SHE 



INDEX. 



SHO 



93 



Semen, single nature of, i. 271 , De Graaf 



— on the course of, i. 303, Note 



— animals in sem. masc, ii. 451, 473, iv. 419, 541, 668, 



Leuwenhoek 



— nature of spermatic animals, ix. 608, Needham 



— observations on the passage of, x. 9j Haller 



— see Generation. 



Seminal vessels (see Vasa Deferentia ; Generation, fyc.) 

 Senegal, account of, and of a putrid disorder at, xiv. 713, 



Schotte 

 Senckenberg, C. H., analysis of Cheltenham water, viii. 523 

 Senex, John, biograph. notice, viii. 17 6, Note 



— account of his celestial globe, ibid 



Senex, Mrs., letter recommending her husband's globes, 



ix. 700 



Sennertus, biograph. notice of, ii. 237> Note 



Sense, on the organs of, viii. 6l9, Le Cat 



Septali, Manfredi, on rinding quicksilver at the roots of 



plants; and shells on inland mountains, i. 173 

 Sepulchral inscrip., found at Bonn, 1755, xii. 633, Strange 

 Sepulchral monuments, see Monuments. 

 Serapis, descrip. of the temple of, at Pozzuoli, xi. 106, Nixon 

 Series, general method of infinite, x. 127, Simpson 



— on infinite series and logarithms, x. 397, Dodson 



— to determine the distinct sums of a, xi. 278, . . Simpson 



— new method of computing, xi. 441, Landen 



■ — of certain infinite series, xii. 14, Bayer 



— to find quickly-converging series, xiv. 84, Hutton 



— of an infinite series of decreasing quantities, xiv. 131, 



Maseres 



— on very slowly converging series, xiv. 451, Same 



— on the sums of infinite series, xv. 309, Vince 



— summation of series, xv. 586, Waring 



— on infinite series, xvi. 6l, xvii. 43, Same 



— new method of investigating the sums of, xvii. 78, Vince 

 computing the value of slowly-converging 



series, xviii. 312, Heliins 



— to obtain swiftly-converging series, xviii. 408, .... Same 



— summation of slowly-con verg. series, xviii. 415, 599, Same 

 Serpents, of the capra (or cobra) capella, i. 307, • . Vernati 



— of the boa constrictor at Congo, ii. 434 



— symptoms attending the bite of, iv. 311, .... Goodyear 



— of two serpents of Ceylon, iv. 650, Strachan 



— to distinguish those which are venomous, xvi. 523, Gray 



— see Vipers, Snakes, Rattlesnakes. 



Serpent-stone, of the pietra de cobra cabelos, or rhinoceros 

 bezoar; its virtues and how produced, ix. 655, Sloane 



Serra, Correa de, on the fructification of submersed algae, 

 xviii. 68 



— a submarine forest on the coast of England, xviii. 479 

 Serum, see Blood. 



Sewell, Rev. Wm., demonstration of Newton's binomial 



theorem, xviii. 33 

 Sex, regularity in the number of males and females born, 



v. 606, Arbuthnot 



Sex of plants, see Plants. 



