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... less than the commonly received number . This conclusion has lately been confirmed by M. Cornu , from a new determination he has made of the velocity of light according to the method of Fizeau ; and in complete accord- ance with these ...
... less than the commonly received number . This conclusion has lately been confirmed by M. Cornu , from a new determination he has made of the velocity of light according to the method of Fizeau ; and in complete accord- ance with these ...
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... less than eight feet in air . In the solar beam we have an agent of surpassing power , the investiga- tion of whose properties by Newton forms an epoch in the history of experi- mental science scarcely less important than the discovery ...
... less than eight feet in air . In the solar beam we have an agent of surpassing power , the investiga- tion of whose properties by Newton forms an epoch in the history of experi- mental science scarcely less important than the discovery ...
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... less important would it be for the encouragement of learning throughout the country that the English Universities , remembering that they were founded for the same objects , and derive their authority from a common source , should be ...
... less important would it be for the encouragement of learning throughout the country that the English Universities , remembering that they were founded for the same objects , and derive their authority from a common source , should be ...
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... less to the active work which is going on everywhere around us , in preparing for examina- tions of all kinds . These things are all very useful in their way ; but it is not by them alone that the practical arts are to be sustained in ...
... less to the active work which is going on everywhere around us , in preparing for examina- tions of all kinds . These things are all very useful in their way ; but it is not by them alone that the practical arts are to be sustained in ...
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... less deep , and , on account of the state of the floor , was necessarily discontinuous . Omitting the large blocks of limestone , the deposits were : -First , or upper- most , a Floor of Granular Stalagmite , from which there arose ...
... less deep , and , on account of the state of the floor , was necessarily discontinuous . Omitting the large blocks of limestone , the deposits were : -First , or upper- most , a Floor of Granular Stalagmite , from which there arose ...
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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