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INDEX. 



MAR 



Malpighi, Mar., death and dissection, iv. 151, Lancisi 



Malt, way of making in Scotland, ii. 469, Moray 



Malvern waters, efficacy of the, i. 131, Beale 



— instances of the efficacy of, xi. 68, Wall 



Mamithsa, of the Arabian drug so called, xii. 371, Canning 

 Mamiracun, an Arabian plant, description of, ibid, . . Same 

 Mammoth, bones of, dug up in Siberia, viii. 155, . . Breyne 



N. America, xii. 476, Collinson 



Man, two men of extraordinary weight, ix. 2l6, Knowlton 



— specific gravity of living men, xi. 71, Robertson 



— see Po/ulation. 



Mancel, Arnold, artifi. magnets without a loadstone, vii. 540 

 Manchenille apple, some account of, i. 231, Note 



— description of the, i'. 295, Norwood 



— poisonous effects of, xi. 284, Peyssonel 



Manchester, see Population. 



Mancini, C. A., convex spherical glasses on a plane, i. 298 

 Manfredi, Eustachius, biograph. account of, vii. 247, Note 



— solar eclipse at Bononia, viii. 306, ibid 



— eclipses of Jupiter's satellites 1727, vii. 265 



— occultation of Venus by the Moon 1727, ibid 



— lunar eclipse at Bologna, vii. 377 



— transit of Mercury at Bologna, viii. 149 



Manginot, Francis, m. d., an extraor. haemorrhage, iv. 547 

 Mangold, Matth, m. d., a mathematico-historic. table, ii. 320 

 Mango tree (Indian) account of, ill . 519 

 Mangostan, [garcinia mangost.] account of, vii. 631, Garcin 

 Mangrove [rhizophora] some account of, i. 230, . . Note 



Manilla, particulars of the island, x. 673, Pye 



Manis, description of the manis pentadactyla, xiii. 8 

 Mann, Theod., Aug., theory of rivers and canals, with a list 



of authors who have treated on the subject, xiv. 593 

 Manna, observations on, ix. 31, Fothergill 



— produced from a tree in Italy, x. 52, More ; method of 



collecting it, 53 



— descrip. of the tree [fraxinus ornus] xiii. 46, .... Cirillo 

 Mantegar, [simia mormon] description of, v. 108, . . Tyson 

 Manure, of sea shells, meth. of using, v. 403, Arch, of Dublin 



— of sea sand in Cornwall, ii. 206, Coxe 



■ in Devonshire, v. 432, Bury 



— of fossil shells, ix. 82, Pickering 



Manuscripts, of some Indian, sent to Oxford, iv. 334, Lewis 



— catalogues of, printed at Oxford, iv. 341 



— rules for judging the age of, &c, v. 227, Wanley 



— remarks on Greek surgical mss., v. 675, . . Schelhammer 



— to recover the legibility of decayed, xvi. 351, Blagden 



— a catalogue of oriental mss., xviii. 427, 563, .... Jones 

 Maple, sugar from the juice of, hi. iiS 



vi. 458, Dudley 



Marriotte, Abbe, biographical notice of, i. 243, Note 



— discovery respecting vision, i. 243; M. Pecquet's remarks 



on, i. 245; Marriotte's answer, 443 



— controversy with Perrault on vision, ii. 644 



Maps, sculptured in wood, account of, i. 37, Evelyn 



— of the variations of soil, proposals for, iii. 82, . . Lister 



— construction and use of spherical, viii. 6l, Colson 



— on the best form for, xi. 215, Murdock 



— dissert, on the construction of, xi. 218, . . . . Mountaine 

 Marble, a preparation for staining throughout, i. 44, Kircher 



— another method practised at Oxford, i. 44 



— method of colouring, iv. 533 



— a quarry of in Ireland, vi. 75, Nevill 



— on staining throughout, xi. 324, Da Costa 



— of a hot-spring in Tuscany depositing it, xiii. 10, Raspe 



Marcasite, efflorescence of, ii. 179, Lister 



