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Bartbollet, M. on the augmentation of
weight which fulphur, phosphorus, and
arfenic receive, when they are changed
into acids, 498. On the fpontaneous
decompofition of certain vegetable acids,
ib. On the caufticity of alcalies, and
of lime, ib.

Beryl, obfervations on that ftone, 497.
Bew, Mr. his obferv. on blindness, 252.
Billing fley, Mr. his methods of cultivat-
ing the potatoe, 134.

Blanchard's two aerial voyages, 269. See
Jeffries.

Bogle, Mr. recommends the practice of
tranfplanting wheat, 172.
Bones, remarkable petrified ones, dug up

at Chatham, 458. Of elephants, found
in various parts of Europe, 459, 462.
Account of a large bone found in the
earth at Paris, 495.

Borelli, Mr. his mem. on certain para-
doxes in eloquence, 488.
Botany Bay, an improper place for a thief-

colony, 475. The island of Triftan da
Cunba recommended for that purpose,
ib.

Britons, ancient, remarks on their landed
and commercial policy, 28. Of the
fame under the government of the Ro-
mans, 29. Under the Anglo-Saxons,
30. Under the Normans, 36. In
later times, 38.

Brogny, cardinal, his low origin, 360.
Brumsy's Greek theatre, improved edit.

of, 515.

Buck wheat, its ufes in hufbandry, 172.
Burns, a Scottish ploughman, his poetical
talents, 440. Specimens of his compo-
fitions, ib.

Bull, Mr. John, his exper. on fowing
turnips with beans, 170.

Bub-watch, a plant not fufficiently noticed
by Farmers, 171.

Cadwalader, the Welsh prince, his fu-
perftitious weakness, a.
Calvin, his character, 561.

Cancers, cured by eating lizards, in New
Spain, 534.

Canterbury, account of the three archiepif

cupal hofpitals at or near that city, 23.
Carrere, M. his acc, of a man who had a
periodical bloody flux, from his little
finger, 533. Of the method of curing
cancers in New Spain, 534. On a pre-
fervative against contagious diseases,
538.

Carrier, by fea and by land, how far an-
fwerable for the lofs of goods, 381.
Carrots, the culture of not yet fully under.
stood, 128.

Cartle, sheep, &c. remarks on the different
kinds and breeds of, 130.

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Cattle, horned, exper. relative to a difeafe
among them, in Italy, 378.
Cavern, remarkable fubterraneous one, un-
der the city of Paris, 414.
Chais, M. Charles, his excellent character,
565.

Chauffier, M. on the methods of deftroying
the chryfalis of filk-worms, 507. On

a cataract, accompanied with a diffolu
tion of the vitreous humour, 508.
Cicero, obferv. on his Tufculan queftions,
486.

City genies poetically defcribed, 312.
Cleanliness recommended in a fermen
preached on that virtue, 239.
Cloacina, Goddess, the mephitic vapours

arifing from her temples, philofophi-
cally and ufefully inveftigated, 525..
Clafe, Rev. Mr. his method of promoting
the growth of potatoes, 125. His ex-
periments on the culture of lucerne,
171. On planting wheat, in rows, al
ternately with potatoes, 417.

Colonies, and fettlements of European na«
tions in other parts of the world, ens
quiry into the earlieft accounts of, 528,
Hiftorical deduction of, 519.
Conception, or idea, explained, 332.
Cock, Capt. narrative of his death, by the
Surgeon of The Discovery, 96.

Copper Veffels, &c. exper. on the danger

of ufing them in pharmaceutical and
chemical preparations, 270.

Cern, in what manner hurtfully affected
by different plants growing among it,
536.

Cornette, M. on the action of phosphoric
acid upon oile, &c. 497.
Corbenius, M. his inquiry into the nature

and qualities of the red quinquina, 483.
Cotte, F. his meteorological observations,
533.

Colfer's Saturday-night, a Scottish poem,

442.

Cow, obf, rel. to the nat. hift. of, 410.
Crimes, and punishments, obf. rel. to, 413.
Cromwell, Oliver, genealogical view of the
family of, 26.

Curl, a difcafe among potatoes, obferv, on,
127.

Currie, Dr. his memoirs of Dr. Bell, 414.

Aubenton, M. his obf. on a large bone
found in the earth at Paris, 494-
On the causes of berborizations delineat-
ed on certain ftones, 495. On purga-
tive remedies for sheep, 539.

Defluxions of the breast, contagious, 505.
De la Lande, M. on the duration of the
folar year, 503.

