guishing them, 281. On the proper feafon for pruning vines, 489. Birmingham, controversy relative
to the late riots there, 195. Blagden, Mr. his conclufions from facts relative to Pem- phigus, 159.
Books, lift of, recommended to the younger clergy, by the Bishop of Chester, 113. Sup- plement to the Bishop's lift,
Bolton, Mr. his directions to bo-
tanical students, in defcribing the genus Agaricus, 181. Bone manufactory, at White- chapel, described, 330. Borde, M. de la, fuppofed to have been affaffinated at Paris, 552. Briffon, M. his improved areo- meter, &c. 510. His effay on the uniformity of measures, &c. 512. Enquiry concern- ing the best fteel for receiving the magnetic virtue, 513. Browne, Dr. his ftrictures on
Lord Mon boddo's obfervations on the Greek tenfes, 290. Brydone, Mr. his account of Ætna controverted, 321. Buffon, M. de, his eulogy, 509. Burke, Mr. his political incon-
fiftencies pointed out, 87. Peter Pindar's fatiric Ode to Burke,' 210. Mr. B.'s po- litical principles impeached, 368. Bube, Mr. his effay on the po- pulation of Ireland, 69. Buxton waters, prescribed in pul- monary complaints, 140. Ob- fervations on that remedy, ib.
Camel, rate of the travelling of that animal. See Rennell. Canada, fituation of the Ameri- can Loyalists, fettled in that province, 135.
Cancer, remedy for, 450. Caffini, M. his Mem. on the tri- gonometrical operations per- formed in order to afcertain the difference between the me- ridians of Paris and Green- wich, 522. Cavallo, Mr. his defcription of a fimple micrometer for mea- furing fmall angles with the telescope, 62.
Chaptal, M. his obfervations on the process of making allum, 516. Charlemont, Lord, his account of a fingular cuftom at Mete- lin, 293. Charles, M. his inquiry into the principles of the differential calculus and particular inte- grals, 523. New inquiries
into the conftruction and li mits of finite differential equa- tions of the first order, ib. Charles II. obfervations on his character, and political con- duct, 416.
Chatham, Earl of, valuable col-
lection of anecdotes relative to the latter part of his life, 22. His mode of transacting bufi- nefs with the Admiralty board, 31. Children of the poor, the removal of, from their friends, &c. to be employed in manufactories, condemned, 348. China, extent and boundaries of that empire, 495. Inquiry whence originally peopled, 497. Religion of, 498. Their chronology, 501. Their aftro- nomy, 506. Chriftian writers, the primitive, vindicated from the charge of being enemies to philofophy and human learning, 12. Clarke, Dr. his account of a dan- gerous disease among the in- fants in the lying-in hofpi- tal, Dublin, 68.
Clathrus, fearlet, curious account of the motion of the fibres of that wonderful little plant, 184. Coffee, the cultivation of, in our
Weft Indies, recommended, 147. Methods of, ib. Coins, queftion propofed by the National Affembly of France, relative to an inva- riable standard of, 508. Re- marks on that fubject, by five gentlemen of the Royal Aca- demy of Sciences, ib. Conyngham, Hon. Mr. his de- fcription of the theatre at Sa- guntum, 296.
Cooke, Mr. his defcription of a fteam engine, 66. Cookfey, Mr. his defign of writ- ing the hiftory of Worcester- fhire, 320. Correfpondence with the Review- ers, viz. LAVENENSIS, on a paffag age in Ariftotle's Poetic, 119. A CONSTANT READ- ER, on a "New help to dif- courfe," 120. R. S. on the dilatorinefs of Reviewers, ib. LUCIUS, concerning a paper written by Dr. Cleghorn, on a "Cafe of inverted uterus,' 240. R. Y. on the exorbitant prices of pamphlets, 360. LA- VENENSIS, on Cypress, Cy- prus, Cyparifus, Camphire, &c.
Coulomb, M. his fixth memoir
on electricity, 512. Cowper, Mr. his particular de- fign in tranflating Homer, 432. Obfervations on, 433. Gene- ral character of his tranfla- tion, 434. Specimens of the work, with remarks, 435. Crumwell, Lord, his letter to the Earl of Shrewsbury, 4.
Dancing, art of, prohibited by the Methodists, 570. Desfontaines, M. his obfervations on the lotos of Lybia, 518. Digitalis purpurea, its medical attributes, 166.
Dog, fidelity of that honeft ani-
mal poetically noticed, 123. Du Hamel, M. his memoir on the art of feparating filver from copper by means of lead, 516.
