CONTENTS. 



I. The Bakerian Lecture. — On the Proofs of a gradual Rising of the Land in certain 



parts of Sweden. By Charles Lyell, Jun. Esq. F.R.S page 1 



II. Note on the Electrical Relations of certain Metals and Metalliferous Minerals. 



By R. W. Fox. Communicated by Davie s Gilbert, Esq. F.R.S. ... 39 



III. Experimental Researches in Electricity. — Ninth Series. By Michael Faraday, 



D.C.L. F.R.S. Fullerian Prof. Chem. Royal Institution, Corr. Memh. Royal 

 and Imp. Acadd. of Sciences, Paris, Petershurgh, Florence, Copenhagen, Ber- 

 lin, 8^c 41 



IV. On the Determination of the Terms in the Disturbing Function of the fourth order 



as regards the Eccentricities and Inclinations which give rise to Secular Inequa- 

 lities. By J. W. Lubbock, f^.P. and Treas. R.S 57 



V. On the Results of Tide Observations made in June 1834 at the Coast Guard Sta- 



tions in Great Britain and Ireland. By the Rev. William Whewell, F.R.S. 

 Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 83 



VI. On certain Peculiarities in the Double Refraction and Absorption of Light exhi- 



bited in the Oxalate of Chromium and Potash. By Sir David Brewster, 

 K.H. LL.D. F.R.S .91 



VII. Second Essay on a General Method in Dynamics. By William Rowan Hamil- 



ton, Member of several Scientific Societies in Great Britain and in Foreign 

 Countries, Andrews Professor of Astronomy in the University of Dublin, and 

 Royal Astronomer of Ireland. Communicated by Captain Beaufort, R.N. 

 F.R.S 95 



VIII. Continuation of a former Paper on the Twenty-five Feet Zenith Telescope lately 

 erected at the Royal Observatory. By John Pond, Esq. A.R. F.R.S. . .145 



IX. Some account of the Eruption of Vesuvius, which occurred in the month of August 



1834, extracted from the Manuscript Notes of the Cavaliere Monticelli, Foreign 

 Member of the Geological Society, and from other sources ; together ivith a 

 Statement of the Products of the Eruption, and of the condition of the Volcano 

 subsequently to it. By Charles Daubeny, M.D. F.R.S. F.G.S. 8^c. Professor 

 of Chemistry and Botany in the University of Oxford 153 



