Observations on the Poison of Copper and Brass, and the very great Danger attending the Use of Utensils made of these Metals, and other mixed Metals wherein Copper and Brass make a Part, especially in the preparing and keeping Food and Physic, &c. 80 82 Years 84 Extraordinary Instance of Maternal Affection in a savage Animal” Three Letters concerning the Reviviscence of some Snails, preserved many in a Cabinet. Extraordinary Instance of the Hardiness of Snails to resist Heat, which may serve, in some Degree, as a Confirmation of their Hardiness to resist Dryness, the Subject of the preceding Article.. 86 87 An Account of the Gymnatus Electricus, or Electrical Eel. Some Account of a Tree growing in Spain, called the Algarroba, Garofero, Carrobe, or Locust-Tree, which produces vast Quantities of Fruit. 92 Description of a newly-discovered sensitive Plant, called Dionaea Muscipula, or Venus's Fly-trap. 93 Description of a petrified Stratum, formed from the Waters of Matlock, in Derbyshire. Glorious Prospect during the Passage of the Strait of Gibraltar. PROJECT S... 95. 97 Plan, and Summary of the Report, &c. &c. of the Society instituted in London, 1774, for the Recovery of Persons apparently drowned; with plain Directions for the Recovery of such Persons; and also of those seemingly dead by any other Species of Strangulation, by Suffocation, by being frozen, seized with Syncopes, Apoplectic or other Fits, &c. struck with Lightning, or stupified by Falls or Blows; likewise of overlaid and even still-born Children. 99 Authentic List of the Names of Persons either saved or recovered by the said Society, from its first Institution to the End of 1775. 104 Three Remarkable Cases, of a Man and two Children, to all Appearance dead, recovered to perfect Health. 105 Names and Places of Abode of the Medical Assistants to the said Society. 115 Description of a Machine for saving Persons and Effects from Fire; with Remarks thereon. 119 117 Generous and humane Advertisement of some eminent Brewers, offering the Assistance of their Engines and Servants for extinguishing Fires. Recipe for an excellent Cosmetic, as well as Preventative and Remedy for the Scald-Head and Itch, and other Disorders proceeding from Worms. ibid. Some Account of the Institution and present State of an Undertaking for usefully employing Female Children of the Poor, in the Blond, and Black Silk Lace Manufactory. 121 An Address to the Furmers of Great Britain on the great Advantages of setting Wheat, instead of sowing it in the usual Way. 125. Method Method of preserving, &c. all Sorts of Plants and Roots, for affording Simple and easy Method of making Hay. Easy Process for making Ice, without the Assistance of Snow, Nitre, é ANTIQUITIES. Certain Objections to the Veracity of the Mosaic History, with regard. ~ Of the little Dependance to be placed on the Description of Eclipses left Objections to the Authority of an Apamean Medal, produced by Mr. Br Some Account of a Latin Dissertation, entitled, "An Essay in which ว Orders for Household Servantes, first devised by John Haryngton, in the Yeare 1566; with a Letter from Sir Robert Cecil to Sir John Harrington. MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS. Thoughts on Free-thinking, and on Free-thinkers, particularly the late Earl of Shaftesbury, and the late Lord Bolingbroke; with Observations on these An Essay on Indifference in Religion; by Mrs. Chapone. The great Difference in the State of Morals, &c. and Taste for the Fine Arts, &c. in different Countries at the same Period, and at different Periods in the same Country, accounted for from the Difference in the State of Edu cation and Religion in those Countries, and in those Periods, without any Recourse to the concomitant Circumstances of Soil or Climate. Letter from Ignatius Sancho, a free Black in London, to the late Rev. Mr. Arguments drawn from Interest as well as Humanity against the Practice of On the savage Diversion of Cock-fighting. On Homer's Geography, and Mr. Pope's Translation. Of sentimental Comedy. Of the present Rage for Lotteries. 174 176 178 185 188 A Dissertation on Almanacks; with the Plan of a New One, for the Use of 191 POETRY. Ode for his Majesty's Birth-Day, 4th June, 1775.. Inscription in a Tower at W, in the County of Cambridge. Amusement in modern High Life. The Fatal Sisters; an Ode from the Nourse Tongue. Ode to Adversity. By the late Mr. Gray. Verses to Solitude; by Mr. Chapone. Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude. Ballad, sung at the same Place, and on the same Occasion. Epilogue to the Choleric Man; written by Mr. Garrick. 194 Song to Elle, Lord of the Castell of Bristowe, in Daies of Yore. 195 196 ibid. 197 199 200 202 Ode for the Regatta, or Water-Jubilee; performed at Ranelagh. 204 205 207 208 209- Epilogue to the Comedy of Bon Ton; written by Mr. Colman. To Mr. Garrick, on the Report of his leaving the Stage. Verses to the Ladies: by Lady Chudleigh, Grandmother to the Duchess of On a Gentleman's saying he would dance with none but fuir Ladies. ibid. A Burlesque of the same Lines; by Dr. Arbuthnot. A Farewell to London in the Year 1714; by Mr. Pope. Attraction and Repulsion; a Fable. Lines sung by Durastanti, when she took Leave of the English Stage. ibid. 221 ibid. 222 A Spanish Madrigal; with a Translation by Mr. Garrick. Chorus Song, in the Comedy of Old City Manners. 223 224 225 ACCOUNT ACCOUNT of BOOKS for 1775. The Poems of Mr. Gray; to which_are_prefixed, Memoirs of his Life and 226 An Essay on the original Genius and Writings of Homer; with a comparative 929 Travels in Asia Minor: or, an Account of a Tour made at the Expence of the THE END. |