Volume 37 (1731)

Front Matter

Anonymous (27 pages)

A Catalogue of the Fifty Plants from Chelsea-Garden, Presented to the Royal Society by the Company of Apothecaries, for the Year 1729; Pursuant to the Direction of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. Med. Reg. Praes. Col. Reg. Med. et Soc. Reg. by Isaac Rand, Apothecary, F. R. S.

Hans Sloane, Isaac Rand (5 pages)

A Description of the Water-Works at London-Bridge, Explaining the Draught of T a b. I. By H. Beighton, F. R. S.

H. Beighton (11 pages)

Epistola Continens Historiam Calculi in Vesica Sponte Fracti, et per Urethram Feliciter Excreti; ad Illustrem Generosissimumque Virum D. Fred. de Thom, Serenissimo Duci Brunsvicensiet Luneburgensi a Consiliis, Oratorem Ejus apud Potentissimum Magnae Britanni ae r egem, nec non R. S. S. a Laurentio Heistero, M. D. Prof. Botan. in Acad. Julia Helmstadii, et R. S. S. Conscripta

Laureatio Heistero (5 pages)

A Letter from the Reverend William Derham. D. D. Canon of Windsor, and F. R. S. to Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. Proes. Coll. Med. et R. S. concerning the Frost in January, 1730/1

William Derham (4 pages)

A Letter to Cromwell Mortimer, M. D. Secr. R. S. Containing Several Experiments concerning Electricity; By Mr. Stephen Gray

Stephen Gray (28 pages)

Curvarum Hyperbolicarum, oequationibus Trium Nominum Utcunque Definitarum, Quadratura Generalis Duplici Theoremate Exhibita á Do. Samuele Klingenstierna, Profess. Digniss. Math. in Acad. Upsal, et R. S. S. Communicante Do. Jacobo Stirling, Ejusdem Etiam Soc. Doctiss. S.

Samuele Klingenstierna, Jacobo Stirling (8 pages)

Casus Rarissimus Plicae Polonicae Enormis á D. Abrahamo Vatero, M. D. Prof. Anatom. Wittemberg. et R. S. S. per D. Conradum Sprengell, Equitem, M. D. R. S. S. et Coll. Med. Lond. Licent. Communicatus. Vid. Tab. II. Fig. 2

D. Conradum Sprengell (4 pages)

An Extract of a Letter from Sir Conrad Sprengell, M. D. R. S. S. & Coll. Med. Lond. Licen. to Dr. Mortimer; Wherein He Inclosed the Foregoing Account of the Plica Polonica; Together with an Article from the Brellam Sammlung von datur und Medicin, &c. Gelchichten upon the Same Subject, Translated from the High-Dutch by Dr. Mortimer, R. S. Secr.

Conrad Sprengell, Dr. Mortimer (4 pages)

An Account of an Unusual Agitation in the Magnetical Needle, Observed to Last for Some Time, in a Voyage from Maryland, by Capt. Walter Hoxton; Communicated in a Letter to David Papillon, Esq; F. R. S.

Walter Hoxton (3 pages)

Errata

Anonymous (2 pages)

An Account of an Aurora Borealis Seen in New-England on the 22d of October, 1730, by Mr. Isaac Greenwood, Professor of Mathematicks at Cambridge in New-England. Communicated in a Letter to the Late Dr. Rutty, R. S. Secr.

Isaac Greenwood (17 pages)

An Account of the Same Aurora Borealis, by Mr. Richard Lewis; Communicated in a Letter to Mr. Peter Collinson, F. R. S.

Richard Lewis (3 pages)

A New and Exact Table Collected from Several Observations Taken from the Year 1721 to 1729, in Nine Voyages to Hudson's Bay in North-America, by Captain C. Middleton; Shewing the Variation of the Compass According to the Latitudes and Longitudes Under-Mentioned, Accounting the Longitude from the Meridian of London. Communicated by Mr. Benj. Robins, F. R. S.

