CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 



PART I. 



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Art. I. — Memoir on the Free Transmission of Radiant Heat 

 through different Solid and Liquid Bodies ; presented to the 

 Academy of Sciences of Paris, on the 4th of February, 1833. 

 By M. Melloni 1 



Akt. II. — New Researches relative to the Immediate Transmis- 

 sion of Radiant Heat through different Solid and Liquid 

 Bodies ; presented to the Academy of Sciences on the 21st of 

 April, 1834, and intended as a Supplement to the Memoir 

 on the same subject presented to the Academy on the 4th of 

 February, 1833. By M. Melloni 39 



Art. III. — Experiments on the Circular Polarization of Light. 



By Prof. H. W. Dove of Berlin 75 



Art. IV. — Description of an Apparatus for exhibiting the Phee- 

 nomena of the Rectilinear, Elliptic, and Circular Polarization 

 of Light. By Prof. H. W. Dove 86 



Art. V. — Memoirs on Colours in general, and particularly on a 

 new Chi'omatic Scale deduced from Metallochromy for Sci- 

 entific and Practical Purposes. By M. Leopold Nobili of 

 Reggio 94. 



Art. VI. — On the Matliematical Theory of Heat. By S. D. 



PoLssoN, Member of the Institute, &c. 122 



Art. VII. — Researches on the Elasticity of Bodies which cry- 

 stallize regularly. By Felix Savart I39 



Art. VIII — Experiments on the Essential Oil of the Splrcea 

 Ulmaria, or Meadow-Sweet. By Dr. Lowig, Professor of 

 Chemistry at Zurich J53 



Art. IX. — Researciies relative to the Insects, known to the 

 Ancients and Moderns, by whicli tlie Vine-is infested, and on 

 the Means of preventing their Ravages. By M. le Barok 

 Walckt-naer 1(57 



