{ "id": "bfa58579d0bf8d24678771b03bcda1e6e824c6ac", "text": "PRESENTS\n\nRECEIVED BY THE\n\nROYAL SOCIETY,\n\nFrom November 1816 to July 1817.\n\nWITH THE\n\nNAMES OF THE DONORS.\n\n1816.\n\nPRESENTS.\n\nNov. 7. Transactions of the Geological Society. Vol. III. London, 1816.\n\nAbhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften aus den Jahr 1804—1811. Berlin, 1815.\n\nOn the Lines that divide each semidiurnal Arc into 6 equal Parts, by W. A. Cadell, Esq. F. R. S. London and Edin. Edinburgh, 1816.\n\nAn Inquiry into the Causes of the Motion of the Blood, by James Carson, M. D. Liverpool, 1815.\n\nA Treatise on the Coal Mines of Durham and Northumberland, by J. H. H. Holmes, Esq. F. S. A. London, 1816.\n\nTransactions of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. Vol. XXXIII. London, 1815.\n\nMedico-Chirurgical Transactions. Vol. VII. pt. I. London, 1816.\n\nPrécis élémentaire de Physiologie, par F. Magendie. Tom. I. Paris, 1816.\n\nMémoire sur la Déglutition de l’Air atmosphérique, par M. Magendie.\n\nMémoire sur l’Œsophage, par M. Magendie.\n\nEssai sur les Probabilités, par M. le Comte Laplace. Paris, 1816.\n\nMemoir on the cutting Gorget of Hawkins. Translated from the Italian of Ant. Scarpa, by James Briggs, Esq. London, 1816.\n\nDONORS.\n\nThe Geological Society.\n\nThe Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin.\n\nW. A. Cadell, Esq.\n\nDr. James Carson.\n\nJ. H. H. Holmes, Esq.\n\nThe Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.\n\nThe Medical and Chirurgical Society of London.\n\nM. Magendie.\n\nLe Comte Laplace.\n\nJames Briggs, Esq.\n1816.\n\n**PRESENTS.**\n\nNov. 7. Journal des Mines, No. 227 and 228.\nJournal of Science and Arts. No. 3.\n\nThe Colonial Journal. No. 2.\nThe Monthly Review from July to October, and Appendix to Vol. LXXX.\nThe European Magazine, from July to October.\nThe Philosophical Magazine. No. 219—222.\nAnnals of Philosophy. No. 44—47.\nMémoire sur la Diffraction de la Lumière, par M. Fresnel.\n\nSupplement à la Théorie analytique des Probabilités, par Laplace.\n\nMémoire sur les Plantes auxquelles on attribue un Placenta central libre, et sur la nouvelle Famille des Paronychées, par August de Saint Hilaire. Paris, 1816.\n\nFlora Tonbridgensis, by T. F. Forster, Esq. London, 1816.\n\nTwo gold Coins, viz. Lions of King James I. & King James II. of Scotland, found in the Ruins of the Castle of Cadder.\n\nAstronomische Beobachtungen auf der Königlichen Universitäts Sternwart in Königsberg, von F. W. Bessel, Erste Abtheilung. Königsburg, 1815. fol.\n\nUntersuchung der Gross und des Einflusses des Vor- ruckens der Nachtgleichen, von F. W. Bessel. Berlin, 1815.\n\nNov. 14. Bibliotheca Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis Catalogus, 1757.\n\nA Treatise on the Nature and Cure of Gout, by Charles Scudamore, M. D. London, 1816.\n\nDec. 5. Des Vesaries, ou Maladies mentales, par J. R. Jacquelain Dubuisson. Paris, 1816.\n\nNotice sur les grandes Tables logarithmiques et trigonometriques calculées au Bureau du Cadastre sous la Direction du Cit. Prony. Paris, An 9.\n\nEclaircissemens sur un Point de l'Histoire des Tables trigonometriques par M. Prony. Paris, An 12.\n\nCompendium Florae Britannicae Auctore Jac. Edv. Smith, Eq. Aur. M. D. Londini, 1816.\n\nThe Philosophical Magazine for November.\nThe Monthly Review for November.\nThe European Magazine for November.\nAnnals of Philosophy, No. 48.\nTrattato dello Ariete idraulico del Caval. Brunacci. Milano, 1813.\n\nMetereologisches Jahrbuch von 1813, von Canonicus Augustin Stark. Augsburg, 1814.\n\nBeschreibung der meteorologischen Instruments, &c. von Canonicus A. Stark. Augsburg, 1815.\n\n**DONORS.**\n\nConseil des Mines.\nThe Managers of the Royal Institution.\nThe Editors.\nMr. G. E. Griffith.\n\nThe Editor.\nMr. Alex. Tilloch.