Benj. Robins, C. Middleton (6 pages)

Observations on the Weather, in a Voyage to Hudson's Bay in North-America, in the Year 1730, by Mr. Christopher Middleton. Communicated by the Same

Christopher Middleton (4 pages)

A Letter from Mr. Triewald, Director of Mechanicks to the King of Sweden, and F. R. SS. of England and Sweden, to Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. Pres. R. S. Relating to an Extraordinary Instance of the Almost Instantaneous Freezing of Water; And Giving an Account of Tulips, and Such Bulbous Plants, Flowering Much Sooner When Their Bulbs are Placed upon Bottles Filled with Water, as in Tab. II. Than When Planted in the Ground

Fr. Triewald (5 pages)

An Account of Some Experiments, Relating to the Flowering of Tulips, Narcissus's, &c. in Winter, by Placing Their Bulbs upon Glasses of Water, Made by Mons. Triewald, Director of Mechanicks at Stockholm, and F. R. SS. of England and Sweden, and Read before the Royal Society May the 7th, 1730, as They Were Tried the Next Season by Philip Miller, F. R. S. Gardiner to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, at Their Botanick Garden in Chelsea

Mons. Triewald, Philip Miller (5 pages)

A Letter from T. Madden, M. D. of Dublin, to Cromwell Mortimer, M. D. R. S. Secr. Giving an Account of Two Women Being Poisoned by the Simple Distilled Water of Laurel-Leaves, and of Several Experiments upon Dogs; By Which It Appears That This Laurel-Water is One of the Most Dangerous Poisons Hitherto Known

T. Madden (18 pages)

Errata

Anonymous (2 pages)

An Account of Mr. James Christopher Le Blon's Principles of Printing, in Imitation of Painting, and of Weaving Tapestry, in the Same Manner as Brocades. By Cromwell Mortimer, M. D. S. R. Secret.

Cromwell Mortimer, James Christopher Le Blon (8 pages)

A Letter to Dr. Jurin, F. R. S. Giving an Account of the Condition of the Town of Hastings, after It Had Been Visited by the Small Pox

T. Frewen (2 pages)

A Catalogue of Eclipses of the Four Satellites of Jupiter, for the Year 1732. By James Hodgson, F. R. S. and Master of the Royal Mathematical School at Christ's Hospital, London

James Hodgson (16 pages)

A Letter to the President of the Royal Society, from Frank Nicholls, M. D. F. R. S. Giving an Account of a Polypus, Resembling a Branch of the Pulmonary Vein, Coughed up by an Asthmatic Person

Frank Nicholls (5 pages)

An Account of an Experiment Explaining a Mechanical Paradox, Viz. That Two Bodies of Equal Weight Suspended on a Certain Sort of Balance [As in Tab. Fig. 2.] Do Not Lose Their Aequilibrium, by Being Removed One Farther from, the Other Nearer to the Center. By the Rev. T. J. Desaguliers, L. L. D. & F. R. S.

T. J. Desaguliers (7 pages)

De Ingenti Sanguinis Vomitu perquam Gelidissimis Brumali Tempore Potionibus Curato, Observatio ad Regiam Scientiarum Londinensem Societatem á Petro Antonio Michelotto M. D. R. S. S. Transmissa

Petro Antonio Michelotto (18 pages)

The Description of a New Instrument for Taking Angles. By John Hadley, Esq; Vice-Pr. R. S. Communicated to the Society on May 13. 1731

John Hadley (16 pages)

An Extract of a Dissertation De Stylis Veterum, & Diversis Chartarum Generibus, [by the Hon. Sir John Clerk, One of the Barons of the Exchequer in Scotland, and F. R. S.] By Roger Gale, Esq; Vice-President and Treasurer R. S.

