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I. Observations on the solar spots.

• Alexander Wilson

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0001

II. Astronomical observations by the missionaries at Pekin. Transmitted to the supra-cargoes at Canton, by the Rev. Father Louis Cipolla, of the tribunal of mathematics, and communicated to the Royal Society by the Court of Directors of the East-India Company

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0002

III. The lunar eclipse, Oct. 11, 1772, observed at Canton

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0003

IV. Experiments on dying black, by Mr. James Clegg, of Redivales, near Bury. In a letter to Dr. Percival

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0004

V. Observations on the state of population in Manchester, and other adjacent places

• Thomas Percival

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0005

VI. Observations on the bill of mortality, in Chester, for the year 1772

• John Haygarth

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0006

VII. Electrical experiments by Mr. Edward Nairne, of London, mathematical instrument-maker, made with a machine of his own workmanship, a description of which is prefixed.

• Edward Nairne

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0007

VIII. On the noxious quality of the effluvia of putrid marshes. A letter from the Rev. Dr. Priestley to Sir John Pringle

• Joseph Priestley

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IX. Farther proofs of the insalubrity of marshy situations. In a letter from the Rev. Dr. Price to the Rev. Dr. Horsley

• Richard Price

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0009

X. Of the culture and uses of the son or Sun-plant of Hindostan, with an account of the manner of manufacturing the Hindostan paper.

• Lieutenant Colonel Ironside

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XI. An improvement proposed in the cross wires of telescopes, by Dr. Wilson, of Glasgow. In a letter to the Astronomer Royal

• Alexander Wilson

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XII. The case of a patient voiding stones through a fistulous sore in the loins, without any concomitant discharge of urine by the same passage: In a letter to Dr. Maty, from Mr. S. F. Simmons

• Samuel Foart Simmons

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XIII. The disparition of Saturn's ring, observed by Joseph Varelaz, Lieutenant of the Royal Navy og the King of Spain, and Professor of Mathematics, in the Academy of Guard-Marine at Cadiz. In a letter to Dr. Morton

• Joseph Varelaz

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0013

XIV. Of the gillaroo trout. A letter from the Hon. Daines Barrington, to the Rev. Dr. Horsley

• Daines Barrington

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0014

XV. Account of the stomach of the gillaroo trout. In a letter from Mr. Henry Watson to Sir John Pringle

• Henry Watson

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XVI. A description of a petrified stratum, formed from the waters of Matlock, in Derbyshire

• Matthew Dobson

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XVII. Remarks on the aurora borealis. By Mr. Winn. In a letter to Dr. Franklin

• J. S. Winn

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XVIII. Experiments concerning the different efficacy of pointed and blunted rods, in securing buildings against the stroke of lightning

• William Henly

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0018

XIX. Remarks upon a passage in Castillione's Life of Sir Isaac Newton

• John Winthrop

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0019

XX. M. De Luc's rule for measuring heights by the barometer, reduced to the English measure of length, and adapted to Fahrenheit's thermometer, and other scales of heat, and reduced to a more convenient expression

• Nevil Maskelyne

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0020

XXI. A letter to the Astronomer Royal, from Samuel Hollands, Esq. Surveyor General of Lands for the Northern District of America, containing some eclipses of Jupiter's satellites, observed near Quebec

• Samuel Holland

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0021

XXII. Observations of the immersions and emersions of the satellites of Jupiter, taken in the year 1768, by Ensign George Sproule, of his Majesty's 59th regiment, on the south point of the entrance of Gaspee Bason, which bears from Cape Ferrilong, or the cape forming the bay to the northward, N. 68¼ W. by the true meridian, distant 12¼ marine miles

• George Sproule

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XXIII. Astronomical observations made by Samuel Holland Esquire, His Majesty's surveyor general of lands for the northern district of North America, for ascertaining the longitude of several places in the said district

• Samuel Holland

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XXIV. Observations of eclipses of Jupiter's first satellite made at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, compared with observations of the same, made by Samuel Holland Esquire, Surveyor General of Lands for the Northern District of America, and others of his party, in several parts of North America, and the longitudes of the places thence deduced, by the Astronomer Royal

• Holland Samuel
and
• Nevil Maskelyne

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0024

XXV. Immersions and emersions of Jupiter's first satellite, observed at Jupiter's inlet, on the Island of Anticosti, North America, by Mr. Thomas Wright, Deputy Surveyor General of Lands for the Northern District of America; and the longitude of the place, diduced from comparison with observations made at the Royal observatory at Greenwich, by the Astronomer Royal

• Thomas Wright
and
• Nevil Maskelyne

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0025

XXVI. Extract of a letter from Mr. Humphry Marshall, of West Bradford, in Chester County, Pennsylvania, to Dr. Franklin, sent with sketches of the solar spots, dated May 3, 1773

