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Royal Society, opinion of the committee on the shape of 

 lightning-conductors, xiii. 3S2 



— meteorological journal, 1774-, xiii. 6l5; 1775, xiv. 43; 



1776, 179; 1777,391; 1778, 521; 1779, 682; 

 1780, xv. 87 ; 1781, 277; 1788, xvi. 556; 1789, 

 652; 1790, xvii.38; 1791, 192; 1792, 306; 1793, 

 389; 1794, 53^; 1795,752; 1796, xvm. 138; 1797, 

 315; 1798, 485; 1799, 666 



descrip. of the meteorol. instruments, xiv. 49, Cavendish 



report of the commit, on the use of thermoms. xiv. 258 



on an accident by lightning at 



Purfleet, xiv. 333 



— donation by C. Rumford for a prize medal, xviii. 137 

 Ruby, table of the specific gravities of, xviii. 377 



Rudbeck, Olaus, biographical notice of, i. 247, Note 



Ruminating man, account of a, iii. 457, Slare 



Rumford, Count, experiments on gun-powder, xv. 88 



— new thermometrical experiments, xvi. 108 



— product, of dephlogisticated air from water, xvi. 198 



— relative absorption of moisture from the atmosphere by 



different substances, xvi. 260 



— on the conducting powers of substances, xvii. 135 



— method of finding the comparative intensities of light 



from luminous bodies, xvii. 359 



— on the transparency of flame, xvii. 373 



— experiments on coloured shadows, xvii. 374 



— on the loss of light in passing through glass, xvii. 368 



— superiority of Argand's to common lamps, xvii. 370 

 lamp to a candle, xvii. 371 



— fluctuations of light from candles, ibid 



— relative quantities of light from wax, tallow, and oils, 



xvii. 372 



— donation to u. s. for a prize medal, xviii. 137 



— experiments on the force of fired gunpowder, xviii. 140 



— loss of his private papers and philosophical memoranda, 



xviii. 155, Note 



— on the source of heat excited by friction, xviii. 278 



— on the chemical properties of light, xviii. 378 



— on the weight ascribed to heat, xviii. 4y6* 



Runic characters, of Helsingland, explanation of, viii. 114, 



Ctlsius 

 Rupture, of a large umbilical, vii. 513, Ranby 



— dissection for an inguinal, with a pin found in the ap- 



pendix caeci, viii. 89 Amyand 



— an extraordinary inguinal, viii. 474, Huxham 



— consequences of an incomplete hernia, viii. 497, Le Cat 



— case of a navel rupture, ix. 41, Taube 



— cases of hernias with sacks, x. 221, Le Cat 



— dissection of a, x. 227, Same 



— of an uncommon large hernia, xii. 295, Carlisle 



— see Bubonocele. 



Russel, Alex., m. d., biographical account of, x. 667, Note 



— account of four undescribed fishes, ibid 



— description of an ascidia pedunculata, xi. 635 



Russel, Patrick, biographical account of, xvi. 653, . . Note 



— of earthquakes in Syria, xi. 437 



— practice of inoculation in Arabia, xii. 529 



— account of the drug tabasheer, xvi. 653 



Russel, Rich., of a scirrhous tumour in a cyst'13, vi. 73 



Rusma, Turkish, manufacture and use of, iv. 304 



Russia, Russian Asiatic discoveries, ix. 320, Euler 



— antiseptic regimen of the natives of, xiv. 395, . . Guthrie 



— treatment of persons afftcted by fumes of charcoal, xiv. 



522, Same 



Rutherford, Thomas, d. d., agitation of the waters, 1755, 



Herts, xi. l6 

 Rutty, John, m. d., on the poison of laurel- water, viii. 297 



— copper springs in Pensylvania, xi. 3 



Rutty, John, m.d., differ, impreg. of mineral waters, xi.395 



— of the Amlwch waters, and Hartsell Spa, xi. 429 

 Rutty, Wm., m. d., cloven spine with a tumour, vi. 4S7 



— of a bony substance in the thorax, vii. 159 



— tumours of the abdomen, vii. 277 



— method of making tin plates, vii. 304 



Ruysch, Fred., m. d., biographical account of, iv. 229, Note 

 Rye, disorder from using a bad sort in France, ii. 357 



— see Ergot, Corn. 



