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By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Find out more. × Abstracts published 1830–1905; this journal became Proceedings A and Proceedings B ISSN (Online): 2053-9126 ISSN (Print): 0370-1662 Latest articles from Proceedings A and B 12 May 2021 First Atlantic satellite tracks of ‘lost years’ green turtles support the importance of the Sargasso Sea as a sea turtle nursery Katherine L. Mansfield , Jeanette Wyneken , Jiangang Luo 5 May 2021 Short branch cut approximation in two-dimensional hydrodynamics with free surface A. I. Dyachenko , S. A. Dyachenko , P. M. Lushnikov and V. E. Zakharov 5 May 2021 Incomplete reproductive isolation and strong transcriptomic response to hybridization between sympatric sister species of salmon Jessica L. McKenzie , H. Andrés Araújo , Jack L. Smith , Dolph Schluter and Robert H. Devlin 5 May 2021 Cosmetic coloration of cross-fostered eggs affects paternal investment in the hoopoe ( Upupa epops ) Silvia Díaz-Lora , Tomás Pérez-Contreras , Manuel Azcárate-García , Juan Manuel Peralta-Sánchez , Manuel Martínez-Bueno , Juan José Soler and Manuel Martín-Vivaldi See all latest articles Featured Articles Proceedings of the Royal Society of London II. On the general characters of the genus Cymbulia John Denis Macdonald The purely pelagic habit of the interesting order of Pteropods places them so far beyond the reach of zoologists in general, that the opportunities of examining them in a living or recent state are few and far between. I have myself been fortunate enough ... Read more Proceedings of the Royal Society of London XX. On the vine-disease in the port-wine districts of the Alto-Douro, in April 1854. With a supplementary note on the proposed remedies for its eradication Jos. James Forrester and John Peter Gassiot In Portugal, where the vine-disease committed great ravages last year, no measures have as yet been adopted for ascertaining whether the disease is radical, or only superficial; or whether any practical remedy may be adopted in order to arrest the ... Read more Proceedings of the Royal Society of London X. Experiments on the discharge of electricity through gases. (Second paper.) Arthur Schuster Three years ago I gave a sketch of a theory of the passage of electricity through gases, in which it was assumed that in the gaseous discharge an atom carries a definite molecular charge just as in electrolysis (see Bakerian Lecture, ‘Roy. Soc. Proc.,’ ... Read more Proceedings of the Royal Society of London I. Note on an experiment by Chladni Charles Tomlinson Lord Rayleigh, in a memoir “On the Circulation of Air in Kundt’s Tubes,” &c., remarks (“Proc. Roy. Soc.,” xxxvi, 10, and “Phil. Trans.,” 1884, Part I, p. 1) that “it was discovered by Savart that very fine powder does not collect itself at the nodal lines,... Read more II. On the general characters of the genus Cymbulia John Denis Macdonald XX. On the vine-disease in the port-wine districts of the Alto-Douro, in April 1854. With a supplementary note on the proposed remedies for its eradication Jos. James Forrester and John Peter Gassiot X. Experiments on the discharge of electricity through gases. (Second paper.) Arthur Schuster I. Note on an experiment by Chladni Charles Tomlinson About the journal Proceedings of The Royal Society Proceedings of The Royal Society started out in 1800 as the Abstracts of the Papers printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London . The Royal Society published four volumes, from 1800 to 1843. Volumes 5 and 6, which appeared from 1843 to 1854, were called Abstracts of the Papers Communicated to the Royal Society of London . 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