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Skin, remarkable cutaneous disease, viii. 59, Vater 



on the different colours of people, ix. 50, Mitchell 



cure of an extraordinary disease of the, x. 475, . . Crusio 



— separation of the cuticle after a fever, xiii. 71, • • Latham 

 Skins, Indians' method of dressing deer skins in America, iii. 



458, „ . . . Southwell 



Skull, of a deformed human skull, iv. 372, Dupre 



— remarks on the above paper, ibid, Cowper 



— an extraordinary fracture, v. 435, Amyand 



Slare, Frederic, m. d., on solid and liquid phosphorus, ii.505 



— further experiments on phosphorus, ii. 518 



— philosophical experiments before the r. s. ii. 651 



— analysis of, and exper. on, human calculi, iii. 18, 317, 319 



— particulars of a ruminating man, iii. 457 



— effects of air on transparent liquor, iii. 581 



— oils that efferv. or explode with or without flame, iii. 663 



— product, of effervescence, with 2 cold liquors, iii. 664 



— births, deaths, &c. at Frankfort 1695, iv. 169 



— examen of chalybeate waters, vi. 61 



— of a new set of teeth at 80 years of age, vi. 72 



— nature of Pyrmont and Spa waters, vi. 280 



Slate, method of estimating the goodness of; and on its use 

 as a covering for houses, i. 377, Colepresse 



— on the nature of Irish slate, iv. 298 



Sleep, case of extraordinary sleepiness, v. 277, Oliver 



Sloane, Sir Hans, biographical account of, iii. 425, . . Note 



— description of the pimenta, iii. 425 

 1. — wild cinnamon tree, iii. 427 



■ .. two plants from the Cape, iii. 513 



— effect of eating dog-mercury, iii. 575 



— description of the cortex winteranus, [drymis] iii. 586 



— description of the cuntur [condor] of Peru, iii. 622 



— the coffee shrub, iii. 623 



4 sorts of beans from Jamaica cast on shore in Scotland; 