Marcel, Arnold, to give magnetical virtue to iron without 



a load-stone, vii. 540 

 Marchetti, Sign., biographical account of, v. 310, ..Note 



Marchetti, anatomical observ. with Ray's remarks, ibid 

 Marhabuts, (Mahometan priests of Africa), account of the 



xv. 348, Note Schotte, 



Marl, of the strata found in digging, vii. 155, .... Kelly 



— on different sorts in Staffordshire, xiii. 414, ..Withering 

 Marmot, (Mus Alpinus) dissection of, vii. 181, Scheuchzer 



— from Hudson's Bay, description of, xiii. 329, . . Forster 



Marrow, on the nature of, iii. 463, Havers 



Mars, observations on the planet, i. 65, Hook 



— phases and rotation of, i. 80, , Same 



— period of rotation ascertained, i. 81, Cassini 



— calculation of the parallax, ii. 34, Flamsteed 



— occulted by the moon, at Dantzic, ii. 349, .... Hevelius 



Greenwich, ii. 350, Flamsteed 



Oxford, ibid, Halley 



— transit over a star in Scorpio, vi. 271 



— occultation by the moon, Toulon, vii. 144, .. ..Laval 

 ■ London, viii. 14S, Graham and Bevis 



Pekin, x. 2, Hallerstein 



— conjunction with Venus, Pekin, x 3, Same 



ibid, Gaubil 



— eclipse by the moon, London, x. 408, . . Bevis and Short 



— parallax of, x. 455, Delisle 



— figure, appearance, &c, of, xv. 531, Herschel 



— heliocentric longitude, &c. of, xvi. 621, Bugge 



Marsden,W„ extraor. drought at Sumatra, &phenom. xv. 127 



— on the Mahometan Hejera, xvi. 510 



— on the Hindoo chronology, xvi. 7^2 



Marshal, (Earl, of England) of the diamond mines, ii. 405 

 Marshall, Humphrey, on the solar spots, xiii. 329 

 Marshall, John, religion, notions, customs, <N:c. of the 



Bramins, iv. 53± 

 Marshall, Wm, of the black canker-caterpillar, xv. 386 

 Marsham, Robt., on the growth of trees, xi. 320, xviii. 100 



— fruitfulness of trees increased by washing their stems, 



xiv. 124, xv. 138 



— indications of spring for several years, xvi. 56l 

 Marshes, noxiousness of the effluvia of, xiii. 502, Priestley 



— proofs of the insalubrity of, xiii. 505, Price 



Marsigli, Count Louis, biograph. account of, iv. 307, Note 

 Marsupiale Americanum, see Opossum. 



Martel, M. de, on longevity, and observations in the south 



of France, i. 433 

 Marten, description of the Pine marten, xiii. 327, Forster 

 Martin, see Swa/lows. 



Martin, Fleming, heat of the climate at Bengal, xii. 423 

 Martin, Martin, observ. in the Western Isles, iv. 212 



— of a deaf and dumb person who recovered his speech, &c. 



after a fever, v. 379 

 Martin, W. an extraneous body forced into the lungs, xii. 188 

 Martindale, Adam, rock of salt in Cheshire, i. 539 



— twelve problems in compound interest, ii. 482 

 Martineau, David, stones voided by stool, vi. 677 

 Martineau, Phil Meadows, a dropsy of the ovarium, xv. 62"> 

 Martyn, John, biograph. account of, vii. 321, Note 



— obser. at the Peak, in Derbyshire, vii. 331 



— account of the lead mines, Derbyshire, vii. 333 



— a purging spring at Dulwich, viii. 52 J 



— an aurora australis, March 1739, viii. 525 



— a new species of fungus, ix. 99 



— aurora australis, at Chelsea, 1 749 50, x. 3 

 Borealis, 1750, x. 12 



— on the sex of Holly, x. 486 

 Martyn, Geo., w. d., operation of bronchotomy, vii. 438 

 Maryland, animals, plants, &e. from, iv. 324, .... Petiver 



— topography, and nat. hist, of iv. 460, Jones 



Masercs, Francis, Esq., on an infinite series of decreasing 



quantities, xiv. 131 