\nDr. Thomas Thomson.\nM. Fresnel.\n\nM. le Comte Laplace.\nM. de St. Hilaire.\n\nThomas Forster, Esq.\nThe Barons of His Majesty's Exchequer in Scotland.\nProfessor Bessel.\n\nThe Royal College of Physicians.\nDr. Charles Scudamore.\nM. Dubuisson.\nM. Prony.\n\nSir J. E. Smith.\nMr. A. Tilloch.\nMr. G. E. Griffith.\nThe Editor.\nDr. Thomas Thomson.\nThe Chevalier Brunacci.\nC. A. Stark.\n1816.\n\nDec. 19. Essai sur l'Hygiène militaire des Antilles, par A. Moreau de Jonnes. Paris, 1816. 12°\n\nPrécis historique sur l'Irruption de la Fièvre jaune à la Martinique en 1802. 12°\n\nObservations sur les Géophages des Antilles. 12°\n\nRecherches expérimentales anatomiques, chimiques, &c. par M. J. A. Saissy. Paris et Lyon, 1808. 12°\n\nAnalysis of the Water from the ebbing and flowing Stream, discovered by boring in the Harbour of Bridlington, A.D. 1811, by Mr. Hume. London, 1816.\n\nExpériences sur la Flexibilité, la Force, et l'Elasticité des Bois, par Ch. Dupin. 4°\n\nNova Acta Regiæ Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis, Vol. VII. Upsal, 1815. 4°\n\nA Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Carlisle, by Samuel, Lord Bishop of that Diocese, in June, 1816. London.\n\nTransactions of the Geological Society. Vol. IV. pt. I. London, 1816. 4°\n\nJan. 9. Preservativi politici per tener lontana la Peste. Lettera di Fran. Gianpetri all' Eccel Duca d'Acroli. Napoli, 1816. 4°\n\nCollezioni di Trattati appartenenti all' Invenzione geometrica, di V. Flauti. Napoli, 1815. 8°\n\nA Journal of Science and Arts. No. 4.\n\nThe Monthly Review for December, 1816.\n\nAnnals of Philosophy, No. 49.\n\nThe Philosophical Magazine, No. 224.\n\nThe European Magazine for December.\n\nThe Nautical Almanack for 1817 and 1818. 8°\n\n16. Laurus Victoriæ et Oliva Pacis, decem Odis, a Joanne W. Remo. Leodii, 1815. 4°\n\nA Meteorological Table extracted from the Register kept at Kinfauns Castle, N.B.\n\nJan. 23. Nos. 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 of the Addenda et Corrigenda to the Edition of the Hippolytus Stephane-phoros of Euripedes, by the Hon. F. H. Egerton, &c. &c. &c. printed in 4° at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1796.\n\nFeb. 6. The European Magazine for January.\n\nThe Monthly Review for January and Appendix to Vol. LXXXI.\n\nThe Philosophical Magazine, No. 225.\n\nAnnals of Philosophy, No. 50.\n\nLilawati, or a Treatise on Arithmetic and Geometry, by Bhascara Acharya, translated from the original Sanscrit, by John Taylor, M.D. &c. Bombay, 1816. 4°\n\nDONORS.\n\nM. A. Moreau de Jonnes.\n\nM. J. A. Saissy.\n\nJoseph Jekyll, Esq.\n\nM. C. Dupin.\n\nThe Royal Society of Sciences at Upsal.\n\nThe Lord Bishop of Carlisle.\n\nThe Geological Society.\n\nSig. F. Gianpetri.\n\nSig. Flauti.\n\nThe Managers of the Royal Institution.\n\nMr. G. E. Griffith.\n\nDr. T. Thomson.\n\nMr. A. Tilloch.\n\nThe Editor.\n\nThe Board of Longitude\n\nMr. J. W. Remus.\n\nLord Gray.\n\nThe Hon. Francis Henry Egerton.\n\nThe Editor.\n\nMr. G. E. Griffith.\n\nMr. Tilloch.\n\nDr. Thomson.\n\nDr. John Taylor.\n1817.\n\nFeb. 12. Recherche du Plan osculateur et du Centre de Courbure d'une Ligne courbe en un Point donnée 4°\nMémoire sur la Théorie générale du Trace des Routes, par M. C. Dupin. 4°\n\n13. Recherches et Observations sur la Nevralgie faciale, par M. Meglin. Strasbourg, 1819. 8°\nAstronomisches Jahrbuch für das Jahr 1818, von J. E. Bode, &c., &c. Berlin, 1815. 8°\n\n20. A Table exhibiting the Oscillations of the Barometer, the Maximum and Minimum of the Thermometer, the Depth of the Rain, and the Course of the Wind, at Kinfauns Castle, North Britain.\n\n27. The modern Practice of Physic, exhibiting the Characters, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics, morbid Appearances, and improved Method of treating the Diseases of all Climates, by Robert Thomas, M.D.; with an Appendix by David Hosack, M.D. F. R. S. New York, 1817. 