Volume 110 (1820)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

25 articles

Articles

Front Matter

Anonymous (9 pages)
The Croonian Lecture: A Farther Investigation of the Component Parts of the Blood

Everard Home (13 pages)
The Bakerian Lecture: On the Composition and Analysis of the Inflammable Gaseous Compounds Resulting from the Destructive Distillation of Coal and Oil, with Some Remarks on Their Relative Heating and Illuminating Powers

William Thomas Brande (20 pages)
On the Elasticity of the Lungs

James Carson (18 pages)
On the Action of Crystallized Bodies on Homogeneous Light, and on the Causes of the Deviation from Newton's Scale in the Tints Which Many of Them Develope on Exposure to a Polarised Ray

John F. W. Herschel (58 pages)
A Case of the Human Foetus Found in the Ovarium, of the Size It Usually Acquires at the End of the Fourth Month

A. B. Granville (13 pages)
On Some Combinations of Platinum

Edmund Davy (19 pages)
On the Methods of Cutting Rock Crystal for Micrometers

William Hyde Wollaston (7 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 Ships in the Mercantile Navy

Robert Seppings (15 pages)
On the Milk Tusks, and Organ of Hearing of the Dugong

Everard Home (16 pages)
Upon the Different Qualities of the Alburnum of Spring and Winter-Felled Oak Trees

Thomas Andrew Knight (4 pages)
On the Mode of Formation of the Canal for Containing the Spinal Marrow, and on the Form of the Fins (If They Deserve That Name) of the Proteosaurus

Everard Home (9 pages)
Some Experiments on the Fungi Which Constitute the Colouring Matter of the Red Snow Discovered in Baffin's Bay

Francis Bauer (11 pages)
Some Account of the Dugong

Thomas Stamford Raffles (10 pages)
Observations on the Human Urethra, Showing Its Internal Structure, as It Appeared in the Microscope of F. Bauer, Esq.

Everard Home (20 pages)
On the Errors in Longitude as Determined by Chronometers at Sea, Arising from the Action of the Iron in the Ships upon the Chronometers

George Fisher (27 pages)
An Account of a New Mode of Performing the High Operation for the Stone

Everard Home (7 pages)
A Sketch of an Analysis and Notation Applicable to the Estimation of the Value of Life Contigencies

Benjamin Gompertz (83 pages)
On the Measurement of Snowdon, by the Thermometrical Barometer

F. J. H. Wollaston (12 pages)
On Sounds Inaudible by Certain Ears

William Hyde Wollaston (10 pages)
Particulars Respecting the Anatomy of the Dugong, Intended as a Supplement to Sir T. S. Raffles' Account of That Animal

Everard Home (17 pages)
On the Compressibility of Water

Jacob Perkins (8 pages)
Astronomical Observations

Stephen Groombridge (3 pages)
Back Matter

Anonymous (19 pages)