Volume 108 (1818)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

31 articles

Articles

• Front Matter
  Anonymous (10 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• On the Great Strength Given to Ships of War by the Application of Diagonal Braces
  Robert Seppings (12 pages)
• A Memoir on the Geography of the North-Eastern Part of Asia, and on the Question Whether Asia and America are Contiguous, or are Separated by the Sea
  James Burney (16 pages)
• Additional Facts Respecting the Fossil Remains of an Animal, on the Subject of Which Two Papers Have Been Printed in the Philosophical Transactions, Showing That the Bones of the Sternum Resemble Those of the Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus
  Everard Home (12 pages)
• An Account of Experiments for Determining the Length of the Pendulum Vibrating Seconds in the Latitude of London
  Henry Kater (76 pages)
• On the Length of the French Mètre Estimated in Parts of the English Standard
  Henry Kater (8 pages)
• A Few Facts Relative to the Colouring Matters of Some Vegetables
  James Smithson (9 pages)
• Account of Experiments Made on the Strength of Materials
  George Rennie (26 pages)
• On the Office of the Heart Wood of Trees
  T. A. Knight (8 pages)
• On Circulating Functions, and on the Integration of a Class of Equations of Finite Differences into Which They Enter as Coefficients
  John F. W. Herschel (26 pages)
• On the Fallacy of the Experiments in Which Water is Said to Have Been Formed by the Decomposition of Chlorine
  H. Davy (4 pages)
• The Croonian Lecture: On the Changes the Blood Undergoes in the Act of Coagulation
  Everard Home (14 pages)
• Some Additions to the Croonian Lecture, on the Changes the Blood Undergoes in the Act of Coagulation
  Everard Home (22 pages)
• On the Laws of Polarisation and Double Refraction in Regularly Crystallized Bodies
  David Brewster (78 pages)
• Meteorological Journal, Kept at the Apartments of the Royal Society, by Order of the President and Council
  Anonymous (27 pages)
• On the Parallax of Certain Fixed Stars
  John Brinkley (29 pages)
• On the Urinary Organs and Secretions of Some of the Amphibia
  John Davy (6 pages)
• On a Mal-Conformation of the Uterine System in Women; And on Some Physiological Conclusions to Be Derived from It
  Everard Home (10 pages)
• New Experiments on Some of the Combinations of Phosphorus
  H. Davy (24 pages)
• New Experimental Researches on Some of the Leading Doctrines of Caloric; Particularly on the Relation between the Elasticity, Temperature, and Latent Heat of Different Vapours; And on Thermometric Admeasurement and Capacity
  Andrew Ure (59 pages)
• Observations on the Heights of Mountains in the North of England
  Thomas Greatorex (11 pages)
• On the Different Methods of Constructing a Catalogue of Fixed Stars
  J. Pond (13 pages)
• A Description of the Teeth of the Delphinus Gangeticus
  Everard Home (5 pages)
• Description of an Acid Principle Prepared from the Lithic or Uric Acid
  William Prout (10 pages)
• Astronomical Observations and Experiments, Selected for the Purpose of Ascertaining the Relative Distances of Clusters of Stars, and of Investigating How Far the Power of Our Telescopes May Be Expected to Reach into Space, When Directed to Ambiguous Celestial Objects
  William Herschel (49 pages)
• On the Structure of the Poisonous Fangs of Serpents
  Thomas Smith (8 pages)
• On the Parallax of α Aquilae
  John Pond (5 pages)
• On the Parallax of the Fixed Stars in Right Ascension
  John Pond (6 pages)
• An Abstract of the Results Deduced from the Measurement of an Arc on the Meridian, Extending from Latitude 8 degrees 9^′ 38^{′ ′},4, to Latitude 18 degrees 3^′ 23^{′ ′},6, N. Being an Amplitude of 9 degrees 53^′ 45^{′ ′},2
  William Lambton (41 pages)
• Back Matter
  Anonymous (17 pages)