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Short, James, lunar eclipse 1740, viii. 470} 1749. '*• 69s ; 

 1750, x. 11, 95; 1751,2205 1760, xi. 510 ; 176*2, 

 xi. 632 



— observation of a supposed satellite of Venus, viii. 476 



— description and use of an equatorial telescope, ix. 695 



— remarkable appearance in the moon 1751, x. 175 



— of Mr. Serson's horizontal top, x. 229 



— of the several inventions to remedy the irregularity of the 



pendulum arising from heat or cold, x. 283 



— account of Frisi's work on the earth, x. 305 



— of Savery's improved micrometer, x. 359 



— transit of Mercury over the sun 1753, x. 370 



— colour of the rays of light from Jupiter, x. 393 



— remarks on Euler's theorem on the aberations of tele- 



scopic glasses, x. 401 



— astronomical observations in London 1753, x. 408 



— observations on a transit of Mercury, x. 426 



■■ the comet seen January 176O, xi. 428 



— transit of Venus over the sun, June 1761, xi. 553 



— on observations of the going of a pendulum clock, xi. 631 



— determination of the sun's parallax, xi. 649, xu - 22 



— - difference of longitude of Greenwich and Paris, xi. 713 



— solar parallax deduced from a transit of Venus, xii. 157 



— state of the thermometer Jan. 1740 and 1768, xii. 508 



— method of working glasses of refracting telescopes truly 



spherical, xii. 69 1 

 Short, Thomas, m. d., imposthumation of the liver, vii 500 



— account of several meteors, viii. 469 



— of an extraordinary dropsy, viii. 607 



Short-hand, elements of, ix. 51 6, Jeake 



— remarks on Mr. Jeake's plan, ix. 530, Byrom 



Lod wick's plan, ix. 534, Same 



Shoulder, see Os Humei i. 



Shrew (quadruped) 2 species of, from Hudson's Bay,xiii. 330 



Forster 



Shrike (bird) from Hudson's Bay, xiii. 332, Forster 



Shrine, of Croyland Abbey, account of, ix. 590, .. . Stukely 

 Shuckburgh, Sir George, biograph. account, xiv. 203, Note 



— barometrical measurement of heights in Savoy, xiv. 203 



— comparison of his rules for measuring heights by the 



barometer, with those of Col. Roy, xiv. 405 



— variation of the heat of boiling water, xiv. 537 



— history of the invention of equatorial instruments and 



description of his own, xvii. 299 

 — - endeav. to fix a standard of weight & measure, xviii. 300 



— table ofdeprec. of money since the Conquest, xviii. 309 

 Shuldham, Molyneux, on the sea cow, xiii. 643 



Siam, longitude of, iii. 346 



Sibbald, Sir Robert, biographical notice of, iii. 599, • • Note 



— description of shells found in Scotland, iv. Ill 



— stones voided by a boy, iv. 295 



— curiosities, and literary information from Scotland, iv. 526 



— description of the pediculus ceti, [lepas diadema,] v. 317 

 Siberia, geological and botan. ace. of, ix. 491 j x. 351,Gmelin 



— comparison of thermometrical observ. at, x. 344, Watson 



Sickness, an uncommon case of, ii. 90, » . . . . Kirk by 



Sidon, Phenician numerals used at, xi. 291, Swinton 



Sight, help for decayed sight, by tubulous spect. i. 266, 275 

 short-sightedness, ii. 508, Hook 



— case of a partial sight, vii. 44, Vater 



— restored after 13 years j observ. in consequence ; vii. 235 



Cheselden 



— a new case in squinting, xiv. 297, Darwin 



— observations on squinting, xviii. 80, Home 



— a remarkable imperfection of, xvi. 394, Scott 



— see Eye, Vision, Microscope, Telescope. 



