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Voyages, to Chusan in China, iv. 693, Cunninghame 



— from Cairo to the desart of Sinai, xii. 278, . .Montagu 



— to Hudson's Bay, xiii. 21, Wales 



Judda and Mocha, xiii. 287, Newland 



Voye, M. de la, of worms eating stones and mortar, i. 120 

 Vullyamy, B., of obtaining an overflowing well, xviii. 184 

 Vultures, descrip. of the vultur serpentarius, xiii. 93, Edwards 



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Wadd, chemical experiments on the black wadd [ochra fri- 



abilis nigro-fusca], xv. 409, Wedgwood 



Waddel, John, effects of lightning on the compass, ix. 652 

 Wagtail [calendula], from Hudson's Bay, xiii. 341, Forster 

 Waite, Nich., incombustible cloth from China, iii. 178 

 Wales, on the nat. hist, of, v. 6*76', 6'77, 693, vi. 19,73,Lhwyd 

 Wales, Wm., biographical account of, xii. 682, .... Note 



— transit of Venus, 1769, at Hudson's Bay, ibid 



— magnetic variation at Hudson's Bay, xii. 684 



— a voyage to, and residence at, Hudson's Bay, xiii. 22 



— meteorolog. observ. at Hudson's Bay, 1768, 1769, xiii. 32 



— solar eclipse, June 1778, London, xiv. 460 



— on the roots of affected equations, xiv. 139 



Walker, — experiments and observations on sound, iv. 338 

 Walker, Adam, description of Dunmore Cavern, xiii. 36*8 

 Walker, John, account of the Hartsell Spa waters, xi. 87 



— irruption of Solway moss, Dec. 1772, xiii. 203 

 Walker, Rich., prod, of artific. cold, xvi. 502, 579; xvii.560 



— congelation of quicksilver in England, xvi. 579 



Wall, — ?.i. d., phosphoric quality of amber, diamonds, 



gumlac, v. 408 

 Wall, J., m. d., biographical account of, ix. 369, .... Note 



— use of musk in convulsions, ix. 89 



— use of Peruvian bark in the small pox, ix. 369 



— essay on the Malvern waters, x. 673 



— efficacy of the Malvern waters, xi. 68 



— efficacy of oil as a vermifuge, xi. 307 



Wallace, James, m. d., account of New Caledonia, iv. 487 

 — - of a hairy stone cut from the bladder, iv. 524 

 Waller, Rich., descrip. of the flying glow worm, iii. 109 



— catalogue of simple and mixed colours, iii. 274 



— spawn of frogs, production of tadpoles, iii. 456 



— dissection of a paroquet, iii. 652 



— two deaf per-ons who understood by the motion of the 



lips, v . 379 



— anatomy of the wood-pecker, of its tongue, vi. 264 

 Wallis, John, d. d., biographical account of, i. 59, Note 



— account of an earthquake near Oxford, i. 59 



— observations on the barometer, i. 60 



— an accident by thunder and lightning, i. 74 



— hypothesis of the flux and reflux of the sea, i. 89; reply 



to animadversions on it, i. 101 j Childrey's remarks on 

 it, 5l6; Wallis's reply, 520 



— idea of a universal principle of attraction, i. 102, Note 



— criticism on Vossius de Motu Marium et Venlorum : 



and on Gassendus de iEstu Maris, i. 105 



— animadversions on Hobbes, i. 107, 6ll, 623 



— inquiries concerning tides, i. 112 



— annual tides of England various, i. 238 Wallis 



— account of Mercator's Logarithmotechnia, i. 273 ' 



— on the general laws of motion, i. 307 



— observations on the baroscope and thermoscope, i. 4l6 



— of teaching the deaf and dumb, i. #6'4 ; instance of a 



person so taught, i. 468 



— on the Physica Nova of Leibnitz, i. 6l8 



— answer to Hobbes' Lux Mathematica, ii. 11 



— on the cener of gravity, ii. 12 



— cause of mercurial suspension in a tube, ii. 44 



— observations on a remarkable frost, ii. 56 



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Wallis, John, n. d., on veins in plants, ii. 74 



— invention of a right line equal to a curve, ii. 



