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Symmer, Rob., experts, and observa. on electricity, xi. 405 

 Sympson, Thos., description of a Roman hypocaust, viii. 532 

 Syrup, description of Orrae's pectoral syrup, viii. 505 



T 



Tabashir, of the Arabian drug so called, xii. 369, Canning 

 xvi. 653, . . Russel 



— chemical experiments on it, xvii. 101, Marie 



Taberg, a mountain of iron ore at, x. 564, .... Ascanius 

 Tables, Halley's and Dupre's mortuary tables compared, x. 



383^ Kersseboom 



— on those by Halley, and others, xi. 523,^ T. W. 



of the prices of provisions, &c. from the conquest, with 



the mean depreciat. of money, xviii. 309, Shuckburgh 

 Tabor, John, tessellated pavement, &c. at Bath, &c, vi. 273 



— situation of the ancient city Anderida, vi. 351 

 Tacquet, R. P. Andrew, biographical notice of, i. 314, Note 



— substance of his book, Opera Mathematica, ibid 

 Tadmor, see Palmyra. 



Tadpoles, on the production of, iii. 456, Waller 



— circulation of the blood, iv. 464, Leuwenboek 



Taiaca, see Musk Hog. 



Talc, of talc rocks in Hungary, i 456, Brown 



Tali Lusorii, of the ancients, account of, xi. 85, .... Nixon 

 Tangents, on drawing them to any curve, ii. 38, 74, Sluse 



— analogy of logarith. tangents to the merid., iv. 68, Halley 



— of curves deduced from the maxima and minima, v. 17, 



Ditton 



— analogy of logarith. tangents to the merid. x. 89, Robertson 

 Tanning, directions and an engine for, ii. 136, 137, Howard 



— modern improvements in, ibid, Note 



— improved method of, xiv. 304, Macbride 



Tapestry, of Le Blon's method of printing in imitation 



of painting, and of weaving tapestry, vii. 477, Mortimer 

 Tapping, an improved method for ascites, ix. 5, 40, Warrick 



— method of injecting liquors into the abdomen, ix. 8, Hales 



— on injecting claret after, x. 676, Warrick 



— see Ascites, Dropsy. 



Tar, method of making near Marseilles, iv. 303 Bent 



Tarantula, remarks on the bite of the, i. 241 



— enquiries concerning, i. 649, Lister 



— disorders pretend, to arise from the bite, i. 719, Cornelio 



— inoffensiveness of the bite of, xiii. 47, Cirillo 



Tartar, volatilization of the salt of, ii. 54, Becke 



Tartary, East, Emperor of China's journey to, iii. 278, 282 

 Tasman, Abel Jansen, journal of discovery, ii. 542 



Taste, on the organ of, i. 1 36, Bellini 



— class of sweet-tasted plants, iv. 677, Floyer 



Taube, H. W., rapture of the navel, ix. 41 



Taurus, (star,) see Stars. 



Tavernier, M., biographical notice of, ii. 423, Note 



— observations in parts of Asia, ii. 343, 355 



Taylor, Brooke, biographical account of, v. 706, .... Note 



— shape of the ascent of water between planes, ibid. 



