CONTENTS

OF

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THE

SECOND VOLUME.

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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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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