Eaft Indies, tracts relative to the war there, and the Company's trade, 50. 98. 108. 250. 424. 443.
Eclipfe, the famous race-horfe, his form and proportions, 459. Electricity, experiments and cal-
culations relative to, 512. Elephant, the power and fury of this animal, when hard-preff- ed by the hunters, 422. Re- markable inftance of, 423. Etna, Mount, its high antiqui
ty, according to the accounts of Recupero and Brydone, dif- puted, 322.
below F Ferrar, Mr. Nicolas, his emi- nent character, 258. Ferriar, Dr. his account of a case of the hydrophobia, 157. Ferris, Dr. his account of a cafe of petechia fine febre, 158. Fires, in buildings, new inven-
tion for extinguishing, 281. Fleurieu, M. fuppofed to have
been affaffinated in Paris, 552. Flintoff, Mr. his letter to Mr.
Robfon, on the motion of the fibres in the clathrus, 184. Ford, Mr. his account of a ca- theter left in the bladder, &c. 159. Of an imperforated rec- tum, ib.
Dalby, Mr. on the longitudes of Fouchy, M. De, his eulogy, 509. Dunkirk and Paris, 56.
Fougeroux de Bondarey, M. his
Faxe Dr his in-
-vention of paper Stone, 482.
memoir on the detonation of falt of glass, when thrown, while in fufion, into water, 516.
Fourcroy, M. de, fupplement to
his elements of chemistry, &c. by whom written, 170. His memoir on azotic gas, &c. 171. His memoir on the combuf- tion of fome fubftances in oxy- genated muriatic acid gas, 513. His memoir on the phenomena which take place on the precipitation of metal- lic folutions made by ammo- niac, 515. Fox-glove. See Digitalis. France, the new conftitution of government there highly com- mended, 271. Mode of con- ducting general elections there, greatly preferable to the Eng- lifh, 273. Happy effects of the abolition of tithes there, 276. The protestant religion greatly promoted by the re- volution there, 281. Eng- lifh churches publicly encou- raged at Dunkirk, Bologne, and in Paris, ib. Obferva- tions on the prefent politics of France, 469. 548. 565. 567. Franklin, Dr. Benjamin, his cha- racter defended against a flan- derous ftory, propagated by one Landais, 97. Fraxinus ornus, botanical account of, 162. See alfo Manna. Free Mafonry, its beneficence ex- tended to the female fex, 582.
G Gardenftone, Lord, his travelling memorandums, 253. His re- commendation of milk warm from the cow, ib. Gauffen, M. his two memoirs on the comparative dilatation of mercury and fpirits of wine, 483.
Gellieu, M. De, his defcription of a new kind of bee-hive, 489. Gentil, M. his obfervations on the fpecies of fucus growing on the coaft of Normandy, 518. Aftronomical papers by him, in the last vol. of the Acad. of Sciences at Paris, 520. George II. his character, 29. Grain, Mrs. Phillips's obferva- tions on the high price of, 471. Granary, public, at Geneva, de- fcribed, 255.
Granite, effay on the formation of, 487.
Graves, Dr. his remarks on an inftance of meteorifmus ventri. culi, 158.
Guards, foot, obfervations relative to, 100. Reform of, urged, ib.
Haffenfratz, M. on hydrogenous
Hauy, Abbé, his memoir on the double refraction of Iceland crystal, 510.
his analytical method of refolving problems relating to the structure of crystals, 523. Henry IV. of France, anecdotes
relative to, 248. Horne, Bifhop, his ferious lamen-
tation on the general disbelief of the doctrine of the Trinity, 235. His cenfure of one of our universities, ib. Howard, John, the reformer of prifons, memoirs of his life, 298. His death, 299. His travels and writings, 302. Hudson's Bay Company vindi- cated against Mr. Umfreville, 135.
Hydrophobia, cafe of, with ap
pearances on diffection, 157. Obfervations on the prevention and treatment of, ib. See alfo Rabies Canina.
James II. his acceffion to the throne anticipated with horror, yet fuffered to take place with- out oppofition, 417. Idolatry, Chriftian, its innocen- cy, 580.
