Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 89. köide

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Page 343 - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page v - ... 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 307 - I MUST go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by; And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking, And a gray mist on the sea's face, and a gray dawn breaking.
Page 240 - ... individual ownership, unless it is seriously believed that production would increase greatly if the State were sole employer. The wealth of the country, however, divided, was insufficient before the war for a general high standard ; there is nothing as yet to show that it will be greater in the future. Hence the most important task — more important immediately than the improvement of the division of the product — incumbent on employers and workmen alike, is to increase the national product,...
Page 122 - Rule 2. In all cases a new genus, or subgenus, must be characterized and if it is based on an undescribed species the two must be characterized separately. Rule 3. No description of a species, subspecies, variety, or form will be published unless it is accompanied by a statement which includes the following information, where known: (1) the...
Page 15 - Service was 50, while during the last twelve months of the war the average deliveries were 2,700 per month. So far as aero-engines are concerned, our position in 1914 was by no means satisfactory. We depended for a large proportion of our supplies on other countries. In the Aerial Derby of 1913, of the eleven machines that started, not one had a British engine. By the end of the war, however, British aero-engines had gained the foremost place in design and manufacture, and were well up to requirements...
Page 5 - How obvious and how simple," but many of us here know how difficult is any step of advance when shrouded by unknown surroundings, and we can well appreciate the courage and the amount of investigation necessary before James "Watt thought himself justified in trying the separate condenser. But to us now, and to the youngest student who knows the laws of steam as formulated by Carnot, Joule and Kelvin, the separate condenser is the obvious means of constructing an economical condensing engine.
Page 4 - Watt steam engine, which enabled her to become the first country to develop her resources in coal, and led to the establishment of her great manufactures and her immense mercantile marine. The laws of steam which James Watt discovered are simply these: That the latent heat is nearly constant for different pressures within the ranges used in steam engines, and that, consequently, the greater the steam pressure and the greater the range of expansion the greater will be the work obtained from a given...
Page xviii - Any Society formed for the purpose of encouraging the study of Science, which has existed for three years and numbers not fewer than fifty members, may become a Society associated with the British Association.
Page lxvii - 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.

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