INDEX. 
Platina , experimental examination of it, Paper V. and VI. 
p. 148, 156. 
Platt, Mr. Jofhua, his account of the foflil thigh-bone of 
an animal dug up at Stonesfield, near Wcodftock, p. 
524. 
Polarity and Magnetifm, communicated to brafs, p. 774. 
Polypus , Sea, account of it, p. 777. 
Pozzuoli, account of the temple of Serapis there, p. 166. 
Pojlfcript to Dr. Whytt’s observations on Lord Walpole’s 
cafe, p. 385. 
Pringle , John, M. D. on the virtues of foap in diffolving 
the done, p. 221. 
■ his account of the effects of eledricity 
in paralytic cafes, p. 481. 
Problems, ifoperimetrical, a further attempt to facilitate 
the folution of them, p.623. 
Pulteney , M. Richard, his botanical and medical hiftory 
of the Solanum Lethale, p. 62. 
— --■■■- his obfervations on the fleep of 
plants, p. 506. 
Pulfe , quicknefs of it in coughs, attended with infardion 
of the lungs, lefiened by blifters, p. 569. 
R 
Regifter, Parifh, extrad of that in Great Shefford in Berk- 
fhire, with obfervatfons, p. 356. 
Remarks on Dr. Job Bafter’s Obfervationes de corallinis,. 
&c. p. 280. 
Robert fon , Mr. John, his efiay towards afcertaining the 
fpecific gravity of living men, p. 30. 
account of an extraordinary 
operation performed in Portfmouth dock-yard, p. 288. 
* of the fall of water 
under bridges, p.492. 
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Salt-water , experiments on applying Dr. Hales’s method 
of diftilling it to the fteam-engine, p. 53. 
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