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Volume 63

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Volume 63

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An Account of the Discovery of the Manner of Making Isinglass in Russia; With a Particular Description of Its Manufacture in England, from the Produce of British Fisheries. In a Letter from Humphrey Jackson, Esq; F. R. S. to William Watson, M. D. F. R. S.

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A Leter to Charles Morton, M. D. Sec. R. S. from Mr. Adam Walker; Containing an Account of the Cavern of Dunmore Park, Near Kilkenny, in Ireland

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A Short Account of Some Specimens of Native Lead Found in a Mine of Monmouthshire: In a Letter from Michael Morris, M. D. F. R. S. to M. Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S.

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Farther Remarks upon a Denarius of the Veturian Family, with an Etruscan Inscription on the Reverse, Formerly Considered. In a Letter to Mathew Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S. from the Reverend John Swinton, B. D. F. R. S. Custos Archivorum of the University of Oxford, Member of the Academy Degli Apatisti at Florence, and of the Etruscan Academy of Cortona in Tuscany

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A Catalogue of the Fifty Plants, from Chelsea Garden, Presented to the Royal Society, by the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries for the Year 1771, Pursuant to the Direction of the Late Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. M. D. Soc. Reg. Nuper Praeses: By Stanesby Alchorne, Member of the Said Society of Apothecaries in London

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Extract of a Letter from Mr. Ebenezer Kinnersley to Benjamin Franklin, L L. D. F. R. S. on Some Electrical Experiments Made with Charcoal

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Account of an Experiment Made with a Thermometer, Whose Bulb was Painted Black, and Exposed to the Direct Rays of the Sun: In a Letter from Richard Watson, D. D. Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, and F. R. S. to Mathew Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S.

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A Report of the Committee Appointed by the Royal Society, to Consider of a Method for Securing the Powder Magazines at Purfleet

Cavendish, H., Watson, W., Franklin, B., Robertson, J., Wilson, Benj.

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Observations upon Lightning, and the Method of Securing Buildings from Its Effects: In a Letter to Sir Charles Frederick, Surveyor-General of His Majesty's Ordnance, and F. R. S. By Benjamin Wilson, F. R. S. & Ac. R. Ups. Soc.

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A Letter to Sir John Pringle, Bart. Pr. R. S. on Pointed Conductors

Cavendish, H., Watson, W., Franklin, B., Robertson, J.

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Astronomical Observations Made at Chislehurst in Kent, by the Reverend Francis Wollaston, F. R. S.

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A Letter from Dr. Ducarel, F. R. S. and F. S. A. to William Watson, M. D. F. R. S. upon the Early Cultivation of Botany in England; And Some Particulars about John Tradescant, a Great Promoter of That Science, as Well as Natural History, in the Last Century, and Gardener to King Charles I

Ducarel, And. C.

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De Intenso Frigore Mensibus Januario 1767 ac 1768, & Novembri 1770, Observato Franequerae, Auctore J. H. Van Swinden, Philos. Profess. in Academia Franeker. Societ. Harlemo-Hollandicae. Socio.

van Swinden, J. H.

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An Inquiry into the Quantity and Direction of the Proper Motion of Arcturus; with Some Remarks on the Diminution of the Obliquity of the Ecliptic: By Thomas Hornsby, M. A. Savilian Professor of Astronomy in the University of Oxford, and F. R. S.

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New Observations upon Vegetation. By Mr. Mustel of the Acad. of Sciences at Rouen; Translated from the French

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Actual Fire and Detonation Produced by the Contact of Tin-Foil, with the Salt Composed of Copper and the Nitrous Acid. By B. Higgins, M. D. Communicated by R. Brocklesby, M. D. F. R. S. and of the Royal College of Physicians in London

Higgins, B., Brocklesby, R.

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Extracts of Some Letters, from Sir William Johnson Bart. to Arthur Lee, M. D. F. R. S. on the Customs, Manners, and Language of the Northern Indians of America

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An Account of Some Curious Fishes, Sent from Hudson's Bay; By Mr. John Reinhold Forster, F. R. S. in a Letter to Thomas Pennant, Esq; F. R. S.

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Experiments upon the Different Kinds of Marle Found in Staffordshire, by William Withering, M. D. Communicated by Charles Morton, M. D. Sec. R. S.

Morton, C., Withering, W.

