CONTENTS OF VOL. XXVIL 



(THIRD SERIES.) 



NUMBER CLXXVIL— JULY, 1845. 



Page 

 Prof. Faraday on the Magnetic Relations and Characters of the 



Metals 1 



Dr. J. Stenhouse on the Products of the Distillation of Ben- 



zoate of Copper ,. 3 



Mr. G. G. Stokes on the Aberration of Light 9 



Mr. W. De la Rue on the Structure of Electro- precipitated 



Metals (with a Plate) 15 



Dr. A. W. Hofmann on the true Composition of Chlorindatmit ilO 

 Mr. T. Richardson's Analyses of Farm- Yard Manure, and of 



Coal-Gas 23 



Mr. R. Hunt's Contributions to Actino-Chemistry 25 



Experiments on the Electric Discharge of- the Jar. (Extract of 



a letter from M. Matteucci to M. Arago.) 35 



Mifl"A?i ©si,ytey"6»'iS[lg^te*aical;iGouplei86Jii'Pjpq, )?^% jfisiplifiiihU "38 



jects were seen invertedoViil.,?. .•ji).cvg.4sW-5-i".m3noUnav/!ii3iu:j>u^9'f41 

 Mr. E, J. Lowe on a Magnificent Meteor seen in Nottingham- 

 shire 41 



The Rev. B. Bronwin's Reduction of the Four Forms of cu in 

 Jacobi's General Transformation of an Elliptic Function to 



one form only : 4*2 



Mr. R. Moon on Fresnel's Theory of Diflfraction 46 



Proceedings of the Royal Society 52 



Cambridge Philosophical Society 56 



Royal Astronomical Society 60 



Meteorological .Observations for May 1845 79 



Meteorological Observations made by Mr. Thompson at the 

 Garden of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, near 

 London ; by Mr. Veall at Boston ; by the Rev. W. Dunbar at 

 Applegarth Manse, Dumfries-shire ; and by the Rev. C. 

 Clouston at Sandwick Manse, Orkney 80 



NUMBER CLXXVIII.— AUGUST. 



Prof. W. A. Miller's Experiments and Observations on some 

 Cases of Lines in the Prismatic Spectrum produced by the 

 passage of Light through Coloured Vapours and Gases, and 

 from certain Coloured Flames. (With two coloured Plates.) 81 



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