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LLO 



Lightning, xi. 394, . Knight 



— case of a man burnt by it and cured, xj. 625, . . Huxham 



-*- method of protecting ships from, xi. 660, "Watson 



questions by M. Calendrini on the best means of pre- 

 venting damage by it, xii. 127; answers by Dr. Wat- 

 son, particularly regarding powder magazines, ibid 



means of securing St. Pauls from, xii. 620, Comm. it. s. 



appearance on a ship's conductor, xiii. 35, Winn 



on the means of securing the Purfleet powder magazine, 



xiii. 371, xiv. 354, Committee R. s. 



— best means of securing buildings, xiii. 374, .... Wilson 



— a storm of, without thunder, xiii. 539, Nicholson 



-— effects on a house with conductors, xiii 659, • • Henley 



— effects of, on bullocks, xiv. 90, Same 



— papers on the accident at Purfleet, xiv. 332 



— effects of, on board the Atlas, xiv. 510, Cooper 



— effects of, at Heckingham, xv. 306, Blagden 



— some extraordinary effects of, xvi. 662, .... Withering 



— see Conductors, Electricity. 



— for other effects of, see Thunder and Lightning. 



Lily, on the farina of the red, viii. 731, Needham 



Limax, on the snail producing purple, xi. 225, . . Peyssonel 

 Limbird, James, strata of a well at Boston, xvi. 183 

 Lime, experiments on lime-water, x. 204, Alston 



— lime-wat. a preservative from putrefaction, x. 358, Hume 

 x. 551, Hales 



— of the sorts of, used in agriculture, xviii. 548, Tennant 



— for lithontnptic effects of lime-water, see Stone. 



Lime trees, observations on the seed of, ii. 591, Leuwenhoek 

 Limpet fish, specimen of, xi. 313, Forbes 



— generic character of, ibid, Morton 



Linck, John Henry, commentary on cobalt, vii. 171 

 Lincolnshire, on the natural history of, iv. 1 17, .... Merret 

 Lind, James, m. d., transit of Venus, 1769, observed near 



Edinburgh, xii. 655 



— lunar eclipse, 1769, near Edinburgh, xiii. 66l 



— description of a portable wind-gage, xiii. 66l 

 Lindelstolpe, bones of a foetus voided per anum, vii. 53 

 Lindo, Moses, a dye from a berry of South Carolina, xii. 4 

 Lines, see Curves, Locus. 



Linen cloth, machine to weave of itself, ii. 439, • • Gennes 

 Lining, J., m. v., statical exper. on himself, viii. 683, ix. 110 



— meteorological observations at Charlestown, ix. 514 



— fall of rain 1738-52, at Charlestown, x. 401 



— experiments with the electrical kite, x. 522 



Linseed oil, spontaneous inflam, by, xvii. 449,. • Humfreys 

 Linus, Francis, on Newton's theory of light, ii. 175 



— optical observations on the rainbow, ii. 222 



— further animadversions on Newton's theory, ii. 260 



— decay of his dials at Liege, v. 5 1 

 Lion, dissection of a, i. 192 



— remarks on the food of, ii. 289 



Liquor, from apples and mulberries, i. 177, . . . Colepresse 

 Liquors (Chemistry) a self moving liquor, iii. 222,. . Boyle 

 Liquors (Medical) see Injection, Lacteals. 

 Liquors (Natural Philosophy) occupying a decreased space 

 when mixed, v 644, Hauksbee 



— see Water,, Fluids. 



Lisbon, effects of the earthquake of 1755, x. 656, Wolfall 



Lisle, Jos. Nic. de, see Delisle. 



