Volume 147 (1857)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

41 articles

Articles

• Front Matter
  Anonymous (21 pages)
• On the Evidence of the Existence of the Decennial Inequality in the Solar-Diurnal Magnetic Variations, and Its Non-Existence in the Lunar-Diurnal Variation, of the Declination at Hobarton
  Edward Sabine (10 pages)
• On the Stability of Loose Earth
  W. J. Macquorn Rankine (20 pages)
• On the Geometrical Isomorphism of Crystals
  Henry James Brooke (47 pages)
• On the Equation of Laplace's Functions, &c
  W. F. Donkin (16 pages)
• Researches on Organo-Metallic Bodies.--Third Memoir. On a New Series of Organic Acids Containing Nitrogen
  E. Frankland (21 pages)
• An Account of the Two Methods of Reproduction in Daphnia, and of the Structure of the Ephippium
  John Lubbock (25 pages)
• On the Scelidothere (Scelidotherium leptocephalum, Owen)
  Professor Owen (20 pages)
• On the Structure and Development of the Cysticercus cellulosae, as Found in the Muscles of the Pig
  George Rainey (20 pages)
• Electro-Physiological Researches. Physical and Chemical Phenomena of Muscular Contraction.--Tenth Series. Part I
  Carlo Matteucci (16 pages)
• The Bakerian Lecture: Experimental Relations of Gold (and Other Metals) to Light
  Michael Faraday (38 pages)
• On Autopolar Polyedra
  Thomas P. Kirkman (37 pages)
• On the K-Partitions of the R-Gon and R-Ace
  Thomas P. Kirkman (57 pages)
• A Memoir upon Caustics
  Arthur Cayley (41 pages)
• On the Dioecious Character of the Rotifera
  Philip Henry Gosse (17 pages)
• On the Structure and Motion of Glaciers
  John Tyndall, Thomas H. Huxley (21 pages)
• Description of the Foetal Membranes and Placenta of the Elephant (Elephas Indicus, Cuv.), with Remarks on the Value of Placentary Characters in the Classification of the Mammalia
  Professor Owen (9 pages)
• Photo-Chemical Researches.--Part I. Measurement of the Chemical Action of Light
  Robert Bunsen, Henry Enfield Roscoe (29 pages)
• Photo-Chemical Researches.--Part II. Phenomena of Photo-Chemical Induction
  Professor Bunsen, Henry Enfield Roscoe (30 pages)
• On the Immediate Principles of Human Excrements in the Healthy State
  W. Marcet (13 pages)
• A Memoir on Curves of the Third Order
  A. Cayley (33 pages)
• On Some of the Products of the Destructive Distillation of Boghead Coal.--Part I
  C. Greville Williams (16 pages)
• On an Element of Strength in Beams Subjected to Transverse Strain, Named by the Author "The Resistance of Flexure."--Second Paper
  William Henry Barlow (27 pages)
• A Memoir on the Symmetric Functions of the Roots of an Equation
  Arthur Cayley (23 pages)
• On Hourly Observations of the Magnetic Declination Made by Captain Rochfort Maguire, R.N., and the Officers of H.M.S. 'Plover,' in 1852, 1853 and 1854, at Point Barrow, on the Shores of the Polar Sea
  Rochfort Maguire, Edward Sabine (37 pages)
• Researches on Silica
  Philip Yorke (11 pages)
• On the Fructification of Certain Sphaeriaceous Fungi
  Frederick Currey (15 pages)
• Researches on a New Class of Alcohols
  Augustus William Hofmann, Augustus Cahours (21 pages)
• Researches on the Phosphorus-Bases
  Augustus William Hofmann, Augustus Cahours (26 pages)
• Photo-Chemical Researches.--Part III. Optical and Chemical Extinction of the Chemical Rays
  Robert Bunsen, Henry Enfield Roscoe (22 pages)
• Erratum: On the Attraction of the Himalaya Mountains, and of the Elevated Regions beyond Them, upon the Plumb-Line in India
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Account of the Construction of the New National Standard of Length, and of Its Principal Copies
  G. B. Airy (86 pages)
• Memoir on the Resultant of a System of Two Equations
  Arthur Cayley (14 pages)
• On the Symmetric Functions of the Roots of Certain Systems of Two Equations
  Arthur Cayley (11 pages)
• A Memoir on the Conditions for the Existence of Given Systems of Equalities among the Roots of an Equation
  Arthur Cayley (6 pages)
• Tables of the Sturmian Functions for Equations of the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Degrees
  Arthur Cayley (5 pages)
• On Some of the Products of the Destructive Distillation of Boghead Coal.--Part II
  C. Greville Williams (9 pages)
• On the Comparison of Transcendents, with Certain Applications to the Theory of Definite Integrals
  George Boole (60 pages)
• Experimental Researches on the Conductive Powers of Various Substances, with the Application of the Results to the Problem of Terrestrial Temperature
  W. Hopkins (46 pages)
• Experimental Researches on the Strength of Pillars of Cast Iron from Various Parts of the Kingdom
  Eaton Hodgkinson (56 pages)
• Back Matter
  Anonymous (26 pages)