Denina, Abbé, on the caufes of the diver-
fity of languages, 489. On the origin
of the German, 491.

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Doucet, Dr. his method of curing a ter-
fible puerperal fever, 532..
Dover, remarks on its antiquity, 272.
Durande, M. his method of propagating
foreign trees, 506. On the cure of a
cholic, complicated with fciatica, ib.

EArth, thoughts on its original forma-
tion and component parts, 13. Pro-
cefs of the feparation of land and wa
ter, &c. 14. Generation of fire, 15.
Univerfal Deluge, 16. Marine animals,
17. Seafons of the year, 18. Strata, 19.
Volcanos, Giant's caufeway, &c. 21, 22.
Antiquity of, inferred from petrifactions
of animal fubftances, 458.
Eaft India Company, their shipping invef-
tigated, 308.

Education, obfervations an, 254.
Edward III. his tyrannical behaviour to
the Welsh princes, 5.
Edwards, Dr. his illuftrations of Xena-
phon's Socrates, 291. Farther account
of, 427.

Egypt, fome account of, 298. Pyramids,
299. Climate, 3c0. The plague never
originates there, ib,

Elaftic tone. See Gerbard,
Elerical machines, made of taffeta, with
out glass, 521.

Electricity, obf, on the different methods
of adminiftering it medicinally, 540.
Ellis, Mr. the naturalift, account of his
ftudies, 211. His natural history of

curious zoophytes, ib.
Eloquence confidered, 488. Paradoxes in,

ib.

Encaustic painting, with wax, method of
operating in, 540.

Epidemic difeafes, curious mem. rel. to, by

Dr. Raimond, 536. M. Carrere's acc.
of a prefervative against, 538.
Eternity of future punishments, the doc-
trine of, objected to, 367.
Erber, vitriolic-nd nitrous-effects of,
in the animal œconomy, 549.
Erbics, an important point in, difcuffed,
337.

FAlconer, Dr. his rem. on the knowledge

of the ancients, 256, Inquiry inta
the influence of the feenery of a country
on the manners of its inhabitants, 411.
On the ftyle and tafle of gardening
among the ancients, 412.
Fever, puerperal, ace. of a remarkable one
which raged in France, 5,2. Succeff
ful method of treating it, ib. Miliary,
enquiry into the existence of, effential in
its principle, and with what characteris-

tics, 537.

Fire, elementary nature of, 463. Its af-
finity with pure air, 518.

Fixlmillner, M. his acc. of the planet re-
difcovered by Herschel, 481.
Fluxions, firft invented by Newton, 328.
Formey, M. his philof. confiderations on
the Tufculan quetions of Cicero, 486.
Fothergill, Dr. Antony, recommends the
application of chemistry to agriculture,
174. His obf. on longevity, 253.
Fougerous, M. on the mephiticism of
privies, 494.

Franklin, Dr. B. his letter on the different
quantities of rain that fall at different
heights, on the fame spot of ground, 412.
Free Mafonry, curious fermon in praise of,
476.

Furnaces, portable. See More.

GAberlunzie-man, an ancient Scottish
poem, account of, 287.

Galen, the prince of anatomists, 324.
Geneva, learned men produced there, 563,
565.

Gentil, M. le, on the origin of the zodiac,
503.

Gerbard, M. his account of the properties
of a new kind of flexible ftone, 484.
Giant's Cauferay compofed of bafaltes, 280.
Foffils found in, 281.

Girod, Dr, on abufes in the practice of
inoculation, 538.

Godart, M. on the origin of the bodies of
ice that are carried down great rivers, in
hard frofts, 508.

Gold, faid to be really diffoluble in the
nitrous acid, 508.

Grange, M. de la, mathematical papers by,
in the Berlin Memoirs, 485.
Greece indebted to the Hetrurians for her
fkill in the fine arts, 569.

Greeks, ancient, account of them, in private
life, 491

Green, method of preparing a new kind of
that colour, 351.

Greenland, obferv. on the health of perfons
who have wintered there, 252.
Grenville, Mr. his description of an appa.
ratus for enabling blind perfons to per
form arithmetical operations, 422.
Gryffidth ap Cynan, the Welsh prince, his
character, 3.

Hall, Mr. his attempt to fhew that a

tafte for the beauties of nature, &c.
has no influence favourable to morals,
348.
Halé, M. his Inquiry into the nature and

effects of the mephitic vapour arifing
from neceffary-houfes, 525.