— to find the centre of oscillation, vi. 7 



— of the motion of a tense string, vi. 14 



— experiment of magnetical attraction, vi. 168 



— extraction of numeral roots of equations, vi. 299 



— method of computing logarithms, vi. 304 



— solution of Leibnitz' problem, vi. 308 



— apology against John Bernoulli on account of mathema- 



tical inventions, vi. 397 



— parabolic motion of projectiles, vi. 510 



— magnetical experiments, vi. 528 



— on expansion of liquor In the thermometer, vi. 641 

 Taylor, John, ll. d., Roman inscrip. at Rochester, ix. 295 



— Roman inscriptions at Netherby, xi. 708 



Taylor, Silas, the killing of rattle- snakes in Virginia, i. 16 



Taylor, Robert, uncommon hail-storm in Hertford, iv. 172 



— case of conjoined twins, v. 333 



Taylor, W., irregularity of the tide in the Thames, x. 694 



Tea, on the quality and virtues of, iii. 120, Pechlin 



Tears, microscopical observations on, ii. 151, Leuwenboek 

 Teeth, cut at a very advanced age, i. 141 , Colpresse 



— microscopical observ. on, ii. 438 ; iii. 36, 503; iv. 0O9, 



Leuwenhoek 



— cut at 80 years of age, vi. 72, Slare 



— of the sea-wolf and chaetodon nigricans, xv. 540, Andre 



— renewal of teeth of cartilaginous fishes, xv. 54-2, . . Same 



— mode of dentition of elephants, xviii. 509, Corse 



— structure of the teeth of gramin. animals, xviii.519,Home 



— see Bones (Fossil.) 



Telescopes, table of proportionate apertures, i. 22, . . Auzout 



— improvement of, i. 36, .... Hevelius, Huygens, Du Son 



— measurement of distances from one station, i. 43, Auzout 



— on the theory of the, i. 666, Cherubin 



— invention and use of the reflecting, i. 69 1, 695, 703 ; 



letter of M. Huygens respecting it, 694, Newton 



— table of apertures, lengths, &c. of, i. 704, Same 



— answer to objections against his reflecting, i. 705, Same 



— a reflecting, by M. Cassegrain, i. 71 1 ; remarks on it, 



712, Newton 



— of telescopic sights, ii. 130, Hevelius 



— for observations by day or night, iii. 336, .... Molyneux 



— use of cross hairs in, vi. 494, Halley 



— account of a catadioptric, vi. 646, Hadley 



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



— improvement of the refracting, x. 341, Dollond 



— improvement in the cross wires of, xiii. 507,. . . . Wilson 



— on making and polishing the metals of reflecting teles- 



copes, xiv. 157, • Mudge 



— description of an iconantidiptic, xiv. 501, Jeaurat 



— magnifying powers of Herschel's, xv. 234, .... Herschel 



— new eye-glasses for, xv. 350, Ramsden 



— a new system of wires for, xvi. 7, Wollaston 



— description of his 40 feet reflector, xvii. 593, . . Herschel 



— on the power of, to penetrate into space, xviii. 580, Same 



— method of viewing the sun advantageously with power- 



ful telescopes, xviii. 683, Same 



— see Object Glasses, Optic Glasses. 



Temperature, of climate, cold most conducive to health, 

 iii. 96, Lister 



— influence of cold on the health, xviii. 1, .... Heberden 

 Tempers, conjectured by modulations of voice, ii. 44-1, Ent 



Tempest, Wm., agitation of the waters, x. 649, Kent 



Tempests, see Storms. 



Temple, a Pagan temple at Cannara, v. 501, Stuart 



— see Antiquities. 



Temple, Hon. Hy., an earthq at Naples, 1732, viii. 401 

 Templeman, Peter, m. d., polypus at the heart ; scirrhous 



tumour in the uterus, ix. 274 

 Templer, John, two hurricanes in Northamptonshire, i. 593 



— remarks on glow-worms, i. 603, 660 



— structure of the lungs, ii. 3 



— training of vines over the roof of a house, ii. 60 



— motion of the hearts of urchins, cut out, ii. 6l 



— to catch fish by tickling, ii. 78 



Tendon, of Achilles, cured after a complete division, iv. 376, 



Cow per 



— of the thumb, torn away with the joint, xi. 235, Home 



— see Muscles. 



Teneriffe, journey to the peak of, vi. 177, Edens 



x. 230, Heberden 



Tenison, Rev. E., on the husbandry of canary-seed, vi. 18 

 Tennant, Smithson, decomposition of fixed air, xvii. 50 

 — on the nature of the diamond, xviii. 97 