reflections how floated thither, iv. 103, Sloane 



— fossil tongue, dug up in England, of an American marine 



animal, iv. 200 



— on the use of ipecacuanha for looseness, iv. 239 



— of a Chinese cabinet, &c. iv. 324, 345, 349, 352 



— of several plants of Jamaica, iv. 362 



— dropsy in the ovarium, iv. 375 



•— remark respecting stones, &c. found in Jamaica and En- 

 gland, iv. 381 



— on the swallowing of stones, iv. 381 



• — account of the bogs in Ireland, v. 636 



— of large horns found at Wapping, vii. 180 



— remarks on fossil bones of elephants, vii. 240, 255 



— medicinal quality of henbane, vii. 6l0 



— of the fascinating power of the rattle snake, vii. 655 



— a remarkable calculus from the bladder, viii. 242 



— on hairy excretions from the body, viii. 490 



— description of the gorgonia verrucosa, ix. 198 



— of the rhinoceros bezoar, or serpent stone, ix. 655 



— various trials of inoculation, x. 690 



Sloane, Wm., discovery of the city Aretina, viii. 402 



Slow-worm, its bite innoxious, xi. 6l4, Forster 



Slusius, R. F. W. biographical account of, i. 327, Note 



— method of drawing tangents to all curves, ii. 38, 74 



— solution of Alhazen's problem, ii. 97, 107 



Small, Alex., account of the island of Minorca, xiv. 68 

 Small-pox, case of a woman delivered of a dead child which 

 was covered with pustules, vi. 42, Derham 



— of a child which had it in the womb, xv. 123, . . Wright 



1 — on the infection of, vi. 601, Jurin 



— * inoculated and natural, mortality of, vi. 608, . . Nettleton 



■ v. 610, Jurin 



• — of an anomalous sort in 1724-5, vii. 110, .... Huxham 



— effects of, at Hastings, vii. 480, Frewen 



Small-pox, discharge of bloody urine in, viii. 708, . . Dodd 



— use of the Peruvian bark in, ix. 369, Wall j ix. 131, Baily 



— two days after birth, ix. 692, Mortimer 



— foetus in utero, affected by, ibid, Watson 



xiv. 628, Hunter 



Smalt, method of preparing, v. 165, Krieg 



Smeathman, H., nat. hist, and econ. of the termites, xv. 60 

 Smeaton, John, biographical account of, x. 67, Note 



— improvements on the mariner's compass, ibid 



— improvements in the air-pump, x. 247 



— description of M. de Meuron's steam-engine, x. 252 



— new combination of pulleys, x. 278 



— machine for measuring a ship's way, x. 456 



— a new pyrometer, x. 482 



— effects of lightning on a church and steeple, xi. 113 



— different temperature of the air at Edystone and Ply- 



mouth, xi. 191 



— experiments on water-mills and wind-mills, xi. 338 



— on the menstrual parallax of planets, xii. 535 



— celestial observations made oat of the meridian, xii. 542 



— solar eclipse, 1769, observed at Leeds, xii. 648 



— a new hygrometer, xiii. 127 



— on mechanic impelling powers, xiv. 72 



— experts, on the collision of bodies, xv. 295 



— graduation of astronomical instruments, xvi. 30 



— Hindley's method of dividing circles, xvi. 40 



— right ascension and declination of mercury, xvi. 292 



Smelts, on the degenerating of, vi. 619, Dudley 



Smethurst, Gamal., Chinese arithmetical instrument, ix. 625 

 Smethwick, Francis, to grind optic and burning-glasses,i.226 

 Smith, Caleb, improvement of catadioptrical telesc, viii. 393 

 Smith, Dr. Edw., exper. on a soap-earth near Smyrna, iv. 80 

 Smith, J. E., m. d., on the irritability of vegetables, xvi. 421 

 Smith, Rob., successful treatment of hepatitis, xii. 289 

 Smith, T., d. d., observ. relating to Constantinople, ii. 664 



— account of parts of Turkey, iii. 1 



— currents at the Gibraltar Straits, iii. 30 



— journal of a voyage to Constantinople, iv. 176 

 Smith, Wm., a fire ball seen in the air, July 1750, x. 124 



— transit of Venus, 1769, Philadelphia, xii. 649 

 Mercury, 1769, Philadelphia, xiii. 83 



Smith, P., on the structure of the eyes of birds, xvii. 557 

 Smithson, Rich., on the winds in an E. India voyage, i. 375 



Smoke, an engine for consuming, iii. 292, Justel 



Smyth, Edw. m. d., on the petrifying power of Lough 

 Neagh, iii. 195 



— use of opium among the Turks, iv. 101 



Snails, of two uncommon sorts, i. 377 ; considered a delicate 

 food by the Romans, ibid; generation of, ibid, Note 



— different sorts of, ii. 138, Lister; queries respecting, ibid j 



answers to queries, 139; table of English snails, 140 



— on the breeding of, ii. 668, and note, ibid 



— on the eggs of, iv. 223, Leuwenhoek 



— . reviviscence of, after being many years in a cabinet, xiii. 



565, Macbride 



— see Limax. 



Snake, differt. mode of brooding, of snakes and vipers, i. 49 



— death of, by swallowing a porcupine, ix. 102,. . Wollaston 



— see also Rattle-snake, Serpents. 



Snake-stones, inefficacy of, ii. 58, Redi 



Sneyd, T., convers. of the subst. of a bird into fat, xvii. 192 

 Snipe, of a new species [tringa lobata], xi. 130, ..Edwards 

 Snow, method of preserving with chaff, i. 50, Ball 



— of an unusual kind of, i. 278, Beckman 



— external and essential nature of, ii. 54, Grew 



— of a red colour, at Genoa, ii. 432, Sarotti 



— of a woman living 6 days under, without food, vi. 69, 



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