Volume 67 (1777)

Front Matter

Anonymous (17 pages)

An Account of a Woman in the Shire of Ross Living without Food or Drink. By Dr. Mackenzie, Physician at New Tarbat. Communicated by the Right Honourable James Stewart Mackenzie, Lord Privy Seal of Scotland

William Smith, Alex Mackenzie, John Barclay, Hugh Ross, James Stewart Mackenzie, Geo. Munro, Geo. Sutherland, Alexr. Mc Leod, Simon Ross, Dond. Mc Leod (12 pages)

On the Usefulness of Washing and Rubbing the Stems of Trees, to Promote Their Annual Increase. In an Extract of a Letter from Mr. Marsham to the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells

Mr. Marsham (4 pages)

Discoveries on the Sex of Bees, Explaining the Manner in Which Their Species is Propagated; With an Account of the Utility That May Be Derived from Those Discoveries by the Actual Application of Them to Practice. By Mr. John Debraw, Apothecary to Addenbrook's Hospital at Cambridge, and Member of an Oeconomical Society in the Principality of Liege in Westphalia. Communicated by the Rev. Nevil Maskelyne, B. D. F. R. S. and Astronomer Royal

John Debraw, Nevil Maskelyne (19 pages)

An Account of a Portrait of Copernicus, Presented to the Royal Society by Dr. Wolf of Dantzick: Extracted from a Letter of His to Mr. Magellan, F. R. S.

Dr. Wolf (6 pages)

An Account of a Journey into Africa from the Cape of Good-Hope, and a Description of a New Species of Cuckow. By Dr. Andreas Sparrman, of the Royal Academy of Stockholm, in a Letter to Dr. John Reinhold Forster, F. R. S.

Andreas Sparrman (13 pages)

An Account of Some New Electrical Experiments. By Mr. Tiberius Cavallo: Communicated by Mr. Henley, F. R. S.

Mr. Henley, Tiberius Cavallo (10 pages)

A Third Essay on Sea-Anemonies. By the Abbe Dicquemare

Abbe Dicquemare (31 pages)

Experiments and Observations in Electricity. By Mr. William Henly, F. R. S.

William Henly, Tiberius Cavallo (61 pages)

Extract of a Letter from John Strange, Esquire, His Majesty's Resident at Venice, to Sir John Pringle, Bart. P. R. S.: With a Letter to Mr. Strange from the Abbe Joseph Toaldo, Professor in the University of Padua, &c. Giving an Account of the Tides in the Adriatic

John Strange, Joseph Toaldo (19 pages)

A Letter from Mr. Peter Wargentin, F. R. S. Secretary to the Royal Academy of Sciences at Stockholm, to the Rev. Nevil Maskelyne, B. D. F. R. S. and Astronomer Royal; Concerning the Difference of Longitude of the Royal Observatories at Paris and Greenwich, Resulting from the Eclipses of Jupiter's First Satellites, Observed during the Last Ten Years: To Which is Added, a Comparative Table of the corresponding Observations of the First Satellite, Made in the Principal Observatories

Peter Wargentin (26 pages)

A Method of Finding the Value of an Infinite Series of Decreasing Quantities of a Certain Form, When It Converges Too Slowly to Be Summed in the Common Way by the Mere Computation and Addition or Subtraction of Some of Its Initial Terms. By Francis Maseres, Esquire, F. R. S. Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer

Francis Maseres (45 pages)

Translation of a Passage in Ebn Younes; With Some Remarks Thereon: In a Letter from the Rev. George Costard, M. A. Vicar of Twickenham, to the Rev. Samuel Horsley, LL.D. Sec. R. S.

George Costard (14 pages)

Observations on the Annual Evaporation at Liverpool in Lancashire; And on Evaporation Considered as a Test of the Moisture or Dryness of the Atmosphere. By Dr. Dobson of Liverpool. Communicated by John Fothergill, M. D. F. R. S.

John Fothergill, Dr. Dobson (17 pages)

An Account of Persons Who Could Not Distinguish Colours. By Mr. Joseph Huddart, in a Letter to the Rev. Joseph Priestley, LL.D. F. R. S.

Joseph Huddart (7 pages)

A New Theory of the Rotatory Motion of Bodies Affected by Forces Disturbing Such Motion. By Mr. John Landen, F. R. S.

John Landen (33 pages)

Directions for Making the Best Composition for the Metals of Reflecting Telescopes; Together with a Description of the Process for Grinding, Polishing, and Giving the Great Speculum the True Parabolic Curve. By Mr. John Mudge; Communicated by Alexander Aubert, Esq. F. R. S.

John Mudge, Alexander Aubert (56 pages)

Extract of a Register of the Barometer, Thermometer, and Rain, at Lyndon, in Rutland, 1776. By Thomas Barker, Esquire. Communicated by Sir John Pringle, Bart. P. R. S.