8°\n\nMar. 6. Mémoires de la Classe des Sciences mathématiques et physiques de l'Institut de France, Année 1812, 2de Partie. Paris, 1816. 4°\nAnnals of Philosophy, No. 51.\nThe Philosophical Magazine, No. 226.\nThe Monthly Review for February.\nThe European Magazine for February.\n\n13. A View of the Agricultural, Commercial, and Financial Interests of Ceylon; with an Appendix containing some of the principal Laws and Usages of the Candians, by Anthony Bertolacci, Esq. London, 1817. 8°\n\nTestamen Nosologicum, by Whitelock Nichol, M.D. From the London Medical Repository. Vol.VII.\nOutlines of Geology; being the Substance of a Course of Lectures delivered in the Theatre of the Royal Institution, by W. Thomas Brande. London, 1817. 8°\n\n20. Examinations of the Objections made in Britain against the Doctrines of Gall and Spurzheim, by J. G. Spurzheim, M.D. Edinburgh, 1817.\n\n27. Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscow, Tomes I.—IV. Moscow, 1811-1813. 8°\n\nSynopsis Praxis Medico-Obstetriciae quam Mosquæ exercuit Guil. M. Richter. Mosquæ, 1810. 4°\nOratio pro Munere Presidis adeundo in Conventu publico Societatis Physico-Medicae apud Universitatem Caesaream Mosquensem, institutæ die 3 Decem. An. 1810. habita a Guil. M. Richter. Moscow, 1810. 12°\nCommentationes Societatis Physico-Medicae apud Universitatem Literarum Caesaream Mosquensem institutæ. Vol. I. Pars 1.\n\nDonors:\nMr. Charles Dupin.\nM. Meglin.\nProfessor Bode.\nLord Gray.\nDr. David Hosack.\nThe Institute of France\nDr. T. Thomson.\nMr. A. Tilloch.\nMr. G. E. Griffith.\nThe Editor.\nA. Bertolacci, Esq.\nDr. Whitelock Nichol.\nMr. W. T. Brande.\nDr. J. G. Spurzheim.\nThe Imperial Society of Naturalists at Moscow.\nGuil. Mich. Richter.\n1817.\n\nPRESENTS.\n\nCommentationes ad Historiam et Philosophiam naturalem spectantes. Moscow, 1808. 4°\n\nZoognosia Tabulis synopticis illustrata in Usum Praelectionum Academiae Imperialis Medico-Chirurgicae Mosquensis edita, Auctore Gotthelf Fischer. Vol. I. Moscow, 1813. 4°\n\nProgramme d'Invitation à la Séance publique de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes, contenant la Notice d'un Animal fossile de Sibérie inconnu aux, par G. Fischer. Moscow, 1808. 4°\n\nNotice des Fossiles du Gouvernement de Moscow, servant de Programme pour inviter les Membres de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes à la Séance publique du 25 Octobre, par le Professeur G. Fischer. Moscow, 1810. 4°\n\nMémoire sur la Sodalite du Vésuve, par M. Le Comte Stanislas D. Borkowski, Apr. 17. De Latitudine Specula Manhemensis, Auctore H. J. Schumacher. Hauniæ, 1816. 4°\n\nA Journal of Science and the Arts, No. 5.\n\nThe Monthly Review for March.\nThe Philosophical Magazine, No. 227.\nAnnals of Philosophy, No. 52.\nThe European Magazine, for March.\n\nExtracts relating to some new mechanical Inventions, by Baron von Drais, MS.\n\nAn Inquiry into several Questions of Political Economy applicable to the present State of Great Britain. London, 1817.\n\nMay 1. An Essay on the Principles and Construction of Military Bridges and the Passage of Rivers in Military Operations, by Col. Sir H. Douglas, Bart., F. R. S. &c. London, 1816. 8°\n\nThe Monthly Review for April.\nAnnals of Philosophy, No. 53.\nThe Philosophical Magazine, No. 228.\nThe European Magazine for April.\n\nTransactions of the Horticultural Society, Vol. II. pt. 5. London, 1817. 4°\n\nAlgebra, with Arithmetic and Mensuration, from the Sanscrit of Brahmegupta, and Bhascara, translated by Henry T. Colebrooke, Esq. F. R. S. &c. London, 1817. 4°\n\nStoria naturale e generale dell' Etna, del Canonico Giuseppe Recupero. Catania, 1815. 