INDEXES. No. I. LIST OF THE AUTHOR'S WRITINGS, CHRONOLOGICALLY * ARRANGED. This list comprises the titles of Franklin's miscellaneous writings. They are arranged under the years in which they were written or printed. In some instances the dates could not be ascertained with precision. To the titles of such pieces this mark (†) is prefixed. In a few of these instances the nature of the subject, or the matter, points nearly to the time; in others the arrangement is conjectural. Articles not contained in any previous edition of the author's works are denoted by a ("); and to such as have not before been printed this mark (†) is prefixed. Rules for a Club established for Mutual Improvement II. 9 1729. The Busy Body II. 13 * A Modest Inquiry into the Nature and Necessity of Necessary Hints to those that would be Rich The Way to make Money Plenty in every Man's II. 80 II. 82 * Address to the Readers of Poor Richard's Almanac On Government * Proposal for promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in America 1744. . VI. 14 VI. 34 An Account of the new-invented Pennsylvania Fireplaces Conjecture as to the Cause why Ships in crossing the Atlantic have longer Passages in sailing westward, than in sailing eastward 1747. Plain Truth; or Serious Considerations on the present State of the City of Philadelphia and Province of Pennsylvania Northeast Storms; Origin of Springs in Mountains; petrified Shells in the Appalachian Mountains; Observations on a Tariff Experiments on the Culture of Grass On the Vis Inertia of Matter. Vol. Page. VI. 74 III. VI. 79 VI. 83 VI. 87 A Conjecture as to the Cause of the Heat of the Blood in Health, and of the Cold and Hot Fits of some Fevers VI. 97 First Letter to Peter Collinson on the Subject of Electricity; Wonderful Effect of Points; Positive and Negative Electricity Observations on the Leyden Bottle, with Experiments 1748. Advice to a Young Tradesman Further Experiments on Electricity V. 181 V. 189 Observations and Suppositions towards forming a new Hypothesis for explaining the several Phenomena of Thunder-gusts 1749. Proposals relating to the Education of Youth in Penn sylvania II. 87 V. 196 V. 211 I. 569 II. 125 VI. 100 VI. 104 Sketch of an English School, for the Consideration of the Trustees of the Philadelphia Academy Magical Square of Squares Magical Circle 1750. Electrical Experiments; Effect of Lightning on the Needle of Compasses explained Opinions and Conjectures concerning the Properties and Effects of the Electrical Matter, and the V. 223 Means of preserving Buildings and Ships from Additional Experiments in Electricity Account of an Accident while making an Electrical Reasons why Northeast Storms begin at the South. Inquiries respecting the Mode of planting Hedges 1751. Vol. Page. V. 227 V. 253 . V. 255 VI. 105 . VI. 109 VI, 111 Queries and Answers on the Properties of Electricity. V. 259 Probable Causes of the different Attractions and Re pulsions of two Electrified Globes Reasons for supposing that a Glass Globe charges posi- V. 269 V. 275 V. 280 V. 283 V. 295 VI. 120 Concerning the Smallpox in Philadelphia and Suppositions 1753 On the Mode of Coating Electrical Jars. An Account of various Electrical Experiments, with On the Motion of the Electrical Fluid in Metals Transit of Mercury in 1753. Properties of Water Papers relating to a Plan of Union of the Colonies, adopted by Commissioners assembled at Albany III. 22 Three Letters to Governor Shirley Plan for settling two Western Colonies in North Amer III. 56 ica, with Reasons for the Plan . Additional Proofs of the Positive and Negative State of Electricity in the Clouds 1755. * An Act for the better Ordering and Regulating such as are willing and desirous to be united for Military Purposes in Pennsylvania. *Dialogue respecting the State of Affairs in Pennsyl Experiments in Electricity, with Explanations Turkey killed by Electricity; Effects on the Operator Account of a Whirlwind in Maryland III. 69 V. 340 III. 78 III. 84 V. 341 V. 346 V. 347 V. 355 VI. 201 1756. * Plan for saving One Hundred Thousand Pounds II. 89 1757. The Way to Wealth; being a Summary of the Maxims and Proverbs in Poor Richard's Almanac † Observations on Mayz, or Indian Corn On the Effects of Electricity in Paralytic Cases |