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On the mutual Action of Sulphuric Acid and Alcohol, with Observations on the Composition and Properties of the resulting Compound. By Mr. Henry Hennell | page 271 | |
On a Method of expressing by Signs the Action of Machinery. By Charles Babbage, Esq. F.R.S. | 273 | |
On the Parallax of the Fixed Stars. By J. F. W. Herschel, Esq. M. A. Sec. R.S. | 274 | |
A Formula for expressing the Decrement of Human Life. By Thomas Young, M.D. For. Sec. R.S. | 275 | |
Account of an Experiment on the Elasticity of Ice. By Benjamin Bevan, Esq. | 276 | |
Results of the Application of Captain Kater's Floating Collimator to the Astronomical Circle at the Observatory of Trinity College, Dublin; and Remarks relative to those Results. By the Rev. J. Brinkley, D.D. F.R.S. P.R.I.A. | 276 | |
On the Means of facilitating the Observation of distant Stations in Geodsetical Operations. By Lieutenant Thomas Drummond | 277 | |
On the Production and Formation of Pearls. By Sir Everard Home, Bart. V.P.R.S. | 278 | |
On Burrowing and Boring Marine Animals. By Edward Osier, Esq. | 278 | |
An Account of some Experiments relative to the Passage of radiant Heat through glass Screens. By the Rev. Baden Powell, M.A. F.R.S. | 280 | |
The Bakerian Lecture. On the Relations of Electrical and Chemical Changes. By Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. P.R.S. | 281 | |
On the Discordances between the Sun's observed and computed Right Ascensions, as determined at the Blackman-street Observatory, in the Years 1821 and 1822; with Experiments to show that they did not originate in instrumental Derangement. Also a Description of the seven-feet Transit with which the Observations were procured, and upon which the Experiments were made. By James South, Esq. F.R.S. | 285 | |
On the Existence of a Limit to Vaporization. By M. Faraday, F.R.S. | 286 | |
On Electrical and Magnetic Rotations. By Charles Babbage, Esq. F.R.S. &c. &c. | 287 | |
Case of a Lady born blind, who received Sight at an advanced Age by the Formation of an artificial Pupil. By James Wardrop, Esq. F.R.S.E. | 289 | |
On the progressive Compression of Water by high Degrees of Force, with some Trials of its Effects on other Fluids. By J. Perkins. | 289 | |
On the Figure of the Earth. By George Biddell Airy, M.A. | 290 | |
Account of Experiments made with an Invariable Pendulum at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, and at Port Bowen, on the eastern side of Prince Regent's Inlet. By Lieutenant Henry Foster, R.N. F.R.S. | 290 | |
Observations on the diurnal Variation of the Magnetic Needle, at the Whale Fish Islands, Davis's Strait. By Lieutenant Henry Foster, R.N. F.R.S. | 293 |