Sigorgne, P. de, impossib. of the Cartesian Vortices, viii. 424 

 fcilchester, descrip. of the ancient town of, ix. 86, 599, Ward 



Silk, average length of, in the pod or ball, i. 32, .... Note 



— nature and qualities of, iv. 380, Aglionby 



— account of the first discovery and use of, v. 542,. . . . Bon 



— experiments on the silk of spiders, ibid, Same 



— production of from worms in England, vi. 426, Bartram 

 Silk-pod, of a particular sort, from America, xi. 332, Pullein 

 Silk-worms, on the management of, i. 12, Digges 



— on the same, i. 30$ their generation, i. 32, Isnard 



— on the structure, growth, food, &c„ of, i. 367, Malpighi 

 Silvabelle, St. Jacques, precession of the equinoxes, motion 



of the nodes, &c, x. 436 

 Silver, of the mines in Hungary, i. 441, Brown 



— micros, observ. on the solution of, v. 56, . . Leuwenhoek 



— shape of the particles of, dissolved in aquafortis, v. '368, 



Magliabechi 



v. 549, Leuwenhoek 



170 



Note 



— precipitation of, from nitrous acid by iron, xvi. 703, Keir 

 Silvestre, P., m, d., ace. of some new books in Italy, iv. 504 



— state of learning in Italy, iv. 506 



— dissection of a woman dead in child-bed, iv. 560 

 Simmons Samuel Foart, m. d., stones voided through a fis- 

 tulous sore in the loins, xiii. 507 



Simon, James, bones of a fcetus voided per anum, ix. 



— mineral productions in Ireland, ix. 17 1 



— petrifactions of Lough Neagh, ix. 282 



— register of the weather at Dublin, 1752-3, x. 414 



— journal of the weather at Dublin, 1753-5, xi. 41 

 Simpson, Thomas, biographical account of, ix. 464, . 



— motion of projectiles near the earth's surface, ibid. 



— on fluents of multinomials, ix. 513 



— general method of infinite series, x. 127 



— resolution of isoperimetrical problems, x. 560 j xi. 238 



— advantage of taking means in astronom. observ. x. 579 



— horary alteration of the earth's equator from the attrac- 



tion of the sun and moon, xi. 170 



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

 Simson, Robert, ll. d., biograph. account of, vi. 659, Note 



— two propositions from Pappus of Alexandria, ibid. 



— on converging fractions, x. 430 



Sinai, journey to the written mount, in, xii. 278, Montagu 

 Sinclar, George, biographical account of, i. 380, .... Note 

 Sinclair, John, a delineating machine, ii. 85 

 Sinking, of part of a hill in Ireland, vi. 69, Bp. of Clogher 



— of the earth in Kent, v. 352, Sackette ; further particu- 



lars, xvi. 91, Lyon 



— of trees in die ground, vi. 348, Neve 



— of the ground in Kent, vii. 273 



near Auvergne, viii . 376, M. T. 



— a piece of ground in Norfolk, ix. 169, Arderon 



Siphon, similar in effect to that of Wurtemb. iii. Ill, Davis 



— similar to that of Wurtemburg, iii. 112, Papin 



— account of that of Wurtemburg, iii. 249, Reisil 



Siren lacertina, description of, xii. 322, Ellis 



— — — • anatomy of, xii. 360, Hunter 



Sirius, parallax and magnitude of, vi. 443, Halley 



— on discovering the annual parallax of, xi. 501, Maskelyne 

 Sisley, J., of a calculus extracted from the scrotum, viii. 405 

 Six, James, of an improved thermometer, xv. 195 



— of the variation of local heat, xv. 609 ; xvi. 404 

 Skeleton, with back-bone, ribs, tec. united, iv. 10, Connor 

 — - of a large human, vii. 213, Degg 



— the bones of which were conjoined, viii. 51 6, Bp. of Cork 



— see Bones. 



Skelton, Rev. P., account of the cornel caterpillar, ix. 500 

 Skin, use of the pores, in the hands and feet, iii. 35, Grew 



— microscopical observations on, iii. 504, 56'2, Leuwenhoek 

 ■ on an elephant's skin, v. 6'99, Same 



— of a distempered skin, vii. 543, Machin j x, 562, Bakei 



