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INDEX. 



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Note 



Note 



Portland, Isle of, damage done in 1696, iv. 198, Southwell 



Potash, preparation and uses of, ix. 572, Mitchell 



Pott, Percival, biographical account of, viii. 46*4, .... Note 



— of tumours which rendered the bones soft, ibid 



— on a hernia of the urinary bladder, xii. 100 

 Potter, Rev. John, biographical account of, iv. l6l, . 

 Pouhon water, see Waters, (mineral and medicinal) 

 Pound, Rev. Jas., astronomical observ.,vi. 212, 264 



— motion of the satellites of Saturn, vi. 349 



— lunar eclipse, August 1718, at Wansted, vi. 373 



— transit of Jupiter's 4th sat. over his disk, vi. 386 



— tables for eclipses of Jupiter's 1st satellites, vi. 426 



— astronomical observations, vi. 442 



— observations with Hadley's telescope, vi. 664 

 Poupart, Francis, biographical account of, iv. 209, . . 



— anatomy of the leech, ibid 



— description of the libella, iv. 519 



— effects of a dreadful scurvy at Paris, l699> *• 454 

 Povey, Thos., transmutation of copper into brass, iii. 535 

 Powder, of a sort for improving cast metal, ii. 68 

 Powell, John, case of hair voided with the urine, viii. 489 

 Powle, Henry, iron works in the forest of Dean, ii. 418 

 Precipitations (Chemistry) of metals, by each other, from 



vitriolic acid, xv. 341, Kirwan 



Pregnancy, case of a seeming, but false, iii. 176,. . . . Cole 



— force of imagination in, iii. 375, Ash 



— cure of a fractured arm, retarded by, x. 28, .... Barde 

 Preservation of bodies, see Putrefaction. 



Piessure, of weights on moving machines, x. 558, . . . Hee 



— see Water, Gravity, &c. 



Prestet, John, biographical account of, ii. 307, Note 



Preston, Charles, m. d., of a stone inside the bladder ad- 

 hering to one on the outside, iv. 109 



— dissect, of a dropsical patient ; causes of dropsy, iv. 114 



— dissection of a boy who died suddenly, iv. 122 



— of the interior structure of fish, iv. 138 



— of a child born alive without a brain, iv. 149 

 Preston, Thomas, account of the Island Shetland, ix. 44 

 Prevost, P., reflexibility of the rays of light, xviii. 320 

 Price, Charles, on the stomachs of oxen, vii. 264 



Price, Richard, d. d., biograph. account of, xii. 160, Note 



— on the expectations of lives, &c. xii. 6ll 



— on the values of reversions, xiii. 50 



— effect of the aberration of light in observing a transit of 



Venus, xiii. 89 



— insalubrity of marshy situations, xiii. 505 



— different duration of life in towns and villages, xiii. 679 



— differ, value of annuities, payable at differ, periods, xiv. 5 



— the mortality of males greater than of females, xvi. 122 



Prickle-back (fish) observations on, ix. 322, Arderon 



Priestley, Joseph, ll. d., biog. account of, xii. 510, Note 



— prismatic colours caused by electrical explosions, ibid 



— lateral force of electric explosions, xii. 600 



— general experiments on electric explosions, xii. 603 



— investigation of the lateral electric explosion, xiii. 36 



— experiments on charcoal, xiii. 45 



— observations on different kinds of air, xiii. 313, 666 



— account of Mr. Henley's electrometer, xiii. 323 



— noxiousness of the effluvia of putrid marshes, xiii 



— on respiration and the use of blood, xiv. 34 



— an experiment relating to phlogiston, xv. 453 



— experiments and observations on air and water, xv. 



