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Collected Papers from the Collection of James Croll Geological Survey. From the collection of James Croll Geological Survey Edinburgh No. 1 Inscribed by Lord Kelvin.

1855S13224Edinburgh: 1855-1874. 1855. 8vo. pagination varies. Plates figures. Contemporary mauve blind- and gilt-stamped cloth; small spine paper label some fading. Very good. CONTENTS: 1 Sir William Thomson Lord Kelvin 1824-1907 Geological Climate. Glasgow 1873. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO JAMES CROLL "from the author with kind regards. 2 William Crookes 1832-1919 F.R.S. The Mechanical Action of Light. London 1875. / 3 William Crookes 1832-1919 F.R.S. The Mechanical Action of Light. A lecture delivered at the Royal Institution . . . London 1876. / 4 William Crookes 1832-1919 F.R.S. On the Movement of the Glass Case of a Radiometer. On Repulsion Resulting from Radiation â€“ Influence of the Residual Gas. Notes on the Radiometer. On the influence of the residual gas on the movement of the Radiometer. London 1876. / 5 William Crookes 1832-1919 F.R.S. On repulsion resulting from radiation. Preliminary note on the otheoscope. London 1877. / 6 William Crookes 1832-1919 F.R.S. Experimental contributions to the theory of the Radiometer. London 1877. / 7 Pliny Earle Chase 1820-1886 Denominational education in the Society of Friends : an address delivered in Portland Maine 6 Mo. 11th 1877 : before the members of the Yearly Meeting of Friends for New England and others : at the request of the Committee on Secular Education of that meeting. 1877. / 8 Pliny Earle Chase 1820-1886 The Gamut of Light. 1877. / 9 Pliny Earle Chase 1820-1886 The Music of the Spheres. 1877. / 10 Pliny Earle Chase 1820-1886 Planetary Mechanics. Oct. 1877. / 11 William A. Norton 1810-1883 Results of experiments on the set of bars of wood iron and steel after a transverse stress. 1876. / 12 William A. Norton 1810-1883 Results of experiments on contact resistance. 1876. / 13 William A. Norton 1810-1883 Coggia's Comet â€“ its physical condition and structure. Physical theory of comets. 1878. / 14 Daniel Kirkwood 1814-1895 On eight meteoric fireballs seen in the United States from July 1876 to February 1877. Kirkwood's most significant contribution came from his study of asteroid orbits. / 15 Daniel Kirkwood 1814-1895 On the relative ages of the Sun and certain of the Fixed Stars. 1877. / 16 Daniel Kirkwood 1814-1895 On Croll's Hypothesis of the Origin of Solar and Sidereal Heat. 1878. "The theory of Dr. Croll may be regarded as a compromise between the mathematicians represented by Thomson Tait and Newcomb and the geologists of the uniformitarian school represented by Playfair Lyell Darwin etc. . . ." / 17 Rev. Samuel Haughton 1821-1897 F.R.S. Address on the Relation of Food to Work and its bearing on medical practice . . . Dublin 1868. PRINTE: "Presented by the Author." / 18 Rev. Samuel Haughton 1821-1897 F.R.S. On some elementary principles in Animal Mechanics. â€“ No. V. On the most perfect form of a plane quadrilateral muscle connecting two bones. 1872. / 19 Rev. Samuel Haughton 1821-1897 F.R.S. On some elementary principles in Animal Mechanics. â€“ No. VII. The law of fatigue. 1875. / 20 Rev. Samuel Haughton 1821-1897 F.R.S. Notes on Physical Geology. No. III. On a new method of finding limits to the duration of certain geological periods. 1877. / 21 William Carpenter M.D. Summary of recent observations on Ocean Temperature made in H.M.S. 'Challenger' and U.S.S. 'Tuscarora;' . . . London 1875. / 22 William Carpenter M.D. Lecture on the Temperature of the Deep-Sea Bottom and condition by which it is determined. 1877. / 23 John Young Buchanan c.1844-1925 chemist on board the H.M.S. 'Challenger' On the determination at sea of the specific gravity of sea-water. 1875. / 24 T.E. Thorpe Ph.D. & A.W. Rucker On the Expansion of Sea-Water by Heat. 1876. Inscribed by the author "with the author's compliments". / 24a John Aitken On ocean circulation. 2876-77. / 25 John Aitken On the Rigidity produced by centrifugal force. XIV. Experiments illustrating rigidity produced by centrifugal force. 1876. / 26 Henry Muirhead M.D. c.1814â€“1890 Fellow of the Glasgow Philosophical Society On the Genesis of Atoms Worlds and Sunspots. 1875. Inscribed "With Dr. Muirhead's Compliments." Added manuscript marginalia. / 27 Henry Muirhead M.D. c.1814â€“1890 On the Current Doctrines of Attraction and Energy . . . 1876. More marginalia. / 28 J. Falconer King Note on Spontaneous Combustion. 1876. / 29 Robert Bellamy Clifton F.R.S. 1836-1921 On the Difference of Potential produced by the Contact of different Substances. 1877. / 30 G. Carey Foster Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association. 1877. Inscribed "with kind regards from the author." / 31 Rev. Robert Main. Annual Address. 1875. / 32 Arthur W. Wright 183601915 On the gases contained in Meteorites. 1876. / 32a Simon Newcomb Review of Croll's Climate and Time with especial reference to the physical theories of climate maintained therein. / 32b Othniel Charles Marsh 1831-1899 Principal Characters of the Brontotheridae. With 4 plates. / 33 Prof. O.N. Rood Experiments on the nature of the force involved in Crookes' Radiometer. 1876. / 34 Alexander Sutherland 1852-1902 On the probability that a connexion of causation with be shown to exist between the attraction of gravitation and the molecular energy of matter. Royal Society of Melbourne 1878. / 35 William Coutie Natural Philosophy and Modern Chemistry. Troy NY 1876. / 36 William Coutie The Origin of the Sun's Heat and the chemical constitution of the matter of his system. 1875. / 37 Willoughby Smith 1828-1891 Selenium: its electrical qualities and the effect of light thereon. 1877. Smith an English electrical engineer discovered the photoconductivity of the element selenium. This discovery led to the invention of photoelectric cells including those used in the earliest television systems. / 38 Rev. Bourchier Wrey Savile Heathen Cosmogonies Compared with the Hebrew. 1876. Inscribed "From the author." / 39 John Gray M'Kendrick. The Future of Physiological Research. Edinburgh 1876. / 40 John Gray M'Kendrick. Introductory Lecture at the Opening of the Session 1875-76 of the Edinburgh Royal Veterinary College. 1875. / 41 Jas. R. Napier; John Gray M'Kendrick. On the Chemical and Microscopical Analysis of an Unsound Wine. 1878. / 42 Glasgow Sheriff Court. Before Sheriff Guthrie. Interesting question as to the quality of wine. 1855-1874. hardcover books

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