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Polar distance piece, description of, - - 390 
Presents received by the Royal Society, from November, 1794 
to July, 1795, - 593 
Q 
Quadrupeds, remarks on their eyes, - - 267 
Quicksilver, on the congelation of, - - 271 
R 
Rain, register of, at Lyndon, in Rutland, - - 410 
Ramsden, Mr. Remarks on the crystalline humour, - 2 
. his method of ascertaining the actual length of two 
steel chains, - 434 
Refraction , terrestrial, remarks on, - 586 
Reproduction of nerves, experiments on, - - 177,190 
Resistance of fluids, observations on, - - 24 
Richmond, Duke of, account of a trigonometrical survey car- 
ried on by his order, - - - 414 
Right ascension apparatus , description of, - -387 
Robertson, the Rev. Abram, A. M. The binomial theorem 
demonstrated by the principles of multiplication, - 298 
Rotation of Venus, observations on, - - 126, 149 
S 
Salisbury Plain, measurement of a base on, " - - 474 
— — deduction of the length of a base on, from that 
on Hounslow Heath, and connecting triangles, - 498 
Schro-eter, John Jerome, Esq. New observations in further 
proof of the mountainous inequalities, rotation, atmosphere, 
and twilight of the planet Venus, - - - 117 
Scott, Dr. Account of a kind of steel called Wootz, - 322 
Sheep , description of hydatids found in them, - - 205 
■ remarks on their eyes, - 267 
Sienna, account of a fall of stones near that city, - 1 03 
Smith, Mr. Pierce. Observations on the structure of the eyes 
of birds, - - 263 
Speaking pipe of a forty-feet telescope, description of, - 385 
Spermaceti, on the conversion of animal substances into a matter 
resembling it, - 239 
Spinal marrow, experiments on, - - - 184 
