inhabitants, xiii. 29, Same 



— longitude of, xiii. 32, Same 



— of the dying roots at, xiii. 282, Forster 



— account of quadrupeds from, xiii. 326, Same 



■ birds, xiii. 331, Same 



fishes, xiii. 410, Same 



Huygens, Christ., biographical account of, i. 326, . . Note 



— success of pendulum watches for the longitude, i. 7 - } on 



the use of them, 343 



— improvement of optic glasses, i. 36 



— observation of Saturn, at Paris, i. 326 



— laws of motion on the collision of bodies, i. 335 



— a halo at Paris, i. 458: cause of halos and parhelia, 458 



— appearance of Saturn's ring, L 530 



— observations on Newton's reflecting telescope, i. 694 



— cause of mercury adhering to the top of a small tube, ii. 1 



— solution of Alhazen's problem, ii. 97, 1 07 



— on Hook's book respecting the earth's motion, ii. 135 



— description of his portable watches, ii. 199 



— pneumatical experiments, ii. 239, 257 



on insects, ii. 271 



— various pneumatical experiments, ii. 272 

 Hughes, Rev. Griffith^ description of a zoophyton, viii. 716" 

 Huillier, Simon Le, elements of exponential quantities} and 



of the trigonomet. functions of circular arcs, xvii. 703 

 Hulme, Nath., m. d., biograp. account of, xviii. 630, Note 



— on the light emitted from various bodies, ibid 



Hume, Francis, m. n., on preserving in lime-water, fish and 



flesh from putrefaction, x. 358 

 Humfries, I , Esq., sponta. inflam. from linseed oil, xvii. 449 



Humming bird, on the food of the, iii. 551, Grew 



Hunauld, Fran. J., m.d., biograp. account of, viii. 17, Note 