— on the composition of water, the principle of acidity ; 



and on phlogiston, xvi. 419, 473, 518 



— phlogistication of spirit of nitre, xvi. 557 



— transmis. of vapour of acids through hot tubes, xvi. 602 



— experiments on phlogiston, xvi. 604 



502 



703 



Priestley, Jossph, ll. p., on the air of respiration, xvi. 647 



— decomp. of dephlogisticated and inflammable air, xvii. 55 

 Prince, Rev-, unusual agitation of the sea, 1756, xi. 1 

 Pringle, Sir John, >i. v., biographical account of, x. 57. 



xiv. 284, Note 



— of substances resisting putrefaction, ibid, 73 



— further expers., and on promoting putrefaction, x. 84 



— of the jail fever in Newgate, x. 318 



— case of the flexibility and dissolution of bones, x. 406 



— agitation of the waters atTunbridge, 1755, x. 649 



— earthquakes at Brussels 1755-6 y x. 695 



— agitat. of the waters in Scotland and Hamburgh, x. 697 



— efficacy of soap and lime-water in the stone, xi. 115. 122 

 soap in the stone, x. 122 



— a fiery meteor seen in various parts of Britain, Nov. 



1758, xi. 377 



— remarks on the above observations, xi. 388 



Printing, when and by whom invented, v. 50, Ellis 



— account of the invention of, and anecdotes, v. 80 



— essay on the invention of, v. 350, . . Bagford 



— in imitation of painting, of Le Blon's method, vii. 477, 



Mortimer 



— first permission of, at Constantinople, vii. 556, . . Eames 



— approach of the Romans to the art of viii. 248, Mortimer 



— discouragement of, at Constantinople, x. 583,. . Parsons 

 Problems, solution of three astronomic, xiii. 348,Pemberton 

 Proby, Thos., extraction of an ivory bodkin from the blad- 

 der, iv. 46'8 



Projectiles, problems on the motion of, iii. 265,. . . . Halley 



— on the parabolic motion of, vi. 510, Taylor 



— their motion near the earth's surface, ix. 464, Simpson 

 Propagation, effect of extirpating one ovarium on the power 



of, xvi. 2.36, Hunter 



Proportion, laws of proportional magnitudes, xiv. 183,Glenie 

 Protea argentea, (silver pine) account of, iii. 513, .. Sloane 

 Prussian blue, see Blue. 



Ptarmigan, on the nat. history of the, xiii. 433, Barrington 

 Ptolemy, Claudius, biograph. account of, ii. 559, .... Note 

 Pryme, Abm. de la, Roman antiquities in Lincoln., iv. 494 



— fossil shells and fishes, iv. 521 



— of subterraneous trees and the cause, iv. 624, 645 



— experiments on vegetation, iv. 6'97 



— a water spout seen in Yorkshire, iv. 7^9 

 at Hatfield, v. 17 



Pudenda, see Generation 



Pulex, see Flea. 



Pullein, Rev. Sam., an improved silk reel, xi. 324 



— a species of silk- pod from America, xi. 332 

 Pulleyn, Octavian, inscriptions on an urn, iv. l65 

 Pulleys, experiments of the friction of, vii. 066, Desaguliers 



— new combination of, x. 278, Smeaton 

 Pulmonary vein, animals that have lungs without, ii. 69 



— structure of, and a polypus in, iv. 563, Cowper 



Pulse, on the variety and motion of iii. 169, • • Abercromby 

 Pulteney, Rich., m. d., biograph. account of, xi. 45, Note 



— of his catalogue of Leicestershire plants, ibid, ..Watson 



— on the night-shade [atropa belladonna] xi. 85 



— on the sleep of plants, xi. 197 



— case of an enlarged heart, and observations, xi. 585 



— medicinal effects of the cenanthe crocata, xiii. 357 



— births, deaths, at Blandford Forum for 40 year<, xiv. 395- 

 Pumice stone, micros, obsei vs., on, v. 266,. . Leuwenhoek 



— large shoal of at sea, vii. 234, Dove 



Pump, a cheap and useful one, ii 396, Coniers 



— account of the Hessian, ii. 154, Papin 



Punic, see Coins, Inscriptions. 



Purcell, J., m. d., a doable uterus and vagina, xiii, 572 



