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Matts flefi, eaten by the Battas of Sumatra, p. 166. 16S. 
Manchefter, the proportionable number of inhabitants that die there annually, p. 154, 
An account of the earthquake which was felt at Manchefier and other places in the 
year 1777, p. 221. See Earthquake, 
Manufactures, the want of them in towns unfavourable to population, p. 145, 
Marriages, baptifms, and burials, for forty years, in the parifh of Blahdford Forum, 
Dorfet, p. 6 15. See Blahdford Forum. 
Marjhesand bogs, the noxious effects of their effluvia upon air, p. 21 2 — 217. 
Maferes , Francis efq, his method of finding, by the help of Sir Ifaac Newton’s binomial 
theorem,' a near value of the very {lowly-converging infinite feries x + + -j- 4= 
— + ~j~ + & c * when * is very nearly equal to 1, p. 895—901. His method of 
extending Cardan’s rule for refolving one cafe of a cubick equation of this form, x l » 
qx zz r, to the other cafe of the fame equation, which it is not naturally fitted to folve, 
and which is therefore often called the irreducible cafe, p. 902 — 949. 
Majfon, Mr. Francis, his account of the illand St. Miguel, p. 601. See St, Miguel, 
Men not fo long-lived as women, p. 144. 
Meteorological Diary , &c. kept at Fort St. George, in the Eaft Indies, p. 180. How the 
obfervations were made, p. 18©, 1 8 1 . State of the thermometer within and without, 
and of the barometer, winds, and weather, for October 1 776, p. 182—184. For No* 
vember, p. 184 — 186. For December, p. 186 — 188. For January, 1777, p. 188 — 
190. For February, p. 190—- 192. A table gf dileafes during thofe months, p. 193. 
Meteorological Journal, extracts of one for the year 1777 kept at Briftol, p.567. State 
of the barometer for that year, ibid. An abridged table of the winds, See, for that year, 
p. 568. Weather for that year, p. 568—570. 
Meteorological Journal for the year 1777 kept at the houfe of the Royal Society, p. 574— 
600. See Tables, 
Meteorological Obfervations, extra# of fome made at Hawkhill near Edinburgh, p. 564, 
For the year 1773, ibid. For 1774, ibid. For 1775, p. 565. For 1776, ibid. 
Depth of rain at Hawkhill, for the year 1776, p. 566. 
Mice , experiments on fome, relative to their heat, p. 21, 22. 
Mignionette fiowersj the efFe# of their effluvia upon air, p. 202, 
Miller , Mr. Charles, his account of the ifland of Sumatra, &c. p. 160. See Sumatra. 
Milner , Rev. Mr. Ifaac, his refie&ions on the communication of motion by impa# and 
gravity, p. 344. See Motion. Bis obfervations on the limits of algebraical equa- 
tions; and a general demonftration of Des Cartes’s rule for finding their number of 
affirmative and negative roots, p. 380—388. 
Mineral vs at ers in the ifland of St, Miguel, an account of them, p* 605—608. 
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