Volume 117 (1827)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

29 articles

Articles

Front Matter

Anonymous (10 pages)
Errata

Anonymous (2 pages)
Description of a Percussion Shell, to be Fired Horizontally from a Common Gun

Lieutenant Colonel Miller (19 pages)
On the Relative Powers of Various Metallic Substances as Conductors of Electricity

William Snow Harris (9 pages)
On the Expediency of Assigning Specific Names to All Such Functions of Simple Elements as Represent Definite Physical Properties; with the Suggestion of a New Term in Mechanics; Illustrated by an Investigation of the Machine Moved by Recoil, and Also by Some Observations on the Steam Engine

Davies Gilbert (15 pages)
The Croonian Lecture for 1826

Everard Home (15 pages)
On a Newly Discovered Genus of Serpentiform Fishes

I. Harwood (11 pages)
An Examination into the Structure of the Cells of the Human Lungs; with a View to Ascertain the Office They Perform in Respiration

F. Bauer, Everard Home (10 pages)
Remarks on a Correction of the Solar Tables Required by Mr. South's Observations

G. B. Airy (7 pages)
On the Mutual Action of the Particles of Magnetic Bodies, and on the Law of Variation of the Magnetic Forces Generated at Different Distances during Rotation

S. H. Christie (53 pages)
Corrections to the Reductions of Lieutenant Foster's Observations on Atmospherical Refractions at Port Bowen; with Addenda to the Table of Magnetic Intensities at the Same Place

Henry Foster (5 pages)
Correction of an Error in a Paper Published in the Philosophical Transactions, Entitled, "On the Parallax of the Fixed Stars"

J. F. W. Herschel (4 pages)
On a New Form of the Differential Thermometer, with Some of Its Applications

William Ritchie (4 pages)
On the Structure and Use of the Submaxillary Odoriferous Gland in the Genus Crocodilus

Thomas Bell (9 pages)
On the Permeability of Transparent Screens of Extreme Tenuity by Radiant Heat

William Ritchie (6 pages)
On the Derangements of Certain Transit Instruments by the Effects of Temperature

Robert Woodhouse (16 pages)
On Some of the Compounds of Chromium

Thomas Thomson (73 pages)
Rules and Principles for Determining the Dispersive Ratio of Glass; and for Computing the Radii of Curvature for Achromatic Object-Glasses, Submitted to the Test of Experiment

Peter Barlow (38 pages)
On the Change in the Plumage of Some Hen-Pheasants

William Yarrell (10 pages)
On the Secondary Deflections Produced in a Magnetized Needle by an Iron Shell, in Consequence of an Unequal Distribution of Magnetism in Its Two Branches. First Noticed by Captain J. P. Wilson, of the Honourable East India Company's Ship Hythe

Peter Barlow (11 pages)
On the Difference of Meridians of the Royal Observatories of Greenwich and Paris

Thomas Henderson (12 pages)
Errata

Anonymous (2 pages)
Some Observations on the Effects of Dividing the Nerves of the Lungs, and Subjecting the Latter to the Influence of Voltaic Electricity

A. P. W. Philip (5 pages)
On the Effects Produced Upon the Air Cells of the Lungs When the Pulmonary Circulation is Too Much Encreased

Everard Home (9 pages)
Theory of the Diurnal Variation of the Magnetic Needle, Illustrated by Experiments

S. H. Christie (50 pages)
On the Ultimate Composition of Simple Alimentary Substances; with Some Preliminary Remarks on the Analysis of Organized Bodies in General

William Prout (37 pages)
Errata

Anonymous (2 pages)
Meteorological Journal, Kept by the Assistant Secretary at the Apartments of the Royal Society, by Order of the President and Council

Anonymous (17 pages)
Back Matter

Anonymous (20 pages)