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INDEX. 



NE W 



Myopes, use of telescopes without eye-glasses, vi. 424, 



Desaguliers 

 Myrrh, observations on that from Abyssinia, xiii. 672 



N 

 Nadi, Jos. Anthony, solar eclipse, 1718, at Bologna, vii 21 

 Naevus Maternus, an extraordinary, vii. 100,.. Steigerthall 

 Nairne, Edward, equatorial portable observatory, xiii. 104 



— experiments on dipping needles, xiii. 360 



— electrical experiments, xiii. 498 



specific gravity of water from sea-ice ; and on the freez- 

 ing of sea-water, xiv. 35 



— experiments on Smeaton's and other air-pumps, xiv. 220 



— advantage of pointed lightning-conductors, xiv. 426 



— effect of electricity in shortening wire, xiv. 688, xv. 388 

 Naisb, Edward, ossification of the crural artery, vi. 539 

 Napellus, case of a man poisoned by, vii. 642, .... Bacon 

 Naphtha, a sort of, found in Italy, i. 672 



— combustibility of, ii 168 

 Nardus Indica, see Spikenard. 

 Narhwal, see Unkorn-Jish. 



Natron, and nitre, account of, iii. 50, Leigh 



— a pure native sort, in Tripoli, xiii. 21 6, Monro 



Natural History, heads for the natural history of a country, 



i. 63, Boyle 



— observs. of nat. hist, in Wales, v. 676, 677, 693, Lhwyd 



Ireland, v. 694, 700, Same 



Wales and Scotland,vi.l9,73,Same 



■ Yorkshire, vi. 45, . . Richardson 



New England, vi. 85, . .Mather 



Natus, Peter, an orange grafted on a citron stock, ii. 213 

 Navel, of a foetus voided from the, iv. 173, Brodie 



— another case of the same, iv. 6*34, Birbeck 



— a rupture of the, ix. 41, Taube 



Navigation, problems in, i. 69, Mercator 



— outlines for a complete treatise on, iii. 511, Petty 



— machine for measuring a ship's way, vii. 126, 338, 



Saumarez 



— sounding depths, ix. 228, Cock 



— measuring a ship's way, x. 457, Smeaton 



— chief prob. in nautical astronomy xviii. 95, Mendoza Rios 



— see Ships. 



Nautilites, descrip. of a fossil nautilus, ix. 510,. . Lyttleton 



ix. 632, .... Baker 



Neagb, see Lough Neagh. 



Neale, Thomas, sad effect of thunder and lightning, i. 84 



Nebulae, account of, vi. 205, Halley 



— appearance of the nebulous stars, vii. 602, .... Derham 



— a nebula in Coma Berenices, xv. 37, Pigot 



— observations of 1000 new nebulae, xvi. 158, 586,Herschel 



— on the nature of nebulous stars, xvii. 18, Same 



Neck, see Tumours, 



Needham, John, part of the intestines cut out, x. 6l2 

 Needham, Walter, m. d., biog. notice of, i. 177, ..Note 



— on the human and animal foetus, i. 183 



— on the pretended discovery of a communication between 



the thoracic duct and the emulgent vein, i. 736 

 Needham, Turberville, of the chalk called malm, viii. 729 



— observ. on the farina of the red lily, viii. 731 



— worms discovered in smutty corn, viii. 732 



— electrical experts, by M. Le Monnier, ix. 262 



— description of Buffon's burning mirror, ix. 344 



— generation, composition, and decomposition of animal 



and vegetable substances, ix. 604 



— on the nature of asbestos, xi. 494 



Needle, thrust into the arm came out at the breast, viii. 504 

 Needle, (magnetic) on the inclination of the, ii. 78, Bond 



Needle (magnetic) tendency to iron held perpendicular at 

 the Line, iii. 232 



— observations made near the Cape, iv. 500, Cunninghame 



— variation of the horizontal needle, 1723, vii. 27, Graham 



— observ. in London on the dipping needle, vii. 94, Same 



— unusual agitation of, vii. 463, Hoxton 



— affected by the cold, viii. 224, Middleton 



— declination at Churchill river, viii. 597, Same 



— obs. of the dip in the South sea, xiii. 177, Green & Cook 



— on dipping needles made byMr.Mitchell, xiii 36o,Nairne 



— of a new dipping needle, xiii. 593, Lorimer 



— expts.on the dipping needle, xiii. 6l3, xiv.22, Hutchins 



— descrip. of the dipping needle used by the r. s., xiv. 56, 



Cavendish 



— obs. of the dip in London for sev. years, xiv. 58, Same 



— new suspension of the needle, xiv. 589, Ingenhousz 

 xvii. 142, ...Bennet 



— see Magnet. 

 Negroes, remark on the colour of, ii. 229, Towns 



— of a spotted negro, iv. 221, Byrd 



— change of colour in a negro-woman, xi. 370, .... Bate 



— instances of white negroes, xii. 190, Parsons 



Neil, Wm. biographical notice of, ii. 1 12, Note 



— the inventor of a right line equal to a curve, ii. 112 

 Nelson, Jos. effects of a storm of thunder and lightn. v.432 

 Nephrotomy, case of successful practice 'of, iv. 116 



— remark on the danger of attempting, iv. 117, ... . Note 

 Nerves, micros, observations on the optc nerve, ii. 222 • 



i'i. 591, Leuwenhoek 



— existence of a fluid in the, vii. 550, Stuart 



— on the action of, vii. 578, Same 



— experts, on the nerves and their reproduction, xvii. 512, 



Cruikshank 



— experiments on their reproduction, xvii. 519, Haighton 



— observations on the structure of, xviii. 430, .... Home 

 Nesbitt, Robt., m. d., of a subterraneous fire, vii. 195 

 Nests, curious wasps' nests of Pennsylvania, ix. 123, Bartram 



— descrip. of an American wasp's-nest, x. 607, Mauduit 

 Nettis, John, configurations of snow particles, xi. 1 

 Nettleton, Thos., m. d., of inoculation in Yorks.vi. 564,568 



— mortality of the natural small-pox compared with the 



inoculated, vi. 608 



— height of the mercury at different elevations, vii. 86 

 Newman, Caspar, biograph. account of, vii. 93, .... Note 



— distillation of camphor from thyme, vii. 93, 631, 



— proving of French Brandy, vii. 120 



— on fixed alkaline salts, vii. 128, 132 



— nature and properties of ambergris, vii. 660, 668 

 Neve Peter Le, urns dug up in Norfolk, vi. 65 



— sinking of oaks in the ground, vi. 348 



— an aurora australis March 1739, viii. 526 



Neve, Rev. Tim. parhelia and aurora borealis, viii. 135 

 Nevill, Francis, ancient urns, &c. in Ireland, vi. 63 



— observations on Lough Neagh, vi. 67 



— ancient trumpets, &c. found in Ireland, vi. 71 



— of a marble quarry in Ireland, vi. 75 



— of large teeth dug up in Ireland, vi. 199 



New England, of destructive insects at, i. 49., .... Winthrop 



— observations on the natural history of, iv. 267, Bullivant 



vi. 85, . . Mather 



— progress of cullivation at, vii. 57> Dudley 



New Holland, on the natural history of, iv. 3 J 6, . . Witsen 

 Newland, Chas., chart of the red sea, xiii. 286 



— remarks on a journey to Judda and Mocha, xiii. 287 



— method of distilling fresh from salt water, xiii. 289 



— cause of white spots in the Eastern sea, xiii. 290 

 Newman, Henry, of inoculation in New-England, vi. 563 

 Newton, Jas-, effects of the chelidonium glaucium, iv. 295 