Shark, account of the blue shark, xiv. 423, Watson 



Sharp, Abraham, biographical account of, v. 294, . . Note 

 Sharp, Samuel, biographical notice of, x. 357, Note 



— method of opening the cornea of the eye, ibid, and 414 



— experiments on the agaric of oak for haemorrhage, x. 479 

 Sharp, Wm., a new instrument for fractured legs, xii. 391 

 Shaw, Rev. Thos., biographical account of, vii. 364, Note 



— geographical description of Tunis, ibid 



Sheep, of a lamb suckled by a wether, iii. 678, Kirke 



— a horn growing from the throat of a, x. 601, Parsons 



Sheerman, Bazaleel, extraordinary surgical cases, viii. 326 

 Sheldrake, Timothy, of a monstrous child, viii. 401 



Sheldrake, Timothy, steel-yard swing for curing deformities, 



viii. 549 

 Shells, found on inland mountains, i. 173, Septali 



— remarks on fossil shells, i. 645, Lister 



— answers to queries respecting, iii. 501, Same 



— found in the East Indies, iii. 573, Witzen 



— petrifactions of marine shells, &c, iv. 66, Scilla 



— observed in Scotland, iv. Ill, Sibbald 



— from the Isle Ascension, cata. of, iv. 418, Cunninghame 



— of a bed of oyster shells in Berkshire, iv. 471, • • Brewer 



— fossil fish, in a quarry in Lincoln., iv. 521, De la Pryme 



— fossil shells at Harwich Cliff, v. 1 24, Dale 



— fossil shells, &c. in Northamptonshire, v. 284, Morton 



— a methodical table of, vii. 629, Brayne 



— on Le Bruyn's account of petrif. oysters, viii. 455, Klein 



— remarks on the hardness of, ix. 15, Collinson 



— of crabs, on the casting of, x. 254, Parsons 



— of some minute British shells, xvi. 80, Lightfoot 



— analytical experts, on shells, xviii. 554, Hatchett 



Shell-fish, on the copula, of the pholas kind, iii. 107, Lister 



— pholas dactylus lodged in a stone, ix. 439, • • . . Parsons 



— description of the pholas conoides, xii. 174, Same 



— see Barnacles, Cancer, Crab, Muscles, Pholas, Scallop. 

 Shepherd, Samuel, of an explosion in the air, viii. 384 

 Sherrard, Wm., m.d., biographical account of, vi. 314, Note 



— several sorts of China varnish, iv. 482 



— of a new-raised island in the Archipelago, v. 407 



— description of the genus Araliastrum, vi. 314 



— of the poison-wood tree of New England, vi. 508 

 Sherburne, Edward, biographical notice of, ii. 185, . . Note 

 Sherman, B., extraordinary case of costiveness, r. 247 



— bones of a calf taken from the cow's uterus, v. 532 



— part of the os femoris supplied by a natural callus, ibid 



— three unusual surgical cases, viii. 326 



Sherwood, Noah, remarkable stones from the kidneys, 



viii. 462 

 Sherwood, James, eels of paste, viviparous, ix. 202 

 Shervington, W. transit of Mercury over the sun,1753, x. 414 



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



Shield, materials and forma, of a Roman, iv. 279, Thoresby 

 Shining fish, observations and exper. on, i. 75, Beale 



i. 211, Boyle 



Shining wood compared with burning coal, i. 215, . . Same 



Shining flesh, remarks on, ii. 31, Same 



ii. 294, Beale 



— on light emitted from various bodies, xviii, 630, Hulme 

 Ships, to preserve from being worm-eaten, i. 65, ii. 123 



— progress of naval architecture, i. 650, Witsen 



— of ancient shipping, i. 678, Meibomius 



— method of rowing in a calm, vi. 545, Du Quet 



— method of bending planks for, vi. 577 > Cay 



— to stop the leakage of worm-eaten bottoms, ix. 125, Cook 



— method of protecting from lightning, xi. 660, . . Watson 



— method of preserving stranded ships, xiv. 625, Bernard 



— propositions for determining the stability of, xvii. 682, 



xviii. 315, Atwood 



— see Navigation. 



Shipton, John, excision of part of a dog's intestines, v. 4 



— successlul use of bark in mortifications, vii. 574 

 Shipton, Sir Philip, bones of a foetus voided through the 



groin, v. 246 

 Shipwreck, effects of, on the mariners, xvii. 193 

 Shirley, Thos., of a well taking fire at a candle, i. 169 

 Short, James, biographical account of, xi. 649, Note 



— aurora borealis 1736, viii. 412 



— observations of meteoric lights 1737, viii. 460 



— solar eclipse, Dec. 1739, viii. 470, July 1748, ix. 591 ; 



April 1764, xii. 112 



