Volume 105 (1815)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

28 articles

Articles

• Front Matter
  Anonymous (10 pages)
• Additional Observations on the Optical Properties and Structure of Heated Glass and Unannealed Glass Drops
  David Brewster (10 pages)
• Description of a New Instrument for Performing Mechanically the Involution and Evolution of Numbers
  Peter M. Roget (28 pages)
• Experiments on the Depolarisation of Light as Exhibited by Various Mineral, Animal, and Vegetable Bodies, with a Reference of the Phenomena to the General Principles of Polarisation
  David Brewster (27 pages)
• On an Ebbing and Flowing Stream Discovered by Boring in the Harbour of Bridlington
  John Storer (7 pages)
• On the Effects of Simple Pressure in Producing That Species of Crystallization Which Forms Two Oppositely Polarised Images, and Exhibits the Complementary Colours by Polarised Light
  David Brewster (6 pages)
• Experiments Made with a View to Ascertain the Principle on Which the Action of the Heart Depends, and the Relation Which Subsists between That Organ and the Nervous System
  A. P. Wilson Philip (27 pages)
• Experiments to Ascertain the Influence of the Spinal Marrow on the Action of the Heart in Fishes
  William Clift (7 pages)
• Some Experiments and Observations on the Colours Used in Painting by the Ancients
  Humphry Davy (29 pages)
• On the Laws Which Regulate the Polarisation of Light by Reflexion from Transparent Bodies
  David Brewster (37 pages)
• Meteorological Journal, Kept at the Apartments of the Royal Society, by Order of the President and Council
  Anonymous (27 pages)
• On Some Phenomena of Colours, Exhibited by Thin Plates
  John Knox (32 pages)
• Some Farther Observations, on the Current That Often Prevails, to the Westward of the Scilly Islands
  James Rennell (28 pages)
• Some Experiments on a Solid Compound of Iodine and Oxygene, and on Its Chemical Agencies
  Humphry Davy (12 pages)
• On the Action of Acids on the Salts Usually Called Hyperoxymuriates, and on the Gases Produced from Them
  Humphry Davy (7 pages)
• Farther Analytical Experiments Relative to the Constitution of the Prussic, of the Ferruretted Chyazic, and of the Sulphuretted Chyazic Acids; and to That of Their Salts; Together with the Application of the Atomic Theory to the Analyses of Those Bodies
  Robert Porrett (17 pages)
• On the Nature and Combinations of a Newly Discovered Vegetable Acid; With Observations on the Malic Acid, and Suggestions on the State in Which Acids May Have Previously Existed in Vegetables
  M. Donovan (26 pages)
• On the Structure of the Organs of Respiration in Animals Which Appear to Hold an Intermediate Place between Those of the Class Pisces and the Class Vermes, and in Two Genera of the Last Mentioned Class
  Everard Home (13 pages)
• On the Mode of Generation of the Lamprey and Myxine
  Everard Home (7 pages)
• On the Multiplication of Images, and the Colours Which Accompany Them in Some Specimens of Calcareous Spar
  David Brewster (25 pages)
• A Series of Observations of the Satellites of the Georgian Planet, Including a Passage through the Node of Their Orbits; With an Introductory Account of the Telescopic Apparatus That Has Been Used on This Occasion; and a Final Exposition of Some Calculated Particulars Deduced from the Observations
  William Herschel (72 pages)
• An Account of Some Experiments with a Large Voltaic Battery
  J. G. Children (13 pages)
• On the Dispersive Power of the Atmosphere, and Its Effect on Astronomical Observations
  Stephen Lee (10 pages)
• Determination of the North Polar Distances and Proper Motion of Thirty Fixed Stars
  John Pond (6 pages)
• An Essay towards the Calculus of Functions
  C. Babbage (36 pages)
• Some Additional Experiments and Observations on the Relation Which Subsists between the Nervous and Sanguiferous Systems
  A. P. Wilson Philip (24 pages)
• Erratum
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Back Matter
  Anonymous (16 pages)