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Ward, John, Roman altar and inscription at York, x. 316 



— explanation of a Roman inscription at Bath, x. 419 



— a Roman inscription in Yorkshire, x. 577 

 — - Roman inscriptions near Wroxeter, x. 6'06 



at Bath, x. 626 



•——-—— on two pieces of lead, xi. 17 



— • account of the black assize at Oxford, xi. 26*3 

 Wargentin, Peter, biographical notice of, x. l65, .... Note 



— variation of the magnetic needle, ibid 



— transit of Venus, June 176*1, and other astronomical 



observations, at Stockholm, xi. 56*0 



— same transit at various places in Sweden, xi. 56*1 



— remarks on the same transit, xi. 695 



— longitude by eclipses of Jupiter's satellites, xii. 352 



— state of the weather at Stockholm, 1767-8, xii. 534 



— transit of Venus 176.9, in Sweden, xii. 6*51 



— occupations of at and y tauri, xiii. 6±6 



— differ, of the longitude of-Paris and Greenwich, xiv. 131 

 Waring, Edward, biographical account of, xii. 19, . . Note 



— algebraical and geometrical problems, ibid 



— new properties in conic sections, xii. 124 



— theorems on the ellipse and polygon, xii. 222 



— problems concerning interpolations, xiv. 483 



— resolution of algebraic equations, xiv. 487 



— on the summation of series, xv. 586 



— on infinite series, xvi 6*1, xvii. 43 



— to find the values of algebraic quantities, xvi. 191 



— on centripetal forces, xvi. 384 



— properties of the sum of divisors, xvi. 407 



— method of correspondent values, xvi. 563 



— resolution of attractive powers, xvi 572 



Waring, Rich. Hill, of plants indigenous in England, xiii.171 

 Wark, Rev. David, utility of furze for dam-heads, xi. 514 

 Warner, Joseph, tumour inside the bladder extracted, x. 32 



— on the operation of the empyema, x. 244 



— bone extracted with a stone from the bladder, x. 270 



— successful operation of the empyema, x. 394 



— exper. on the agaric of oak, in stopping bleedings, x.479 



— effects of the agaric of oak, x. 546" 



— successful treatment of diseased knee-joints, x. 671 



— aneurism of the principal artery of the thigh, xi. 157 



— stones extracted by the lateral method, xi. 225 



— case of empyema, xi. 372 



— stones fixed in the urethra for 6 years, and afterwards 



successfully cut out, xi. 395 



— a small foetus produced with a live child, xiii. 79 

 Warren, George, dissection of an ostrich, vii. 150 

 Warren, Sam., earthquake of 1756 in England, x. 703 

 Warrick, Christ., remarkable formation of a child, viii. 5S9 



— improved method of tapping for ascites, ix. 5, 40 



— success of injecting claret after tapping, x. 676 

 Wasps, on the sexes of, vii. 16, Derham 



— curious nests of clay in Pennsylvania, ix. 123, Bartram 



— great black wasp of Pennsylvania, ix. 6"99> Same 



— economy of a small sort, in England, x. 182, Harrison 

 «— an American wasp's nest, x. 607, Mauduit 



— of the yellow wasp or Pennsylvania, xi 6S5, . . Bartram 



— of a singular species of, Jamaica, xii. 99> Felton 



Wasse, Rev. Mr., difference in height of the human body 



at morning and night, vii. 24 



— effects of lightning, vii. 105 



— an earthquake in Northamptonshire, Oct. 1731, viii. 98 

 Watches, description of his portable, ii 199, • • • Huygens 

 — — ii. °03, .... Leibnitz 



— remarks by the editor of the p. t., on the invention of a 



spring to the balance, in reply to animadversions by 

 Mr. Hook, ii. 237 



Watches, on the times of vibration of the balance, xvii. 380, 



Atwood 



— for pendulum watches, see Longitude. 



Water, difference between Thames and other water in 

 keeping at sea, i. 174, ii. 311 



— difference in the quality of, at Jamaica and the Caymar 



Jsles, i. 175 



— of the salt and fresh water at Bermudas, i. 206, Norwood 



— extraordinary eruption from a rock, iv. 322, RP. j r. 



293, . . Thoresby 



— cause of the different tastes of, iv. 601, . . Leuwenhoek 



— peculiar quality of the water of a morass in Lincolnshire 



ix. 364, Stovin 



— see Sia-nater, Springs, SfC 



Waters, extraordinary agitation of at various places, Nov. 1, 

 1755, viz. 



at Portsmouth, x. 647, Robertson 



' ■ in Sussex, &c, ibid, Webb 



at Cobham, x. 649, Adee 



Medhurst, ibid, Hodgson 



Cranbrook, ibid, Tempest 



_______ Tunbridge, ibid, Pringle 



■ ■■ the Thames, x. 650, Mills 



' ■ ■ Peerless Pool, ibid, Birch 



■ - Rochford, x. 657, .... Tomlinson 



near Reading, ibid, Philips 



ibid, Blair 



— Oxfordshire, x. 652. Lord Parker 

 Devon and Cornwall,ibid,Huxham 

 coast of Cornwall, x. 653, Borlase 

 Tophtz in Bohemia, x.655,Steplin 

 the Hague, ibid, De Hondt 



■ Haarlem and Rotterdam, ibid, Allamand 

 Feb. 1, 1756, Dumfrieshire, x. 692, Kilpatrick 

 Lake Ontario, x.695, Mrs.Belcher 



Nov. 1, 1755, Scotland and Hamburgh, x. 6*97, Pringle 



Dartmouth, xi. 1, . . Holdsworth 



the sea at Antigua, xi. 9, Affleck 



in Hert fords., xi. 16, Rutherforth 



— March 31, 176*1, Cornwall and elsewhere, xi.6l, Borlase 

 Water (nat. and exper. philosophy) on the ascent and descent 



of bodies in, i. 76 



— to estimate its weight, in water, i. 374, Boyle 



— to find the quantity of air in, i. 479> Same 



— cause of the swimming of a heavy body in a lighter men- 



struum in which it was dissolved, iii. 295, . . Molyneux 



— to determine its specific gravity, iii. 437, Boyle 



— of its pressure at great depths, iii. 444 



— way to ascertain the degree of saltness, iii. 496, . . Boyle 



— of its pressure at great depths, iii. 585, Oliver 



— its weight compared with that of air, v. 288,. . Hauksbee 



— ascent in small tubes, in vacuo and in air, v. 289, Same 



— weight under different circumstances, v. 452, 470, Same 



— on its seeming spontaneous ascent, v. 464, Same 



— different densities at different temperatures, v. 469, Same 



— shape of its ascent between planes, v. 706, Taylor 



v. 707, vi. 40, Hauksbee 



— experts, on the electricity of, vii. 513, Gray 



— cause of intermitting springs, vii. 544, Atwell 



— on the heat of boiling water, ix. 13, Montesquieu 



— on the compressibility of, xi. 6*63, xii. 151,.... Canton 



— specific g avity of salt and fresh, xii. 207, . . • Wilkinson 



— to distil fre-^h from salt, xiii. 289, Newland 



— to separate fresh from salt by freezing, xiv. 48 . . Barker 



— variat. of the temperat. of boiling, xiv. 537, ^huck burgh 



— on the heat of the Gulph stream, xv. 1 15, .... Blagden 



— on the constituent parts of, xv. 555, 569) ........ Watt 