Rycaut, Sir Paul, of sable mice from Lapland, iv. 36l 



Saccheti, John Mendes, m. d., effects of the earthquake at 



Lisbon, November 1, 1755, x. 659 

 Sackette, Rev. John, subsiding of the earth in Kent, vi. 252 



Saffron, culture and ordering of, ii. 423, Howard 



; vii. 278, Douglas 



Sails, best form of, for mills and ships, ii. 509, Hook 



Saint Clair,, Robert, m.d., eruption of fire from the earth 



in Italy, iv. 320 



— a lamp invented to preserve the wick, iv. 320 

 Saint, J. O., of the arcuccios used in Italy, vii. 528 

 Saint Helena, see Helena. 



Saint Paul's, see Lightning. 



Salamander, account of an Indian, i. 141, Steno; thelacerta 



salamandria described, ibid, Notes 



Salep, a new method of preparing, xii. 589, Moult 



Salien, Mr., case of a stone cut from the bladder, viii. 241 

 Saliva, remarks on the salivary vessels, iii. 86, . . Bartholine 



— a new salivary duct, iii. 241, Nuck 



— account of the salivary glands, &c, vi. 445, Hale 



— of an unusual colour, vii. 19, . . Hale 



Sal ammoniac, collected near mount iEtna, ii. 118 



— production of cold with, ii. 654, Slare 



— natural, from mount Vesuvius, iv. 508, Silvestre 



— method of making in Egypt, xi. 433, Hasselquist 



Sal montis Vesuvii, how produced, iv. 507, Silvestre 



Salmasius, CI., biographical account of, i. 343, Note 



Salmon, Rev. Thomas, theory of music reduced to propor- 

 tions, v. 243 



Salt, a method of separating from salt water, i. 45 



— strange propensity in a girl to eat it, i. 49, . . Oldenburg 



— process of making sea salt by the sun in France, i. 382 



— a natural rock of, in Cheshire, i. 539, Martindale 



— and sand from brine, formation of, ii. 589, Plott 



— crystallization of sea salt, iii. 1 1, Lister 



— way of ascertaining the quantity of in waters, iii. 496, Boyle 



— method of making in China, iv. 696, .... Cunninghame 



— quantity of, in frozen sea-water, viii. 514, .... Middleton 



— art of making in different countries, ix. 520, Brownrigg 



— of a salt found on the peak of Teneriffe, xii. 195,Heberden 

 Salts (chemistry) volatilization of salt of tartar, ii. 54, Coxe 



— a volatile salt from vegetables, ii. 124, Becke 



— fixed salts from vegetables, alike, ii. 158, 1 66, .. Coxe 



— of a salt from coal, ii. 359, Hodgson 



— distillation of fresh water from salt, iii. 1 1 



— figures of salts from wines, cScc, iii. 146, 592, Leuwenhoek 

 mineral and other substances, iii. 186, Same 



— table of salts from various vegetables, iv. 301, .... Redi 



— quantity of acid salt in acid spirits, iv. 483, . . Homberg 



— from tobacco leaves, v. 1 62, Leuwenhoek 



— from calcined hay, v. 193, Same 



— alkaline, from rotten wood, vi. 499, Robie 



— experiments on Epsom salts, vi. 662, Brown 



— analysis of Seignette's Rochcllc salt, viii. 10, . . Geoffroy 



— distillation of sea- water by wood-ashes, xi. 243, Chapman 



— varieties of, from vegetable acids ; peculiar nature of the 



salt of amber, xii. 479, Monro 



