SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS,
SELECTED FROM
THE TRANSACTIONS OF
FOREIGN ACADEMIES OF SCIENCE
AND LEARNED SOCIETIES,
AND FROM
FOREIGN JOURNALS.
EDITED BY
RICHARD TAYLOR, F.S.A.,
FELLOW OF THE LINNÆAN, GEOLOGICAL, ASTRONOMICAL, ASIATIC, STATISTICAL
AND GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON;
HONORARY MEMBER OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF MOSCOW.
UNDER SECRETARY OF THE LINNÆAN SOCIETY.
VOL. III.
LONDON:
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CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME.
PART IX.
Art. I.—On the act of Impregnation and on Polyembryony in the higher Plants. By the late Dr. F. J. F. Meyen, Professor of Botany in the University of Berlin |
1 |
Art. II.—On the Combinations of the Volatile Chlorides with Ammonia, and their Constitution. By Professor Heinrich Rose |
32 |
Art. III.—On the Composition of Stearic Acid, and the Products of its Distillation. By Professor Redtenbacher of Prague |
48 |
Art. IV.—On the Action of Sulphurous Acid on Hyponitric Acid (peroxide of nitrogen); Crystals of the Leaden Chamber; Theory of the formation of Sulphuric Acid. By M. F. De la Provostaye, Professor in the College of Louis-le-Grand |
65 |
Art. V.—An Investigation of the Furrows which traverse the Scandinavian Mountains in certain directions, together with the probable cause of their origin. By N. G. Sefström |
81 |
Art. VI.—On a Method of Facilitating the Observations of Deflection. By Carl Friedrich Gauss |
145 |
PART X.
Art. VII—General Propositions relating to Attractive and Repulsive Forces acting in the Inverse Ratio of the Square of the Distance. By C. F. Gauss |
153 |
Art. VIII.—On the Law of Storms. By Professor H. W. Dove of Berlin |
197 |
Art. IX—On the Non-periodic Variations in the Distribution of Temperature on the Surface of the Earth, between the years 1782 and 1839. By Professor H. W. Dove of Berlin |
221 |
Art. X.—On the Azotized Nutritive Principles of Plants. By Professor Liebig |
244 |
Art. XI.—Memoir on the Theory of Light. By M. A. L. Cauchy |
264 |
Art. XII.—Researches on the Cacodyl Series. By Professor Rud. Bunsen of Marburg |
281 |
Art. XIII.—On numerous Animals of the Chalk Formation which are still to be found in a living state. By Dr. C. G. Ehrenberg |
319 |
PART XI.
Art. XIII. (continued.) |
345 |
Art. XIV.—An Inquiry into the Cause of the Electric Phænomena of the Atmosphere, and on the Means of collecting their Manifestations. By M. A. Peltier |
377 |
Art. XV.—On the Cause of the Differences observed in the Absorbing Powers of Polished and of Striated Metallic Plates, and on the application of these Principles to the Improvement of Calorific Reflectors. By M. Melloni |
416 |
Art. XVI.—On Vision, and the Action of Light on all Bodies. By Professor Ludwig Moser of Königsberg |
422 |
Art. XVII.—Some Remarks on Invisible Light. By Professor Ludwig Moser of Königsberg |
461 |
Art. XVIII.—On the Power which Light possesses of becoming Latent. By Professor Ludwig Moser of Königsberg |
465 |
Art. XIX.—Abstract of some of the principal Propositions of Gauss's Dioptric Researches |
490 |
Art. XX.—An Account of the Magnetic Observatory and Instruments at Munich: extracted from a Memoir entitled 'Ueber das Magnetische Observatorium der Königl. Sternwarte bei München, von Dr. J. Lamont,' Director of the Observatory |
499 |
PART XII.
Art. XXI.—Proposal of a new Nomenclature for the Science of Calorific Radiations. By M. Melloni |
527 |
Art. XXII.—Memoir on the Constitution of the Solar Spectrum, presented to the Academy of Sciences at the Meeting of the 13th of June, 1842, by M. Edmond Becquerel |
537 |
Art. XXIII.—Considerations relative to the Chemical Action of Light. By M. Arago |
558 |
Art. XXIV.—On the Action of the Molecular Forces in producing Capillary Phænomena. By Professor Mossotti |
564 |
Art. XXV.—Note on a Capillary Phænomenon observed by Dr. Young. By Professor Mossotti |
578 |
Art. XXVI.—Explanation of a Method for computing the Absolute Disturbances of the Heavenly Bodies, which move in Orbits of any Inclination and Elliptic Eccentricity whatever. By M. Hansen, Director of the Observatory at Gotha |
587 |
Art. XXVII.—Results of the Magnetic Observations in Munich during the period of three years, 1840, 1841, 1842. By Dr. J. Lamont |
603 |
Art. XXVIII.—Observations of the Magnetic Inclination at Göttingen. By Professor C. F. Gauss |
623 |
Art. XXIX.—Sketch of the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage, Esq. By L. F. Menabrea of Turin, Officer of the Military Engineers |
666 |
LIST OF THE PLATES IN VOL. III.,
TO ILLUSTRATE THE FOLLOWING MEMOIRS.
| Plates I. and II. | Meyen on Impregnation and Polyembryony in the higher Plants. |
| III. and IV. | Sefström on the Furrowed Rocks of Scandinavia. |
| V. to VIII. | Prof. Ehrenberg on Animals of the Chalk Formation still found in a living state; and of the Organization of Polythalamia. |
| IX. | Becquerel on the Constitution of the Solar Spectrum. |
| X. | Dr. Lamont's Magnetic Observations. |