INDEX. 
S. 
Saffron, where the ftneft, p. 198. 
Salt-petre , mountains of it in Siberia, p. 209. 
Sand-iron , experiments on, p. 48. 
Sea-pen, or Pennatula Phofphorea of Linnaeus, account 
of, with obfervations on Sea pens in general, by John 
Ellis, Efq-, p. 419.— Dr. Bohadfch’s remarks on it, p. 
422 Variety of them, p.426, 430. 
Short , Mr. James, his obfervations on the Sun’s horizon- 
tal parallax, p. 1. — His determination of the differences 
of longitude between the royal obfervatories of Green- 
wich and Paris, by obfervations of the tranfit of Mer- 
cury over the Sun in the years r 723, 1736, 1743^ anc ^ 
1753, p. 158.— His fecond paper concerning the paral- 
lax of the Sun, p. 300.— His animadverfion on a paffage 
in the hiftory of the Memoirs of the Royal Academy at 
Paris, p. 342.— His method of determining the appa- 
rent leak diftance of the centers of the Sun and Venus, 
P* 343 * _ . . r 
Siberia , earthquake there, p. 201 — Worthy the notice or 
the curious, p. 203. — Reflexions on the faid earth- 
quake, p. ao8. . , 
South -Carolina, new fpecies of Sea-pen found on it s coaft, 
p. 4 2 6 * _ . , , 
Sterling , Rev. Mr. James, his account of a remarkable 
darknefs at Detroit in America, p. 63. 
Stone , Rev. Mr. his account of the fuccefs of the bark of 
the willow in the cure of agues, p. 195. 
Sun's mean horizontal parallax, p. 1,59. — Its diftance 
from the earth proved from it, p. 2. — Account of it s 
eclipfe, April 1, 1764, p. 140. — It’s parallax farther 
determined, and the quantity thereof more fully aicer- 
tained, p. 300. — The apparent leaft diftance of it s cen- 
ter and that of Venus determined, p. 34 3 > 344 ' 
Surgery , two remarkable cafes in, p. 231. 
Swallows , 