John Pringle, Thomas Barker (4 pages)

Extract of a Meteorological Journal for the Year 1776, Kept at Bristol, by Samuel Farr, M. D.

Samuel Farr (5 pages)

Meteorological Journal Kept at the House of the Royal Society, by Order of the President and Council

Anonymous (29 pages)

Errata

Anonymous (2 pages)

An Account of a Volcanic Hill Near Inverness. In a Letter from Thomas West, Esq. to Mr. Lane, F. R. S.

Thomas West (4 pages)

New Electrical Experiments and Observations; With an Improvement of Mr. Canton's Electrometer. By Mr. Tiberius Cavallo, in a Letter to Mr. Henly, F. R. S.

Tiberius Cavallo (15 pages)

Barometrical Observations on the Depth of the Mines in the Hartz. By John Andrew de Luc, F. R. S. In a Letter to Sir John Pringle, P. R. S.

John Andrew De Luc (50 pages)

The General Mathematical Laws Which Regulate and Extend Proportion Universally; Or, a Method of Comparing Magnitudes of Any Kind Together, in All the Possible Degrees of Increase and Decrease. By James Glenie, A. M. and Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery

James Glenie (9 pages)

The Case of Ann Davenport. By Mr. Fielding Best Fynney, Surgeon at Leek, in Staffordshire; Communicated to Thomas Percival, M. D. F. R. S. and by Him to Sir John Pringle, Bart. P. R. S.

Fielding Best Fynney, J. Rogers, Thomas Percival (9 pages)

An Account of the Kingdom of Thibet. In a Letter from John Stewart, Esquire, F. R. S. to Sir John Pringle, Bart. P. R. S.

Tayshoo Lama, John Stewart (29 pages)

Of the Degrees and Quantities of Winds Requisite to Move the Heavier Kinds of Wind Machines. In a Letter from John Stedman, M. D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians at Edinburgh, to the Reverend Samuel Horsley, LL.D. Secretary to the Royal Society

John Stedman (12 pages)

Description of the Jesuits Bark Tree of Jamaica and the Caribbees. By William Wright, M.D. Member of the Philosophical Society of America, and Surgeon-General in Jamaica. Communicated by Joseph Banks, Esquire, F. R. S.

Joseph Banks, William Wright (5 pages)

Description and Use of the Cabbage-Bark Tree of Jamaica. By William Wright, M. D.; Communicated by Richard Brocklesby, M. D. F. R. S.

William Wright, Richard Brocklesby (11 pages)

Observations Made in Savoy, in Order to Ascertain the Height of Mountains by means of the Barometer; Being an Examination of Mr. De Luc's Rules Delivered in His Recherches Sur les Modifications de l'Atmosphere. By Sir George Shuckburgh, Bart. F. R. S.

George Shuckburgh (96 pages)

An Account of the Bramin's Observatory at Benares. By Sir Robert Barker, Knt. F. R. S.; In a Letter to Sir John Pringle, Bart. P. R. S.

Robert Barker (19 pages)

A Short Account of Dr. Maty's Illness, and of the Appearances in the Dead Body, Which Was Examined on the 3d of July, 1776, the Day after His Decease. By Dr. Hunter and Mr. Henry Watson, FF. R. S.

Dr. Hunter, Henry Watson (7 pages)

An Account of Some Experiments Made with an Air-Pump on Mr. Smeaton's Principle; Together with Some Experiments with a Common Air-Pump. By Mr. Edward Nairne, F. R. S.

Edward Nairne (36 pages)

On the Culture of Pine-Apples. An Extract of a Letter from William Bastard, Esq. of Kitley in Devonshire, to Samuel Musgrave, M. D. F. R. S. Dated Kitley, March 15, 1777. Communicated to the Society by Dr. Musgrave

William Bastard, Samuel Musgrave (5 pages)

Experiments and Observations Made in Britain, in Order to Obtain a Rule for Measuring Heights with the Barometer. By Colonel William Roy. F. R. S.

William Roy (166 pages)

Account of a New Micrometer and Megameter By the Abbe Boscovich, &c.

Abbe Boscovich (11 pages)

Account of a New Instrument for Measuring Small Angles, Called the Prismatic Micrometer. By the Rev. Nevil Maskelyne, D. D. F. R. S. and Astronomer-Royal

Alexr Aubert, Nevil Maskelyne, Peter Dollond (21 pages)

The Report of the Committee Appointed by the Royal Society to Consider of the Best Method of Adjusting the Fixed Points of Thermometers; And of the Precautions Necessary to Be Used in Making Experiments with Those Instruments

W. Heberden, J. Planta, J. A. De Luc, H. Cavendish, Alexr. Aubert, N. Maskelyne, S. Horsley (44 pages)

Errata

Anonymous (3 pages)

Back Matter

Anonymous (39 pages)

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