Report of the Annual MeetingJ. Murray., 1877 |
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... means of which from fifty to sixty images of the edge of the sun could be taken at short intervals during the critical ... mean distance of the carth from the sun was long supposed to have been fixed within a very small limit of error at ...
... means of which from fifty to sixty images of the edge of the sun could be taken at short intervals during the critical ... mean distance of the carth from the sun was long supposed to have been fixed within a very small limit of error at ...
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... mean velocity of the wind is greatest in the S.S.W. octant and least in the opposite one , and that the amount of wind attains a maximum in January , after which it steadily decreases ,, with one slight exception , till July ...
... mean velocity of the wind is greatest in the S.S.W. octant and least in the opposite one , and that the amount of wind attains a maximum in January , after which it steadily decreases ,, with one slight exception , till July ...
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... mean time may I venture to suggest that in many localities the waste products of the furnace might be carried off to a distance from the busy human hive by a few horizontal flues of large dimensions , terminating in lofty chimneys on a ...
... mean time may I venture to suggest that in many localities the waste products of the furnace might be carried off to a distance from the busy human hive by a few horizontal flues of large dimensions , terminating in lofty chimneys on a ...
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... mean gradient of about 1 in 7 ; whilst the Limestone Floor was inclined in the same direction at a higher mean gradient and with still greater irregularity . The discoveries in this branch of the Cavern were neither 2 REPORT 1876 .
... mean gradient of about 1 in 7 ; whilst the Limestone Floor was inclined in the same direction at a higher mean gradient and with still greater irregularity . The discoveries in this branch of the Cavern were neither 2 REPORT 1876 .
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... mean diameter . Second , a layer of Cave - earth , rarely amounting to more than a foot in depth , and sometimes to not more than a few inches , whilst it occasionally reached as much as 2 feet . Third . Though it may be doubted whether ...
... mean diameter . Second , a layer of Cave - earth , rarely amounting to more than a foot in depth , and sometimes to not more than a few inches , whilst it occasionally reached as much as 2 feet . Third . Though it may be doubted whether ...
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