Volume 130 (1840)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

28 articles

Articles

• Front Matter
  Anonymous (15 pages)
• On the Chemical Action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum on Preparations of Silver and Other Substances, Both Metallic and Non-Metallic, and on Some Photographic Processes
  John F. W. Herschel (62 pages)
• Experimental Researches in Electricity.--Sixteenth Series
  Michael Faraday (33 pages)
• Experimental Researches in Electricity.--Seventeenth Series
  Michael Faraday (36 pages)
• Contributions to Terrestrial Magnetism
  Edward Sabine (28 pages)
• A Supplement to a Paper Entitled "Remarks on the Theory of the Dispersion of Light, as Connected with Polarization"
  Baden Powell (4 pages)
• Additional Note to the Eleventh Series of Researches on the Tides
  W. Whewell (15 pages)
• An Account of the Shooting Stars of 1095 and 1243
  Francis Palgrave (3 pages)
• Further Particulars of the Fall of the Cold Bokkeveld Meteorolite
  Thomas Maclear (8 pages)
• An Account of Experiments Made with the View of Ascertaining the Possibility of Obtaining a Spark before the Circuit of the Voltaic Battery is Completed
  John P. Gassiot (11 pages)
• Researches in Physical Geology.--Second Series
  W. Hopkins (17 pages)
• Second Letter on the Electrolysis of Secondary Compounds
  J. Frederic Daniell (17 pages)
• Meteorological Journal, Kept by the Assistant Secretary, at the Apartments of the Royal Society, by Order of the President and Council
  Anonymous (7 pages)
• The Bakerian Lecture.--On the Theoretical Explanation of an Apparent New Polarity in Light
  G. B. Airy (27 pages)
• On the Nervous System
  Charles Bell (12 pages)
• Researches on the Tides.--Twelfth Series. On the Laws of the Rise and Fall of the Sea's Surface during Each Tide
  W. Whewell (25 pages)
• Contributions to the Chemical History of Archil and of Litmus
  Robert Kane (53 pages)
• On the Influence of Iodine in Rendering Several Argentine Compounds, Spread on Paper, Sensitive to Light, and on a New Method of Producing, with Greater Distinctness, the Photographic Image
  Robert Hunt (11 pages)
• Description of an Escapement for an Astronomical Clock, Invented by the Late Captain Henry Kater, F.R.S. &c., Drawn up from His Own Memorandums by His Son Edward Kater, Esq.
  Henry Kater, Edward Kater (9 pages)
• On the Constitution of the Resins. Part IV
  James F. W. Johnston (21 pages)
• On the Constitution of the Resins. Part V
  James F. W. Johnston (25 pages)
• Experimental Researches on the Strength of Pillars of Cast Iron, and Other Materials
  Eaton Hodgkinson (78 pages)
• On the Minute Structure and Movements of Voluntary Muscle
  William Bowman (50 pages)
• An Account of Experiments on the Reflecting Telescope
  Lord Oxmantown (28 pages)
• Researches in Embryology. Third Series: A Contribution to the Physiology of Cells
  Martin Barry (73 pages)
• On the Corpuscles of the Blood
  Martin Barry (21 pages)
• Meteorological Journal, Kept by the Assistant Secretary, at the Apartments of the Royal Society, by Order of the President and Council
  Anonymous (5 pages)
• Back Matter
  Anonymous (23 pages)