Volume 116 (1826)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

51 articles

Articles

• Front Matter
  Anonymous (12 pages)
• Observations of the Apparent Distances and Positions of 458 Double and Triple Stars, Made in the Years 1823, 1824, and 1825; together with a Re-Examination of 36 Stars of the Same Description, the Distances and Positions of Which Were Communicated in a Former Memoir
  James South (410 pages)
• Errata: Observations of the Apparent Distance and Positions of 380 Double and Triple Stars, Made in the Years 1821, 1822, and 1823, and Compared with Those of Other Astronomers; Together with an Account of Such Changes as Appear to Have Taken Place in Them Since Their First Discovery. Also a Description of a Five-Feet Equatorial Instrument Employed in the Observations
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• An Account of the Construction and Adjustment of the New Standards of Weights and Measures of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
  Henry Kater (53 pages)
• Description of an Improved Hygrometer
  Thomas Jones (4 pages)
• Observations on the Changes Which have Taken Place in Some Antient Alloys of Copper
  John Davy (6 pages)
• Additional Proofs of Animal Heat Being Influenced by the Nerves
  Everard Home (5 pages)
• The Croonian Lecture: On the Structure of a Muscular Fibre from Which is Derived Its Elongation and Contraction
  Everard Home (7 pages)
• An Account of the Heat of July, 1825; together with Some Remarks Upon Sensible Cold
  W. Heberden (7 pages)
• On the Transit Instrument of the Cambridge Observatory; Being a Supplement to a Former Paper
  Robert Woodhouse (3 pages)
• Account of a Series of Observations, Made in the Summer of the Year 1825, for the Purpose of Determining the Difference of Meridians of the Royal Observatories of Greenwich and Paris
  J. F. W. Herschel (51 pages)
• Observations on the Poison of the Common Toad
  John Davy (6 pages)
• On the Magnetizing Power of the More Refrangible Solar Rays
  M. Somerville (9 pages)
• On the Mutual Action of Sulphuric Acid and Naphthaline, and on a New Acid Produced
  M. Faraday (24 pages)
• On the Nervous Circle Which Connects the Voluntary Muscles with the Brain
  Charles Bell (12 pages)
• On the Constitution of the Atmosphere
  John Dalton (16 pages)
• On the Coagulation by Heat of the Fluid Blood in an Aneurismal Tumour
  Everard Home (18 pages)
• On the Mathematical Theory of Suspension Bridges, with Tables for Facilitating Their Construction
  Davies Gilbert (18 pages)
• On Magnetic Influence in the Solar Rays
  Samuel Hunter Christie (22 pages)
• On the Mutual Action of Sulphuric Acid and Alcohol, with Observations on the Composition and Properties of the Resulting Compound
  Henry Hennell (11 pages)
• On a Method of Expressing by Signs the Action of Machinery
  Charles Babbage (24 pages)
• On the Parallax of the Fixed Stars
  J. F. W. Herschel (16 pages)
• A Formula for Expressing the Decrement of Human Life
  Thomas Young (25 pages)
• Account of an Experiment on the Elasticity of Ice
  Benjamin Bevan (4 pages)
• Results of the Application of Captain Kater's Floating Collimator to the Astronomical Circle at the Observatory of Trinity College, Dublin, and Remarks Relative to Those Results
  J. Brinkley (18 pages)
• On the Means of Facilitating the Observation of Distant Stations in Geodaetical Operations
  Thomas Drummond (16 pages)
• On the Production and Formation of Pearls
  Everard Home (6 pages)
• On Burrowing and Boring Marine Animals
  Edward Osler (33 pages)
• An Account of Some Experiments Relative to the Passage of Radiant Heat Through Glass Screens
  Baden Powell (12 pages)
• The Bakerian Lecture: On the Relations of Electrical and Chemical Changes
  Humphry Davy (41 pages)
• On the Discordances between the Sun's Observed and Computed Right Ascensions, as Determined at the Blackman-Street Observatory, in the Years 1821 and 1822; With Experiments to Show That They did not Originate in Instrumental Derangement. Also a Description of the Seven-Feet Transit with Which the Observations Were Procured, and Upon Which the Experiments Were Made
  James South (71 pages)
• On the Existence of a Limit to Vaporization
  M. Faraday (11 pages)
• On Electrical and Magnetic Rotations
  Charles Babbage (37 pages)
• Case of a Lady Born Blind, Who Received Sight at an Advanced Age by the Formation of an Artificial Pupil
  James Wardrop (13 pages)
• On the Progressive Compression of Water by High Degrees of Force, with Some Trials of Its Effects on Other Fluids
  J. Perkins (14 pages)
• On the Figure of the Earth
  George Biddell Airy (32 pages)
• Meteorological Journal, Kept by the Assistant Secretary at the Apartments of the Royal Society, by Order of the President and Council
  Anonymous (27 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Back Matter
  Anonymous (20 pages)
• Front Matter
  Anonymous (4 pages)
• ERRATA.—PART III.
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• ERRATA.—PART IV.
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Account of experiments made with an invariable pendulum at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, and at Port Bowen, on the eastern side of Prince Regent's Inlet
  Henry Foster (71 pages)
• Observations on the diurnal variation of the magnetic needle, at the Whale Fish Islands, Davis's Strait
  Henry Foster (3 pages)
• Magnetical Observations at Port Bowen, &c. A.D. 1824-25, comprehending observations on the diurnal variation and diurnal intensity of the horizontal needle; also on the Dip of the magnetic needle at Woolwich, and at different stations, within the Arctic circle
  W. E. Parry, Henry Foster (46 pages)
• Abstract of the daily variation of the magnetic needle No. 2
  Foster (17 pages)
• Observations for determining the dip of the magnetic needle
  W. E. Parry, Henry Foster (4 pages)
• Observations on the diurnal changes in the position of the horizontal needle, under a reduced directive power, at Port Bowen, 1825
  Henry Foster (74 pages)
• A comparison of the diurnal changes of intensity in the dipping and horizontal needles, at Port Bowen
  Henry Foster (12 pages)
• Account of the repetition of Mr. Christie's experiments on the magnetic properties imparted to an iron plate by rotation, at Port Bowen, in May and June, 1825, together with Mr. Christie's remarks thereon
  Henry Foster, S. H. CHRISTIE (21 pages)
• Observations to determine the amount of Atmospherical Refraction at Port Bowen in the Years 1824-25
  W. E. Parry, J. C. Ross, Henry Foster (26 pages)