Volume 137 (1847)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

19 articles

Articles

Front Matter

Anonymous (14 pages)
The Bakerian Lecture: On Certain Phenomena of Voltaic Ignition and the Decomposition of Water into Its Constituent Gases by Heat

W. R. Grove (18 pages)
Supplementary Paper on Certain Phenomena of Voltaic Ignition, and the Decomposition of Water into Its Constituent Gases by Heat

W. R. Grove (6 pages)
Microscopic Observations on the So-Called Vesicular Vapours of Water, as Existing in the Vapours of Steam, and in Clouds, &c

A. Waller (10 pages)
Quelques Recherches sur l'Arc Voltaique, et sur l'influence qu'exerce le Magnetisme soit sur cet arc soit sur les corps qui Transmettent les Courants Electriques Discontinus. Researches on the Voltaic Arc, and on the Influence Which Magnetism Exerts Both on This Arc and on Bodies Transmitting Interrupted Electric Currents

M. Auguste De la Rive (14 pages)
On the Lunar Atmospheric Tide at St. Helena

Edward Sabine (7 pages)
On the Diurnal Variation of the Magnetic Declination at St. Helena

Edward Sabine (20 pages)
On the Automatic Registration of Magnetometers, and Other Meteorological Instruments, by Photography

Charles Brooke (11 pages)
On the Automatic Registration of Magnetometers, and Other Meteorological Instruments, by Photography

Charles Brooke (18 pages)
On the Proper Motion of the Solar System

Thomas Galloway (32 pages)
On Photographic Self-Registering Meteorological and Magnetical Instruments

Francis Ronalds (10 pages)
On the Amount of the Radiation of Heat, at Night, from the Earth, and from Various Bodies Placed on or Near the Surface of the Earth

James Glaisher (113 pages)
On the Cause of the Discrepancies Observed by Mr. Baily with the Cavendish Apparatus for Determining the Mean Density of the Earth

Mr. Baily, George Whitehead Hearn (14 pages)
Electro-Physiological Researches. Fifth Series. Part I. Upon Induced Contractions. Part II. Upon the Phenomena Elicited by the Passage of the Current through the Nerves of a Living Animal, or an Animal Recently Killed, According to the Direction of the Current

Carlo Matteucci (8 pages)
Electro-Physiological Researches. Sixth Series. Laws of the Electric Discharge of the Torpedo and Other Electric Fishes-Theory of the Production of Electricity in These Animals

Carlo Matteucci (4 pages)
Electro-Physiological Researches. Seventh and Last Series. Upon the Relation between the Intensity of the Electric Current, and That of the Corresponding Physiological Effect

Carlo Matteucci (7 pages)
On the Value in Absolute Alcohol of Spirits of Different Specific Gravities

George Fownes (5 pages)
On Different Properties of Solar Radiation Producing or Preventing a Deposit of Mercury on Silver Plates Coated with Iodine, or Its Compounds with Bromine or Chlorine, Modified by Coloured Glass Media and the Vapours of the Atmosphere

A. Claudet (10 pages)
Back Matter

Anonymous (17 pages)