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  CONTENTS. 
  

  

  PART 
  II. 
  

  

  PAGE 
  

  

  VIII. 
  Note 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  Dynamical 
  Equivalent 
  of 
  Temperature 
  in 
  Liquid 
  

   Water, 
  and 
  the 
  Specific 
  Heat 
  of 
  Atmospheric 
  Air 
  and 
  Steam; 
  

   being 
  a 
  Supplement 
  to 
  a 
  Paper 
  On 
  the 
  Mechanical 
  Action 
  of 
  Heat. 
  

   By 
  Wm. 
  J. 
  M. 
  Rankine, 
  Civil 
  Engineer, 
  F.R.S.E., 
  F.R.S.S.A., 
  

   &c., 
  ........ 
  191 
  

  

  IX. 
  On 
  the 
  Power 
  and 
  Economy 
  of 
  Single- 
  A 
  ding 
  Expansive 
  Steam 
  En- 
  

   gines, 
  being 
  a 
  Supplement 
  to 
  the 
  Fourth 
  Section 
  of 
  a 
  Paper 
  On 
  the 
  

   Mechanical 
  Action 
  of 
  Heat. 
  By 
  Wm. 
  J. 
  M. 
  Rankine, 
  Civil 
  En- 
  

   gineer, 
  F.R.S.E., 
  F.R.S.S.A., 
  &c., 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  .195 
  

  

  X. 
  On 
  the 
  Economy 
  of 
  Heat 
  in 
  Expansive 
  Machines, 
  forming 
  the 
  Fifth 
  

   Section 
  of 
  a 
  Paper 
  On 
  the 
  Mechanical 
  Action 
  of 
  Heat. 
  By 
  Wm. 
  

   J. 
  M. 
  Rankine, 
  Civil 
  Engineer, 
  F.R.S.E., 
  F.R.S.S.A., 
  &c. 
  

   (With 
  a 
  Plate.) 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  .205 
  

  

  XI. 
  Notes 
  on 
  the 
  Geology 
  of 
  the 
  Eildon 
  Hill?, 
  in 
  Roxburghshire. 
  By 
  

   James 
  D. 
  Forbes, 
  F.R.S., 
  Sec. 
  R.S. 
  Ed., 
  Professor 
  of 
  Natural 
  

   Philosophy 
  in 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  Edinburgh. 
  (With 
  a 
  Plate.) 
  211 
  

  

  XII. 
  On 
  a 
  neiu 
  Source 
  for 
  obtaining 
  Capric 
  Acid, 
  and 
  Remarks 
  on 
  some 
  of 
  

   its 
  Salts. 
  By 
  Mr 
  Thomas 
  Henry 
  Rowney, 
  F.C.S. 
  Communi- 
  

   cated 
  by 
  Dr 
  T. 
  Anderson, 
  ..... 
  219 
  

  

  XIII. 
  On 
  certain 
  Salts 
  and 
  Products 
  of 
  Decomposition 
  of 
  Comenic 
  Acid. 
  By 
  

  

  Mr 
  Henry 
  How. 
  Communicated 
  by 
  Dr 
  T. 
  Anderson, 
  . 
  225 
  

  

  XIV. 
  On 
  the 
  Products 
  of 
  the 
  Destructive 
  Distillation 
  of 
  Animal 
  Substances. 
  

  

  Part 
  II. 
  By 
  Thomas 
  Anderson, 
  M.D.,F.R.S.E., 
  . 
  . 
  247 
  

  

  XV. 
  On 
  the 
  Dynamical 
  TJieory 
  of 
  Heat, 
  with 
  numerical 
  results 
  deduced 
  

  

  from 
  Mr 
  Joule's 
  Equivalent 
  of 
  a 
  Thermal 
  Unit, 
  and 
  M. 
  Reg- 
  

  

  nault's 
  Observations 
  on 
  Steam. 
  By 
  William 
  Thomson, 
  M.A., 
  

  

  Fellow 
  of 
  St 
  Peter's 
  College, 
  Cambridge, 
  and 
  Professor 
  of 
  Natural 
  

  

  Philosophy 
  in 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  Glasgow, 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  261 
  

  

  XVI. 
  On 
  a 
  Method 
  of 
  Discovering 
  experimentally 
  the 
  Relation 
  between 
  the 
  

   Mechanical 
  Work 
  spent, 
  and 
  the 
  Heat 
  produced 
  by 
  the 
  Compression 
  

   of 
  a 
  Gaseous 
  Fluid. 
  By 
  William 
  Thomson, 
  M.A., 
  Fellow 
  of 
  St 
  

   Peter's 
  College, 
  Cambridge, 
  and 
  Professor 
  of 
  Natural 
  Philosophy 
  

   in 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  Glasgow, 
  ..... 
  289 
  

  

  