Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: parison with the foregoing the following list of grantees of the Royal Society's Rumford Premium is given : — AWARDS OF THE RUMFORD PREMIUM OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 1802. Benjamin Count Rumford. For his various Discoveries respecting Light and Heat. 1804. John Leslie. Experiments on Heat. 1806. William Murdock. Publication on the Employment of Gas from Coal for the Purpose of Illumination. 1810. Etienne Louis Malus. Discovery of Certain Properties of Reflected Light. 1814. William Charles Wells. Essay on Dew. 1816. Humphry Davy. Papers on Combustion and Flame. 1818. David Brewster. Discoveries relating to the Polarization of Light. 1824. Augustin Jean Fresnel. Development of the Undula- tory Theory, as applied to the Phenomena of Polarized Light: and various Important Discoveries in Physical Optics. 1832. John Frederic Daniell. Experiments with a new Register Pyrometer for measuring the Expansion of Solids, 1834. Macedonio Melloni. Discoveries relative to Radiant Heat. 1838.' James David Forbes. Experiments on the Polarization of Heat. 1840. Jean Baptists Biot. Researches in and connected with the Circular Polarization of Light. 1842. Henry Fox Talbot. Discoveries and Improvements in Photography. 1846. Michael Faraday. Discovery of the Optical Phenomena developed by the Action of Magnets and Electric Currents in Certain Transparent Media, 1848. Henri Victor Regnault. Experiments on Expansion and Density of Air, different Gases, and Mercury. 1850. Francois Jean Dominique Arago. Experimental Investigation on Polarized Light. 1852. George Gabriel Stokes. On the Change of Hefrangibility of Light. 1854. Neil Arnott. A new Smoke-Consuming and Fuel-Saving Fireplace. 1856. Louis Pasteur. Discovery of the Nature of Racemic Acid, a...