Volume 118 (1828)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

26 articles

Articles

• Front Matter
  Anonymous (14 pages)
• Experiments to Ascertain the Ratio of the Magnetic Forces Acting on a Needle Suspended Horizontally, in Paris and in London
  Edward Sabine (15 pages)
• On the Resistance of Fluids to Bodies Passing through Them
  Jas. Walker (10 pages)
• On the Corrections in the Elements of Delambre's Solar Tables Required by the Observations Made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
  George Biddell Airy (13 pages)
• Erratum
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Experiments to Determine the Difference in the Length of the Seconds Pendulum in London and in Paris
  Edward Sabine (44 pages)
• On the Measurement of High Temperatures
  James Prinsep (19 pages)
• On Captain Parry's and Lieutenant Foster's Experiments on the Velocity of Sound
  Gerard Moll (9 pages)
• An Account of a Series of Experiments Made with a View to the Construction of an Achromatic Telescope with a Fluid Concave Lens, Instead of the Usual Lens of Flint Glass
  Peter Barlow (9 pages)
• A Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars in the Southern Hemisphere, Observed at Paramatta in New South Wales
  James Dunlop (64 pages)
• An Account of Trigonometrical Operations in the Years 1821, 1822 and 1823, for Determining the Difference of Longitude between the Royal Observatories of Paris and Greenwich
  Henry Kater (91 pages)
• On the Phaenomena of Volcanoes
  Humphry Davy (12 pages)
• Abstract of a Meteorological Journal Kept at Benares during the Years 1824, 1825, and 1826
  James Prinsep (6 pages)
• Meteorological Journal, Kept by the Assistant Secretary at the Apartments of the Royal Society, by Order of the President and Council
  Anonymous (14 pages)
• A Description of a Vertical Floating Collimator; and an Account of Its Application to Astronomical Observations with a Circle and with a Zenith Telescope
  Henry Kater (36 pages)
• On the Height of the Aurora Borealis above the Surface of the Earth; Particularly One Seen on the 29th of March, 1826
  John Dalton (14 pages)
• A Comparison of the Changes of Magnetic Intensity Throughout the Day in the Dipping and Horizontal Needles, at Treurenburgh Bay in Spitsbergen
  Henry Foster (10 pages)
• Experiments Relative to the Effect of Temperature on the Refractive Index and Dispersive Power of Expansible Fluids, and on the Influence of These Changes in a Telescope with a Fluid Lens
  Peter Barlow (6 pages)
• On Some Circumstances Relating to the Economy of Bees
  Thomas Andrew Knight (6 pages)
• On the Laws of the Deviation of Magnetized Needles towards Iron
  Samuel Hunter Christie (37 pages)
• Description of a Sounding Board in Attercliffe Church, Invented by the Rev. John Blackburn, Minister of Attercliffe-Cum-Darnall, Sheffield
  John Blackburn (4 pages)
• On the Mutual Action of Sulphuric Acid and Alcohol, and on the Nature of the Process by Which Ether is Formed
  Henry Hennell (8 pages)
• Experiments and Observations on Electric Conduction
  William Ritchie (7 pages)
• On Magnetic Influence in the Solar Rays
  Samuel Hunter Christie (19 pages)
• Meteorological Journal, Kept by the Assistant Secretary at the Apartments of the Royal Society, by Order of the President and Council
  Anonymous (8 pages)
• Back Matter
  Anonymous (15 pages)