INDEX 
TO THE 
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS 
FOR THE YEAR 1832. 
A. 
Airy (George Biddell, Esq.). On an inequality of long period in the motions of the 
Earth and Venus, 67. 
Animals (hybernating), on the sleep of, 335. 
Arago, his magnetic phenomena, explication of, 146. 
Articulate sounds, on the formation of, 306. 
Articulation, on, 308. 
Astronomy {physical), researches in, 1, 229, 361, 601. 
Avogardo (Signor), his observation that the effect of mercurial vapour in the vacuum 
chamber of the barometer is not sensible at common temperatures, confirmed by 
Dr. Prout, 591. 
B. 
Baily (F. Esq.). On the correction of a pendulum for the reduction to a vacuum : 
together with remarks on some anomalies observed in pendulum experiments, 399. 
Bakerian Lecture. Experimental researches in electricity. Second series, 163. 
Barometer, hourly observations on, with experimental investigations into the phenomena 
of its periodical oscillation, 575. 
- {standard), belonging to the Royal Society, compared with almost every other 
standard barometer in Europe, 577. 
- {standard) belonging to the Royal Society, proved by observations for 360 
successive hours, not to be deteriorated, 593. 
Barometers, the maxima and minima of their horary oscillations much influenced by their 
construction, 574. 
Battery {voltaic), on the laws of action of an elementary one, 279. 
-on the fundamental principle, and laws of action of, 287. 
-difference of temperature in the extreme and middle cells of one, ex* 
plained, 296. 
