Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 78. köideJ. Murray, 1909 |
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Page 581 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies: She drew an angel down.
Page 52 - As a unit of resistance, the international ohm, which is based upon the ohm equal to 10" units of resistance of the CGS system of electromagnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice, 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area and of the length of 106.3 centimetres.
Page xxix - ... give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who 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.
Page xcviii - Light 3014 7 Chronometers 26 17 6 Marine Zoology 150 British Fossil Mammalia 100 0 0 Statistics of Education 20 0 0 Marine Steam-vessels
Page cxxxvii - To summon meetings in London or elsewhere for the consideration of matters affecting the Interests of Zoology or Zoologists, and to obtain by correspondence the opinion of Zoologists on matters of a similar kind, with power to raise by subscription from each Zoologist a sum of money for defraying current expenses of the Organisation. Sec.- — Prof.
Page 12 - The resolution of one physiological state into another becomes easier and more rapid after it has taken place a number of times.
Page 377 - At least twelve portraits of the left side of the face of as many different adults of the same sex. These must show in each case the exact profile, and the hair should be so arranged as fully to show the ear. All the persons should occupy in turn the same chair (with movable blocks on the seat, to raise the sitters' heads to a uniform height), the camera being fixed throughout in the same place.
Page ci - Performance ... 150 0 0 Fossils of Lesmahagow 15 0 0 Explorations at Uriconium... 20 0 0 Chemical Alloys 20 0 0 Classified Index to the Transactions 100 0 0 Dredging in the Mersey and Dee 500 Dip Circle 30 0 0 Photoheliographic Observations 50 0 0...
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Page 58 - Bart., on the completion of the publication, in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of the Observations made in his Observatory at Makerstown.