{"title":"VII. An account of the Cape of Good Hope","authors":"John Maxwell","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1706.0051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1706.0051","url":null,"abstract":"The Cape of Good Hope, which is part of Monomotapa, and the Southernmost part of Africa, lies in the Latitude of 34 Degrees 30 Minutes South, and 16 Degrees 15 Minutes East of London.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"88 1","pages":"2423 - 2434"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82318485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IV. Of the nature of silk as it is made in Piedmont","authors":"William Aglionby","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1699.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1699.0035","url":null,"abstract":"Silk, which is the Spittle of a Worm, hath its good or bad Quality from the Nourishment the Worm receives either from a good or bad Leaf; Therefore the chief Dependance is on a happy Spring, proving both sweet and pleasant; exempt from too much Rain, which commonly rot the Leaves; from Southerly Winds, which burst the Worms; and from strong Northerly Winds, whose piercing cold spoils the Leaf, giving it an ill Quality.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"7 1","pages":"183 - 186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86534329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"VI. Cuculus lævis cæruleo flavescens, cui in supremo capite bronchiarum opercula. Or, the yellow gurnard.","authors":"Edward Tyson","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1704.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1704.0038","url":null,"abstract":"If we may justly infer on Identity of <italic>Species</italic> in Fishes, from the likeness of their fins, we have then some ground to conclude, that this fish (l am giving an account of, and which has not hitherto been described by any, as I know of) ought to be referred to the <italic>Gurnard</italic> kind.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"23 1","pages":"1749 - 1753"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86513214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Meteorological journal, 1811","authors":"","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1812.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1812.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Meteorological journal for January, 1811.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"4 1","pages":"1 - 26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86513870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gualteri charltoni inquisitio physica de causis Catameniorum, & vteri Rheumatismo. Lond. 1685. 8°","authors":"","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1685.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1685.0038","url":null,"abstract":"The Learned Author, designing to treat of the Flour albus which he terms Rheumatismaus Vterinus, gives the Anatomy of the Womb, ( in a proper Sense,) describing the Magnitude, Substance, and Vessels of that part;","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"98 1","pages":"1020 - 1026"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89264760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"I. Hortus indicus malabaricus, continens regni malabarici apud indos celeberrimi omnis generis plantas rariores &c. Amstelodami, anno. 1678","authors":"","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1683.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1683.0018","url":null,"abstract":"This excellent Work giveing account of the most rare and strange Trees and Shrubs of the most fruitful and flourishing Country of Malabar in the East Indies, by their descriptions, Vertues, and whatever else hath been observed remarkable, hath been especially promoted by the noble and ingenious Governour of the same H. Henry Van Rheede, who made his utmost endeavours to find and learn out not only from his own observations, but by the advice and assistance of the most learned men of the Country, what might prove exact and true concerning this Subject, not only to please the Curious with those Monsters of Vegetables expresled therein, but for the help to Mankind by their excellent Vertues.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"26 1","pages":"100 - 112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89075862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"XIII. An account of the Tabasheer","authors":"P. Russell","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1790.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1790.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Sir, Should the following remarks on the Tabasheer, a medicine in high repute in many parts of the East, appear deserving a place in the Transactions, you will do me the honour to present them, together with the accompanying spemens, to the Society.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"56 1","pages":"273 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89420268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"I. Conjectures on the charming or fascinating power attributed to the Rattle-Snake: grounded on credible accounts, experiments and observations","authors":"H. Sloane","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1733.0050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1733.0050","url":null,"abstract":"The various Relations not only of curious and credible Authors, who have given us Accounts of Virginia, Carolina, and the neighbouring Countries, but also the Testimonies of several Men of Integrity by word of Mouth, concerning what they call Charms, Inchantments or Fascinations by Snakes, have often seemed to me greatly surprizing, without my being able to satisfy myself of the true cause of such Appearances.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"7 1","pages":"321 - 331"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87671655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"VIII. An account of a gall-bee, and the deathwatch.","authors":"Benjamin Allen","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1698.0079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1698.0079","url":null,"abstract":"In those Galls which came to me by the Name of Aleppo-Galls, which the insects had not eat their Way out of, I found one sort of Bee, resembling the small sort of our wild Bees which Earth; they have long; Wings, a deep Belly, and on the Back near the Comissure to the Body, it is of a greenish black, the rest redish, near a Cinnamon Colour, the Belly thick and deep.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"139 1","pages":"375 - 378"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87885890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"X. On the conversion of animal substances into a fatty matter much resembling Spermaceti","authors":"G. S. Gibbes","doi":"10.1098/rstl.1795.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1795.0013","url":null,"abstract":"In a paper which the Royal Society have done me the honour of inserting in the last Volume of their Transactions, I related some experiments on the decomposition of animal muscle. I regret that it has not been in my power to pursue these inquiries with the attention the subject seems to demand. I beg leave, however, to present the few additional facts contained in this paper, not by any means as a full investigation of the subject, but as serving to excite the attention of those, who have more opportunities, and are better qualified, to pursue such inquiries. I mentioned in my former paper, that the substance procured either by means of water, or the nitrous acid, appeared to me to have precisely the same external characters; but I have observed since, that there is a difference between that which I obtain from quadrupeds, and that which is procured from the human subject: the former seems not disposed to crystallize, while the latter assumes a very beautiful and regular crystalline appearance.","PeriodicalId":20034,"journal":{"name":"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London","volume":"123 1","pages":"239 - 245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89867770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}