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Page xi - 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 may impede its progress.
Page xxvi - Committees for the several Sections before the beginning of the Meeting. It has therefore become necessary, in order to give an opportunity to the Committees of doing justice to the several communications, that each Author should prepare an Abstract of his Memoir, of a length suitable for insertion in the published Transactions of the Association, and...
Page xi - Committee, shall be entitled, in like manner, to become Members of the Association. Persons not belonging to such Institutions shall be elected by the General Committee or Council, to become Life Members of the Association, Annual Subscribers, or Associates for the year, subject to the approval of a General Meeting.
Page 371 - Up to this time the vast Heaven has still ever remained separated from his spouse the Earth. Yet their mutual love still continues ; the soft warm sighs of her loving bosom still ever rise up to him, ascending from the woody mountains and valleys, and men call these mists ; and the vast Heaven, as he mourns through the long nights his separation from his beloved, drops frequent tears upon her bosom, and men seeing these term them dew-drops.
Page 433 - ... in a science dealing with so subtle elements as those of human nature, it is only possible to answer for the final truth of principles, not for the direct success of plans: and that in the best of these last, what can be immediately accomplished is always questionable, and what can be finally accomplished, inconceivable.
Page 375 - Lay aside such idle thoughts, and let us both fearlessly seek whether men are to die or live for ever.
Page 240 - The extrusive movement thus set up is supposed to thrust the ice-cliffs off the land at the rate of a quarter of a mile per annum. These are some of the geographical questions which await settlement. In the geology of this region we have another subject replete with interest. The lofty volcanoes of Victoria Land must present peculiar features. Nowhere else do fire and frost divide the sway so completely.
Page xix - ... animal with young should, whenever possible, be preserved and forwarded to the Director, who will transmit it to the proper authority for record. Another subject which should receive attention is the migration, or seasonal appearance and disappearance of mammals, birds, reptiles and fishes. The next meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science will be held in Adelaide, South Australia, commencing on September 25. The Association has now been in existence since 1888....
Page 100 - These specific solution-volumes are represented as abscissa; in Fig. 2, with the temperatures as ordinates. For the sake of comparison I have placed side by side with it a specific volume and temperature-curve (Fig.
Page 247 - Great advantage to the science of terrestrial magnetism would be derived from a new magnetic survey of the Southern Hemisphere extending from the parallel of 40° S. as far towards the geographical pole as possible." Intimately connected with terrestrial magnetism are the phenomena of auroras. Their nature is very obscure, but quite recently a distinct advance has been made towards discovering some of the laws which regulate them. Thanks to the labours of Dr.