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https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0000

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I. An account of the Sun's distance from the Earth, deduced from Mr. Short's observations relating to the horizontal parallax of the Sun: In a letter from Peter Daval, Esq; V. P. of R. S. to James Barrow, Esq; V. P. of R. S

• Peter Davall

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0002

II. Observatio cometae, qui mense Maio A. 1759 apparuit, facta Hagae Comit. à Petro Gabry, I.V.D. Societatis Reg. Scientiar. Socio, et Commercio Literar. cum Academ. Scientiar. Parisiensi et Reg. Societ. Gotting. juncto: Communicated by Mr. Emanuel Mendez da Costa, Librarian of the Royal Society

• Peter Gabry

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0003

III. Observatio cujusdam meteori igniti instar chasmatis, facta Hagae-Comit. d. 21 Decembr. 1758. Nov. St. à Petro Gabry, I.V.D. Socio Reg. Societat. Scientiar. Londin. et Commercio Literararum. cum Acad. Reg. Scientiar. Parisiensi et Societ. Reg. Scient. Gottingens. juncto

• Peter Gabry

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0004

IV. An account of a remarkable decrease of the River Eden, in Cumberland: In a letter to Charles Lord Bishop of Carlisle, F. R. S. from William Milbourne, Esq;

• William Milbourne

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0005

V. An account of the rain fallen in a foot-square at Norwich

• William Arderon

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0006

VI. Observations upon the effects of electricity applied to a tetanus, or muscular rigidity, of four months continuance. In a letter to the Royal Society. By William Watson, M. D. F. R. S. Member of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Madrid, and Physician to the Foundling Hospital

• William Watson

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0007

VII. An account of the late mild weather in Cornwall, of the quantity of rain fallen there in the Year 1762: In a letter from the Rev. William Borlase, M. A. F. R. S. to Mr. Henry Baker, F. R. S

• William Borlase

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0008

VIII. A delineation of the transit of Venus expected in the year 1769

• James Ferguson

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0009

IX. An account of an appulse of the Moon to the planet Jupiter, observed at Chelsea

• Samuel Dunn

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X. A catalogue of the fifty plants from Chelsea Garden, presented to the Royal Society by the worshipful Company of Apothecaries, for the year 1762, pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet. Med. Reg. et. Soc. Reg. nuper Præses; by John Wilmer, M. D. clariss. Societatis. Pharmaceut. Lond. Soc. Hort. Chelsean. Præfectus. et Prælector Botanic

• John Wilmer

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0011

XI. Observations made by Mr. John Bartram, at Pensilvania, on the yellowish wasp of that country: In a letter to Mr. Peter Collinson, F. R. S

• John Bartram

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0012

XII. An account of the plague, at Aleppo: In a letter to the Rev. Charles Lyttelton, LL. D. Dean of Exeter, now Lord Bishop of Carlisle, and F. R. S. from the Reverend Mr. Thomas Dawes, chaplain to the factory at Aleppo

• Thomas Dawes

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0013

XIII. Observations on sand iron: In a letter from Mr. Henry Horne, to Mr. John Ellicot, F. R. S

• Henry Horne

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0014

XVI. An account of a remarkable marine insect: In a letter of Mr. Andrew Peter Du Pont, to Mr. Emanuel Mendez da Costa, Librarian to the R. S.

• Andrew Peter Du Pont

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0015

XVII. A letter from Monsieur Wargentin, Secretary of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Sweden, to Mr. John Ellicott, F. R. S. relating to the late transit of Venus

• Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0016

XIV. Extract of a letter from Simon Peter Pallas, M. D. of Berlin, to Mr. Emanuel Mendez da Costa, Librarian to the Royal Society, relating to the state of the state of the cold there last winter, dated Feb. 12, 1763

• Peter Simon Pallas

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0017

XV. An account of a remarkable darkness at Detroit, in America: In a letter from the Rev. Mr. James Stirling, to Mr. John Duncan: communicated by Samuel Mead, Esq; F. R. S

• James Stirling

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0018

XVIII. Remarks on the censure of mercator's chart, in a posthumous work of Mr. West, of Exeter: In a letter to Thomas Birch, D. D. Secretary to the Royal Society, from Mr. Samuel Dunn

• Samuel Dunn

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0019

XIX. A defence of mercator's chart against the censure of the late Mr. West of Exeter: In a letter to Charles Morton, M. D. Secret. R. S. from Mr. William Mountaine, F. R. S

• William Mountaine

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0020

XXI. An account of a species of ophris, supposed to be the plant, which is mentioned by Gronovius in the Flora Virginica, p. 185, under the name of ophris scapo nudo foliis radicalibus ovato-oblongis, dimidii scapi longitudine: By George Dionysius Ehret, F. R. S.

