Volume 154 (1864)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

21 articles

Articles

• Front Matter
  Anonymous (21 pages)
• Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars
  John Frederick William Herschel
• On the Spectra of Some of the Chemical Elements
  William Huggins (35 pages)
• Account of Magnetic Observations Made in the Years 1858-61 Inclusive, in British Columbia, Washington Territory, and Vancouver Island
  R. W. Haig (8 pages)
• On the Influence of Temperature on the Electric Conducting-Power of Alloys
  Augustus Matthiessen, Carl Vogt (35 pages)
• On the Absorption and Radiation of Heat by Gaseous and Liquid Matter.--Fourth Memoir
  John Tyndall (26 pages)
• A Comparison of the Most Notable Disturbances of the Magnetic Declination in 1858 and 1859 at Kew and at Nertschinsk; Preceded by a Brief Retrospective View of the Progress of the Investigation into the Laws and Causes of the Magnetic Disturbances
  Edward Sabine (20 pages)
• Theoretical Considerations on the Conditions under Which the (Drift) Deposits Containing the Remains of Extinct Mammalia and Flint Implements Were Accumulated, and on Their Geological Age
  Joseph Prestwich (66 pages)
• Experiments to Determine the Effect of Impact, Vibratory Action, and Long-Continued Changes of Load on Wrought-Iron Girders
  W. Fairbairn (18 pages)
• The Bakerian Lecture.--Contributions to Molecular Physics.--Being the Fifth Memoir of Researches on Radiant Heat
  John Tyndall (43 pages)
• On Plane Water-Lines in Two Dimensions
  William John Macquorn Rankine (26 pages)
• On the Joint-Systems of Ireland and Cornwall, and Their Mechanical Origin
  Samuel Haughton (20 pages)
• On the Spectra of Some of the Fixed Stars
  William Huggins, W. A. Miller (28 pages)
• On the Spectra of Some of the Nebulae. By William Huggins, F.R.A.S. A Supplement to the Paper "On the Spectra of Some of the Fixed Stars William Huggins F.R.A.S., and W. A. Miller, M.D., LL.D., Treas. and V.P.P.S."
  William Huggins, W. A. Miller (9 pages)
• On the Arrangement of the Muscular Fibres in the Ventricles of the Vertebrate Heart, with Physiological Remarks
  James Bell Pettigrew (62 pages)
• On the Brain of a Bushwoman; And on the Brains of Two Idiots of European Descent
  John Marshall (66 pages)
• A Second Memoir on Skew Surfaces, Otherwise Scrolls
  A. Cayley (20 pages)
• Algebraical Researches, Containing a Disquisition on Newton's Rule for the Discovery of Imaginary Roots, and an Allied Rule Applicable to a Particular Class of Equations, Together with a Complete Invariantive Determination of the Character of the Roots of the General Equation of the Fifth Degree, &c
  J. J. Sylvester (91 pages)
• On a New Series of Bodies in Which Nitrogen is Substituted for Hydrogen
  Peter Griess (66 pages)
• On the Differential Equations Which Determine the Form of the Roots of Algebraic Equations
  George Boole (24 pages)
• Back Matter
  Anonymous (29 pages)