Volume 99 (1809)

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

32 articles

Articles

• Front Matter
  Anonymous (11 pages)
• The Croonian Lecture: On the Functions of the Heart and Arteries
  Thomas Young (32 pages)
• Errata: Hydraulic Investigations, Subservient to an Intended Croonian Lecture on the Motion of the Blood
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• An Account of Some Experiments, Performed with a View to Ascertain the Most Advantageous Method of Constructing a Voltaic Apparatus, for the Purposes of Chemical Research
  John George Children (8 pages)
• The Bakerian Lecture: An Account of Some New Analytical Researches on the Nature of Certain Bodies, Particularly the Alkalies, Phosphorus, Sulphur, Carbonaceous Matter, and the Acids Hitherto Undecompounded; With Some General Observations on Chemical Theory
  Humphry Davy (68 pages)
• An Account of a Method of Dividing Astronomical and Other Instruments, by Ocular Inspection; In Which the Usual Tools for Graduating Are Not Employed; The Whole Operation Being So Contrived, That No Error Can Occur but What is Chargeable to Vision, When Assisted by the Best Optical Means of Viewing and Measuring Minute Quantities
  Edward Troughton (45 pages)
• A Letter on a Canal in the Medulla spinalis of Some Quadrupeds
  William Sewell (3 pages)
• A Numerical Table of Elective Attractions; With Remarks on the Sequences of Double Decompositions
  Thomas Young (14 pages)
• Account of the Dissection of a Human Foetus, in Which the Circulation of the Blood Was Carried on without a Heart
  B. C. Brodie (9 pages)
• On the Origin and Formation of Roots
  Thomas And. Knight (9 pages)
• On the Nature of the Intervertebral Substance in Fish and Quadrupeds
  Everard Home (13 pages)
• Meteorological Journal, Kept at the Apartments of the Royal Society, by Order of the President and Council
  Anonymous (27 pages)
• On Platina and Native Palladium from Brasil
  William Hyde Wollaston (7 pages)
• On a Native Arseniate of Lead
  William Gregor (12 pages)
• An Anatomical Account of the Squalus maximus (of Linnaeus), Which in the Structure of Its Stomach Forms an Intermediate Link in the Gradation of Animals between the Whale Tribe and Cartilaginous Fishes
  Everard Home (22 pages)
• On an Improvement in the Manner of Dividing Astronomical Instruments
  Henry Cavendish (13 pages)
• On a Method of Examining the Divisions of Astronomical Instruments
  William Lax (15 pages)
• On the Identity of Columbium and Tantalum
  William Hyde Wollaston (8 pages)
• Description of a Reflective Goniometer
  William Hyde Wollaston (8 pages)
• Continuation of Experiments for Investigating the Cause of Coloured Concentric Rings, and Other Appearances of a Similar Nature
  William Herschel (55 pages)
• An Account of a Calculus from the Human Bladder of Uncommon Magnitude
  James Earle (13 pages)
• On Expectorated Matter
  George Pearson (33 pages)
• On the Attractions of Homogeneous Ellipsoids
  James Ivory (29 pages)
• Observations on Albumen, and Some Other Animal Fluids; With Remarks on Their Analysis by Electro-Chemical Decomposition
  William Brande (13 pages)
• Hints on the Subject of Animal Secretions
  Everard Home (8 pages)
• On the Comparative Influence of Male and Female Parents on Their Offspring
  Thomas Andrew Knight (9 pages)
• On the Effect of Westerly Winds in Raising the Level of the British Channel
  James Rennell (8 pages)
• On Respiration
  William HasledinePepys, William Allen (29 pages)
• Experiments on Ammonia, and an Account of a New Method of Analyzing It, by Combustion with Oxygen and Other Gases
  William Henry (21 pages)
• New Analytical Researches on the Nature of Certain Bodies, Being an Appendix to the Bakerian Lecture for 1808
  Humphry Davy (22 pages)
• Errata
  Anonymous (2 pages)
• Back Matter
  Anonymous (11 pages)