Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 46. köideJ. Murray, 1877 |
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... distance of the earth from the sun , extensive preparations were made on the last occasion for observing it at selected stations - from Siberia in northern , to Kerguelen's Land in southern latitudes . The great maritime powers vied ...
... distance of the earth from the sun , extensive preparations were made on the last occasion for observing it at selected stations - from Siberia in northern , to Kerguelen's Land in southern latitudes . The great maritime powers vied ...
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... distance of the carth from the sun , and found it to be one thirtieth part , or about 3,000,000 miles , less than the commonly received number . This conclusion has lately been confirmed by M. Cornu , from a new determination he has ...
... distance of the carth from the sun , and found it to be one thirtieth part , or about 3,000,000 miles , less than the commonly received number . This conclusion has lately been confirmed by M. Cornu , from a new determination he has ...
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... distance of cold air . By using a very large number of cells , carefully insulated and charged with water , Mr. Gassiot succeeded in obtaining a short spark through air ; and lately De La Rue and Müller have constructed a large chloride ...
... distance of cold air . By using a very large number of cells , carefully insulated and charged with water , Mr. Gassiot succeeded in obtaining a short spark through air ; and lately De La Rue and Müller have constructed a large chloride ...
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... distance of the illuminating source . Switzerland sent , some years ago , as its representative to this country the celebrated De la Rive , whose scientific life formed lately the subject of an eloquent éloge from the pen of M. Dumas ...
... distance of the illuminating source . Switzerland sent , some years ago , as its representative to this country the celebrated De la Rive , whose scientific life formed lately the subject of an eloquent éloge from the pen of M. Dumas ...
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... distance from the busy human hive by a few horizontal flues of large dimensions , terminating in lofty chimneys on a hillside or distant plain ? A system of this kind has long been employed at the mercurial mines of Idria , and in other ...
... distance from the busy human hive by a few horizontal flues of large dimensions , terminating in lofty chimneys on a hillside or distant plain ? A system of this kind has long been employed at the mercurial mines of Idria , and in other ...
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Page xvii - cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another and with foreign philosophers,—to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress. EULES. Admission of Members and Associates. All persons who
Page xvii - attended the first Meeting shall be entitled to become Members of the Association, upon subscribing an obligation to conform to its Rules. The Fellows and Members of Chartered Literary and Philosophical Societies publishing Transactions, in the British Empire, shall be entitled, in
Page i - Second Report upon the Action of Air and Water, whether fresh or salt, clear or foul, and at various temperatures, upon Cast Iron, Wrought Iron and Steel ;—RW Fox, Report on some Observations on Subterranean Temperature ;—AF Osier, Report on the Observations recorded during the years
Page vi - Prof. Powell, Third Report on the present State of our Knowledge of Radiant Heat ;—Colonel Sabine, on some of the results obtained at the British Colonial Magnetic Observatories;— Colonel Portlock, Report of the Committee on Earthquakes, with their proceedings respecting Seismometers;—Dr. Gladstone, on the influence of the Solar Radiations on the Vital
Page 111 - caves) show no marks of degradation. The former does not present so low a type as that of most existing savages, but is (to use the words of Prof. Huxley) "a fair average human skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher, or might have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage." The latter are still more remarkable, being unusually large and well formed.
Page xviii - of the Association for the year of their admission and for the years in which they continue to pay without intermission their Annual Subscription. By omitting to pay this Subscription in any particular year, Members of this class (Annual Subscribers) lose for that and all future years the privilege of receiving the volumes of the Association
Page xx - each Author should prepare an Abstract of hie Memoir, of a length suitable for insertion in the published Transactions of the Association, and that he should send it, together with the original Memoir, by book-post, on or before addressed thus—" General Secretaries, British Association, 22
Page vii - John P. Hodges, MD, on Flax; — Major-General Sabine, Report of the Committee on the Magnetic Survey of Great Britain; — Rev. Baden Powell, Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1856-57 ; — C. Vignoles, CE, on the Adaptation of Suspension Bridges to sustain the passage of Railway Trains; — Professor WA Miller, MD,on Electro-Chemistry ; — John Simpson, RN, Results of
Page xv - to prepare and print Tables of Wave-numbers ;—Report of the Committee for testing the new Pyrometer of Mr. Siemens ;—Report to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty on Experiments for the Determination of the Frictional Resistance of Water on a Surface &c. ;—Second Report for the Selection and Nomenclature of Dynamical and
Page iv - Dove on his recently constructed Maps of the Monthly Isothermal Lines of the Globe, and on some of the principal Conclusions in regard to Climatology deducible from them ; with an introductory Notice by Lt.-Col. E. Sabine;—Dr. Daubeny, on the progress of the