Lister, Martin, biographical account of, i. 556, .... Note 



— journal of the bleeding of a sycamore, ibid 



— bleeding of sycamores and other trees, i. 558 

 . — circulation of sap in trees, i. 576 



— on Willughby's remarks on sap, i. 579 



— insect husks of the kermes kind, i. 598, 607 ; ii. 7 



— a viviparous fly, i. 600 ; different sorts of spiders, 601 



— of an insect feeding on henbane, i. 602 



Lister, Mar., of vegetable excrescences, i. 633, 646, 64p 



— remarks on fossil shells, i. 645 



— enquiry concerning tarantulas, i. 649 



— of a musk-scented ant, i. 649 ; ichneumons, ibid 



— veins of plants, and their use, i. 668 ; ii. 34 



— a stone cut from under the tongue, i. 716 



— worms, supposed to spring from horse-hairs, i. 717 



— on the agaricus piperatus, ii. 33 



— passage of chyle in the lacteal veins, ii. 75, 554 



— of the guts ; and of worms in them, ii. 76 



— a subterraneous fungus, ii. 119 ; a mineral juice, 120 



— account of trochitae and entrochi, ii. 121 



— different species of snails, ii. 138 



— efflorescence of crude alum, and marcasite, ii. 179 



— an odd-figured iris, ii. 180 ; glossopetrae, ibid 



— lapides Judaici found in England, ii. 181 



— attraction of resin by certain stones, ibid 



— flower and seed of mushrooms, ii. 183 



— vitrification of antimony by cauk, ii. 183 



— description of astroites, or star-stones, ii. 200 



— worms voided at the mouth, ii. 226 



— Roman urns, &c. near York, ii. 518 



— of a monstrous animal voided by vomit, ii. 539 



— on colouring the chyle in the lacteals, ii. 554 



— Roman monument near North Shields, ii. 580 



— case of hydrophobia, and treatment, ii. 608 



— on Roman architec, a wall and tower near York, ii. 635 



— colour and distribution of the chyle, ii. 637 



— on the use of the caecum intestinum, iii. 1 



— on salt-springs, and sea-water, iii. 10 



— on earthquakes, on pyrites, iii. 17 



— projection of spider's threads ; bees lodged in leaves ; 



viviparous flies, iii. 46 



— proposal for maps of the soil, iii. 82 



— rising, &c. of quicksilver in the barometer, iii. Q5 



— account of the reprint, of Goedartius on insects, iii. 106* 



— on the freezing of* different salt-waters j on the nitre of 



Egypt, iii. lOf 



— calculous concretion on a piece of iron found in the body 



of a boy, iii. 121 



— ornithological notes, presented to Mr. Ray, iii. 214 



— answers to queries respecting shells, iii. 501 



— of some transparent pebbles, iii. 543 



— of shells found in the East Indies, iii. 573 



— on the making and tempering of steel, iii. 570 



— differences and nature of juices of plants, iv. 123 



— of several plants fit for hay, iv. 1 3o 



— of the long worm troublesome in the East Indies, iv. 137 



— dissection of the scallop, iv. 170 



— venom in the tooth of a porpoise, iv. 211 



— cases of hydrophobia cured, iv. 286 



— on Leuwenhoek's hypothesis of generation, iv. 310 



— origin of white vitriol, and figures of its crystals, iv. 427 



— of powder-blue passing the lacteal veins, iv. 570 



— of the quantity of blood in the body, ibid 

 Lithotomy, see Stone 



Liver, nature, office, and use of the, i. 322, Malpighi 



— case of an abscess in, ii . 449, Tyson 



— human, apparently glandulous, iii. 248, Brown 



— imposthumation of, vii. 500, Short 



— cystis in, full of water, ix. K 8, Jernegan 



— successful treatment of hepatitis, xii. 289, Smith 



Lizard, scaly [manis pentadactyla] account of the, xiii. 8, 



Hampe 



— see Lacerta. 



Lloyd, Edward, paper of asbestos found in Wales, iii. 105 

 Lloyd, George, fall of rain near Manchester and Leeds, 

 1765-9, and 1772 to 7, xiv. 391 ; 1778-1781, xv. 193 



