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1 - 'A Description of a Water Level to be fix'd to Davis's Quadrant whereby an Observation may be taken at Sea in thick and hazey Weather, without seeing the Horizon' by Charles Leigh
2 - 'Observations upon the Comet' by J Bradley
3 - 'An Account of the Man whose Arm with the Shoulder-Blade was torn off by a Mill' by John Belchier
4 - 'An Account of two morbid Kidneys of a monstrous Size found in a Woman: together with her Case by Mr Serjeant Amyand'
5 - 'An Account of an inguinal Rupture, and the Operation made upon it: with practical Remarks on Ruptures' by Claude Amyand
6 - 'A Description of a Water Engine founded on a new Principle for the raising or draining Water out of a Dock, Canal, Mine, Ship's Hold etc...' by Charles Leigh
7 - 'A Case of an extraordinary periodical Hemorrhage observed by Mr Henry Banyer of Wisbech, and by him sent in a Letter to Mr William Coats, who drew it up as a Narrative' communicated by Joseph Ames
8 - 'An Attempt to prove, in what manner, and to what purposes, the new Engine contrived for raising Water (as communicated to the Royal Society on Thursday the 8th of December) may be of great Use and Service, within the Power of the Atmosphere only' by Charles Leigh
9 - 'Concerning the Cure of the Bite of a Viper by Salad Oil' by Abraham Vater
10 - 'An Account of an uncommon Aurora Borealis (or red light)' by Thomas Stack
11 - 'An Account of some Oil of Sassafias crystallised' by John Maud
12 - 'An Account of the Northern Expedition for ascertaining the Figure of the Earth: being an Abstract of Monsieur de Maupertuis's Memoir on that Subject'
13 - 'The Improvement of the Sand-Glass for the True measuring of Time, in order to find the Longitude' by John Morgan and James Short
14 - 'Some Thoughts and Experiments concerning Electricity' by Doctor Desaguliers
15 - 'An Account of the Aquila Squatina Salviana vulgarly called the Mermaid' by A Bradley
16 - 'An Account by James Theobald Esq of a Book intitled: Emanuelis Swedenborgii Principia rerum naturalium...'
17 - 'An Account of Electrical Experiments made before the Royal Society' by Dr Desaguliers
18 - 'A Catalogue of fifty Plants from Chelsea Garden presented to the Royal Society by the company of Apothecaries for the year 1736 pursuant to the Direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by Isaac Rand
19 - 'An Account of a Mania from the Puncture of a Nerve' by Claude Amyand
20 - 'An Account of a new Machine to shew the principal Phaenomena of the Tides by Doctor Desaguliers Shewn to the Royal Society on Thursday the 8th of December 1737'
21 - 'Account of the Institution of the Royal Academy of Madrid being the Introduction to the Ephemirides Barometrico medicas matritenses by Francisco Fernandex Navarette'
22 - 'Observations of the Lunar Eclipse of September 8 1736 at Hudson's Bay; and of an uncommon Effect of Cold on the Magnetical Needle in a Voyage thither' by Captain Christopher Middleton
23 - Thomas Stack's account of a tract about the insect 'culices' (gnats or lice)
24 - 'An Account of some remarkable Stones, taken out of the Kidneys of Mrs Teles upon opening her Body after her Decease' by Noah Sherwood, Surgeon'
25 - 'A contrivance to make the poles of the diurnal Motion in a celestial Globe pass round the Poles of the Ecliptic Invented by John Senex'
26 - 'Mr Eames's Account of a Dissertation containing Remarks upon the Observations made in France, in order to ascertain the Figure of the Earth, by Mr Celsius, intitled: De observationibus, pro figura Telluris determinanda...'
27 - 'A Mechanical Inquiry concerning the Cause and Manner, from and by which Lemons and other Fruits are sometimes found pregnant: that is, with young ones within them' by Charles Perry
28 - 'Doctor Mortimer's Appendix to his Narration of experiments of the Vipers Bite, and its Cure (by Olive Oil) with some Remarks on the Cure of the bite of a mad Dog by Dampier's Remedy [the Pulvis Antilyssus Pharm.]
