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Morgan, Willi am. Esq. On the method of determining, from 
the real probabilities of life, the values of contingent reversions, 
in which three lives are involved in the survivorship, - 223 
Mountains in the moon , remarks on, - _ 263 
Mudge , Mr. remarks on his method of combining the action of 
spiral springs, - _ _ _ -136 
Mummies , observations on some, opened in London, - 177 
Muscle , animal , on its conversion into a substance much resem- 
bling spermaceti, - _ _ - 169 
Muscles of the eye , on their situation, structure, and action, 207 
O 
Oil t on the quantities consumed by lamps of different construc- 
tions, - - . gg 
■ — on the quantities of different kinds consumed in the produc- 
tion of light, - - _ _ ioi 
P 
Pearson, George, M. D. Observations and experiments on a 
wax-like substance, resembling the Pe-la of the Chinese, col- 
lected at Madras by Dr. Anderson, and called by him White, 
Lac, — — — _ — 383 
re-la of the Chinese , observations on a wax-like substance re- 
sembling it, - _ _ - 383 
Pendulum, account of a new one, - - - 2 
Photometer , description of an instrument so called, - 73 
Physiognomy , of the Egyptians, remarks on, - - igo 
Presents received by the Royal Society, from November, 1 793, 
to J ul y> 1794* - - - - 441 
o 
Quadrature of the circle, Dr. Halley’s, improved, - - 217 
R 
Pain, register of, at Lyndon, in Rutland, - - - 174 
Read, Mr. John. Experiments and observations made with the 
doubler of electricity, with a view to determine its real utility, 
in the investigation of the electricity of atmospheric air, in dif- 
ferent degrees of purity, _ _ _ -2 66 
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