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MICROFILMED AT HARVARD
HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY
CONTENTS
OF
F T
THE
SECOND VOLUME.
A
BRIEF COMPARISON of fome of the princi- pal ARGUMENTS in Favour of PUBLIC and
PRIVATE EDUCATION. BY THOMAS BARNES, D.D.
Page 1.
A PLAN for the IMPROVEMENT and EXTENSION of
LIBERAL EDUCATION in MANCHESTER. By the
SAME
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P. 16.
PROPOSALS for ESTABLISHING in MANCHESTER
PLAN of LIBERAL EDUCATION for YOUNG MEN
defigned for CIVIL and ACTIVE Life, whether in
TRADE, or in any of the PROFESSIONS. By the
P. 30.
CONSTITUTIONS and REGULATIONS of the COLLEGE
of ARTS and SCIENCES in MANCHESTER P. 42.
On ORICHALCUM. By the Right Rev. RICHARD
WATSON, D. D. F. R.S. &c. &c. Lord Bishop of
LANDAFF. Communicated by Dr. PERCIVAL P. 47.
REMARKS
A 2
REMARKS on the ORIGIN of the VEGETABLE FIXED
ALKALI, with fome collateral OBSERVATIONS on
NITRE. By M. WALL, M. D. Prælector in Che-
mistry in the University of Oxford. Communicated
in a Letter to Dr. Percival
Page 67.
Some ACCOUNT of the LIFE and WRITINGS of the
late PROFESSOR GREGORY, M. D. F. R. S. By
JAMES JOHNSTONE, M. D. et Soc. Reg. Medic.
Edinb. Socius. Communicated by Dr. BARNES
P. 80.
P. 106.
REMARKS on the KNOWLEDGE of the ANCIENTS re-
Specting GLASS. By Dr. FALCONER of Bath P. 95.
On the DIFFERENT QUANTITIES of RAIN which
FALL at DIFFERENT HEIGHTS over the fame SPOT
OF GROUND; with a LETTER from BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN, LL. D. By THOMAS PERCIVAL,
M. D. &c.
Speculations on the PERCEPTIVE POWER of VEGETA-
BLES. BY THOMAS PERCIVAL, M. D. &c. P. 114.
An EXPERIMENTAL INQUIRY into the CAUSE of the
PERMANENT COLOURS of OPAKE BODIES. By
EDWARD HUSSEY DELAVAL, F. R. S. of the
ROYAL SOCIETIES of UPSAL and GOTTINGEN,
of the INSTITUTE of BOLOGNA, &c. Communi-
cated by Mr. CHARLES TAYLOR P. 131.
EXPERIMENTS and OBSERVATIONS on FERMENTS,
and FERMENTATION; by which a Mode of exciting
Fermentation in MALT LIQUORS, without the Aid
of YEAST, is pointed out; with an ATTEMPT to
form
form a NEW THEORY of that Process. By THOMAS
HENRY, F. R. S.
Page 257.
On the ORIGIN of ALPHABETICAL CHARACters.
By GILBERT WAKEFIELD, B. A. late Fellow of
Jefus College, Cambridge
P. 278.
An ESSAY on CRIMES and PUNISHMENTS. By the
Rev. WILLIAM TURNER
P. 293.
On the PURSUITS of EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY.
By THOMAS PERCIVAL, M.D. F.R.S.&c. P. 326.
OBSERVATIONS on the INFLUENCE of FIXED AIR on
VEGETATION; and on the PROBABLE CAUSE of
the DIFFERENCE in the Refults of VARIOUS EXPE-
RIMENTS made on that Subject. In a LETTER
from Mr. THOMAS HENRY, F. R. S. to THOMAS
PERCIVAL, M. D. F. R. S. &c.
P. 341.
OBSERVATIONS on a THIGH BONE of UNCOMMON
LENGTH. BY CHARLES WHITE, Esq. F. R. S. &c.
P. 350.
METEOROLOGICAL IMAGINATIONS and CONJEC-
TURES. By BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, LL. D.
F. R. S. and Acad. Reg. Scient. Paris. Soc. &c.
Communicated by Dr. Percival
P. 357-
A fhort ACCOUNT of an EXCURSION through the
SUBTERRANEOUS CAVERN at PARIS. By Mr.
THOMAS WHITE, Member of the Royal Medical
Society of Edinburgh, &c. In a LETTER to his
FATHER
P. 361.
A DESCRIP-
A DESCRIPTION of a NEW INSTRUMENT for mea-
furing the SPECIFIC GRAVITY of BODIES. By
Mr. WILLIAM NICHOLSON; in a LETTER to Mr.
J. H. MAGELLAN, F. R. S. Reg. Acad. Petropol.
et Paris Correfp. &c. Page 370.
MEMOIRS of the late Dr. BELL. By JAMES CURRIE,
M. D. addressed to the PRESIDENTS and MEMBERS
of the LITERARY and PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
of MANCHESTER P. 381.
A TRANSLATION of Dr. BELL'S THESIS, DE PHY-
SIOLOGIA PLANTARUM. By JAMES CURRIE,
P. 394.
M. D.
Some OBSERVATIONS on the PHENOMENA which
take Place between OIL and WATER: In a LET-
TER to THOMAS PERCIVAL, M. D. &c. By
MARTIN WALL, M. D. Pralector of Chemistry
in the University of Oxford.
P. 419.
FACTS and QUERIES relative to ATTRACTION and
REPULSION. By THOMAS PERCIVAL, M. D.
&c.
P. 429.
EXTRACTS of Two LETTERS from Dr. WALL of
Oxford to Dr. PERCIVAL, in REPLY to the FORE-
GOING QUERIES concerning ATTRACTION and
REPULSION. Communicated to the Literary and
Philofophical Society of Manchester P. 439.
On the VOLUNTARY POWER which the MIND is
able to exercife over BODILY SENSATION. By
THOMAS BARNES, D. D.
P. 451.
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