Θ

REGISTER

OF

PAPERS PUBLISHED

IN THE

TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.

COMPILED BY

HENRY PHILLIPS, Jr.,

ONE OF THE SECRETARIES OF THE SOCIETY.

PHILADELPHIA:

MCCALLA & STAVELY, PRINTERS, 237-9 DOCK STREET.
1881.

Account of an Aurora Borealis, as seen at Lancaster, Pa.................

I. 404

Account of Eruption of Vesuvius in 1767..

I. 345

Account of two Hearts found in one Partridge....

II. 330

ALLISON, Rev. Burgiss.-Description of a Newly Invented

Globe Time-Piece..

V. 82

Description of the Pendant Planetarium..

V. 87

ANDERSON, Dr. James.-Disquisition on Wool-bearing IV. 149

Animals.....

IV. 153

ANTES, Col. F. A.—On the Hybernation of Swallows.

VI. 59

ANTILL, E.-Essay on the Vine, &c. ...

I. 180

Venus, &c., June 3, 1769.......

Method of Curing Figs and Observations on Hemp...... Apparent Time of the Contacts of the Limbs of the Sun and

BARD, Sam., M.D.-On Angina suffocativa..
Barometrical Measurement of the Blue Ridge, Warm Spring
and Allegheny Mountains in Virginia, taken in the
summer of 1791.......

BARTON, B. S.-On the Means of Preventing the Deleterious
Consequences of the Bite of the Crotalus horridus or
Rattlesnake...

.....

Inquiry into whether the Honey Bee is a Native of America.
Botanical Description of the Podophyllum diphyllum of Lin-

III. 241

næus.....

III. 334

On the Fascination of the Rattlesnake and other American

Serpents.

IV. 74

BARTON, B. S.-American Dipus or Jerboa....

IV. 114

...

Observations, &c., on Articles taken from an Ancient Tu

VI. 79

VI. 108

VI. 143

On a New Vegetable Muscipula....

On a New Species of North American Lizard.
Supplement to paper on the Dipus..........

Hints on Etymology of certain English words and on their
affinities to words in the languages of European, Asiatic,
and American (Indian) nations.

BARTON, Wm.-Observations on the Probabilities of the Duration of Human Life and the Progress of Population in the United States of America.....

BARTRAM, Isaac.-Distillation of Persimmons..

of North America.....

VI. 145

III. 25

I. 301

BARTRAM, Moses.-Observations on the Native Silk Worms

I. 294

BELKNAP, Jeremy.-Description of the White Mountains in

II. 42

Observations on the Aurora Borealis..

II. 196

II. 199

I. 83

New Hampshire..

On the Preservation of Parsnips by Drying...........

.....

BIDDLE, Owen.-Account of the Transit of Venus June 3,
1769, as Observed at Cape Henlopen......
BILLINGS, Capt. Wm.-Thermometrical Journal of the Tem-
perature of the Atmosphere and Sea on a voyage to and
from Oporto..
BRADLEY, John.-Account of the Transit of Venus June 3,
1769, as Observed at the Lizard Point....
BRITT, Dan'l, and TOWER, Geo.-Thermometrical Observa-
tions made at Fort Washington from June, 1790, ending
April, 1791.....

III. 194

I. 108

IV. 329

BROWN, Samuel, M. D.-Description of a Cave on Crooked
Creek, with Remarks, &c., on Nitre and Gunpowder.. VI. 235
BRYANT, William.-Account of an Electrical Eel or Torpedo
from Surinam........

II. 166

BULL, Col.-Notes concerning a Vegetable found under ground....

II. 160

BUSHNELL, D.-General Principles and Construction of a

Sub-marine Vessel......

CARTER, Langdon.-Observations on the Fly Weevil, &c....
Catalogue of Plants to be Encouraged in the American Colo-
nies, &c....

CATHRALL, Isaac, M.D.-Observations on Black Vomit.
CLAY, Jos.-Observations of the Figure of the Earth....
Demonstration of a Geometrical Theorem.

IV. 303
I. 274

I. 325

V. 117

V. 312

VI. 201

CLOUD, Joseph.-Experiments in Palladium found combined

with Pure Gold.....

VI. 407

COLLIN, Rev. D. N.-Introduction to Vol. 3d....

III. 1

VI. 401
I. 287

Cold, Extreme, at Hallowell, Mass., in 1807, Letter Relative to.
Committee on Husbandry; Observations on the fly Weevil....
CONOVER, S. F., M.D.-An Essay on the Vermilion Color of
the Blood, and on the Different Colors of the Metallic
Oxides, with an Application of these Principles to the
Arts.......

....

COOKE, John.-A New Standard for Weights and Measures...
COULTER, Thos.-Method of Cultivating Peach Trees with a
View to Prevent their Premature Decay....
COXE, John Redman, M.D.-Inquiry into the Comparative
Effects of the Opium Officinarum Extracted from the
Papaver somniferum or White Poppy, and that procured
from the Lactuca sativa....

Currant-Wine, Letter on the Manufacture of.

CURRIE, William.-On the Insalubrity of Flat and Marshy Situations; and Directions for Preventing or Correcting the Effects thereof....

VI. 247

III. 328

V. 327

IV. 387

I. 317

IV. 127

DE BEAUVOIS.-First Memoir of Observations on Plants de

Memoir on a New Plant growing in Pennsylvania........... DE FERRER, Jos. Joaquin.-Astronomical Observations

IV. 173

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for determining the Geographical position of various VI. 158 places in North America ..........

VI. 221

Observations on Solar Eclipse June 16, 1806..
Astronomical Observations at Havana, 1809.

..VI. 264, 293

VI. 428

Notes with Corrections to be applied to the Geographical
Situations in Vol. VI......

VI. 360

Memoir on the Occultation of Aldebaran by the Moon, October 21, 1793......

VI. 213

Observations on the Comet of September, 1807, in the Island

of Cuba

VI. 3:5

DE GRANCHAIN, M.-Observations on a Solar and Lunar
Eclipse...

II. 239

DES LOZIERS, Baudry.-Memoir on Animal Cotton or the In

sect fly Carrier..

V. 150