Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 38. köideJ. Murray, 1869 |
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... Fluids ... Report on the Natural Products imported into Scotland 1859 . Maintaining the Establishment at 00530 0 0 0 2 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 £ 618 18 2 Vitality of Seeds Conduction of Heat Kew Observatory 0 Dredging near Dublin Irish Tunicata ...
... Fluids ... Report on the Natural Products imported into Scotland 1859 . Maintaining the Establishment at 00530 0 0 0 2 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 £ 618 18 2 Vitality of Seeds Conduction of Heat Kew Observatory 0 Dredging near Dublin Irish Tunicata ...
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... fluids , others gases , and still others assigning to them far - fetched uses , of a wholly different nature . By a ... fluid , but that they are intimately connected with the formation of wood . He further investigates the nature of ...
... fluids , others gases , and still others assigning to them far - fetched uses , of a wholly different nature . By a ... fluid , but that they are intimately connected with the formation of wood . He further investigates the nature of ...
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... fluid cast metal and the cinder , the silicon contained in the iron is brought into intimate contact with metallic oxide , and is rapidly attacked , being found afterwards in the cinder in the form of silicic acid ( combined with oxide ...
... fluid cast metal and the cinder , the silicon contained in the iron is brought into intimate contact with metallic oxide , and is rapidly attacked , being found afterwards in the cinder in the form of silicic acid ( combined with oxide ...
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... fluid cast metal , it being generally supposed that metallic silicon is produced under such circumstances by the reducing action of the carbon in the metal upon the silica or silicates present . The cast metal employed in this ...
... fluid cast metal , it being generally supposed that metallic silicon is produced under such circumstances by the reducing action of the carbon in the metal upon the silica or silicates present . The cast metal employed in this ...
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... fluid oxide of iron present , and that an equivalent amount of metallic iron is reduced and added to the bath , which gain , however , is generally and unnecessarily lost again in the subsequent stages of the process . The relative ...
... fluid oxide of iron present , and that an equivalent amount of metallic iron is reduced and added to the bath , which gain , however , is generally and unnecessarily lost again in the subsequent stages of the process . The relative ...
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1st mag 2nd mag acid Ammonites amount of bile animal antennæ appears Balta Balta Sound Bate beds bile Bile Bile bile secreted biliary secretion Bressay Sound bright Brit British Busk calice calomel carbon Chalk Chillesford coast colour comet Committee corals Crag crater deposit dredged dry food Duncan Eocene fathoms fauna feet fluid bile Forbes Fossil G. O. Sars genus given gnathopods grains grammes grms Haaf height Hipparchus inches iron Jules Haime length light lines Linn Magnus Bay margin means meteors miles nearly Norman observations Observatory obtained p.m. Ibid pereiopods period photogram portion present produced Prof Professor quantity Radiant remarkable Report salts septa setæ Shetland Skerries sodium solar species specimens spectrum spines Stalagmite stars surface Table temperature tide tion Unst uropods White
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Page xvii - 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 19 - Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of...
Page 18 - ... and by the application of purely mechanical principles demonstrate that the cycle must end, as it is seen to end, in the reproduction of forms like that with which it began. A similar necessity rules here to that which rules the planets in their circuits round the sun.
Page 18 - And now let us pass from what we are accustomed to regard as a dead mineral to a living grain of corn. When it is examined by polarized light, chromatic phenomena similar to those noticed in crystals are observed.
Page 18 - But I must go still further, and affirm that in the eye of science the animal body is just as much the product of molecular force as the stalk and ear of corn, or as the crystal of salt or sugar.
Page 19 - The chasm between the two classes of phenomena would still remain intellectually impassable. Let the consciousness of love, for example, be associated with a right-handed spiral motion of the molecules of the brain, and the consciousness of hate with a left-handed spiral motion. We should then know, when we love, that the motion is in one direction, and, when we hate, that the motion is in the other; but the ' WHY ?' would remain as unanswerable as before.
Page 19 - Were our minds and senses so expanded, strengthened, and illuminated as to enable us to see and feel the very molecules of the brain ; were we capable of following all their motions, all their groupings, all their electric discharges, if such there be ; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling, we should be as far as ever from the solution of the problem, " How are these physical processes connected with the facts of consciousness ? " The chasm between...
Page 18 - ... which are also to be regarded as a kind of vibratory motion. And as the motion of common heat with which the grain and the substances surrounding it were first endowed, enabled the grain and these substances to exercise their...
Page 20 - That may or may not be the case ; but even if we knew it to be the case, the knowledge would not lighten our darkness. On both sides of the zone here assigned to the materialist he is equally helpless. If you ask him whence is this
Page lxxiii - To matter or to force The All is not confined ; Beside the law of things Is set the law of mind ; One speaks in rock and star, And one within the brain, In unison at times, And then apart again ; And both in one have brought us hither That we may know our whence and whither. The sequences of law We learn through mind alone...