2 Vols. 4°\n\nIl Mappamondo di Fra Mauro Camaldolese, descritto ed illustrato da D. Placido Zurla. Venezia, 1806. fol.\n\nA Treatise explanatory of a new System of Naval, Military, and Political Telegraphic Communication, by John Macdonald, Esq. F. R. S. &c. London, 1817. 8°\n\nDONORS.\n\nGul. Mich. Richter.\nProf. G. D. Fischer.\nLe Comte Borkowski.\nProfessor H. Schumacher.\nThe Managers of the Royal Institution.\nMr. G. E. Griffiths.\nMr. A. Tilloch.\nDr. Thomas Thomson.\nThe Editor.\nThe Baron von Drais.\nMr. Bertolacci, the Author.\nColonel Sir Howard Douglas.\nMr. G. E. Griffiths.\nDr. Thomas Thomson.\nMr. Alexander Tilloch.\nThe Editor.\nHorticultural Society of London.\nH. T. Colebrooke, Esq.\nAgatino Recupero.\nD. Placido Zurla.\nCol. John Macdonald.\nMay 15. Fu il Fuoco o l'Acqua che sottere Pompei ed Er-\ncolano, di C. Lippi. Napoli, 1816.\n\nPrincipi pratici di Meccanica applicati all' Utilita\npublici, di C. Lippi. Napoli, 1811.\n\nCorso di Scienze, Napoli, 1817.\n\nSulla Necessità d'una ragionata Organizzazione degli\nAffari facoltativi o scientifici nel Regno di Napoli,\ndi C. Lippi. Fol. 5 copies.\n\nExposizione de' Fatti che han avuto luogo nell' Aca-\ndemia di Scienzi di Napoli relativamente alla Sco-\nperta geologico-istorica, di C. Lippi. Fol. 5\ncopies.\n\nRapport fait à l'Institut, par M. de Prony, sur un\nMémoire descriptif de plusieurs Machines, à\nl'Usage de la Marine, construites à Rochefort\nd'après les Projets de M. Hubert, par M. C.\nDupin.\n\nThe Statutes of the Realm, printed by Command of\nHis Majesty King George the Third, in pursuance\nof an Address of the House of Commons of Great\nBritain, from original Records and authentic Ma-\nnuscripts. Vol. II. and III. 1816 and 1817. fol.\n\nFoedera, Conventiones, Letteræ et cujuscunque gene-\nris Acta publica inter Reges Angliæ et alios quosvis\nImperatores, Reges, Pontifices Principes, vel Com-\nmunitates ab ingressu Gulielmi I. in Angliam,\nA. D. 1066, ad nostra usque tempora habita aut\ntractata. Vol. I. Pars. I. et II. Ab anno 1066\nad annum 1307. 1817. fol.\n\nAbbreviationis Inquisitionum Retornatarum Supple-\nmenta, &c. 1816. fol.\n\nInquisitionum ad Capellam Domini Regis Retorna-\ntarum quæ in publicis Archivis Scotiæ adhuc\nservantur Abbreviatio. Vol. III. Printed by\nCommand of His Majesty, King George the\nThird, in pursuance of an Address of the House\nof Commons of Great Britain, 1816. fol.\n\nLibri Censualis vocati Domesday Book Additamenta\nex Codic. Antiquiss. 1816. fol.\n\nLibri Censualis vocati Domesday Book Indices.\n1816. fol.\n\nJune 5. Annals of Philosophy, No. 54.\nThe European Magazine for May.\nThe Philosophical Magazine, No. 229.\nThe Monthly Review for May, and Appendix to Vol.\nLXXXII.\nAstronomical Observations made at the Radcliffe Ob-\nservatory, from May 1, 1816, to May 1, 1817, by\nthe Rev. Abram Robertson, D. D. F. R. S. Savi-\nlian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford. MS. fol.\n\nDr. Thomas Thomson.\nThe Editor.\nMr. A. Tilloch.\nMr. G. E. Griffiths.\n\nDr. Robertson, by Di-\nrection of the Trustees\nof Dr. Radcliffe's will,\nJune 19. Hygiène militaire, ou Avis sur les Moyens de conserver la Santé des Troupes, par le Docteur J. R. Louis Kerckhoffs. Maastricht, 1815.\n\nDissertation sur l’Air atmosphérique et son Influence sur l’Economie animale, par le Dr. J. Rom. L. Kerckhoffs. Maastricht, 1816.\n\nTraité de Mécanique céleste, par P. S. Laplace. Tome Troisième. Paris, 1802.\n\nAnatomie der Roehren Holothurie des Pomeranz farbigen Seesterns und Stein Seeigels verfasst von Dr. Friedrich Tiedman, nebst zehn kupfer Tafeln nach der Natur gezeichnet, von Dr. Martin Munz. Landshut, 1816.\n\nCalendarium Anni 1411, ex Laminis ligneis perantiquis in Bibliotheca sua asservatis Arte lithographiae anno 1796, ab Aloisio inventae Descriptum edidit Car Erenbert L. B. De Moll.