John Clerk, Roger Gale (8 pages)

Some Experiments concerning the Poisonous Quality of the Simple Water Distilled from the Lauro-Cerasus, or Common Laurel, Made upon Dogs, at Toppingo-Hall in Essex, August the 24th 1731. and Others Made before the Royal Society in Their Repository. By Cromwell Mortimer, M. D. R. S. Secret

Cromwell Mortimer (12 pages)

A Continuation of an Account of Mr. Mark Catesby's Essay towards a Natural History of Carolina and the Bahama Islands, with Some Extracts out of the Fourth Set, by Dr. Mortimer, R. S. Secret

Mark Catesby, Dr. Mortimer (6 pages)

Observatio Eclipsis Solis Die 15 Julij 1730. Habita Pekini in Publico Ejus Regiae Observatorio á P P. Ignatio Kegler, & Andrea Pereyra Societatis Jesu, Communicata per Jacobum de Castro Sarmento, M. D. Coll. Med. Lond. Lic. & R. S. S.

Jacobum de Castro Sarmento, P P. Ignatio Kegler, Andrea Pereyra (8 pages)

Part of a Letter from Tho Short, M. D. to Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. Pr. R. S. concerning an Extraordinary Impostumation of the Liver

Tho. Short. (2 pages)

Errata

Anonymous (2 pages)

A Proposal of a Method for Finding the Longitude at Sea within a Degree, or Twenty Leagues. By Dr. Edmund Halley, Astr. Reg. Vice-President of the Royal Society. With an Account of the Progress He Hath Made Therein, by a Continued Series of Accurate Observations of the Moon, Taken by Himself at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich

Edmund Halley (12 pages)

An Account of the Contrayerva, by Mr. William Houstoun, Surgeon in the Service of the Honourable South-Sea Company

William Houstoun (13 pages)

A Letter from Jacob de Castro Sarmento, M. D. and F. R. S. to Cromwell Mortimer, M. D. Secr. R. S. concerning Diamonds Lately Found in Brazil

Jacob de Castro Sarmento (4 pages)

Viri Celeberrimi Johannis Marchionis Poleni, R. S. S. ad Virum Doctissimum Jacobum Jurinum, M. D. R. S. S. Epistola, Qua Continetur Summarium Observationum Meteorologicarum per Sexennium Patavij Habitarum

Johannis Marchionis Poleni (17 pages)

An Account of a Book

Richard-Middleton Massey, J. P. Breynij (4 pages)

A Botanical Invitation to Forward an History of the Plants of Swisserland; by Dr. John Jacob Scheuchzer, M. D. F. R. S. Sent to Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. Pr. R. S. to Be Communicated to the Royal Society. Translated by Mr. Zollman, F. R. S.

Hans Sloane, John Jacob Scheuchzer, Mr. Zollman (3 pages)

An Account of What Appeared Most Remarkable on Opening the Body of Ann Edwards, Who Died January 5th, 1729/30 Having a Large Umbelical Rupture. Communicated to the Society by John Ranby, Esq; Surgeon to His Majesty's Houshold, and F. R. S.

John Ranby (3 pages)

Errata

Anonymous (2 pages)

A Catalogue of the Fifty Plants from Chelsea-Garden, Presented to the Royal Society by the Company of Apothecaries, for the Year 1730; Pursuant to the Direction of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. Med. Reg. Praes. Col. Reg. Med. & Soc. Reg. by Isaac Rand, Apothecary, F. R. S.

Isaac Rand (5 pages)

A Letter concerning the Electricity of Water, from Mr. Stephen Gray to Cromwell Mortimer, M. D. Secr. R. S.

Stephen Gray (6 pages)

The Method of Making the Best Mortar at Madrass in East India; Described in a Letter from the Honourable Isaac Pyke, Esq; Governor of St. Helena, to Edmund Halley, L. L. D. Reg. Astr. Vice-President R. S. and by Him Communicated to the Royal Society

Edmund Halley, Isaac Pyke (6 pages)

Epistola Domini Huxham, M. D. ad Jacobum Jurin, M. D. R. S. & Coll. Med. Soc. de Morbo Colico Singulari

Domini Huxham (5 pages)

De Figuris Quas Fluida Rotata Induere Possunt, Problemata Duo; Cum Conjectura de Stellis Quae Aliquando Prodeunt Vel Deficiunt; & de Annulo Saturni. Authore Petro Ludovico De Maupertuis, Regiae Societatis Londinensis, & Academiae Scientiarum Parisiensis Socio

Petro Ludovico De Maupertuis (19 pages)

An Extract of a Letter from Oliver St. John, Esq; F. R. S. Dated from Florence, November the 3 0th, 1731, N. S. Communicated by R. Graham, F. R. S.

