INDEX. 
Stars, on those in Gemini, 
Hercules, 
Lacerta, 
Leo, 
Lepus, 
* Navis 
Orion, 
Pegasus, 
Steam , on its elastic force, - 
Survey , trigonometrical , carried on in the years 1795 and 1796, 
account of, - - 
particulars relating to the operations of 
page 
3°4 
- 300 
- 316 
305 
316 
3i7» 3 2 3 
3i § > 3 2 3 
3°t 
the year 1795, 
the year 1796, 
particulars relating to the operations of 
demonstration of M. de Lambre’s formula 
for reducing a distance on the sphere to any great circle near it, 
or the contrary, - 
calculation of the sides of the great tri- 
angles carried along the coasts of Dorsetshire, Devonshire, and 
Cornwall, ______ 
heights of the stations. Terrestrial refrac- 
tions, &c. 
secondary triangles, in which two angles 
only nave been observed, - 
— account of one carried on in Kent, in the 
years 1795 and 1796, 
287 
43 2 
434 
440 
450 
455 
463 
478 
507 
Telescope , reflecting , supposed to have been invented by Zucchius, 419 
Tendons , remarks on, - - - 19 
Tennant, Smithson, Esq. On the nature of the diamond, 123 
on the action of nitre upon gold 
and platina, - - - - - - 219 
Thompson, Sir Benjamin. See Count of Rumford. 
Tobias , remarks upon the means he used to cure his father’s blindness, 25 
Trees , a supplement to the measures of them, printed in the Philo- 
sophical Transactions for 1759, - - - 128 
table shewing the annual increase, in circumference, of dif- 
ferent kinds, - - - - 131 
Trigonometrical survey. See Survey. 
Troostwyk and Dieman , Messrs. Account of an experiment made 
by them. 
142 