— on diagonal divisions, ii. 189 



— on the trembling of consonant strings, ii. 380 



— of an unusual meteor, ii. 389 



— on the antiquity of Indian numerals, ii. 677 



— account of two curious old chimney-pieces, iii. 



— of the varying gravity of the atmosphere, iii. 162 



— secants, and division of meridians on sea charts, iii. 224 



— instance of the strength of memory, iii. 248 



— of a stone voided by urine, iii. 249 



— resistance of the air to motion, iii. 350 



— on the size of the horizontal sun, iii. 369 



— geometrical problem on the construction of the dome of 



the temple at Delos, iii. 479 



— to observe the parallax of the fixed stars, iii. 562 



— approximation on the extraction of surd roots, iv. I 



— on cycloidal spaces perfectly quadrable, iv. 39 



— cure of a horse staked in the stomach, iv. 65 



— the cycloid known as early as 1450, iv. 169 



— product, of hail, thunder, and lightning, iv. 197, 212 



— storm of thunder, &c. at Everdon, iv. 2J6 



— division of the monochord, iv. 240 



— explanation of the rubrics for Easter, iv. 273 



— on the imperfections in an organ, iv. 287 



— remarks on ancient music and its effects, iv. 305 



— reply to Leibnitz' remarks on philosoph. pursuits, iv. 414 



— on an alteration of the meridian line, affecting the de- 



clination of the needle and the pole's elevation, iv. 414 



— disadvantage of adopting the Gregorian calendar, iv. 434 



— on the quadrature of the lunula of Hippocrates, iv. 455 



— ways of measuring curved figures, iv. 488 



— whether man is by nature carnivorous, iv. 550, 556 



— of an isthmus supposed to have formerly existed between 



Calais and Dover, iv. 618, 637 



— on the bones of large animals found in England, iv. 637 



— invention and improvements of the compass, iv. 639, 655 



— on Halley's chart of magnetic variations, iv. 655 

 Wallis, Capt. , solar eclipse at George's Island, 1 767, xiii. 276 

 Wallot, J. W., transit of Mercury, 1782, at Paris, xv. 553 

 Walmesley, Chas., biographical account of, xi. 17, .. Note 



— precession of the equinoxes, and nutatiou of the earth's 



axis, xi. 19 



— theory of the inequalities of the earth's motions, x. 31 j 



theory compared with observed phenomena, 37 



— motion of a satellite dependant on the shape of its planet, 



xi. 295 



— irregularities in the planetary motions, xi. 579 

 Walnuts, of a new sort of walnut-tree, iv. 603, Reneaume 

 Walpole, Horace, biographical account of, x. 135, . . Note 



— his own case, of the stone cured by soap and lime water, 



x. 135, 269 



— further particulars of his case, xi. 1 1 5, 122, .... Pringle 

 xi. 1 17, Whytt 



Walsh, John, electric power of the torpedo, xiii. 469 



— torpedoes found near the British coast, xiii. 570 

 Wanley, Humphry, on judging the age of mss. v. 227 

 Ward/John, biographical account of, vii. 381, Note 



— of the equuleus of the ancients, ibid 



— of ancient dates in Indian figures, via 32, 39 



— of Weidler*9 dissertation on numeral figures, ix. 46 



— Roman inscription at Silchester, ix. 86, 599 



— two ancient dates in Arabian figures, ix. 107 



— explanation of some antiquities, ix. 118 



— description of the town of Silchester; a Romangold coin } 



an ancient Arabic date, ix. 599 



— Roman inscription in the country of the Sabines, x. 1. 



— explanation of a Greek inscription, x. 63 