• Georg Dionysius Ehret

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0021

XXII. New experiments in electricity: In a letter from Mr. Ebenezer Kinnersley, to Benjamin Franklin, LL. D. F. R. S.

• Ebenezer Kinnersley

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0022

XXIII. Observations in electricity and on a thunder-storm: In a letter from Mr. Torbern Bergman, to Mr. Benjamin Wilson, F. R. S. Acad. Reg. Upsal. Soc

• Torbern Olof Bergman

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0023

XXIV. Remarks on swallows on the Rhine: In a letter from Mr. Achard, in Privy-Garden, to Mr. Peter Collinson, F. R. S

• Y. Achituv

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0024

XXV. The properties of the mechanic powers demonstrated, with some observations on the methods that have been commonly used for that purpose: in a letter from Hugh Hamilton, D.D. F. R. S. and Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, to Matthew Raper, Esq; F. R. S

• Hugh Hamilton

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0025

XXVI. An account of some subterraneous apartments, with Etruscan inscriptions and paintings, discovered at Civita Turchino in Italy [Tab. VII. VIII. IX.]: Communicated from Joseph Wilcox, Esq; F.S.A. by Charles Morton, M.D. S. R. S.

• Joseph Wilcox

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0026

XXVII. An account of a new Peruvian plant, lately introduced into the English gardens; the several characters of which differ from all the genera hitherto described; Presented to the Royal Society by George Dionysius Ehret, F. R. S

• Georg Dionysius Ehret

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0027

XXVIII. Observations on two antient Roman inscriptions discovered at Netherby in Cumberland: In a letter to the Right Rev. Charles Lord Bishop of Carlisle, F. R. S. from the Reverend John Taylor, LL. D. Canon residentiary of St. Paul's, and chancellor of the diocese of Lincoln.

• John Taylor

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0028

XXIX. A method of lessening the quantity of friction in engines, by Keane Fitzgerald, Esq; F. R. S.

• Keane Fitzgerald

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0029

XXIX. The difference of longitude between the Royal Observatory of Greenwich and Paris, determined by the observations of the transits of Mercury over the Sun in the years 1723, 1736, 1743, and 1753: By James Short, M.A. F. R. S

• James Short

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0030

XXX. An account of a remarkable fish, taken in King-Road, near Bristol: In a letter from Mr. James Ferguson, to Thomas Birch, D.D. Secret. R. S

• James Ferguson

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0031

XXXI. Rules and examples for limiting the cases in which the rays of refracted light may be reunited into a colourless pencil: In a letter from P. Murdoch, M.A. and F. R. S. to Robert Symmer, Esq; F. R. S

• Patrick Murdoch

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0032

XXXII. An account of the success of the bark of the willow in the cure of agues. In a letter to the Right Honourable George Earl of Macclesfield, President of R. S. from the Rev. Mr. Edward Stone, of Chipping-Norton in Oxfordshire

• Edward Stone

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0033

XXXIII. An account of an earthquake in Siberia: In a letter from Mons. Weymarn to Dr. Mounsey, Principal Physician of the Emperor of Russia, F. R. S. Translated from the French. Communicated by Mr. Henry Baker, F. R. S

• W. W. Weymarn

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0034

Roman inscriptions at Tunis in Africa, copied about the year 1730. By Dr. Carilos, a native of Madrid, then Physician to the Bey of Tunis, communicated by John Locke, Esq. F. R. S

• Carilos

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XXXV. A letter from Mr. George Edwards, F. R. S. to Thomas Birch D. D. Secret. R. S. concerning an observation made by him in Opticks

• George Edwards

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0036

XXXVI. Two remarkable cases in surgery, by Mr. Francis Geach, Surgeon in Plymouth. Communicated by John Huxham, M.D. F. R. S

