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construction of the Solar and Oxy-hydrogen Gas Microscopes. By the Rev. J. B. Reade page 457

1837.

An attempt to account for the discrepancy between the actual Velocity of Sound in Air or Vapour, and that resulting from Theory. By the Rev. William Ritchie, LL.D. F.R.S. Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution, and in University College, London 458
Researches towards establishing a Theory of the Dispersion of Light. By the Rev. Baden Powell, M.A. F.R.S. Savilian Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford 459
A few remarks on the Helm Wind. By the Rev. William Walton, of Allenheads, near Hexham 459
A Meteorological Journal kept at Allenheads, 1400 feet above the level of the Sea, from the 1st of May to the 1st of November, 1836. By the Rev. William Walton 460
On the Structure of the Brain in Marsupial Animals. By Richard Owen, Esq. F.R.S. Hunterian Professor of Anatomy to the Royal College of Surgeons 460
Observations on the Electro-chemical Influence of long-continued Electric Currents of Low Tension. By G. Golding Bird, Esq. F.L.S. F.G.S. Lecturer on Experimental Philosophy at Guy's Hospital 461
On the Elementary Structure of Muscular Fibre of Animal and Organic Life. By Frederic Skey, Esq. Assistant Surgeon, to St. Bartholomew's Hospital 462
On the Function of the Medulla Oblongata and Medulla Spinalis, and on the Excito-motory System of Nerves. By Marshall Hall, M.D. F.R.S. L. & E. &c 463
Researches on the Tides. Seventh Series. On the Diurnal Inequality of the Height of the Tide, especially at Plymouth and at Sincapore: and on the Mean Level of the Sea. By the Rev. W. Whewell, A.M. F.R.S. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 465
On the Tides. By J. W. Lubbock, Esq. M.A. F.R.S 466
Further Observations on Voltaic Combinations. By John Frederick Daniell, Esq. F.R.S. Professor of Chemistry in King's College, London 469
Observations taken on the Western Coast of North America. By the late Mr. Douglas : with a report on his paper ; by Major Edward Sabine, R.A. F.R.S. 471
Analysis of the Roots of Equations. By the Rev. R. Murphy, M.A. 472
On the first Changes in the Ova of the Mammifera, in consequence of Impregnation; and of the mode of origin of the Chorion. By Thomas Wharton Jones, Esq. 473
On the adaptation of different modes of illuminating Light-houses, as depending on their situations and the object contemplated in their erection. By William Henry Barlow, Esq. 474
On the connexion between the Phenomena of the absorption of Light and the Colours of thin Plates. By Sir David Brewster, K.H. F.R.S. 475