CONTENTS OF THE EIGHTH VOLUME. 



PART I. 



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■ '• On the Foundations of the Theory of Probabilities : by R. L. Ellis, Esq. 



M.A., Fellow of Trinity College 1 



II. On the Reflexion and Refraction of Light at the Surface of an Uncrystallized 



Body: by the Rev. M. O'Brien, late Fellow of Cains College 7 



III. On the Possibility of accounting for the Absorption of Light, by supposing it 



due to the Motion of the Particles of Matter: by the Rev. M. O'Brien, 

 late Fellow of Caius College 27 



IV. On a new Fundamental Equation in Hydrodynamics: by the Rev. James 



Challis, M.A., Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philo- 

 sophy in the University of Cambridge 31 



V. Observations on the Nature of the Biliary Secretion ; — the object being to shew, 



that the Bile is essentially composed of an Electro-negative body in chemical 

 cojnbination with one or more inorganic bases: by George Kemp, M.B., 

 St Peter's College 44 



VI. On the Motion of Glaciers: by William Hopkins, M.A., and F.R.S., 



Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, of the Geological Society, 

 and of the Royal Astronomical Society 50 



VII. On the Theory of Determinants : by A. Caylev, Esq., Fellow of Trinity 



College 75 



VIII. On Small Finite Oscillations: by the Rev. H. HoLDiTCH, Fellow of Caius 



College, and of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 89 



IX. On some Cases of Fluid Motion: by G. G. Stokes, B.A., Fellow of Pembroke 



College 1 .5 ' 



X. Notice on the Occurrence of Land and Freshwater Shells with Bones of some 



extinct Animals in the Gravel near Cambridge : by P. B. Brodie, F.G.S., 



of Emmanuel College 138 



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