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A Letter from Patrick Brydone, Esq; To Sir John Pringle, Bart. Pres. R. S. Containing an Account of a Fiery Meteor, Seen on the 10th of February Last; And Also of Some New Electrical Experiments. Dated Eccles, (in the Shire of Berwick) 7 July, 1772

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Some Account of a Fossil Lately Found Near Christ-Church, in Hampshire; in a Letter to Dr. Maty, Sec. R. S. from the Hon. Daines Barrington, Vice-Pres. R. S.

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A Description of a Rare American Plant of the Brownaeae Kind; with Some Remarks on This Genus. By Mr. Peter Jonas Bergius, F. R. S.

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Extract of a Letter from the Rev. Samuel Kirkshaw, D. D. Vicar of Leeds, and Rector of Ripley, in the County of York, to William Mountaine, Esq; F. R. S. Communicated by William Watson, M. D. and F. R. S.

Kirkshaw, S., Watson, W.

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Extract of a Letter from Paul Panton Esq; Of Plaswgyn in Anglesey, to the Honourable Daines Barrington, V. P. concerning the Increase of Population in Anglesey

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A Letter to the Rev. Nevil Maskelyne, F. R. S. Astronomer Royal, from Mr. Bailly, of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris: Containing a Proposal of Some New Methods of Improving the Theory of Jupiter's Satellites. Translated from the French, with the Original Underneath

Bailly, Mr., Horsley, S.

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A Letter from Mr. Bernard, of Deptford, to Mr. Robertson, Lib. R. S. Containing a Short Account of an Explosion of Air, in a Coal-Pit, at Middleton, Near Leeds in Yorkshire

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Extract of a Register of the Barometer, Thermometer, and Rain, at Lyndon in Rutland, 1772, by T. Barker, Esq; Communicated by Sir John Pringle, Bart. P. R. S.

Barker, T., Pringle, J.

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Observations on the Lagopus, or Ptarmigan; In a Letter from the Hon. Daines Barrington, V. P. R. S. to Mathew Maty, M. D. F. R. S.

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Account of the Effects of Lightning at Steeple Ashton and Holt, in the County of Wilts, on the 20th of June, 1772, Contained in Several Letters, Communicated by Edward King, Esq; F. R. S.

King, E., Eliot, L., Wainhouse, W., Pitcairn, R., Paradise, W.

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A Letter to Mathew Maty, M. D. Sec. R S.; Containing Some Observations on a Singular Sparry Incrustation Found in Somersetshire. By Edward King, Esquire, F. R. S.

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Experiments and Observations on the Singing of Birds, by the Hon. Daines Barrington, Vice Pres. R. S. In a Letter to Mathew Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S.

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An Account of the Tokay and Other Wines of Hungary, by Sylvester Douglass, Esquire: Communicated by Edward Poore, Esq, F. R. S.

Douglass, S., Poore, E.

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On the Figure and Composition of the Red Particles of the Blood, Commonly Called the Red Globules. By Mr. William Hewson, F. R. S. and Teacher of Anatomy

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Account of the Effects of a Thunder-Storm, on the 15th of March 1773, upon the House of Lord Tylney at Naples. In a Letter from the Honourable Sir William Hamilton, Knight of the Bath, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Naples, and F. R. S. to Mathew Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S.

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An Extract of a Letter from Dr. Nooth to Dr. Franklin, F. R. S. on Some Improvements in the Electrical Machine

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Properties of the Conic Sections; Deduced by a Compendious Method. Being a Work of the Late William Jones, Esq; F. R. S. Which He Formerly Communicated to Mr. John Robertson, Libr. R. S. Who Now Addresses It to the Reverend Nevil Maskelyne, F. R. S. Astronomer Royal

Jones, W., Robertson, J.

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An Essay, towards Elucidating the History of the Sea - Anemonies, by Abbe Dicquemare, Member of Several Academies, Professor of Experimental Philosophy, &c. at Havre de Grace. Communicated by Matthew Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S. Translated from the French

Dicquemare, A., Maty, M.

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Account of a New Hygrometer. By M. J. A. De Luc, Citizen of Geneva, F. R. S. and Correspond. Member of the Academies of Paris and of Montpellier

de Luc, M. J. A.

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Of the Electric Property of the Torpedo. In a Letter from John Walsh, Esq; F. R. S. to Benjamin Franklin, Esq; LL.D., F. R. S., Ac. R. Par. Soc. Ext., &c.

Walsh, J., Seignette, S.

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Anatomical Observations on the Torpedo. By John Hunter, F. R. S.

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Errata

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Errata

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