\n\nOn the Accidents which occur in the Coal Mines of Cornwall, in Consequence of the premature Explosion of Gunpowder in blasting Rocks, and on the Methods to be adopted for preventing it, by a safety Bar, and an Instrument termed the shifting Cartridge, by John Ayrton Paris, M. D. Penzance.\n\nJuly 3. Transactions of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. Vol. XXXIV. 1817.\n\nAn Address delivered at the Annual Distribution of Rewards, May 27, 1817.\n\nA Journal of Science and the Arts, No. 6.\n\nAnnals of Philosophy, No. 55.\n\nThe Philosophical Magazine, No. 230.\n\nThe European Magazine for June.\n\nThe Monthly Review for June.\n\nThe History of Java, by Thomas Stamford Raffles, Esq. London, 1817. 2 vols.\n\nEssai philosophique sur les Probabilités, par M. Le Comte Laplace, 3me édition. Paris, 1816.\n\nDr. Kerckhoffs.\n\nThe Count Laplace.\n\nBaron von Moll.\n\nDr. John A. Paris.\n\nThe Society of Arts.\n\nThe Managers of the Royal Institution.\n\nDr. Thomas Thomson.\n\nMr. Alexander Tilloch.\n\nThe Editor.\n\nMr. G. E. Griffiths.\n\nSir Thomas S. Raffles, Knt.\n\nThe Count Laplace.\nINDEX\n\nTO THE\n\nPHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS\n\nFOR THE YEAR 1817.\n\nA\n\nAmphibia, the circulation of the blood in this class described, 5\nArgonauta, notice taken of an error into which many naturalists have fallen, respecting the inhabitant of this shell, 297\nAstringent vegetable substance, observations on one from China, 39\n\nB\n\nBabbage, Charles, Esq. Observations on the analogy which subsists between the calculus of functions and other branches of analysis, 197\nBarometer, a description of a thermometrical one for measuring altitudes, 183\nBinomial theorem, note respecting the demonstration of it, inserted in the last volume of the Philosophical Transactions, 245\nBrande, William Thomas, Esq, Observations on an astringent vegetable substance from China, 39\n\nC\n\nCalculus of Functions, observations on the analogy which subsists between that and other branches of analysis, 197\na curious analogy which subsists between i and common algebra, 205\nCelestial bodies, astronomical observations and experiments\nINDEX.\n\ntending to investigate their local arrangement in space, and to determine the extent and condition of the milky way,\n\nChank, the mode in which the animal belonging to this shell sheds its eggs,\n\nColchicum autumnale, farther observations on the use of it in gout,\n\nCorpus luteum, notice taken of an error into which physiologists have fallen respecting it,\n\nD\n\nDAVY, EDMUND, Esq. On a new fulminating platinum,\n\nDAVY, SIR HUMPHRY, LL.D. Some researches on flame,\n\nSome new experiments and observations on the combustion of gaseous mixtures, with an account of a method of preserving a continued light in mixtures of inflammable gases and air without flame,\n\nDAVY, JOHN, M,D. Observations on the temperature of the ocean and atmosphere, and on the density of sea-water, made during a voyage to Ceylon,\n\nDifferences, two general propositions in the method of them\n\nDUPIN, CHARLES, (correspondant de l'Institut de France) de la structure des vaisseaux Anglais, considérée dans ses derniers perfectionnements,\n\nE\n\nEquations, differential, in what the most extensive methods of integrating them, consists,\n\nEquation, functional, admits of three species of solutions,\n\nF\n\nFishes, the circulation of their blood described,\n\nFixed stars, on their parallax,\n\nFlame, some researches on it,\n\nG\n\nGalvanism, its effects in restoring the due action of the lungs, employed with success in many cases of habitual asthma,\n\nGaseous mixtures, some new experiments and observations on their combustion, with an account of a method of preserving a continued light in mixtures of inflammable gases and air without