Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 73. köideJ. Murray, 1904 |
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... position to assist . I am well aware of the immense impetus that has been given to scientific investiga- tion in the United Kingdom by the annual meetings of this Association ; and it is thoroughly in accord with the spirit of ...
... position to assist . I am well aware of the immense impetus that has been given to scientific investiga- tion in the United Kingdom by the annual meetings of this Association ; and it is thoroughly in accord with the spirit of ...
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... position and prospects of mankind more than all the conquests and all the codes and all the legislators that ever lived . ' 1 The progress of science , indeed , brings in many considerations which are momentous in relation to the life ...
... position and prospects of mankind more than all the conquests and all the codes and all the legislators that ever lived . ' 1 The progress of science , indeed , brings in many considerations which are momentous in relation to the life ...
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... position as a nation , our success as merchants , are in peril chiefly dealing with preventable causes - because of our lack of com- pletely efficient Universities and our neglect of research . This research has a double end . A ...
... position as a nation , our success as merchants , are in peril chiefly dealing with preventable causes - because of our lack of com- pletely efficient Universities and our neglect of research . This research has a double end . A ...
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... position that was offered to him . What is it that makes a country ? Of course you may say , and you would be quite right , " The general qualities of the people , their resolution , their intelligence , their pertinacity , and many ...
... position that was offered to him . What is it that makes a country ? Of course you may say , and you would be quite right , " The general qualities of the people , their resolution , their intelligence , their pertinacity , and many ...
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... position to - day would have been very different . His early death was as bad for Britain as the loss of a great campaign . If we cannot make up what we have lost , matters cannot mend . I have done what I feel to be my duty in bringing ...
... position to - day would have been very different . His early death was as bad for Britain as the loss of a great campaign . If we cannot make up what we have lost , matters cannot mend . I have done what I feel to be my duty in bringing ...
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Page 644 - And, moved thro' life of lower phase, Result in man, be born and think, And act and love, a closer link Betwixt us and the crowning race Of those that, eye to eye, shall look On knowledge ; under whose command Is Earth and Earth's, and in their hand Is Nature like an open book...
Page 544 - Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright.
Page 9 - To 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 xxix - Committee two years in advance ; and the arrangements for it shall be entrusted to the Officers of the Association. General Committee. The General Committee shall sit during the week of the Meeting, or longer, to transact the business of the Association. It shall consist of the following persons : — CLASS A.
Page xxxvi - Vice-Presidents, one or more Secretaries, and a Treasurer shall be annually appointed by the General Committee. Council. In the intervals of the Meetings, the affairs of the Association shall be managed by a Council appointed by the General Committee. The Council may also assemble for the despatch of business during the week of the Meeting.
Page 544 - SAY NOT THE STRUGGLE NOUGHT AVAILETH Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth. And as things have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars ; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field.
Page lxxxviii - It is composed of representatives of management and labour both in the United Kingdom and in the United States of America. In the United Kingdom section the constituent bodies are the Federation of British Industries, the British Employers' Confederation and the Trades Union Congress.
Page xxx - Author! are reminded that, under an arrangement dating from 1871, the acceptance of Memoirs, and the days on which they are to be read, are now, as far as possible, determined by Organising Committees for the several Sections before the beginning of the Meeting.
Page 24 - The movement in England to which I have referred began in 1872, when a society for the organisation of academical study was formed in connection with the inquiry into the revenues of Oxford and Cambridge, and there was a famous meeting at the Freemasons' Tavern, Mark Pattison being in the chair. Brodie, Rolleston, Carpenter, Burdon-Sanderson, were among the speakers, and the first resolution carried was, " That to have a class of men whose lives are devoted to research is a national object.
Page lvi - Belfast 1853. Hull 1854. Liverpool... 1855. Glasgow ... 1856. Cheltenham 1857. Dublin 1858. Leeds 1859. Aberdeen... 1860. Oxford 1861. Manchester 1862. Cambridge. 1863. Newcastle . 1864. Bath 1865. Birmingham 1866. Nottingham 1867. Dundee 1868.