Paper, 'On the amount of the radiation of heat, at night, from the earth, and from various bodies placed on or near the surface of the earth' by James Glaisher Includes several fold-out tables of observations. Further observations accompanying this paper found at PT/33/1. Subject: Physics Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the amount of the radiation of heat, at night, from the earth, and from various bodies placed on or near the surface of the earth'. Communicated by G B [George Biddell] Airy. Received by the Royal Society on 14 January 1847. Read 4 February 1847. Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 5, 1851. [1847]