flame,\nINDEX\n\nGases, on the effects of the mixture of different gases in explosion and combustion, 58\nGastric glands, notice taken of a peculiar structure in those of the Java swallow, 335\nobservations on those of the human stomach, and the contraction which takes place in that viscus, 347\nGlossopora, a name given to a new genus of animals hitherto retained in the genus hirudo, 339\ncharacter of this genus, 340\nGout, farther observations on the use of the colchicum autumnale in that complaint, 262\n\nH\n\nHatchett, Charles, Esq. A description of a process by which corn tainted with Must, may be completely purified, 36\nHelix janthina, deposits its ova upon its own shell, 299\nHerschel, Sir William, Knt. Guelp. Astronomical observations and experiments tending to investigate the local arrangement of the celestial bodies in space, and to determine the extent and condition of the milky way, 302\nHirudo complanata, and hirudo stagnalis, observations on those animals, now formed into a distinct genus under the name Glossopora, 339\nvulgaris, observations on it, 13\ntheir mode of propagation, 14\n\nHome, Sir Everard, Bart. An account of the circulation of the blood in the class Vermes of Linnæus, and the principle explained in which it differs from that in the higher classes, 1\nAn account of some fossil remains of the rhinoceros, discovered by Mr. Whitby, in a cavern enclosed in the limestone rock from which he is forming the Breakwater at Plymouth, 176\non the passage of the ovum from the ovarium to the uterus in women, 254\nfarther observations on the use of the colchicum autumnale in gout, 262\nThe distinguishing characters between the ova of the sepia and those of the vermes stacea that live in water, explained, 297\nSome account of the nests of\nINDEX.\n\nthe Java swallow, and of the glands that secrete the mucus of which they are composed, 332\n\nObservations on the gastric glands of the human stomach, and the contraction which takes place in that viscus, 347\n\nI.\n\nJava swallow, some account of the nests of that bird, and of the glands that secrete the mucus of which they are composed, 332\n\nthe nests of this bird believed by the Chinese to possess an aphrodisiac virtue, 332\n\nan analysis of the substance of which the nests of this bird are formed, 336\n\na peculiarity in the structure of the gastric glands of this bird, 335\n\nJohnson, James Rawlins, M.D. Observations on the hirudo vulgaris, 13\n\nObservations on the hirudo complanata and hirudo stagnalis, now formed into a distinct genus, under the name Glossopora, 359\n\nK\n\nKnight, Thomas, Esq. Of the construction of logarithmic tables, 217\n\nTwo general propositions in the method of differences, 234\n\nNote respecting the demonstration of the binomial theorem inserted in the last volume of the Philosophical Transactions, 245\n\nKnight, Thomas Andrew, Esq. Upon the extent of the expansion and contraction of timber in different directions relative to the position of the medulla of the tree, 269\n\nL\n\nLeach, William Elford, M.D. Observations on the genus ocythoë of Rafinesque, with a description of a new species, 293\n\nLogarithmic tables, of the construction of them, 217\nINDEX.\n\n*Lumbricus marinus*, a description of the circulation of the blood in that animal,\n\n*terrestris*, the circulation of the blood in this animal described,\n\nM\n\n*Mailles*, de leur remplissage,\n\n*Mammalia*, the double circulation of the blood in this class described,\n\n*Menstruation*, a case adduced to prove that it is not necessary to impregnation,\n\n*Milky way*, of its construction and extent,\n\n*Muller*, his description of a contest between an hirudo and a limax,\n\n*Must*, a description of a process by which corn tainted with it, may be completely purified,\n\nO\n\n*Ocean and atmosphere*, observations