Jeaurat, M. his observations on an eclipse of the fun, June 4th 1788, 522. Johnson, Dr. Sam. anecdotes re- Jative to, 72. His opinion of marriage, 74. On the uni. verfities, ib. His account of the fhare which Cibber had in the Lives of the Poets, contra- dicted, 75. The perfon and character of Dr. Johnfon de- fcribed, 79. His opinion of party-voting, 367, the note. Jonah in the whale's belly, fpi-
ritualized and typified, 149. Jones, Sir William, his view of the boundaries of China, 495. Of the chronology of the Hin- dus, 501. On the antiquity of the Indian Zodiac, 505. Ireland, method of afcertaining the population of, 69. The Roman Catholics of, defended, 343 449. See alfo Beauford. Iron mok, the famous prifoner in the Baftile fo difguifed, fup- pofed to have been the elder brother of Lewis XIV. 557.
Kearney, Dr. his remarks on the
history of alphabetic writing, 289. Kentucky, in N. America, its pro- duce, 393. Principles on which that flate intends to complete its fyftem of jurisprudence, 398. Kirwan, Mr. his experiments on the alkaline fubftances used in bleaching, and on the colour- ing matter of linen yarn, 63. His letter to Lord Charlemont, on coal-mines, 66. See alfo Pouget.
Landais, Monf. his flander of the memory of Dr. Franklin re- futed, 97..
Lande, M. de la, fundry aftro- nomical papers by, in the me- moirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, 1783. 518, 519, 520.
Laffone, M. his eulogy, 509.. Lavoifier, M. on the combustion of iron in vital air, 170. Lee, Gen. Charles, fketch of his character, 470.
Le Gendre, M. his calculation of the triangles between Green. wich and Paris, 522. On double integrals, 523. Levade, Dr. his account of a fpecies of Somnambulism occa- fioned by a blow, 483. His Report on a cafe of noctambula- tion, ib. On the nat. hift. of wafps, 484. On the baths of Louëch, 487. Lebfier, curious inftance of the averfion of that animal to the found of cannon, 127. Loftie, Mr. his obfervations on the prevention and treatment of the hydrophobia, 157- Longitudes of Dunkirk and Paris deduced. See Dalby. Lonsdale, Lord, Peter Pindar's conciliatory verfes to, 211. Lotteries, ftate, a favourite mode of gambling with the common people of Rome, in the prefent age, 225. Ruinous effects of, ib.
Louch, account of the baths of, 487.
Luynes, Cardinal, his eulogy, 509. His freedom from bi gotry, ib.
Manna, account of its produc- tion from the flowering afh, &c. 162. Medical properties of this fubftance, 165.
Manfion-house, old, in ruins, po- etic lamentation over, 121. Manuel, M. cenfured for his col- lection of Mirabeau's letters, 491.
Map of the world, attempt to conftruct one, on a very large fcale, 425.
Marck, M. de la, his memoir on
the nutmeg-tree, 517. Marefbal powder, jeft concern-
ing, 566. Marfeilles, the inhabitants of, uncommonly profperous and happy, 254.
Mary of Scots, committed to the cuftody of the Earl of Shrewsbury, 5. His complaint of expences incurred on that account, 6. Her wine-baths, ib. Other enormous charges, 7.
May, Dr. William, his corre- spondence with Dr. Percival, on the phthifis pulmonalis, 138. Medicus, M. Fred. Cafimir, his memoir on the formation of mushrooms, 484. Memory, pleafures of, poetically defcribed, 121. Metelin, fingular cuftoms of the women there, who have ar- rogated the privileges of the men, 293. Suppofed to have formerly constituted an Ama- zonian commonwealth, 295. Minish, Mr. account of his ma- nufactory of bone ash, 330, the
Minifters, of Great Britain, fea-
fonable advice to, in regard to political reforms, &c. 373. Mirabe au, Count de, his extra- ordinary character, 492. Au- thentic edition of his letters,
494. Moderation in enjoyment, recom- mended to young perfons, 387. Monnier, M. his obfervations on
the folar eclipfe, June 15, 1787,
Pemphigus, facts relative to, 159. Percival, Dr. his obfervations on the nature and treatment of the Phthifis Pulmonalis, 138. On the caufes and treatment of the dropfy of the brain, 159. Phthifis Pulmonalis, remarks re-
lative to the proper treatment of that dangerous difeafe, 138. Pindar, Peter, his fatiric lines to Mr. Burke, 210. His conci- liatory verfes to Lord Lonf- dale, 211. His patriotic ad- drefs to Liberty, ib.
Pitt, Mr. advited how to pre-
vent a revolution in this country, 353. See alfo Mi- nifters.
Place, M. de la, his theory of
Jupiter's Satellites, 520. Poetical extracts in this volume,
viz. From Mrs. Radcliffe's Ro- mance of the Forest, 86.-The
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