Volume 93 (1803)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

18 articles

Articles

• Front Matter
  Anonymous (10 pages)
• The Bakerian Lecture: Observations on the Quantity of Horizontal Refraction; With a Method of Measuring the Dip at Sea
  William Hyde Wollaston (12 pages)
• A Chemical Analysis of Some Calamines
  James Smithson (18 pages)
• Experiments on the Quantity of Gases Absorbed by Water, at Different Temperatures, and under Different Pressures
  William Henry (19 pages)
• Experiments and Observations on the Various Alloys, on the Specific Gravity, and on the Comparative Wear of Gold. Being the Substance of a Report Made to the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council, Appointed to Take into Consideration the State of the Coins of This Kingdom, and the Present Establishment and Constitution of His Majesty's Mint
  Charles Hatchett (156 pages)
• Observations on the Chemical Nature of the Humours of the Eye
  Richard Chenevix (6 pages)
• An Account of Some Stones Said to Have Fallen on the Earth in France; And of a Lump of Native Iron, Said to Have Fallen in India
  Charles Greville (6 pages)
• Observations on the Structure of the Tongue; Illustrated by Cases in Which a Portion of That Organ Has Been Removed by Ligature
  Everard Home (10 pages)
• Observations of the Transit of Mercury over the Disk of the Sun; To Which is Added, an Investigation of the Causes Which Often Prevent the Proper Action of Mirrors
  William Herschel (21 pages)
• An Account of Some Experiments and Observations on the Constituent Parts of Certain Astringent Vegetables; And on Their Operation in Tranning
  Humphry Davy (42 pages)
• Meteorological Journal, Kept at the Apartments of the Royal Society, by Order of the President and Council
  Anonymous (27 pages)
• Account of Some Experiments on the Descent of the Sap in Trees
  Thomas Andrew Knight (16 pages)
• Enquiries Concerning the Nature of a Metallic Substance Lately Sold in London, as a New Metal, under the Title of Palladium
  Richard Chenevix (32 pages)
• An Account of the Sinking of the Dutch Frigate Ambuscade, of 32 Guns, Near the Great Nore; With the Mode Used in Recovering Her
  Joseph Whidbey (8 pages)
• Observations on a New Species of Hard Carbonate of Lime; Also on a New Species of Oxide of Iron
  Count de Bournon (16 pages)
• Account of the Changes That Have Happened, during the Last Twenty-Five Years, in the Relative Situation of Double-Stars; With an Investigation of the Cause to Which They Are Owing
  William Herschel (47 pages)
• An Account of the Measurement of an Arc of the Meridian, Extending from Dunnose, in the Isle of Wight, Latitude 50 degrees 37^′ 8^{′ ′}, to Clifton, in Yorkshire, Latitude 53 degrees 27^′ 31^{′ ′}, in Course of the Operations Carried on for the Trigonometrical Survey of England, in the Years 1800, 1801, and 1802
  <prefix>Major</prefix> William Mudge (144 pages)
• Back Matter
  Anonymous (16 pages)