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Volume 149
Volume 149 (1859)
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
37 articles
Articles
Front Matter
Anonymous
(21 pages)
Researches on the Foraminifera
William B. Carpenter
(48 pages)
Description of Some Remains of a Gigantic Land-Lizard (Megalania Prisca, Owen) from Australia
Professor Owen
(9 pages)
On Some Remarkable Relations Which Obtain among the Roots of the Four Squares into Which a Number May be Divided, as Compared with the Corresponding Roots of Certain Other Numbers
Frederick Pollock
(12 pages)
A Sixth Memoir upon Quantics
Arthur Cayley
(31 pages)
On Some Thermo-Dynamic Properties of Solids
J. P. Joule
(42 pages)
On the Thermal Effects of Compressing Fluids
J. P. Joule
(5 pages)
On the Stratifications in Electrical Discharges, as Observed in Torricellian and Other Vacua.--Second Communication
John P. Gassiot
(26 pages)
On the Vertebral Characters of the Order Pterosauria, as Exemplified in the Genera Pterodactylus (Cuvier) and Dimorphodon (Owen)
Professor Owen
(11 pages)
On the Comparison of Hyperbolic Arcs
Charles W. Merrifield
(6 pages)
On the Thermo-Dynamic Theory of Steam-Engines with Dry Saturated Steam, and Its Application to Practice
William John Macquorn Rankine
(17 pages)
On the Double Tangents of a Plane Curve
A. Cayley
(21 pages)
On the Resistance of Glass Globes and Cylinders to Collapse from External Pressure; and on the Tensile and Compressive Strength of Various Kinds of Glass
Thomas Tate, W. Fairbairn
(36 pages)
On the Atomic Weight of Graphite
B. C. Brodie
(12 pages)
On the Physical Phenomena of Glaciers.--Part I. Observations on the Mer de Glace
John Tyndall
(21 pages)
On the Veined Structure of Glaciers; with Observations upon White Ice-Seams, Air-Bubbles and Dirt-Bands, and Remarks upon Glacier Theories
John Tyndall
(30 pages)
On the Fossil Mammals of Australia.--Part I. Description of a Mutilated Skull of a Large Marsupial Carnivore (Thylacoleo carnifex, Owen), from a Calcareous Conglomerate Stratum, Eighty Miles S. W. of Melbourne, Victoria
Professor Owen
(20 pages)
On Colour-Blindness
William Pole
(18 pages)
On the Ova and Pseudova of Insects
John Lubbock
(33 pages)
On the Conic of Five-Pointic Contact at Any Point of a Plane Curve
A. Cayley
(31 pages)
The Bakerian Lecture:--Researches on Organo-Metallic Bodies.--Fourth Memoir
E. Frankland
(16 pages)
On the Isolation of the Organo-Metals, Mercuric, Stannic, and Plumbic Ethyls; and Observations on Some of Their Derivatives.--Second Memoir
George Bowdler Buckton
(20 pages)
Further Researches on the Grey Substance of the Spinal Cord
J. Lockhart Clarke
(39 pages)
Researches into the Nature of the Involuntary Muscular Tissue of the Urinary Bladder
George Viner Ellis
(12 pages)
On the Anatomy of Victoria Regia.--Part II
Arthur Henfrey
(20 pages)
Experimental Inquiry into the Composition of Some of the Animals Fed and Slaughtered as Human Food
J. H. Gilbert, J. B. Lawes
(191 pages)
Experimental Inquiries into the Chemical and Other Phenomena of Respiration, and Their Modifications by Various Physical Agencies
Edward Smith
(42 pages)
Experiments on Respiration.--Second Communication. On the Action of Foods upon the Respiration during the Primary Processes of Digestion
Edward Smith
(45 pages)
Supplement to Mr. Macquorn Rankine's Paper "On the Thermodynamic Theory of Steam-Engines with Dry Saturated Steam, and Its Application to Practice"
Macquorn Rankine
(3 pages)
On the Deflection of the Plumb-Line in India, Caused by the Attraction of the Himmalaya Mountains and of the Elevated Regions Beyond; and Its Modification by the Compensating Effect of a Deficiency of Matter below the Mountain Mass
John Henry Pratt
(35 pages)
On the Influence of the Ocean on the Plumb-Line in India
J. H. Pratt
(19 pages)
On the Properties of Electro-Deposited Antimony (continued)
G. Gore
(13 pages)
On the Megatherium (Megatherium Americanum, Cuvier and Blumenbach). Part V.--Bones of the Posterior Extremities
Professor Owen
(37 pages)
Conductibility of Mercury and Amalgams
F. Crace-Calvert, Richard Johnson
(6 pages)
On the Construction of Life-Tables, Illustrated by a New Life-Table of the Healthy Districts of England
W. Farr
(49 pages)
Photo--Chemical Researches. Part IV
Robert Bunsen, Henry Enfield Roscoe
(55 pages)
Back Matter
Anonymous
(22 pages)