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Sun (eclipses) Aug. 1766, at Newfoundland, xii. 422, Cook 



1765, at Caen, xii. 458, Pigott 



— June 1769> Greenwich, xii. 588, Maskelyne 



Oxford, &c. xii. 625, Hornsby 



— — — xii. 6\o, Horsley 



. Kew, xii. 631, Bevis 



.1 Spital-square, xii. 633, Canton 



Leicester, xii. 641, Ludlarn 



- at the North Cape, xii. 645, .... Bayley 



Leeds, xii. 648, Smeaton 



— various observations in France, xii. 663, . . Lalande, &c. 



at Stockholm, xii. 67 1, Ferner 



East Dereham, xii. 673 Wollaston 



— July 1767, at George's Island, xiii. 276, Wallis 



— Oct. 1772, at Chiselhurst, xiii. 382, Wollaston 



— June 1778, in London, xiv. 460, Wales 



■ at Leicester, xiv. 46l, Ludlam 



— total eclipse June 1778, at sea, xiv. 4p5, Ulloa 



at various places, xvi. 529, Piazzi 



— appearances during an eclipse 17.93, xvii. 351, Herschel 



— observ. of the eclipse of 1793, xvii. 422, .... Schroeter 

 Sun (parallax) distance from the earth, i. 53, ii. 90, Flamsteed 



— method of determining the parallax, vi. 242, . . Halley 



— horizontal parallax of, x. 455, Delisle 



— parallax determined, xi. 649, xii. 22, Short 



— distance from the earth, xi. 677, Daval 



— horizontal parallax of, xi. 717, Short 



— parallax, from various astronom. observs., xii.44,Hornsby 



— from observ. of a transit of Venus in 1761, xii. 1 \7, Pingre 

 xii. 157, • . Short 



— computation of the distance from the earth, xii. 411, 



Horsley ; inaccuracy in the computation, xii. 415,Note 



— new method of determining the parallax, xii. 520,Planman 



— distance computed by gravity, xii. 619, Horsley 



— parallax from the transit of Venus, I76'9,xiii.220, Hornsby 



■ xiii. 284, . . Euler 



Sun (spots in the) spots discovered by Cassini, i. 6l5 



by Paris Royal academy, i. 631, 656 



i. 648, Hook 



— observed at Hamburgh, i. 659 



— observations of (1 676) ii. 331, ... . Flamsteed and Halley 



— the same, ii. 332, Cassini 



— observations, l6'84, & return predicted, iii. 20, Flamsteed 



— observations of June, 1703, v. 78, Gray ; 79> • • Derham 



— observations of June and July, 1703, v. 166, Stannyan 



— observations of, from 1703 to 171 1, v. 622, ..Derham 



— remarks on the nature of, v. 625, Crabtree 



— observations on, and inquiry into the cause of, xiii. 482 ; 



xv. 366, Wilson 



— opinion respecting them, xiii. 529, Marshall 



— remarks on the nature of, xiii. 533, Wollaston 



Sun-fish [diodon mola] description of, viii. 402, . . Barlow 

 Sun-plant, [crotalaria junceaj of Hindostan, culture and uses 



of, xiii. 507, Ironsides 



Superville, Daniel de, m. d., cause of monsters, viii. 385 



Supple, Richard, eruption of Vesuvius, 1751, x. 220 



Surd roots, method of approximation in extract., iv. 1. Wallis 



Surfaces, on the division of, xiii. 73, Glenie 



Surgery, 4 extraordinary cases, iv. 504, Greenhill 



— see Particular Cases. 



— see also Machines, and Instruments (Surgical.) 

