Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 18

Royal Society (Great Britain)

Taylor & Francis, 1870 - Electronic journals

Contents

• VOL XVIII: x
• June 17 1869: xli
• On the Connexion between oppositely disposed Currents of Air and: 12
• On some Elementary Principles in Animal Mechanics No II By: 22
• On the Derivatives of Propane By C Schorlemmer: 29
• An Inquiry into the Variations of the Human Skull particularly in: 35
• On Palæocoryne a genus of the Tubularine Hydrozoa from the Carboniferous: 42
• The Physiological Action of Atropine Digitaline and Aconitine on: 46
• On the Rhizopodal Fauna of the Deep Sea By William B Carpenter: 59
• Some Experiments with the Great InductionCoil at the Royal Polytechnic: 65
• On the Mechanical Description of Curves By W H L Russell F R S: 72
• Researches on Gaseous Spectra in relation to the Physical Constitution: 79
• On the Action of Cyanogen on Anthranilic Acid By P Griess F R S: 89
• Preliminary Report of the Scientific Exploration of the Deep Sea in H M: 98
• 1: 100
• 12: 106
• 16: 114
• List of Presents: 116
• List of Presents: 122
• List of Presents: 130
• 25: 133
• 29: 143
• List of Presents: 144
• On Fluoride of Silver Part I By George Gore F R S: 157
• January 20 1870: 165
• On Jacobis Theorem respecting the relative Equilibrium of a Revolving: 171
• Remarks on Mr Heppels Theory of Continuous Beams By W J Mac: 178
• Note on an Extension of the Comparison of Magnetic Disturbances with: 184
• On the Fossil Mammals of Australia Part III Diprotodon australis Owen: 196
• 122: 198
• On the Mathematical Theory of Streamlines especially those with four: 207
• Account of the Great Melbourne Telescope from April 1868 to its com: 216
• February 24 1870: 222
• On the successive Action of Sodium and Iodide of Ethyl upon Acetic Ether: 228
• Spectroscopic Observations of the Nebula of Orion and of Jupiter made: 242
• List of Presents: 251
• March 10 1870: 257
• Researches on Solar Physics No II The Positions and Areas of the Spots: 263
• On the Law which regulates the Relative Magnitude of the Areas of: 265
• On the Estimation of Ammonia in Atmospheric Air By Horace: 286
• March 24 1870: 301
• On the Madreporaria dredged up in the Expedition of H M S Porcupine: 289
• On the Relation between the Suns Altitude and the Chemical Intensity: 301
• List of Presents: 307
• Researches on Vanadium Part III Preliminary Notice By Henry: 316
• On the Organs of Vision in the Common Mole By Robert James Lee M D: 322
• On a Cause of Error in Electroscopic Experiments By Sir Charles Wheat: 330
• The Croonian Lecture By Augustus Waller M D F R S of Geneva: 339
• A Ninth Memoir on Quantics By Prof Cayley F R S: 343
• On the relative Duration of the Component Parts of the Radial Sphygmo: 351
• Spectroscopic Observations of the Sun No VI By J Norman Lockyer: 354
• Experiments on the effects of Alcohol Ethyl Alcohol on the Human Body: 362
• List of Presents: 393
• 123: 425
• June 16 1870: 493
• Contributions towards the History of Thiobenzamide By A W Hofmann: 499
• On some of the more important Physiological Changes induced in the: 513
• 37: 526
• Observations on the Mode of Growth of Discoid and Turbinated Shells: 529
• On Furfuraniline and Furfurtoluidine By John Stenhouse LL D F R S: 537
• On a Method of graphically representing the Dimensions and Proportions: 544
• On the Values of the Integrals S Qn Qn dµ Qn Qn being Laplaces: 553
• Bakerian Lecture On the Continuity of the Gaseous and Liquid States: 557

Popular passages

Page xxii - The diffusion or spontaneous intermixture of two gases in contact, is effected by an interchange in position of indefinitely minute volumes of the gases, which volumes are not necessarily of equal magnitude, being, in the case of each gas, inversely proportional to the square root of the Density of that gas.

Page xxiii - But, on the other hand, their peculiar physical aggregation with the chemical indifference referred to, appears to be required in substances that can intervene in the organic processes of life. The plastic elements of the animal body are found in this class.

Page 355 - ... showed a more rapid contraction of the ventricles, but less power than in the alcoholic period. The brandy acted, in fact, on a heart whose nutrition had not been perfectly restored.

Page 98 - Lamp, to be employed in founding a Medal to be given annually for the most important discovery in Chemistry made in Europe or Anglo-America.

Page 354 - The first day of alcohol gave an excess of 4 per cent., and the last of 23 per cent. ; and the mean of these two gives almost the same percentage of excess as the mean of the six days. " Admitting that each beat of the heart was as strong during the alcoholic period as in the water period...

Page 354 - The period of rest for the heart was shortened, though perhaps not to such an extent as would be inferred from the number of beats; for each contraction was sooner over.

Page xxi - ... to find the value for this common coefficient of expansion. Berthollet had in 1809 demonstrated that hydrogen diffuses much more rapidly than any other gas; but it remained for Graham first to show, in 1828, that the diffusion of all gases is inversely as some function of their density, apparently the square root; and then to definitely establish, in 1838, that "the diffusion, or spontaneous intermixture, of two gases in contact, ... is, in the case of each gas, inversely proportional to the...

Page 428 - from the Gulf of Mexico), if it reaches this locality at all — which is very doubtful — could only affect the most superficial stratum ; and the same may be said of the surface-drift caused by the prevalence of southwesterly winds, to which some have attributed the phenomena usually accounted for by the extension of the Gulf Stream to these regions.

Page 357 - While we recognize in these experiments the great practical use of alcohol in rousing a failing appetite, exciting a feeble heart, and accelerating a languid capillary circulation, we have been strongly impressed with the necessity for great moderation and caution.

Page 31 - The ordinary gaseous and ordinary liquid states are, in short, only widely separated forms of the same condition of matter, and may be made to pass into one another by a series of gradations so gentle that the passage shall nowhere present any interruption or breach of continuity.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 18
• Author: Royal Society (Great Britain)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 1870
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Sep 9, 2005