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Page 84 - ... the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic in states.
Page xix - Association are, by periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science in different parts of America, to give a stronger and more general impulse and more systematic direction to scientific research, and to procure for the labors of scientific men, increased facilities and a wider usefulness.
Page xix - The objects of the Association are, by periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science in different parts of...
Page xviii - Science," and their successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the " American Association for the Advancement of Science...
Page 247 - Chief of scientific bureaus and investigations in the Department of Agriculture, to be filled by a broadly educated and experienced scientific man ; provided that such appointment shall be made only on the nomination of the National Academy of Sciences, the legally constituted adviser of the government in matters relating to Science.
Page 135 - can we infer from all this ? If the number of creatures be so exceeding great, how great, nay immense, must needs be the power and wisdom of Him who formed them all !" Early in 1692, the Synopsis Methodica Animalium Quadrupedum et Serpentini Generis was finished, and published the year after.
Page 179 - ... and several individuals have evinced their liberality and love of science by voluntary subscriptions, to the amount of fifteen thousand dollars, towards the establishment and support of that institution. Another is also begun at Charleston, SC, and a third is contemplated in New Jersey, in connection with the College of Princeton." In the year 1824 there was published at Lexington, Ky., the " First Catalogues and Circulars of the Botanical Garden of Transylvania University at Lexington, Ky.,...
Page 135 - on the other side the equator, there be much land still remaining undiscovered, as probably there may, we must suppose the number of plants to be far greater." — '
Page 153 - Ceruus was the giraffe. These are sufficient to show what incongruities would flow from the adoption of the rule. CHOICE OF NAMES SIMULTANEOUSLY PUBLISHED. There is another issue of nomenclature involving many genera. In the same work different names have been given to representatives or stages of what are now considered the same genus. For example, Lacepede, in the third volume of his " Histoire Naturelle des Poissons...
Page 85 - I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply, not into the market, not into opinion, not into patronage.