 Surveying, errors in, from magnetic var. iv. 180, Molyneux 



— a new plotting table, viii. 502, Beighton 



Survivorships, on the probabilities of, xvi. 475, 529, Morgan 



— see Reversions, 



Sus iEthiopicus, on the teeth of, xviii. 524, Home 



Sutton's ventilators for ships, account of, viii. 553, Meed 



— remarks on, viii. 56*0, .,,.... ,,,,,,... Watson 



Swallows, Hevelius respecting them, 1. 126, i. 127, Scheffer 



— martins, &c, on the migration of, xi. 425, . . Collinson 



— taken in a dormant state from holes in the cliffs of the 



Rhine, xi. 705, Achard 



— the swallow from Hudson's Bay, xiii. 342, .... Forster 



— on the torpidity of, xiii. 660, Cornish 



Swammerdam, John, m. c, biograph. memoir of, i. 190, 



442, Notes 



— on respiration i. 190 



— of animals with lungs but no pulmonary artery, ii. 69 



— unusual rupture of the mesentery, ii. 199 

 Swan, anatomical description of the, i. 381 



Swartz, Olof. m. d., description of the plant chloranthus, 



xvi 302 

 Sweat, cure by sweating in hot turf, vii. 37, Dudley 



— description of the sweating-rooms of the Indians, vii. 38, 



Same 



— see Hypocaust. 



Sweden, catalogue of minerals from, vi. 49, Petiver 



Sweets, observations on sweet tastes, iv. 676, Floyer 



Swelling, see Tumours. 



Swift, William, electrical experiments, xiv. 314, 571 

 Swimming, under water, machine for, ii. 500, .... Borelli 

 Swinden, H. Van, of the thermometer ac Francker, Jan 



1767, 1768, 1770, xiii. 386 

 Swinton, Rev. John, d. d., the Palmyrene alphabet, x. 522 



— a Parthian coin with characters resembling the Palmy- 



rene, x. 706 



— Parthian coin with Greek and Parthian legend, xi. 109 



— Phoenician numerals used at Sidon, xi. 291 



— an inedited Parthian coin, xi. 484 



— a Samnite Etruscan coin, xi. 500 



— an inedited Samnite Denarius, xi. 521 



— of an anthelion observed near Oxford, xi. 532, 



— of a meteor seen at Oxford, xi. 534 



— explanation of a Punic inscription at Malta, xii. 17, 172 



— observations on two Etruscan coins, xii. 113 



— a remarkable meteor seen at Oxford, xii. 162 



— on the Abbe Bartlemi's memoire respecting the Phoeni- 



cian alphabet, xii. 17 1 



— of a Palmyrene inscription at Teive, xii. 274 



— a coin of Crispina with Greek legend, xii. 275 



— explanation of two Parthian coins, ii. 357 



— observation of a meteor at Oxford, 1766, xii. 401 



— large swarms of gnats at Oxford, 1766, xii, 403 



— legend of a Phoenician medal explained, xii. 441 



— explanation of a Punic coin of Gozo, xii. 56*1 



■ an Etruscan coin of Paestum, xii. 562 



denarius of the Veturian family, ibid, &xiii. 370 



Punic coin of Gozo, xii. 563 



— an inedited Punic coin, ibid 



— two aurorae boreales at Oxford, 1769, xii. 66 1 



— explanation of two Samnite denarii, xii. 677 



— of a Greek coin of Philistis, Queen of Syracuse, xiii. 18 



— a remarkable meteor seen at Oxford, 1769, xiii. 88 



— explanation of a Punic or Phoenician coin, xiii. 101 

 — — — — -— two Etruscan weights or coins, ibid 



two biculo-Punic coins, xiii. 103 J 



— observations on 5 Persian coins, xiii. 169 



— a sub-aerated Plaetorian Denarius, xiii. 283 



— explanation of a monogram on a quinarius, xiii. 530 

 Switzerland, of the ice-mountains of, i. 365, ii.123, Muraltus 



— of the same, v. 488, Burnet 



Sword-fish, some account of a species of, i. 46, .... Note 



— of an animal that sticks to the, ii. 119 

 Sycamore, see Sap, 



Sydenham, Dr. his merit as a physician, i. 69 



Sylvius, F. de la Boe, biographical account of, i. 289, Note 



