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Experimental Researches in Electricity. By Michael Faraday, Esq. D.C.L. F.R.S. &c. Twentieth Series. Section 26 : On New Magnetic Actions; and on the Magnetic Condition of all Matter page 592
On the Viscous Theory of Glacier Motion. By James D. Forbes, Esq. F.R.S. &c. Part II. An attempt to establish by observation the Plasticity of Glacier Ice 595
An Account of the Southern Magnetic Surveying Expedition. By Lieut. H. Clerk, R.A., in a letter to Lieut. -Colonel Sabine, R.A. F.R.S 596
On the Supra-renal, Thymus and Thyroid Bodies. By John Goodsir, Esq 596
On the Use of the Barometric Thermometer for the determination of Relative Heights. By James R. Christie, Esq 597
On the Decomposition and Analysis of the Compounds of Ammonia and Cyanogen. By Robert Smith, Esq. Ph.D 599
On a point connected with the dispute about the invention of Fluxions. By Augustus De Morgan, P sq. M.A. F.R.A.S. &c. 599
On the Secretory Apparatus and Function of the Liver. By C. Handfield Jones, M.D 600
An Account of some Experiments on the Electro-Culture of Farm Crops. By Mr. William Sturgeon 600
On the Comet of 1844-45. By John Collingwood Haile, Esq 600
A Practical Extension of the application of the Law of Mortality announced by B. Gompertz, Esq., in the Philosophical Transactions for 1823. By A. M. Drach, Esq 601
On Spontaneous Nitrification. By C. F. Schoenbein, Professor of Chemistry in the University of Bale 601
On the Process of Etching, or Engraving, by means of Voltaic Electricity. By James H. Bring, M.D 601
On the Mechanism of Respiration. By Francis Sibson 601
Illustrations of the Viscous Theory of Glaciers. By James David Forbes, Esq. F.R.S. &c. Part III 603
On the Physics of Media that are composed of free and perfectly elastic Molecules in a state of Motion. By J. J. Waterston, Esq. 604
On the Blow-hole of the Porpoise. By Francis Sibson, Esq 604
On Motion in the Lumbar Division of the Spine in Birds. By George Oakley Fleming, M.D. F.L.S 605
Investigation of the Power consumed in overcoming the Inertia of Railway Trains, and of the Resistance of the Air to the motion of Railway Trains at high velocities. By P. W. Barlow, Esq, F.R.S. M.LC.E 606
On the Muscularity of the Iris. By Professor Maunoir, of Geneva. 607
Contributions to the Chemistry of the Urine. — Part II. On the Variations in the Alkaline and Earthy Phosphates in Disease. By Henry Bence Jones, M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians 608