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I. Biographical Account of the Right Hon. Robert Dundas
of Arniston, Lord Prefident of the Court of Seffion, Page 37.
II. Biographical Account of Sir Alexander Dick of Preston-
field, Bart. M. D.
III. Biographical Account of the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Miller
of Glenlee, Bart. Lord Prefident of the Court of Seffion, 63.
LIST of DONATIONS, continued from the first Volume,
58.
77.
PART II.
PAPERS READ BEFORE THE SOCIETY.
I.
PAPERS OF THE PHYSICAL CLASS.
I. Of certain Natural Appearances of the Ground on the Hill
of Arthur's Seat. By Dr James Hutton,
II. An Account of the Method of making the Otter of Rofes,
as it is prepared in the Eaft Indies. By Dr Donald
Monro,
3.
12.
III. Defcription of a Mercurial Level. By Mr Alexander Keith, 14.
IV. Pathological Obfervations on the Brain. By Mr Thomas
Anderfon,
17.
V. Experiments on the Expanfive Force of Freezing Water,
made by Major Williams at Quebec, in the years 1784
and 1785. Communicated by Dr Charles Hutton,
VI. Abftract of Experiments made to determine the true Refift-
ance of the Air to the Surfaces of Bodies, of various Fi-
gures, and moved through it with different degrees of
velocity. By Dr Charles Hutton,
23.
29.
VII. Ob-
VII. Obfervations on the Places of the Georgium Planet, made
at Edinburgh with an Equatoreal Inftrument.
Mr John Robison,
37.
By
VIII. Answers to the Objections of M. de Luc, with Regard
to the Theory of Rain. By Dr James Hutton,
39.
IX. Account of a Distemper, by the common People in England
vulgarly called the Mumps. By Dr Robert Hamilton, 59.
X. A Botanical and Medical Account of the Quaffia Simaruba,
or Tree which produces the Cortex Simaruba. By
Dr William Wright,
XI. On the Motion of Light, as affected by refracting and re-
flecting Subftances, which are alfo in Motion.
Mr John Robifon,
XII. Demonftrations of fome of Dr Matthew Stewart's Gene- ral Theorems. By the Reverend Dr Robert Small,
XIII. Remarks on the Aftronomy of the Brahmins. By Mr John
Playfair,
73.
83.
II2.
135.
XIV. On the Refolution of Indeterminate Problems. By Mr
John Leslie,
193.
XV. A Differtation on the Climate of Ruffia. By Dr Mat-
thew Guthrie: With two Letters from M. Æpinus, 213.
II.
PAPERS OF THE LITERARY CLASS.
I. An Account of fome extraordinary Structures on the Tops
of Hills in the Highlands; with Remarks on the Pro-
grefs of the Arts among the ancient inhabitants of Scot-
land. By Mr Alexander Fraser Tytler,
II. Remarks on fome Paffages of the fixth Book of the Eneid.
By Dr James Beattie,
33.
III. An
III. An Efay on Rythmical Meafures. By the Reverend Mr
Walter Young,
IV. On certain Analogies obferved by the Greeks in the use of
their Letters; and particularly of the Letter Ziypa.
By Mr Andrew Dalzel,
V. Account of the German Theatre. By Mr Henry Mac-
kenzie,
55.
III.
154.
VI. Theory of the Moods of Verbs. By Dr James Gregory, 193.
VII. An Essay on the Character of Hamlet, in Shakespeare's
Tragedy of Hamlet.
By the Reverend Mr Thomas
Robertson,
251.
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