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Corrections applied to the Great Meridional Arc, extending from Latitude 8° 9' 38"·39 to Latitude 18° 3' 23"·64, to reduce it to the Parliamentary Standard. By Lieut. Col. W. Lambton, F.R.S. page 182
On the Changes which have taken place in the Declination of some of the principal fixed Stars. By John Pond, Esq. F.R.S. 182
Appendix to the preceding Paper on the Changes which appear to have taken place in the Declination of some of the fixed Stars. By John Pond, Esq. F.R.S. 183
On the Parallax of α Lyræ. By John Pond, Esq. F.R.S. 184
Observations on the Heights of Places in the Trigonometrical Survey of Great Britain, and upon the Latitude of Arbury Hill. By B. Bevan, Esq. 185
On some Fossil Bones discovered in Caverns in the Limestone Quarries of Oreston. By Joseph Whidbey, Esq. F.R.S. To which is added, a Description of the Bones by Mr. William Clift 186
On the Chinese Year. By J. F. Davis, Esq. F.R.S. 187
Experiments for ascertaining the Velocity of Sound, at Madras in the East Indies. By John Goldingham, Esq. F.R.S. 188
On the Double Organs of Generation of the Lamprey, the Conger Eel, the common Eel, the Barnacle, and Earth Worm, which impregnate themselves; though the last, from copulating, appear mutually to impregnate one another. By Sir Everard Home, Bart. V.P.R.S. 188
On a New Phenomenon of Electro-magnetism. By Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. P.R.S. 189
On Fluid Chlorine. By M. Faraday 190
On the Motions of the Eye, in illustration of the Uses of the Muscles and Nerves of the Orbit. By Charles Bell, Esq. 190
An Account of an Apparatus on a peculiar Construction for performing Electro-magnetic Experiments. By W. H. Pepys, Esq. F.R.S. 192
On the Condensation of several Gases into Liquids. By Mr. Faraday 192
On the Application of Liquids formed by the Condensation of Gases as Mechanical Agents. By Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. P.R.S. 193
On the Temperature at considerable Depths of the Caribbean Sea. By Captain Edward Sabine, F.R.S. 193
Letter from Captain Basil Hall, R.N. to Captain Kater, communicating the Details of Experiments made by him and Mr. Henry Foster, with an Invariable Pendulum, in London; at the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean, near the Equator; at San Bias de California on the N.W. Coast of Mexico; and at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. With an Appendix, containing the Second Series of Experiments in London, on the Return 193
Second Part of the Paper on the Nerves of the Orbit.  By Charles Bell, Esq. 195
An Account of Experiments made with an Invariable Pendulum at New South Wales, by Major-General Sir Thomas Brisbane, K.C.B. F.R.S. 196
Observations and Experiments on the Daily Variation of the Horizontal and Dipping Needles under a reduced Directive Power. By Peter Barlow, Esq. F.R.S. 197