Harriot, Mr. his method of inclosing
Rufhley ifland, defcribed, 419.
Hazard, Mr. his fu-cessful method of cule
tivating potatoes, 125.
Heat, remarks on the compofition of. 352.
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Philof, exper. relative to, 483. On
augmenting the action of fire and heat,
in chemical operations, 499. Experi-
ments on the elafticity and diftribution
of heat, 543.

Hebrides, general view of the forlorn fitua
tion of their inhabitants, 259. Reme-
dies for, fuggefted, 265.
Henderson, the actor, anecdotes of his life,
&c. 356.

Henry, Mr. his obf, on literature and phi-
lofophy, 343

Herbaldown, hofpital, fome account of, 23.
Herodotus, his character, as drawn by Dr.
Gillies, 7.

Herfchel, Mr. his planet (fo called) ob
ferved by former astronomers, 481.
Hetrurians, ancient, the mafters of the
Greeks, with respect to the fine arts,
568.

Hipparchus, the firft aftronomer who pre-
cifely determined the duration of the
tropical year, 503.
Hippocrates the first author who treated
anatomy fcientifically, 324.
Hippopotamus, fuppofed remains of (petri-
fied), dug up, near Chatham, 458.
Hiftory, univerfal, the Rudy of, how ren-
dered eafy and agreeable, 511.
Horfes, for the road, rem. on the moft ufe
ful breed of, 130. Croffing the breed
recommended, ib.

the nature of the faliva of, chemi-
cally investigated, 534.
Howard, Mr. encomium on the scheme
for erecting a flatue in honour of him,
224.

Hunter, Dr. W. his fruitless application to
government, for a piece of ground, for
the foundation of an anatomical school,
469.

Hunting, and shooting, apology for, 349.

James V. of Scotland, his poetry, 287.

Ideas of the human mind, different
theories of, 244.

Jeffries, Dr. his narrative of what paffed
in two balloon voyages, in company
with Blanchard, 269.

Infinite, in mathematics, what, 328.
Jobnfoa, Dr. Samuel, remarks on his cha.
racter, and on his writings, 455.
Jobafone, Dr. his account of the life of
Dr. Gregory, 256.

Jordan, Mrs. compared with Mrs. Siddons,
67,

Ireland, fome interefting periods of the
history of, reviewed, 39. Prefent po-
pulation of, eftimated, 145.
Ifland, curious method of inclofing a fmall
one, to refift the violence of the fea,
419.

Judgment, metaphyfically confidered, 335.

Kirshaw, Mr. his paper on the compar

merit of the ancients and moderns,
with respect to the imitative arts, 254.

Languages, inquiry concerning the di.
verfity of, 491.

Landen, Mr. his paper on the rotatory
motion of bodies, 213.

Lavoifier, M, on the nature of elaftic
aeriform fluids, 494. On a method of
confiderably augmenting the action of
fire and heat, in chemical operations,
499. On the effects produced on pre-
cious ftones, by a violent degree of heat,
500. On the combination of nitrous
with refpirable air, 501. On other
chemical fubjects, 502. On the effects
of vitriolic ether, and nitrous ether, in
the animal economy, 542.

Le Clerc, John, his great character, as a
critic, 504.

Life, animal, phyfiologically and philofo-
phically inveftigared, 509.

Linnæus, his differtation on the fexes of
plants, gains the prize offered by the
Imperial Academy of Petersburgh, 267.
Literature, &c. advantages of, 342.
Lizards, American, ufed for the cure of
cancers, &c. 534.

Llewelyn ap Gryffydıb, a Welsh prince, his

humiliating fubmiffion to Edw. III. 4.
Lobelia Syphilitica, its efficacy in the cure
of the venereal difeafe, &c. 535.
Locke, Mr. his acc. of the origin of our
ideas controverted, 331. His hypothefis
concerning judgment, 336.

Long, Dr. hiftory of his publication on
aftronomy, which was near 50 years in
the prefs, 273. Review of its contents,

274.

Longevity, obf. on, 253.

Love, ancient and modern, poetically con-
trafted, 43.

Lucerne, exper. on the culture of, 171.
Lues Venerea cured by a plant growing in
Canada, 535.

MAclaine, Dr. difference between him

and M. Vanden Befch, relative to the
subject of one of the Teylerian Prize-
differtations, 399.

Mad-dog, remarks on the feveral methods
of cure for the bite of, 77.
Man, the intellectual powers of, general
divifions of, 196. Investigations of,
199, 241.
Mango-tree, by whom brought into the
Weft Indies, 427. Thrives well in Ja-
maica, 427.

