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Excerpt from Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 1126, Hodgkins Fund: A Determination of the Ration (X) Of the Specific Heats at Constant Pressure and at Constant Volume for Air, Oxygen, Carbon-Dioxide, and Hydrogen After a period of notable advance the kinetic theory of gases seems to have fallen into temporary abeyance, possibly from a funda mentally impelfect understanding of their behavior. Progress in knowledge of this fundamental nature of gases may reasonably be looked for from interpretative researches on their ther mal capacity, and the following paper may be regarded as a step in this direction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.