on their temperature, and on the density of sea-water, made during a voyage to Ceylon,\n\n*Ocythoe of Rafinesque*, observations on that genus, with a description of a new species,\n\n*Cranchii*, a description of it given,\n\n— considered as a species of sepia, and not the original inhabitant of the argonaut shell,\n\n—in what respect it differs generically from the polypus,\n\n*Oong poey*, a description of a species of galls so called, used by the Chinese in dying black,\n\n— found to contain a greater quantity of tannin than any other vegetable astringent in common use,\n\n— unfit for the purposes of tanning, from the want of extractive matter,\n\n*Ovum*, on its passage from the ovarium to the uterus in women,\n\n— from the human ovarium, description of it under a microscope,\n\nP\n\n*Philip, A. P. Wilson, M. D.* On the effects of galvanism in restoring the due action of the lungs,\n\nMDCCCXVII.\nINDEX.\n\nPlatinum, on a new fulminating compound of it, - 136\nPlatinum, fulminating, modes of obtaining it, - 138\nits properties, - 139\nits composition, - 146\ntheory of its formation and decomposition, - 155\nPond, John, Esq. On the parallax of the fixed stars, - 158\nan appendix to his Paper on parallax, - 173\non the parallax of the fixed stars. - 353\nPorques ordinaires, leur remplacement par des porques obliques, - 102\nPresentis, a list of those made to the Royal Society from November 1816, to July 1817, - 363\nProfundity, or local situation of celestial objects in space, of a criterion for ascertaining it, - 308\n\nR\n\nRarefaction, its effect, by partly removing the pressure of the atmosphere, upon flame and explosion, - 46\non the effects of it by heat on combustion and explosion, - 53\nRhinoceros, an account of some fossil remains of that animal, discovered by Mr. Whitby, in a cavern inclosed in the limestone rock from which he is forming the Breakwater at Plymouth, - 176\n\nS\n\nSepia, the distinguishing characters between the ova of that animal and those of the vermes testacea that live in water, explained, - 297\nSnails, experiments made by the late Mr. John Hunter, to ascertain their mode of breeding, - 299\nStarlight, of its equalisation, - 309\nStars, of their local situation in the heavens, - 303\nof a standard by which the relative arrangement of them may be examined, - 304\na comparison of the order of their magnitudes with the order of their distances, - 306\nINDEX.\n\nT\n\nTable mountain, notice taken of a curious phenomenon on the summit of it, 289\nTemperature of the sea, its diurnal change nearly as great as that of the incumbent atmosphere, 284\nis comparatively low where the water is shallow, 286\nis influenced by the effects of currents, 288\nThermometer, the use of it at sea strongly recommended, 291\nTimber, upon the extent of its expansion and contraction in different directions relative to the position of the medulla of the tree, 269\nTodd, John T. Esq. An account of some experiments on the torpedo electricus, at la Rochelle, 32\nTorpedo electricus, an account of some experiments made on it at la Rochelle, 32\n\nV\n\nVaigrage, son suppression, 99\nVaisseaux, Anglais, de leur structure, considérée dans ses derniers perfectionnements, 86\nVaisseaux, ses forces latentes sont-elles augmentées par le nouveau système? 103\nVermes, an account of the circulation of the blood in that class, 1\nVermes of Linnæus, may be divided into five distinct orders, 6\nVision, natural, of its extent, 313\ntelescopic, of its extent, 318\nnatural and telescopic, application of their extent to the probable arrangement of the celestial bodies in space, 320\n\nW\n\nWollaston, Francis John Hyde, B.D. A description of a thermometrical barometer for measuring altitudes, 183\n\nFrom the Press of\nW. 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