Volume 119 (1829)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

33 articles

Articles

• Front Matter
  Anonymous (35 pages)
• The Bakerian Lecture: On a Method of Rendering Platina Malleable
  William Hyde Wollaston (10 pages)
• A Description of a Microscopic Doublet
  William Hyde Wollaston (7 pages)
• An Account of Some Experiments on the Torpedo
  Humphry Davy (5 pages)
• On a Method of Comparing the Light of the Sun with That of the Fixed Stars
  William Hyde Wollaston (10 pages)
• On the Water of the Mediterranean
  William Hyde Wollaston (4 pages)
• An Account of the Preliminary Experiments and Ultimate Construction of a Refracting Telescope of 7.8 Inches Aperture, with a Fluid Concave Lens
  Peter Barlow (16 pages)
• On the Dip of the Magnetic Needle in London, in August 1828
  Edward Sabine (8 pages)
• Remarks on the Tendency to Calculous Diseases; with Observations on the Nature of Urinary Concretions, and an Analysis of a Large Part of the Collection Belonging to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital
  John Yelloly (28 pages)
• Experiments to Determine the Difference in the Number of Vibrations Made by an Invariable Pendulum in the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, and in the House in London in Which Captain Kater's Experiments Were Made
  Edward Sabine (21 pages)
• On a Definite Arrangement, and Order of the Appearance and Progress, of the Aurora Borealis; and on Its Height above the Surface of the Earth
  James Farquharson (19 pages)
• Observations on the Functions of the Intestinal Canal and Liver of the Human Foetus
  Dr. Prout, Robert Lee (6 pages)
• Experiments on the Modulus of Torsion
  Benjamin Bevan (6 pages)
• On a Differential Barometer
  William Hyde Wollaston (5 pages)
• Some Observations Relating to the Function of Digestion
  A. P. W. Philip (7 pages)
• Experiments on the Friction and Abrasion of the Surfaces of Solids
  George Rennie (31 pages)
• An Attempt to Rectify the Inaccuracy of Some Logarithmic Formulae
  John Thomas Graves (17 pages)
• On the Reflection and Decomposition of Light at the Separating Surfaces of Media of the Same and of Different Refractive Powers
  David Brewster (20 pages)
• On the Reduction to a Vacuum of the Vibrations of an Invariable Pendulum
  Edward Sabine (35 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)
• Consideration of the Objections Raised against the Geometrical Representation of the Square Roots of Negative Quantities
  John Warren (15 pages)
• Anatomical Description of the Foot of a Chinese Female
  Bransby Blake Cooper (8 pages)
• Some Observations on the Functions of the Nervous System, and the Relation Which They Bear to the Other Vital Functions
  Alexander Philip Wilson Philip (19 pages)
• On the Respiration of Birds
  William Allen, William Hasledine Pepys (9 pages)
• On the Spontaneous Purification of Thames Water
  John Bostock (5 pages)
• On the Composition of Chloride of Barium
  Edward Turner (10 pages)
• On a New Series of Periodical Colours Produced by the Grooved Surfaces of Metallic and Transparent Bodies
  David Brewster (17 pages)
• On the Nerves of the Face; Being a Second Paper on That Subject
  Charles Bell (17 pages)
• On the Reduction to a Vacuum of Captain Kater's Convertible Pendulum
  Edward Sabine (9 pages)
• On the Geometrical Representation of the Powers of Quantities, Whose Indices Involve the Square Roots of Negative Quantities
  John Warren (22 pages)
• An Experimental Examination of the Electric and Chemical Theories of Galvanism
  William Ritchie (7 pages)
• Meteorological Journal, Kept by the Assistant Secretary at the Apartments of the Royal Society, by Order of the President and Council
  Anonymous (9 pages)
• Astronomical Observations Made at the Observatory at Paramatta in New South Wales
  Charles Rumker (153 pages)