Mart, M. on the contagious quality of

fome kinds of fluxions on the breaft,
505. On the great mift in the fummer
of 1783. 507.

Matter,

Matter, and space, philof. notions concern-

ing, 249-250. Animal matter, origin
and nature of, 510.
Mauduyt, M. on medicinal electricity,
540.

Merbiticism of privies.

See Fougeroux.

See Lavoifier. See Hallé.
Metcalf, John, a blind man, employed as

a furveyor of highways, 253. His ex-
traordinary fagacity, jb.
Meteorological obf, rel, to the lunar period
of 19 years, 533. To two Chaldean
periods, 552.

Meunier, M. his improvement on the hy-
draulic bellows of Lavoifier, 500.
Mind, of man, the operations and facul-
ties of, 199. Subject continued, 241.
On the pleasure which it receives from
contemplating fcenes of diftrefs, 347.
Of the power of mind over bodily fenfa
tion, 415.

Mift, experimental acc. of the remarkable
one that happened in June and July
1783, 507.

Monnier, M. le, on oppofite currents of
air, by which aeroftatic machines are
affected, 502.

Morals, first principles of, 337.
More, Mr. his improvement of portable
furnaces, 421.

Murphy, Mr. tranflates Vida's Game of
Chefs, into English, 372. And Pope's
Temple of Fame into Latin, 374. His
tragedy of The Rival Sifters (never acted)
account of, 375. His works collected,
ib.

Mufbroom, inftances of the deadly effects
of a fpecies of, 535.

- how cured, ib.
Mufic, critical obferv. on feveral points
relative to the art of 105-112. The
fubject refumed, 174.

Nature, Mr. O'Gallagher's notions of
the first principles of, 189.

the fecrets of, revealed, 573.
Negro flavery, controverfy rel. to, 317,364.
Noftock, account of that fubftance, 506.
Nova Scotia, present state of, 282. Free-
dom, in respect to the government of,
ftrongly recommended, 285.

Richalcum, account of, 255.

Offian, tranflated from Macpherfon's
edition, into Italian, specimens of, 557.

Painting, encauftic. See fiori.

Perception, philofophical explication
of, 199. Organs of, 241. Different
hypothefes concerning, 242. Reflexions
on, 245. Objects of, 248. Some mif-
takes that have prevailed on this fubject,
pointed out, 249.

Percival, Dr. his obfervations on the dif
ferent quantities of rain that fall, from
different heights, over the fame fpot of
ground, 411.

Period, lunar, of 19 years. See Cotte. See
Meteorology.

Petrifactions, of animal fubftances, obfer.
vations on the vast space of time requi
fite to their becoming totally changed in
their texture, 458.

Picco, M. on the deadly effects of the
Agaricus conicus, 535.

Place, M. de la, his theory of the attrac
tion of fpheroids, &c. 502.
Plague, ufeful hint relative to, 527.
Poetry confidered, as diftinguished from
profe, 343.

Polier, Mr. his effay on the pleafure which
the mind receives from the exercife of
its faculties, 345. Tribute to the me-
mory of the author, 346.

Polype, a fingular one described, 121.
Pope's Temple of Fame, tranflated into Latin
by Mr. Murphy, 374. Specimen of,
ib.

Potatoes, experiments relative to the cul-
ture of, 124. Method of curing a par-

ticular disease to which that vegetable is
liable, 127.

Pratt, Mr. characterized as a poet, 289.
Prevoft, M. his comparison of the econo-
my of ancient and modern flates, 487.

Rikes, Mr. (of Glocefter) the original
inftitutor of Sunday schools, 52.
Ram, philofophical obfervations relative

to, 412.

Reasoning, that faculty philofophically con-
fidered, 338.

Rees, Dr. his improvements in the Cyclo-
pedia of Mr. Chambers, 323-331.
The fubject continued, 401. Criticism
on a particular paffage, 406.
Regeneration, obfervations on that of ani-
mal fubftances, 253.

Retirement, poetical addrefs to, 290.
Rbodes, Mifs, her curious methods of ma
naging filk worms, 422.

Rhubarb, its ufes, exclufive of medicinal
purposes, 524.

Robins, Mr. obtains a prize medal, for
raifing the greateft quantity of turnip-
rooted cabbage, 418.

Romans, ancient, account of them in pri-
vate life, 491.

Rouleau, J. J. his strange character, 565.
Roy, General, his account of the mealure-

ment of a bafe on Hounslow Heath, 217.
Rufb, Dr. his obfervations relative to
fevers, 258.

