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