1.1. JUNE 1876. No. 6. 



Published the First Day of every Month. — Price 2s. 6d. 



THE 

 LONDON, EDINBURGH, and DUBLIN 



PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE, 



AND 



JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 



Being a Continuation of TillocKs ' Philosophical Magazine, 

 Nicholson's 'Journal? and Thomson's l Annals of Philosophy.'' 



CONDUCTED BY 



SIR ROBERT KANE, LL.D. F.R.S. M.R.I.A. F.O.S. 

 SIR WILLIAM THOMSON, Knt. LL.D. F.R.S. &c. 



AND 



WILLIAM FRANCIS, Ph.D. F.L.S. F.R.A.g. ROS, 



FIFTH SERIES. 



No 6.— JUNE 1876. 



WITH A PLATE, 



Illustrative of M. R. Pictet's Paper on the Application of the Mecha- 

 nical Theory of Heat to the Study of Volatile Liquids. 



With this, the regular Number for June 1876, is published, and should 

 be delivered to Subscribers, the Supplement (No. 7) to Vol. I., contain- 

 ing papers by Prof. Gr. Tschermak, Prof. P. E. Chase, Dr. R. Konig, 

 Mr. L. Schwendler, M. D. Mendelejeef, Mr.W. H.Walenn, together 

 with Notices respecting New Books, Proceedings of the Geological Society, 

 Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles, and the Title-page, Table of Con- 

 tents, and Index to Vol. I. 



LONDON: 



PRINTED BY TAYLOR AND FRANCIS, RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET, 

 Printers and Publishers to the University of London. 

 Sold by Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer j Kent and Co. ; Simpkin, Marshall and 

 Co. ; and Whittaker and Co. ;— and by A. and C. Black, and Thomas Clark, Edin- 

 burgh; Smith and Son, Glasgow: — Hodges, Foster, and Co., Dublin: — Putnam, 

 New York : — and Asher and Co., Berlin. 