• Francis Geach and
• John Huxham

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0037

XXXVII. An account of a new die from the berries of a weed in South Carolina: In a letter from Mr. Moses Lindo, dated at Charles Town, September 2, 1763, to Mr. Emanuel Mendez da Costa, Librarian of the Royal Society

• Moses Lindo

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0038

XXXVIII. An account of the eclipse of the Sun, April 1, 1764: In a letter to the Right Honourable George Earl of Macclesfield, Pres. R. S. from Mr. James Ferguson, F. R. S

• James Ferguson

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0039

XXXIX. An account of an Earthquake at chattigaon: Translated from the Persian by Mr. Edward Gulston, in the service of the Honourable East India company, and communicated by him to the Reverend Mr. Hirst

• Edward Gulston

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0040

XL. An account of an earthquake in the East Indies, of two eclipses of the Sun and Moon, observed at Calcutta: In a letter to the Reverend Thomas Birch, D. D. Secret. R. S. from the Reverend William Hirst, M. A. F. R. S

• William Hirst

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0041

XLI. Extract of a letter from Mr. Edward Gulston, at Chittigong, to Major John Carnac, at Calcutta

• Edward Gulston

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0042

XLII. An account of the earthquakes that have been felt in the province of Islamabad, with the damages attending them, from the 2d to the 19th of April, 1762: Translated from the Perisan, and communicated to Henry Vansittart, Esq; President and Governor of Fort William in Bengal, by Mr. Verelst, Chief of the Hon. East India Company's Affairs at Islamabad

• Harry Verelst

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0043

XLIII. A letter from the late Reverend Mr. Thomas Bayes, F. R. S. to John Canton, M. A. and F. R. S

• Thomas Bayes

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0044

XLIV. An account of the insect called the vegetable fly:

• William Watson

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XLV. An attempt to explain a Punic inscription, lately discovered in the Island of Malta. In a letter to the Reverend Thomas Birch, D. D. Secret. R. S. from the Reverend John Swinton, B. D. of Christ Church Oxon. F. R. S. and Member of the Etruscan Academy of Cortona in Tuscany.

• John Swinton

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0046

XLVI. Problems by Edward Waring, M. A. and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in the University of Cambridge, F. R. S

• Edward Waring

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0047

XLVII. Second paper concerning the parallax of the Sun determined from the observations of the late transit of Venus, in which this subject is treated of more at length, and the quantity of the parallax more fully ascertained.

• James Short

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0048

XLVIII. An account of a case, in which green hemlock was applied: In a letter to the Rt. Hon. Hugh Lord Willoughby of Parham, V. P. of the R. S. by Mr. Josiah Colebrook, F. R. S

• Josiah Colebrooke

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0049

XLIX. An account of a remarkable meteor: In a letter to the Reverend Thomas Birch, D. D. Secret. of R. S. from Mr. Samuel Dunn

• Samuel Dunn

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0050

L. An account of a blow upon the heart, and of its effects

• Mark Akenside

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0051

LI. Ratio conficiendi nitrum in Podolia

• Wolf

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0052

LII. An essay towards solving a problem in the doctrine of chances. By the late Rev. Mr. Bayes, F. R. S. communicated by Mr. Price, in a letter to John Canton, A. M. F. R. S

• Thomas Bayes

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0053

LIII. An account of the sea pen, or Pennatula phosphorea of Linnaeus; likewise a description of a new species of sea pen, found on the coast of South-Carolina, with observations on sea-pens in general. In a letter to the Honourable Coote Molesworth, Esq; M. D. and F. R. S. from John Ellis, Esq; F. R. S. and Member of the Royal Academy at Upsal.

• John Ellis

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0054

LIV. A letter from Mr. B. Wilson, F. R. S. and Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Upsal, to Mr. Æpinus, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg, and Member of the Academies of Berlin, Stockholm, and Erfurth

• Benjamin Wilson

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0055

LV. A discourse on the parallax of the Sun. By the Rev. Thomas Hornsby, M.A. Savilian Professor of Astronomy in the University of Oxford, and F. R. S

• Thomas Hornsby

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0056

LVI. A discourse on the locus for three and four lines celebrated among the ancient geometers, by H. Pemberton, M. D. R. S. Lond. Et R. A. Berol. S. In a letter to the Reverend Thomas Birch, D. D. Secretary to the Royal Society

• Henry Pemberton

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1763.0057