Volume 140 (1850)

Front Matter

Anonymous (17 pages)

Errata

Anonymous (2 pages)

The Bakerian Lecture.--On the Diffusion of Liquids

Thomas Graham (47 pages)

On the Nitrogenated Principles of Vegetables as the Sources of Artificial Alkaloids

John Stenhouse (15 pages)

On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat

James Prescott Joule (24 pages)

On the Automatic Registration of Magnetometers, and Meteorological Instruments, by Photography.--No. III

Charles Brooke (10 pages)

Researches Regarding the Molecular Constitution of the Volatile Organic Bases

A. W. Hofmann (40 pages)

On the Development of the Great Anterior Veins in Man and Mammalia; Including an Account of Certain Remnants of Foetal Structure Found in the Adult, a Comparative View of These Great Veins in the Different Mammalia, and an Analysis of Their Occasional Peculiarities in the Human Subject

John Marshall (45 pages)

Experimental Researches in Electricity.--Twenty-Third Series

Michael Faraday (19 pages)

On the Development of the Retina and Optic Nerve, and of the Membranous Labyrinth and Auditory Nerve

Henry Gray (15 pages)

On the Means Adopted in the British Colonial Magnetic Observatories for Determining the Absolute Values, Secular Change, and Annual Variation of the Magnetic Force

Edward Sabine (20 pages)

Observations on the Freezing of the Albumen of Eggs

James Paget (7 pages)

Researches on the Tides.--Fourteenth Series. On the Results of Continued Tide Observations at Several Places on the British Coasts

W. Whewell (8 pages)

Experiments and Observations upon the Properties of Light

Lord Brougham (35 pages)

General Methods in Analysis for the Resolution of Linear Equations in Finite Differences and Linear Differential Equations

Charles James Hargreave (27 pages)

Electro-Physiological Researches.--Eighth Series

Carlo Matteucci (11 pages)

Discussion of Meteorological Observations Taken in India, at Various Heights, Embracing Those at Dodabetta on the Neelgherry Mountains, at 8640 Feet above the Level of the Sea

W. H. Sykes (112 pages)

On the Pelorosaurus; An Undescribed Gigantic Terrestrial Reptile Whose Remains are Associated with Those of the Iguanodon and Other Saurians in the Strata of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex

Gideon Algernon Mantell (19 pages)

On a Dorsal Dermal Spine of the Hylaeosaurus, Recently Discovered in the Strata of Tilgate Forest

Gideon Algernon Mantell (3 pages)

Supplementary Observations on the Structure of the Belemnite and Belemnoteuthis

Gideon Algernon Mantell (14 pages)

On the Algebraic Expression of the Number of Partitions of Which a Given Number is Susceptible

J. F. W. Herschel (25 pages)

Experiments on the Section of the Glossopharyngeal and Hypoglossal Nerves of the Frog, and Observations of the Alterations Produced Thereby in the Structure of Their Primitive Fibres

Augustus Waller (9 pages)

Influence of Physical Agents on the Development of the Tadpole of the Triton and the Frog

John Higginbottom (7 pages)

On the Temperature of Man within the Tropics

John Davy (32 pages)

On the Oils Produced by the Action of Sulphuric Acid upon Various Classes of Vegetables

John Stenhouse (15 pages)

On the Development and Homologies of the Molar Teeth of the Wart-Hogs (Phacochoerus), with Illustrations of a System of Notation for the Teeth in the Class Mammalia

Professor Owen (21 pages)

Observations on the Nebulae

The Earl of Rosse (21 pages)

On the Structure and Use of the Ligamentum Rotundum Uteri, with Some Observations upon the Change Which Takes Place in the Structure of the Uterus during Utero-Gestation

G. Rainey (8 pages)

On the Communications between the Cavity of the Tympanum and the Palate in the Crocodilia (Gavials, Alligators and Crocodiles)

Professor Owen (11 pages)

On the Structure of the Dental Tissues of the Order Rodentia

John Tomes (47 pages)

Sequel to a Paper on the Reduction of the Thermometrical Observations Made at the Apartments of the Royal Society

James Glaisher

On the Dynamical Stability and on the Oscillations of Floating Bodies

Henry Moseley (39 pages)

Electro-Physiological Researches. On Induced Contraction.--Ninth Series

Carlo Matteucci (7 pages)

Contributions to the Chemistry of the Urine.--Paper IV. On So-Called Chylous Urine

Henry Bence Jones (11 pages)

Contributions to the Chemistry of the Urine.--Paper III. Part IV. On the Variations of the Sulphates and Phosphates in Disease

Henry Bence Jones (9 pages)

Second Appendix to a Paper on the Variations of the Acidity of the Urine in the State of Health

Henry Bence Jones (26 pages)

An Experimental Inquiry into the Strength of Wrought-Iron Plates and Their Riveted Joints as Applied to Ship-Building and Vessels Exposed to Severe Strains

William Fairbairn (55 pages)

On the Mutual Relations of the Vital and Physical Forces

William B. Carpenter (32 pages)

On the Condition of Certain Elements at the Moment of Chemical Change

Benjamin Collins Brodie (47 pages)

Supplementary Observations on the Diffusion of Liquids

Thomas Graham (33 pages)

Back Matter

Anonymous (22 pages)

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