Volume 101 (1811)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

23 articles

Articles

• Front Matter
  Anonymous (10 pages)
• The Bakerian Lecture: On Some of the Combinations of Oxymuriatic Gas and Oxygene, and on the Chemical Relations of These Principles, to Inflammable Bodies
  Humphry Davy (36 pages)
• The Croonian Lecture: On Some Physiological Researches, Respecting the Influence of the Brain on the Action of the Heart, and on the Generation of Animal Heat
  B. C. Brodie (14 pages)
• On the Expansion of Any Functions of Multinomials
  Thomas Knight (41 pages)
• On a Case of Nervous Affection Cured by Pressure of the Carotids; With Some Physiological Remarks
  C. H. Parry (8 pages)
• On the Non-Existence of Sugar in the Blood of Persons Labouring under Diabetes Mellitus
  William Hyde Wollaston (16 pages)
• On the Rectification of the Hyperbola by Means of Two Ellipses; Proving That Method to be Circuitous, and Such as Requires Much More Calculation Than Is Requisite by an Appropriate Theorem: In Which Process a New Theorem for the Rectification of That Curve Is Discovered. To Which are Added Some Further Observations on the Rectification of the Hyperbola: Among Which the Great Advantage of Descending Series over Ascending Series, in Many Cases, Is Clearly Shown; And Several Methods Are Given for Computing the Constant Quantity by Which Those Series Differ from Each Other. Being an Appendix to His Former Paper on the Rectification of the Hyperbola, Inserted in the Philosophical Transactions for the Year 1802
  John Hellins (42 pages)
• On a Combination of Oxymuriatic Gas and Oxygene Gas
  Humphry Davy (9 pages)
• Experiments to Prove That Fluids Pass Directly from the Stomach to the Circulation of the Blood, and from Thence into the Cells of the Spleen, the Gall Bladder, and Urinary Bladder, without Going Through the Thoracic Duct
  Everard Home (9 pages)
• On the Composition of Zeolite
  James Smithson (8 pages)
• Experiments and Observations on the Different Modes in Which Death is Produced by Certain Vegetable Poisons
  B. C. Brodie (32 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Meteorological Journal, Kept at the Apartments of the Royal Society, by Order of the President and Council
  Anonymous (27 pages)
• On the Causes Which Influence the Direction of the Growth of Roots
  Tho. And. Knight (12 pages)
• On the Solar Eclipse Which is Said to Have been Predicted by Thales
  Francis Baily (23 pages)
• An Account of the Great Derbyshire Denudation
  J. Farey (17 pages)
• An Account of an Appendix to the Small Intestines of Birds
  James Macartney (6 pages)
• An Account of a Vegetable Wax from Brazil
  William Thomas Brande (9 pages)
• Astronomical Observations Relating to the Construction of the Heavens, Arranged for the Purpose of a Critical Examination, the Result of Which Appears to Throw Some New Light upon the Organization of the Celestial Bodies
  William Herschel (71 pages)
• Experiments to Ascertain the State in Which Spirit Exists in Fermented Liquors: With a Table Exhibiting the Relative Proportion of Pure Alcohol Contained in Several Kinds of Wine and Some Other Liquors
  William Thomas Brande (11 pages)
• Account of a Lithological Survey of Schehallien, Made in Order to Determine the Specific Gravity of the Rocks Which Compose That Mountain
  John Playfair (32 pages)
• Observations and Experiments on Vision
  William Charles Wells (20 pages)
• Back Matter
  Anonymous (12 pages)