• Humphry Marshall

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0026

XXVII. Account of the house-martin, or martlet. In a letter from the Rev. Gilbert White to the Hon. Daines Barrington

• Gilbert White

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0027

XXVIII. Extract of a register of the barometer, thermometer, and rain, at Lyndon in Rutland, 1773

• Thomas Barker

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0028

XXIX. An account of certain receptacles of air, in birds, which communicate with the lungs, and are lodged both among the fleshy parts and in the hollow bones of those animals

• John Hunter

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0029

XXX. M. de luc's rules, for the measurement of heights by the barometer, compared with theory, and reduced to English measures of length, and adapted to Fahrenheit's scale of the thermometer: with tables and precepts, for expediting the practical application of them.

• Samuel Horsley

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0030

XXXI. A catalogue of the fifty plants, from Chelsea Garden, presented to the Royal Society, by the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries, for the Year 1773, pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. Med. Reg. et Soc. Reg. nuper Prœfes

• William Curtis

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0031

XXXII. Observations on the gillaroe trout, commonly called in Ireland, the gizzard trout

• John Hunter

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0032

XXXIII. Explication of a most remarkable monogram on the reverse of a very antient quinarius, never before published or explained. In a letter to M. Maty, M. D. Sec. R. S. from the Rev. John Swinton, B. D. F. R. S. Custos Archivorum of the University of Oxford, Member of the Academy degli Apatisti at Florence, and of the Etruscan Academy of Cortona in Tuscany.

• John Swinton

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0033

XXXIV. Astronomical observations made at Chislehurst, in Kent, in the course of the Year 1773.

• Francis Wollaston

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0034

XXXIV. An account of a woman accidentally burnt to death at Coventry. By B. Wilmer, Surgeon, at Coventry. In a letter to Mr. William Sharpe

• B. Wilmer

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0035

XXXVI. Experiments on animal fluids in the exhausted receiver

• D. Darwin

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0036

XXXVII. An account of a storm of lightning observed on the 1st of March, 1774, near Wakefield, in Yorkshire

• Nicholson

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XXXVIII. Account of a woman enjoying the use of her right arm after the head of the os humeri was cut away

• James Bent

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XXXIX. Continuation of an experimental inquiry concerning the nature of the mineral elastic spirit, or air, contained in the Pouhon water, and other aciculæ

• William Brownrigg

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XL. Particulars of the country of Labradore, extracted from the papers of Lieutenant Roger Curtis, of His Majesty's Sloop the Otter with a plane-chart of the coast.

• Roger Curtis

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0040

XLI. An account of some new experiments in Electricity, containing, 1. An enquiry whether vapour be a conductor of electricity. 2. Some experiments, to ascertain the direction of the electric matter, in the discharge of the leyden bottle: with a new analysis of the leyden bottle. 3. Experiments on the lateral explosion, in the discharge of the leyden bottle. 4. The description, and use, of a new prime-conductor. 5. Miscellaneous Experiments, made principally in the Year 1771 and 1772. 6. Experiments and obs

• William Henly
and
• Thomas Ronayne

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0041

XLII. A letter from David Macbride, M. D. to John Walsh, Esq; F. R. S. accompanying two letters from Mr. Simon to Dr. Macbride, concerning the reviviscence of some snails preserved many years in Mr. Simon's cabinet

• David Macbride
and
• Stuckey Simon

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0042

XLIII. The bill of mortality of the town of Warrington, for the year 1773

• John Aikin

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0043

XLIV. Of the stilling of waves by means of oil. Extracted from sundry letters between Benjamin Franklin, LL. D. F. R. S. William Brownrigg, M. D. F. R. S. and the Reverend Mr. Farish

• Benjamin Franklin
,
• William Brownrigg
and
• Farish

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0044

XLV. Translation of a letter from M. de Stehlin, Counsellor of State to her Imperial Majesty of Russia, to Dr. Maty, with a specimen of native iron

• Jacob De Stehelin

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0045

XLVI. Of torpedos found on the Coast of England. In a letter from John Walsh, Esq; F. R. S. to Thomas Pennant, Esq; F. R. S

• John Walsh

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0046

XLVII. Description of a double uterus and vagina.

• John Purcell

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XLVIII. A letter from William Brownrigg, M. D. F. R. S. To Sir John Pringle, Bart. P. R. S. Relating to some specimens of native salts, collected by Dr. Brownrigg, and shewn at a meeting of the Royal Society, June 23,1774

• William Brownrigg

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1774.0048

Erratum

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Errata

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Errata

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Fig. 1 to 4 of Tab. IV

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