Observations Upon the Marine Barometer, Made During the Examination of the Coasts of New Holland and New South Wales, in the Years 1801, 1802, and 1803
Description:... Also includes: XI. Account of a discovery of native minium / in a letter from James Smithson to Joseph Banks -- XII. Description of a rare species of worm shell, discovered at an island lying off the north-west coast of the Island of Sumatra, in the East Indies / by J. Griffiths -- XIII. Observations on the shell of the sea worm found on the coast of Sumatra ... / by Everard Home -- XIV. On the inverted action of the alburnous vessels of tress / by Thomas Andrew Knight, in a letter to Joseph Banks -- XV. A new demonstration of the binomial theorem, when the exponent is a positive or negative fraction / by the Rev. Abram Robertson -- XVI. New method of computing logarithms / by Thomas Manning -- XVII. Description of the mineral bason in the counties of Monmouth, Glamorgan, Brecon, Carmarthen, and Pembroke / by Edward Martin -- XVIII. Observations on the permanency of the variation of the compass at Jamaica / in a letter from Mr. James Robertson ... -- XIX. Observations on the Camel's stomach respecting the water it contains, and the reservoirs, in which that fluid is inclosed, with an account of some peculiarities in the urine / by Everard Home -- XX. Observations on the variation, and on the dip of the magnetic needle, made at the apartments of the Royal Society, between the years 1786 and 1805 inclusive / by George Gilpin -- XXI. On the declinations of some of the principal fixed stars, with a description of an astronomical circle, and some remarks on the construction of circular instruments / by James Pond -- XXII. Observations and remarks on the figure, the climate, and the atmosphere of saturn and its ring / by William Herschel -- Presents received by the Royal Society, from November, 1805, to June, 1806
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