29 - 'Doctor Stack's Account of a Book intitled: Caroli Linnaei Systema Naturae sive Regna tria naturae systematice proposita per Classes, Ordines, Genera et Species'
30 - 'A comparative Anatomy of the Umbilical Parts in Man and Brutes [sic], which serve for stopping the Haemorrhage thro' the Navel Vessels...' by Claude Amyand
31 - 'Of the Nature and Propagation of Cuckows [cuckoos] by J Cox
32 - 'The continuation of the Remarks made by Mr Celsius on the Observations taken in France, in order to ascertain the true Figure of the Earth' abstracted by John Eames
33 - 'Three Chirurgical Cases by Mr Bezaleel Sherman'
34 - 'Of the Dissection of a monstrous female Monkey, which whilst alive was thought a male: the Bones of which thro' Distemper were mollified and become soft and pliable' by Claude Amyand
35 - 'An Eclipse of the Sun observed August the 4th 1738 by Mr George Graham and Mr Short at Mr Graham's House in Fleet Street London...'
36 - 'An Account of the American Ginseng by Mr Peter Collinson'
37 - 'Two Chirurgical Cases by Mr William Bromfield, Surgeon'
38 - 'An Occultation of Aldebaran by the Moon ...' by George Graham
39 - 'An Account of the third Volume of Monsieur de Reaumur's memoirs for the History of insects ...'
40 - 'An Account of some Electrical Experiments made at his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales's House at Cliesden on Tuesday the 15th of April 1738 by Doctor Desaguliers'
41 - 'An Account of some Electrical Experiments made before the Royal Society' by Dr Desaguliers
42 - 'An Examination of Sea Water frozen and melted again, to try what quantity of Salt is contain'd in Such Ice, made in Hudson's Streights by Captain Christopher Middleton'
43 - 'A Description of Needles made for the Eyes by Mr Archibald Cleland, Surgeon to General Wade's Regiment of Horse'
44 - 'An Account of a Stone voided by a Woman thro' the Urethra after taking a certain oily Medicine By the Right Honorable Henry Lord Colerane'
45 - 'An Abstract of Doctor Cocchi's speech De usu Artis Anatomicae' by Claude Amyand
46 - 'Dr Desaguliers's Account of Mr Professor Musschenbroek's Objection to Mr Graham's Experiment concerning the Momentum of Bodies in motion: with his Answer to be proved by an experiment'
47 - 'A Catalogue of the fifty Plants from Chelsea Garden, presented to the Royal Society by the Company of Apothecaries for the year 1737: pursuant to the direction of Sir Hans Sloane' by Isaac Rand
48 - Account of a tract by J Weidler on the parhelia (mock suns) witnessed at Wittemberg
49 - 'A Dissertation concerning the Measure of the force of bodies in Motion...' by Doctor Desaguliers
50 - 'An observation of the lights seen in the Air on March 18 1738-9 at London by Doctor Mortimer'
51 - 'A new method of improving and perfecting Catadioptrical Telescopes by forming the Speculums of Glass instead of Metal by Mr Caleb Smith'
52 - 'A Description of a Catheter...' by Archibald Cleland, surgeon
53 - 'Advertisement concerning the true Places of the planets' by John Cope
54 - 'Of the Cure of Arteriotomy and Aneurism occasioned by Blood-letting' by Claude Amyand
55 - Articles by Henry Beighton on sound and on a design of a quadrant
56 - Details of case and post-mortem of two women by Mr William Bromfield, Surgeon
57 - Concerning a persistent head-ache due to sharp-pointed bones in the Dura Mater by Claude Amyand
58 - 'Of the Removal of a large fungous Excrescence from the Collum Uteri by the help of a new sort of Canula' invented by F Sandys and Claude Amyand
59 - 'The Variation of the magnetic Needle, as observed in three Voyages from London to MaryLand' by Captain Walter Hoxton
60 - 'Observation of a Wound in the right Thigh...' by Mr Bermingham
61 - 'The Use of a new Azimuth Compass for finding the Variation of the Compass or Magnetic Needle at Sea ...' by Captain Christopher Middleton
62 - 'Of Bronchotome, and, the Success of it ...' by Claude Amyand
63 - 'A short Account of Mr Hersseboom's Essay upon the Number of People in Holland and West Friezland ...' by John Eames
64 - 'The Description and Use of an Apparatus added as an Improvement to Davis's Quadrant, consisting of a Mercurial level...' by Charles Leigh
65 - 'An Examination of Chiltenham Mineral Water by Dr Senckenberg'
66 - 'An Answer to that Part of Mr Kersseboom's Essay, which treats of the Number of the inhabitants of the city of London' by William Maitland
67 - 'Mr Amyand's Additions to his Observations on the Cure of an aneurism by Blood-letting'
68 - 'Croonean Lectures on Muscular Motion for the year 1738' by Alexander Stuart
22 - Volume 1 of index to the journal, register and letter books
23 - Volume 2 of index to the journal, register and letter books

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