Oliver St. John, R. Graham (3 pages)

An Extract of a Letter from Mr. Hopkins to Mr. John Senex, F. R. S. concerning an Extraordinary Large Horn of the Stag Kind, Taken out of the Sea on the Coast of Lancashire

J. Hopkins (4 pages)

Three Cases Communicated by Claudius Amyand, Esq; F. R. S. Serjeant Surgeon to His Majesty. I. Concerning a Child Born with the Bowels Hanging out of the Belly. II. Of an Extraordinary Cause of a Suppression of Urine in a Woman. III. Of a Stricture in the Middle of the Stomach in a Girl, Dividing It into Two Bags

Claudius Amyand (4 pages)

An Abstract of the Meteorological Diaries Communicated to the Royal Society, with Remarks upon Them by W. Derham, D. D. Canon of Windsor, and F. R. S.

W. Derham (14 pages)

The Description of a New Quadrant for Taking Altitudes without an Horizon, Either at Sea or Land. Invented by Mr. John Elton

John Elton (10 pages)

A Remarkable Case of a Gentlewoman Who Died of a Hydrops Ovarii, in the Thirty-Third Year of Her Age, after Having Been Tapped Fifty-Seven Times. By Mr. John Belchier, Surgeon

John Belchier (7 pages)

A Letter from Mr. Stephen Gray to Dr. Mortimer, Secr. R. S. Containing a Farther Account of His Experiments concerning Electricity

Stephen Gray (8 pages)

An Experiment to Shew That the Friction of the Several Parts in a Compound Engine, May Be Reduced to Calculation; By Drawing Consequences from Some of the Experiments Shewn before the Royal Society Last Year, upon Simple Machines, in Various Circumstances, by Me. Now Exemplified by the Friction in a Combination of Pullies. By J. T. Desaguliers. Jan. 14, 1730/10

J. T. Desaguliers (3 pages)

An Abstract of a Letter, Written in Dutch, to the Illustrious Royal Society of London, by Arnold Marcel (Nephew to the Late Mr. Anthony van Leeuvenhoek, F. R. S.) Communicated by the Revd. Dr. J. T. Desaguliers, F. R. S.

Arnold Marcel, J. T. Desaguliers (6 pages)

An Extract from the Minutes of the Royal Society, March 16, 1731, Containing an UncommonCase of a Distempered Skin, by John Machin, Sec. R. S. & Prof. Astr. Gresh

John Machin (6 pages)

Conjectures upon the Nature of Intermitting and Reciprocating Springs. By Mr. Joseph Atwell, F. R. S.

Joseph Atwell (19 pages)

Immersiones, Atque Emersiones Satellitum Jovis Observatoe Pekini a P. P. Ignatio Kegler, & Andrea Pereira, Soc. Jesu, a Mense Novem. 1730, ad Revd. P. Johannem Baptistam Carbone, Soc Jesu, R. S. S. Transmissoe; et ex Ejusdem Cl. Viri Epistola ad Jacobum de Castro Sarmento, M. D. Col. Medic. Lond. L. & R. S. S. Excerptae

P. P. Ignatio Kegler, Andrea Pereira (6 pages)

A Catalogue of Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites for the Year 1733. By James Hodgson, F. R. S. Master of the Royal Mathematical School at Christ's Hospital, London

James Hodgson (7 pages)

Experiments to Prove the Existence of a Fluid in the Nerves. By Alexander Stuart, M. D. Med. Regin. R. S. S. &c.

Alexander Stuart (6 pages)

Observations of Latitude and Variation, Taken on Board the Hartford, in Her Passage from Java Head to St. Hellena, Anno Dom. 173 1/2 Communicated by Edmund Halley, LL. D. Regius Astronomer at Greenwich

Edmund Halley (7 pages)

An Account of an Extraordinary Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the Month of March, in the Year 1730, Extracted from the Meteorological Diary of That Year at Naples, Communicated by Nichol. Cyrillus, M. D. R. S. S.

