Volume 104 (1814)

Front Matter

Anonymous (11 pages)

A Synoptic Scale of Chemical Equivalents

William Hyde Wollaston (24 pages)

Methods of Clearing Equations of Quadratic, Cubic, Quadrato-Cubic, and Higher Surds

William Allman (23 pages)

Analysis of a New Species of Copper Ore

Thomas Thomson (7 pages)

The Bakerian Lecture: On Some New Electro-Chemical Phenomena

William Thomas Brande (13 pages)

An Account of Some New Experiments on the Fluoric Compounds; With Some Observations on Other Objects of Chemical Inquiry

H. Davy (13 pages)

Some Experiments and Observations on a New Substance Which Becomes a Violet Coloured Gas by Heat

Humphry Davy (21 pages)

An Account of a Family Having Hands and Feet with Supernumerary Fingers and Toes

Anthony Carlisle (9 pages)

Experiments and Observations on the Influence of the Nerves of the Eighth Pair on the Secretions of the Stomach

B. C. Brodie (6 pages)

On a Fossil Human Skeleton from Guadaloupe

Charles Konig (17 pages)

A New Method of Deducing a First Approximation to the Orbit of a Comet from Three Geocentric Observations

James Ivory (68 pages)

On the Affections of Light Transmitted through Crystallized Bodies

David Brewster (36 pages)

On the Polarisation of Light by Oblique Transmission through All Bodies, Whether Crystallized or Uncrystallized

David Brewster (14 pages)

Further Experiments on the Light of the Cassegrainian Telescope Compared with That of the Gregorian

Henry Kater (18 pages)

Astronomical Observations Relating to the Sidereal Part of the Heavens, and Its Connection with the Nebulous Part; Arranged for the Purpose of a Critical Examination

William Herschel (39 pages)

Meteorological Journal, Kept at the Apartments of the Royal Society, by Order of the President and Council

Anonymous (27 pages)

On a New Principle of Constructing His Majesty's Ships of War

Robert Seppings (23 pages)

Remarks on the Employment of Oblique Riders, and on Other Alterations in the Construction of Ships. Being the Substance of a Report Presented to the Board of Admiralty, with Additional Demonstrations and Illustrations

Thomas Young (36 pages)

Some Further Observations on Atmospherical Refraction

Stephen Groombridge (15 pages)

Propositions Containing Some Properties of Tangents to Circles; and of Trapeziums Inscribed in Circles, and Non-Inscribed. Together with Propositions on the Elliptic Representations of Circles, upon a Plane Surface, by Perspective

Richard Hey (60 pages)

On New Properties of Light Exhibited in the Optical Phenomena of Mother of Pearl, and Other Bodies to Which the Superficial Structure of That Substance can be Communicated

David Brewster (24 pages)

An Improved Method of Dividing Astronomical Circles and Other Instruments

Henry Kater (23 pages)

Results of Some Recent Experiments on the Properties Impressed upon Light by the Action of Glass Raised to Different Temperatures, and Cooled under Different Circumstances

David Brewster (5 pages)

Consideration of Various Points of Analysis

F. W. Herschel (30 pages)

Observations on the Functions of the Brain

Everard Home (19 pages)

Further Experiments and Observations on Iodine

H. Davy (22 pages)

Observations Respecting the Natural Production of Saltpetre on the Walls of Subterraneous and Other Buildings

John Kidd (20 pages)

On the Nature of the Salts Termed Triple Prussiates, and on Acids Formed by the Union of Certain Bodies with the Elements of the Prussic Acid

Robert Porrett (31 pages)

Some Experiments on the Combustion of the Diamond and Other Carbonaceous Substances

Humphry Davy (15 pages)

Some Account of the Fossil Remains of an Animal More Nearly Allied to Fishes Than Any of the Other Classes of Animals

Everard Home (15 pages)

On an Easier Mode of Procuring Potassium Than That Which is Now Adopted

Smithson Tennant (6 pages)

On the Influence of the Nerves upon the Action of the Arteries

Everard Home (5 pages)

On the Means of Producing a Double Distillation by the Same Heat

Smithson Tennant (4 pages)

An Account of Some Experiments on Animal Heat

John Davy (15 pages)

Erratum

Anonymous (2 pages)

Back Matter

Anonymous (14 pages)

Articles