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Vesuvius, eruption of, 1694, iv. 78, Connor 



— 1707, vi. 12, Valetta 



■ 1717, vi. 316, Berkeley 



1730, vii. 555, Cyrillus 



1737, viii. 36l ; analysis of some 



— articles thrown out, viii. 365, Prince of Cassano 



. 1737, viii. 369, . .An English Gent. 



. . 1751, x. 245 



x. 270, Parker 



■ - ■ ■ ■ — 1754, x. 563, Jamineaux 



1758, xi. 236, Pademi 



1760, xi. 521, 522, Stiles 



■ ■ ■ xi. 522, Mackinlay 



1765, xii. 417, Hamilton 



■ 1767, xii. 494, Same 



— and other volcanoes in the neighbourhood, remarks on, 



xii. 592, Same 



— heat of the ground on, xiii. 93, Howard 



— eruption of 1779* xiv. 6l3, Hamilton 



— state of, after the eruption of 1784, xvi. 131, .. . Same 



— eruption of 1794, xvii. 492, Same 



Vibration, on the motion of a tense string, vi 14, . . Taylor 

 Vievar, Rev. A., of an explosion in the air, viii. 383 

 Vieussen, Raymond, biographical notice of, iii. 210, Note 



— on the structure of the brain, ibid. 



— chemical experiments on human blood, iv. 283, 503 



— on the structure of the ear, iv. 448 



Villette, M., form and efficacy of his burning glass, i. 34 ; 

 compared with those of Maginus and Septalius, i. 35 j 

 of another larger, iii. 67 



— effects of his burning glass, vi. 405, Harris & Desaguliers 



Vinadio, on the hot baths of, xi. 495, Bruni 



Vince, Rev. S., on progressive and rotatory motion, xiv. 726 



— on the sums of infinite series, xv. 309, 638 



— on motion as affected by friction, xv. 6*54 



— method of rinding fluents by continuation, xvi. 150 



— on the precession of the equinoxes, xvi. 303 



— of investigating infinite series, xvii. 78 



— on the fundamental property of the lever, xvii. 348 



— of the motion and resist, of fluids, xvii. 466 5 xviii. 248 



— an unusual refraction of the air, xviii. 436 



Vincent, Nathaniel, on Dr. Papin's hydraulic engine, iii.239 

 Vinegar, method of making in France, i. 47 1 



— of the four thieves, origin of the appellation, x. 573, Note 

 Vines, to train over the roof of a house, ii. 6*0, .... Templer 

 Vipers, different manner of brooding from snakes, i. 49 



— experiments on the poison of, i. 411, Charasj reply to, 



544, Redi 



— observations on the poison of, i. 58, Redi j erroneous 



opinions corrected, ibid, Note 

 — on the poison of, i. 654, Bourdelot 



— experiments to ascertain the seat of the poison, ii. 8, Piatt 



— poison of, and several antidotes, iii. 653, Mayerne 



— some observations on, vi. 6*43, Sprengal 



— remedy used by the catchers for their bite, viii. 84, Burton 



— experiments on persons bitten by, ibid, Mortimer 5 fur- 



ther experiments, viii. 107, Atwell 



— plants efficacious in curing the bites of, viii. 87, . . . Note 



— efficacy of olive-oil, in curing the bite of, viii. 124, Wil- 



liams 5 viii. 26*7, Dufay 



— cure of the bite by sallad-oil, viii. 265, Vater 



— process of slipping off their skins, ix. 351, Mortimer 



— description of the coluber cerastes, xii. 355, Ellis 



Virginia, method of propagating the mulberry tree at, i. 66 

 -L- advantage of building ships at, ii. 6*0 



— natural history, &c, of, ii. 301, Glover 



— account of a voyage to, iii. 544, 588, 639, Clayton 



— observations on some insects in, iv. 565, Banister 



Virginia, answers to queries respecting, viii. 328, . . Clayton 



Viscera, see Bowels. 



Vision, remarks on, deducing that the choroides is the prin- 

 cipal organ of, i. 243, Marriotte ; reply to, by M. Pec- 

 quet, 245 ; Marriotte's reply, 443 



— new theory of, ii. 540, 6l 1, Briggs 



— controversy of Marriotte and Perrault on, ii. 644 



— two cases of extraordinary vision, iii. 33, 99, • • • • Brigga 



— case of, affected by the jaundice, iii. 652, Dale 



— use, by myopes, of telescopes without eye-glasses, vi. 424 



Desaguliers 



— of a person who could not distinguish colours, xiv. 143, 



Huddart 



— another similar case, xiv. 394, Whisson 



— as affected by the size of the optic pencil, experts, on, 



xvi. 165, Herschel 



— effect of the different refrangibility of light on it, xvi. 595 



Maskelyne 



— observations on, xvii. 318, Young 



xvii. 403, Hosack 



— on the causes of double vision, xviii. 77, Home 



— power of natural vision compared with that by teles- 



copes to penetrate into space, xviii. 580, .... Herschel 



— see Eye, Sight. 



Visme, Stephen, de, earthquake at Macao, 1 767, xii. 60/ 



— of a species of monkey without tails, xii. 608 



— Chinese method of heating rooms, xiii. 95 



Vitriol, method of extracting from the Liege mineral, i. 17 



— observations on, by a F. R. S-, ii. 133 ; continued, ibid. 



— oil of, augmentation in weight on exposure to air, iii. 11, 



Gould 



— origin of the white, and fig. of its crystals, iv. 427, Lister 



— manufacture of, in Bareith, ix. 69 1, Mounsey 



Vitrum antimonii ceratum, on the effects of, x. 207, 



Geoffroy 

 Vitulus marinus, see Phoca. 



Vitus's dance, curt- d by electricity, xiv. 476, . . Fothergill 

 Viviani, Vincent, biograp. account of, iii. 609, v. 137,Notes 

 Viviparous, of viviparous flies, i. 600, iii. 47; Lister, ib.,Note 

 Voight, Dr., chemical controversy with Kunckel, iii. 1 25 

 Volcano, eruption at Sorea, iv. 13, Witserv 



— burning mountains of the Molucco isles, 163, .... Same 



— at sea near Santerini, producing an island, v. 446, 



Bourgignon- 



— remarks on various, in Italy, xii. 593, Hamilton 



— of a volcanic hill near Inverness, xiv. 179* West 



— traces of, on the banks of the Rhine, xiv. 276, Hamilton 



— descr. of Morne Garou, at St. Vincent, xv. 634, Anderson 



— see jEtna, Vesuvius. 

 Voluntaries, see Music. 



Volta, A., to render sensible weak electricity, xv. 263 



— account of some of Galvani's experiments, xvii. 285 



— electricity excited by contact of conduct, subst., xviii. 744 

 Vomit, of the black vomit of S. America, ix. 66 1, Watson 



Vomiting medicines, practice of, v. 399y Cockburn 



Vorticella, see Polypus (animal). 



Vortices, impossibility of the Cartesian, viii. 424, Sigorgne 

 Vossius, Isaac, biographical account of, i. 1 16, Note 



— origin of the Nile and other rivers, i. 117 



— inscription on a pillar dug at Rome, iii. 331 



Voyages and travels, directions for seamen on, i. 50, 153, 



Rooke 



— from England to the Caribbees, i. 1 73, Stubbes 



Spain to Mexico, i. 292 



— to the East Indies, i. 375, Sraithson 



— from Venice through Greece to Smyrna, ii. 284, Vernon 

 Aleppo to Palmyra, iv. 33, Halifax 



- iv. 49, Merchants- 