Nichol Cyrillus (4 pages)

A Short Account, by Mr. John Eames, F. R. S. of a Book Intituled, Tuhhfat Ilkibar, Printed at Constantinople, AnnoDom. 1728

John Eames (4 pages)

An Account of Observations Made on Board the Chatham-Yacht, August 30th and 31st, and September 1st, 1732, in Pursuance of an Order Made by the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, for the Trial of an Instrument for Taking Angles, Described in Philosophical Transactions, Numb. 420. By John Hadley, Esq; Vice-President of the Royal Society

John Hadley (17 pages)

Ephemerides Meteorologicae, Barometricae, Thermometricae, Epidemicae, Magneticae, Ultrajectinae, Conscripta á Petro Van Muschenbroek, L. A. M. Med. & Phil. D. Phil. & Mathes. Profess. in Acad. Ultraj. Anno 1729

Petro Van Muschenbroek (31 pages)

A Discourse concerning the Difficulty of Curing Fluxes, Writ Occasionally on Reading Dr. de Jussieu's Memoire in the History, &c. of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris, for the Year 1729. By William Cockburn, M. D. F. R. S. and of the College of Physicians, London

William Cockburn (10 pages)

A Letter from Mr. John Dove to Edmund Halley, LL. D. F. R. S. and Reg. Astrom. at Greenwich, Containing an Account of a Comet Seen on February 29, 173 1/2

John Dove (3 pages)

An Account of Two Experiments of the Friction of Pullies. By the Reverend J. T. Desaguliers, LL. D. F. R. S.

J. T. Desaguliers (4 pages)

Errata

Anonymous (2 pages)

Two Letters from Mr. Stephen Gray, F. R. S. to C. Mortimer, M. D. Secr. R. S. Containing Farther Accounts of His Experiments concerning Electricity

Stephen Gray (12 pages)

Ephemerides Meteorologicae, Barometricae, Thermometricae, Epidemicae, Magneticae, Ultrajectinae Conscriptse a Petro Van Muschenbroek, L. A. M. Med. & Phil. D. Phil. & Mathes. Profess. in Acad. Ultraj. Annis 1730, & 1731

Petro Van Muschenbroek (20 pages)

A Letter from Mr. Jac. Theod. Klein, Secret. Dan. & F. R. S. to Sir Hans Sloane Bart. Pr. R. S. &c. Serving to Accompany the Pictures of a Very Extraordinary Fossile Skull of an Ox with the Cores of the Horns; Of the Plica Polonica Mentioned in Transact. No 417; And of a Very Large Tumor of the Eye. Translated from the Latin by T. S. M. D.

Jac. Theod. Klein, T. S. (6 pages)

An Abstract by James Douglas, M. D. Med. Regin. & F. R. S. of a Book, Entituled, A Short Account of Mortifications, and of the Surprising Effect of the Bark, in Putting a Stop to Their Progress, &c. By John Douglas, Surgeon, F. R. S. London, Printed for John Nurse, at the Lamb without Temple-Bar. 1732

John Douglas, James Douglas (6 pages)

De Usu Corticis Peruviani ad Gangrenam & Sphacelum, a Johanne Shipton, Chirurgo Londinensi

Johanne Shipton (11 pages)

Some Corrections and Amendments by J. P. Breynius, M. D. F. R. S. concerning the Generation of the Insect Called by Him Coccus Radicum, in His Natural History Thereof, Printed in the Year 1731, an Account of Which is Given in These Philosophical Transactions, No 421, Translated from the Latin by Mr. Zollman, F. R. S.

J. P. Breynius, Mr. Zollman (5 pages)

A Continuation of an Account of an Essay towards a Natural History of Carolina and the Bahama Islands, by Mark Catesby, F. R. S. with Some Extracts out of the Fifth Set. By Dr. Mortimer, R. S. Secret

Mark Catesby, Dr. Mortimer (5 pages)

Back Matter

Anonymous (11 pages)

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