Volume 144 (1854)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

18 articles

Articles

• Front Matter
  Anonymous (16 pages)
• On the Vibrations and Tones Produced by the Contact of Bodies Having Different Temperatures
  John Tyndall (11 pages)
• Theory of the Reciprocal Action between the Solar Rays and the Different Media by Which They Are Reflected, Refracted, or Absorbed; in the Course of Which Various Optical Laws and Phenomena Are Elucidated and Explained
  Joseph Power (33 pages)
• On Some of the Products of the Decomposition of Nitrotoluylic Acid
  Henry M. Noad (10 pages)
• Researches on the Geometrical Properties of Elliptic Integrals
  James Booth (18 pages)
• On a Class of Differential Equations, Including Those Which Occur in Dynamical Problems.--Part I
  W. F. Donkin (44 pages)
• On the Geometrical Representation of the Expansive Action of Heat, and the Theory of Thermo-Dynamic Engines
  William John Macquorn Rankine (62 pages)
• Erratum
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• The Bakerian Lecture:--On Osmotic Force
  Thomas Graham (53 pages)
• Researches on the Impregnation of the Ovum in the Amphibia; and on the Early Stages of Development of the Embryo. (Third Series)
  George Viner Ellis, George Newport (17 pages)
• An Introductory Memoir upon Quantics
  Arthur Cayley (15 pages)
• On the Functions and Structure of the Rostellum of Listera ovata
  J. D. Hooker (7 pages)
• An Account of the Organic Chemical Constituents or Immediate Principles of the Excrements of Man and Animals in the Healthy State
  W. Marcet (20 pages)
• On the Effect of the Pressure of the Atmosphere on the Mean Level of the Ocean
  James Clark Ross (15 pages)
• On the Frequent Occurrence of Indigo in Human Urine, and on Its Chemical, Physiological, and Pathological Relations
  Arthur Hill Hassall (15 pages)
• On Certain Properties of Square Numbers and Other Quadratic Forms, with a Table of Odd Numbers from 1 to 191, Divided into 4, 3 or 2 Square Numbers, the Algebraic Sum of Whose Roots (Positive or Negative) May Equal 1, by means of Which Table All the Odd Numbers up to 9503 May be Resolved into not Exceeding 4 Square Numbers
  Frederick Pollock (10 pages)
• On the Thermal Effects of Fluids in Motion.--Part II
  J. P. Joule, W. Thomson (47 pages)
• Back Matter
  Anonymous (19 pages)