Volume 158 (1868)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

32 articles

Articles

• Front Matter
  Anonymous (21 pages)
• Erratum
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• The Bakerian Lecture.--Researches on Vanadium
  Henry E. Roscoe (28 pages)
• Computation of the Lengths of the Waves of Light Corresponding to the Lines in the Dispersion Spectrum Measured by Kirchhoff
  George Biddell Airy (28 pages)
• An Account of the Observations on the Great Nebula in Orion, Made at Birr Castle, with the 3-Feet and 6-Feet Telescopes, between 1848 and 1867. With a Drawing of the Nebula
  Lord Oxmantown (34 pages)
• On the Curves Which Satisfy Given Conditions
  Professor Cayley (70 pages)
• Second Memoir on the Curves Which Satisfy Given Conditions; The Principle of Correspondence
  Professor Cayley (29 pages)
• Addition to Memoir on the Resultant of a System of Two Equations
  Professor Cayley (9 pages)
• On the Theory of Local Probability, Applied to Straight Lines Drawn at Random in a Plane; The Methods Used Being Also Extended to the Proof of Certain New Theorems in the Integral Calculus
  Morgan W. Crofton (20 pages)
• On the Anatomy of Balaenoptera rostrata
  Alexander Carte, Alexander Macalister (66 pages)
• Researches on the Intimate Structure of the Brain.--Second Series
  J. Lockhart Clarke (77 pages)
• Notices of Some Parts of the Surface of the Moon
  John Phillips (20 pages)
• Results of Observations of Atmospheric Electricity at Kew Observatory, and at King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia
  Joseph D. Everett (20 pages)
• Account of Experiments on Torsion and Flexure for the Determination of Rigidities.--Third Paper
  Joseph David Everett (8 pages)
• Contributions to Terrestrial Magnetism.--No. XI
  Edward Sabine (86 pages)
• On the Resistance of the Air to the Motion of Elongated Projectiles Having Variously Formed Heads
  F. Bashforth (26 pages)
• On the Law of the Resistance of the Air to Rifled Projectiles
  Charles W. Merrifield (5 pages)
• On the Communication of Vibration from a Vibrating Body to a Surrounding Gas
  G. G. Stokes (18 pages)
• Comparison of Magnetic Disturbances Recorded by the Self-Registering Magnetometers at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, with Magnetic Disturbances Deduced from the Corresponding Terrestrial Galvanic Currents Recorded by the Self-Registering Galvanometers of the Royal Observatory
  George Biddell Airy (15 pages)
• On the Relation of Form and Dimensions to Weight of Material in the Construction of Iron-Clad Ships
  E. J. Reed (14 pages)
• On the Amount and Changes of the Polar Magnetism at Certain Positions in Her Majesty's Iron-Built and Armour-Plated Ship 'Northumberland'
  Frederick John Evans (20 pages)
• Contributions towards Determining the Weight of the Brain in Different Races of Man
  Joseph Barnard Davis (24 pages)
• Further Observations on the Spectra of Some of the Stars and Nebulae, with an Attempt to Determine Therefrom Whether These Bodies are Moving towards or from the Earth, Also Observations on the Spectra of the Sun and of Comet II., 1868
  William Huggins (38 pages)
• New Researches upon the Dispersion of the Optic Axes in Harmotome and Wohlerite, Proving These Minerals to Belong to the Clinorhombic [Oblique] System
  M. A. L. O. des Cloizeaux (13 pages)
• On the Conditions for the Existence of Three Equal Roots, or of Two Pairs of Equal Roots, of a Binary Quartic or Quintic
  A. Cayley (13 pages)
• Researches on the Blood.--On the Action of Nitrites on Blood
  Arthur Gamgee (38 pages)
• On the Mysteries of Numbers alluded to by Fermat.--Second Communication
  Frederick Pollock (26 pages)
• On a Method of Making a Direct Comparison of Electrostatic with Electromagnetic Force; With a Note on the Electromagnetic Theory of Light
  J. Clerk Maxwell (16 pages)
• On Supersaturated Saline Solutions
  Charles Tomlinson (16 pages)
• The Caudal Heart of the Eel a Lymphatic Heart.--Effect of the Force with Which the Lymph-Stream is Propelled Therefrom on the Flow of the Blood in the Vein into Which the Heart Opens.--Explanation of the Appearance of Blood Propelled in Successive Drops, as If from the Heart, along the Caudal Vein.--Influence Which the Force of the Lymph-Stream from the Heart Exerts in Accelerating and Promoting the Flow of Blood in the Caudal Vein
  Thomas Wharton Jones (11 pages)
• On the Tides of Bombay and Kurrachee
  William Parkes (15 pages)
• Back Matter
  Anonymous (32 pages)