Volume 96 (1806)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

26 articles

Articles

• Front Matter
  Anonymous (11 pages)
• The Croonian Lecture: On the Arrangement and Mechanical Action of the Muscles of Fishes
  Anthony Carlisle (15 pages)
• The Bakerian Lecture: On the Force of Percussion
  William Hyde Wollaston (11 pages)
• Mémoire sur les Quantités Imaginaires
  M. Buée (70 pages)
• Chemical Experiments on Guaiacum
  William Brande (11 pages)
• On the Direction of the Radicle and Germen during the Vegetation of Seeds
  Thomas Andrew Knight (11 pages)
• A Third Series of Experiments on an Artificial Substance, Which Possesses the Principal Characteristic Properties of Tannin; With Some Remarks on Coal
  Charles Hatchett (39 pages)
• The Application of a Method of Differences to the Species of Series Whose Sums Are Obtained by Mr. Landen, by the Help of Impossible Quantities
  Benjamin Gompertz (49 pages)
• An Account of a Small Lobe of the Human Prostate Gland, Which Has Not before Been Taken Notice of by Anatomists
  Everard Home (12 pages)
• On the Quantity and Velocity of the Solar Motion
  William Herschel (40 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Meteorological Journal, Kept at the Apartments of the Royal Society, by Order of the President and Council
  Anonymous (27 pages)
• Observations upon the Marine Barometer, Made during the Examination of the Coasts of New Holland and New South Wales, in the Years 1801, 1802, and 1803
  Matthew Flinders (29 pages)
• Account of a Discovery of Native Minium
  James Smithson (3 pages)
• Description of a Rare Species of Worm Shells, Discovered at an Island Lying off the North-West Coast of the Island of Sumatra, in the East Indies
  J. Griffiths (11 pages)
• Observations on the Shell of the Sea Worm Found on the Coast of Sumatra, Proving It to Belong to a Species of Teredo; With an Account of the Anatomy of the Teredo navalis
  Everard Home (22 pages)
• On the Inverted Action of the Alburnous Vessels of Trees
  Thomas Andrew Knight (13 pages)
• A New Demonstration of the Binomial Theorem, When the Exponent Is a Positive or Negative Fraction
  Abram Robertson (23 pages)
• New Method of Computing Logarithms
  Thomas Manning (16 pages)
• Description of the Mineral Bason in the Counties of Monmouth, Glamorgan, Brecon, Carmarthen, and Pembroke
  Edward Martin (11 pages)
• Observations on the Permanency of the Variation of the Compass of Jamaica
  James Robertson (10 pages)
• Observations on the Camel's Stomach Respecting the Water It Contains, and the Reservoirs, in Which That Fluid Is Inclosed; With an Account of Some Peculiarities in the Urine
  Everard Home (34 pages)
• Observations on the Variation, and on the Dip of the Magnetic Needle, Made at the Apartments of the Royal Society, between the Years 1786 and 1805 Inclusive
  George Gilpin (36 pages)
• On the Declinations of Some of the Principal Fixed Stars; With a Description of an Astronomical Circle, and Some Remarks on the Construction of Circular Instruments
  John Pond (36 pages)
• Observations and Remarks on the Figure, the Climate, and the Atmosphere of Saturn, and Its Ring
  William Herschel (21 pages)
• Back Matter
  Anonymous (15 pages)