Ruffia, the prefent Emprefs of, her grand
and extenfive plans of empire and civil-
ization, 575.

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new kind of iron ore, 498. On a new
kind of mercurial ore, ib.
Sandford and Merton, good ftory from, 361.
Savary, M. extracts from his obfervations
on Egypt, 798.

Scheele, M. on the conflituent parts of
Tunglen, 542.

Scurvy, excited by fea falt, 252.
Sensation, mental, philofophical explica.
tion of, 200. The fubject farther con.
fidered, 246.

Senfes, philofophically inveftigated, 250.
Senfibility, animal, philofophically invefti.
gared, 509.

Shakspeare, account of Reed's edit. of, 81.
Farther account of, 161.
Sheep. See Daubenton.

Shipping. See Eaft Indies. See Carrier.
Silk-worms, great improvements in the
management of, 423. On the methods
employed to deftroy the chrysalis of,
507.
Skin, account of a remarkable alteration
in the colour of, from difeafe, 533.
Small-pox, abufes in the practice of inocu-
lation, 538.

Soliloquy of a voluptuary, 206.
Spallanzani, his controverfy with Lin-

næus, 266.

Spheroids, theory of the attraction of, 502.
Steam engine, as improved by Meffrs.

Watt and Boulton, account of, 402.
Stones, on which trees, plants, &c. appear
to be delineated, confidered, with a view
to account for the causes of fuch berbo-
rizations, 496.

Tung flen, experiments relative to the con◄
fituent parts of that metal, 542.
Turner, Mr. his effay on crimes and pu-
nishments, 413.

Turnip-rooted cabbage, beft mode of culti
vating, 171. Its excellence as food for
cattle, 171, 418. Peculiarly valuable
for refifting the feverity of winter, ib.
Turnips, the proper culture of, 179.

Anden Bofcb, M. his correfpondence
with the Monthly Reviewers, 399.
Vapours, an hypochondriac disorder, in-
quiry into the cause of, 514 Mephi
tic, fee Hallé. Ia rarified air, fee
• Wilke.

Vernify, F. his account of the Noftech,
506.

Vida's Game of Chefs, tranflated into Eng-
lifh by Mr. Murphy, 372. Specimen
of, 373.

Understanding, how influenced by the ima-
gination, &c. 408.

Volcanos, remarkable veftigia of ancient
eruptions of, in Italy, 377.
Voluptuary's foliloquy, 206.

WAg faff, Mr. his experiments on cul-
tivating heathy, &c. foils, 418.
Wales, a good hiftory of, 1. See also Cad-
walader, Gryffidth, &c.

Water, curious experiments on, to deter-

mine whether it undergoes any decom-
pofition, in paffing through hot tubes,
377

- "" philofophical experiments relative

10, 482.

Watson, Dr. his acc. of orichalcum, 255.
Watt, Mr. his invention of the fteam en-
gine, 401.

Sunday Schools recommended, 51, 237, Wedgwood, Mr. his mortars recommended,

395.

Afle confidered and illuftrated, 339.
Defined, 411. See alfo, Polier, and
Hall.

Telescope. See Wollafton.

Teffer, Abbé, his experiments relative to
the manner in which corn, &c. is af-
fected by different plants which grow
amongst it, 536.
Thucydides, his character, by Dr. Gil-
lies, 9.

Tonine, plan, of a periodical scheme of
that kind, for the benefit of persons of
all ages, 232.
Trees, for timber, account of a very great

number planted by Mr. White, in Dur-
ham, 416. Foreign trees, method of
multiplying, 506.

Trifan da Cunba, ifland «f, recommended
as a proper place to settle convicts upon,
475

for the ufe of Chemifts, &c. 271.
Wegulin, M. his memoir concerning
clear and obfcure notions relative to
biftory, 486. His account of Thuanus,
487.

Wheat, the practice of planting and tranf-
planting recommended from experi-

ments, 172.

Wbre, Mr. his cbfervations on a thigh-
bone, of uncommon length, 257.

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Mr. C. his paper on the regenera-
tien et animal fubftences, 253. On the
nat. hift. of the cow, 410.
-, Mr. Thomas, his excurfion through
a fubterraneous cavern at Paris, 414.

Mr. of Netnghamfhire, obtains a
prize-medal for planting the greatest
number of timber-trees, 416.
Whitmore, Mr. bis account of drilled crop■
of Barley, &c. 418.

Wilke, M. his experiments on the elafticity,
&c, of heat, vapour, &c. 513-

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