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Venereal disease, on the antiquity of, vi. 368, 467, 492, 



Beckett 



— remarkable case of, viii. 480, Huxham 



— of the grandgor at Edinburgh 1497, viii. 675, . . Macky 



— medical treatment of, in Siberia, x. 353, Gmelin 



— method of cure, in Thibet, xvi. 550, Saunders 



Ventilation, of use in distillations, x. 635, Hales 



— sweetens ill-tasted milk, and putrid water, x. 643, Same 

 Ventilators, machine for ventilating rooms, viii. 12, 13, 15, 



Desaguliers 



— for ships, account of Mr. Sutton's, viii. 555, .... Mead 

 viii. 560, . . Watson 



— account and utility of Hales's, x. 195, Ellis 



— used in Newgate, x. 318, Pringle 



— good effects of, in ships, x. 641, Hales 



— method of working by steam-engine, xi. 266, Fitzgerald 

 Ventricle, see Heart, 



Venus (planet) spots discovered in, i. 217, Cassini; rota- 

 tion of, 218, Note 



— conjunctions of with the sun, iii. 448 



— error in Halley's predic. of the transit of 176l, vi. 249, 



Note 



— cause of its unusual brightness in 1761, vi. 250, Halley 



— meridian altitudes of, vii. 144, Laval 



— eclipsed by the moon, Bologna, vii. 265, .... Manfredi 

 1 Berlin, vii. 385, Kirch 



— conjunction with Mercury, 1737, viii. 470, Bevis 



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



— phaenomena of, ix. 226, Ferguson 



— conjunction with Mars, Pekin, x. 3, Hallerstein 



. Jupiter, , ibid, Same 



— occulted by the Moon, 1751, x. 1 74, Bevis 



x. 189, Bradley 



— eclipsed by the Moon, 1753, x. 408, . . Bevis and Short 



— transit, June, 1761, at Greenwich, xi. 552, Bliss 



— — — London, xi. 553, .... Short 



— London, xi. 555, .... Canton 



Chelsea, ibid, Dunn 



— — — — — — St. Helena, xi. 557, Maskelyne 



■ — — Leskeard, xi. 559, • • Haydon 



— — — — — — — — Stockholm, xi. 560, Wargentin 



■ ■ Sweden, xi. 56l, . . Various 



' Paris, xi. 562, .... Lalande 



■ ' ■ — in and near Paris, ibid, Ferner 



— — — Constantinople, xi. 563, Porter 



Upsal, xi. 564, .... Bergman 



— general deduction from the various observations of the 



same transit, xi. 564, Bliss 



— — ■ — Cajaneburg, ibid, . . . Planman 



• Madrid, xi. 571, . . . . Ximenes 



' " Tobolsk, ibid, Chappe 



— ■■ Ley den, ibid, Lulofs 



Isle Bodrigues, xi. 595, Pingre 



Cape of Good Hope, xi. 595, Mason and Dixon 



Madras, xi. 596, Hirst 



— Bologna, xi. 597, Zanotti 



7—— Calcutta, xi. 645, .... Magee 



— observations of the same transit in Europe compared with 



an observation made at the Cape, and the Sun's parallax 

 thence deduced, xi. 640, xii. 22, Short 



— delineation of an expected transit, xi. 685, . . Ferguson 



— on the transit of June, 1761, xi. 695, Wargentin 



— obs. of transit, June, 1761, at Schwezinga, xii. 1 19,Mayer 

 Newfoundland, xii. 156, Winthrop 



— proposals for observing the transit to take place in 1769, 



xii - 26 5, Hornsby 



— transit, June, 1761, at Upsal, xii. 289, Mallet 



Naples, xii. 554, Zannoni 



Venus, transit, June, 1761, at Malta, xii. 554,. . . . Zannoni 



June, 1769, at Greenwich, xii. 583, Maskelyne 



London, xii. 625, Horsfall 



Shirburn and Oxford, xii. 625, Hornsby 



Oxford, xii. 629, Horsley 



Kew, xii. 631, Bevis 



Spital square, xii. 632, . . Canton 



xii. 639, .... Hirst 



at Leicester, xii. 641, Ludlara 



in North America, xii. 643, Holland 



at island of Hammerfost, xii. 644, Dixon 



the North Cape, xii. 645, Bayley 



near Quebec, xii. 646, .... Wright 



at Gryphswald, xii. 648, .... Mayer 



in Philadelphia, xii. 649, American Committee 

 Sweden, xii. 651,. .. .Wargentin. 



— Glasgow, xii. 652, Wilson 



near Edinburg, xii. 655, Lind 



Gibraltar, xii. 657, .... Jardine 



New England, xii. 608, xiii. 60, Winthrop 



several places in France, xii. 663, Lalande, &c. 



— — — — Cape Francois, ibid, ....Pingre 



— Martinique, xii. 664 



at Paris, ibid, Messier 



in London, xii. 665, Aubert 



at Stockholm, xii. 67 1, .... Ferner 



East Dereham, xii. 672, Wollaston 



in Pennsylvania, xii 673, Biddle and Bayley 



Windsor-castle, xii. 676, . . Harris 



in Maryland, xii. 679, Leeds 



Hudson's Bay, xii. 682, Wales and Dymond 



— moment of contacts in the transits of I76l, I769,xiii.l4. 



Dunn 



— transit of 1769, observed at Dinapoor, xvi. 47, Degloss 



— various observations of the transit of I769, reduced to 



the meridian of Paris, xiii. 49, Pigott 



— transit of 1769, Ponoi, xiii. 6l, Mallett 



India, xiii. 78, Rose 



— — Strabane, xiii. 80, Masoq 



West Indies, xiii. 81, Pingre 



— effect of the aberration of light, on an observation of a 



transit xiii. 89, Price 



— transit of 1769, at California, xiii. 91, Doz 



xiii. 92, Chappe 



— at Otaheite, xiii. 175, Green and Cook 



— heliocentric longitude, &c., of, xvi. 621, Bugge 



— remarks on the atmosphere of, xvii. 232, .... Schroeter 



— rotation, atmosphere, &c, of, xvii. 330, Herschel 



— mountainous inequalities, atmosphere, &c. of, xvii. 506 



Schroeter 

 Venus (Antiquities) a statue of, discovered at Rome, xi.523 



Mack inlay 

 Venuti, Abbate de, antiquities found in Italy, xi. 372, 473 

 Verbiest, Emperor of China's journey to Eastern Tartary, 

 1682-3, iii. 278, 2S2 



Verditer, method of making, ii. 455, Merret 



Vernati, Philabert, stone found in the head of a serpent an 

 antidote for its bite, i. 38 



— answers to queries respecting the East Indies, i. 307 



— method of making cerusse,, ii. 421 

 Vernede, M., earthquakes at Maestricht 1756, xi. 8 

 Verney, Guichard, Jos.du, biograph. noticeof, ii. 432, Note 



— anatomical structure of the nose, ibid 



Vernon, F., travels through Istria, &c. to Smyrna, ii. 284 

 Verny, M., use and preparation of kermes for dyeing, i. 134 

 Versailles, account of the aqueduct at, iii. 167, 231 

 Vessels, delmeation of the seminal vessels, i. 250, Clarck 



— see Lymphatic Vessels, Lacteals, SfC, 



