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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London

Abstracts published 1830–1905; this journal became Proceedings A and Proceedings B

ISSN (Online):2053-9126
ISSN (Print):0370-1662

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1 January 1997
The Croonian Lecture. On the structure and uses of the membrana tympani of the ear
1 January 1997
On the method of determining, from the real probabilities of life, the values of contingent reversions in which three lives are involved in the survivorship
1 January 1997
On the power of penetrating into space by telescopes; with a comparative determination of the extent of that power in natural vision, and in telescopes of various sizes and constructions; illustrated by select observations
1 January 1997
A second appendix to the improved solution of a problem in physical astronomy, inserted in the Philosophical Transactions for the Year 1798, containing some further remarks, and improved formulœ for computing the coefficients A and B; by which the arithmetical work is considerably shortened and facilitated
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Proc. R. Soc. Lond.31 December 1886

II. On the general characters of the genus Cymbulia

The purely pelagic habit of the interesting order of Pteropods places them so far beyond the reach of zoologists in general, that the opportunities of examining them in a living or recent state are few and far between. I have myself been fortunate enough ...Read more
Proc. R. Soc. Lond.31 December 1857

XX. On the vine-disease in the port-wine districts of the Alto-Douro, in April 1854. With a supplementary note on the proposed remedies for its eradication

In Portugal, where the vine-disease committed great ravages last year, no measures have as yet been adopted for ascertaining whether the disease is radical, or only superficial; or whether any practical remedy may be adopted in order to arrest the ...Read more
Proc. R. Soc. Lond.31 December 1887

X. Experiments on the discharge of electricity through gases. (Second paper.)

Three years ago I gave a sketch of a theory of the passage of electricity through gases, in which it was assumed that in the gaseous discharge an atom carries a definite molecular charge just as in electrolysis (see Bakerian Lecture, ‘Roy. Soc. Proc.,’ ...Read more
Proc. R. Soc. Lond.31 December 1886

I. Note on an experiment by Chladni

Lord Rayleigh, in a memoir “On the Circulation of Air in Kundt’s Tubes,” &c., remarks (“Proc. Roy. Soc.,” xxxvi, 10, and “Phil. Trans.,” 1884, Part I, p. 1) that “it was discovered by Savart that very fine powder does not collect itself at the nodal lines,...Read more

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Proceedings of The Royal Society

Proceedings of The Royal Society started out in 1800 as the Abstracts of the Papers printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. The Royal Society published four volumes, from 1800 to 1843. Volumes 5 and 6, which appeared from 1843 to 1854, were called Abstracts of the Papers Communicated to the Royal Society of London. Starting with volume 7, in 1854, the Proceedings first appeared under the name Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.

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