Report of the Annual MeetingJ. Murray., 1877 |
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... similar in composition and properties to the iron usually diffused in meteoric stones , have been found here and there on the surface of the earth , some of large size , as one described by Pallas , which weighed about two thirds of a ...
... similar in composition and properties to the iron usually diffused in meteoric stones , have been found here and there on the surface of the earth , some of large size , as one described by Pallas , which weighed about two thirds of a ...
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... similar objects , but on a larger scale , is in course of erection , under the guidance of M. Janssen , at Fontenay in France , and others are springing up or already exist in Germany and Italy . It is earnestly to be hoped that this ...
... similar objects , but on a larger scale , is in course of erection , under the guidance of M. Janssen , at Fontenay in France , and others are springing up or already exist in Germany and Italy . It is earnestly to be hoped that this ...
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... similar proposal for the encouragement of research in France . I will not attempt to discuss the subject as a national question , the more so as after having given the proposal the most careful consideration in my power , and turned it ...
... similar proposal for the encouragement of research in France . I will not attempt to discuss the subject as a national question , the more so as after having given the proposal the most careful consideration in my power , and turned it ...
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... similar efforts to those I have been advocating , undertaken by a neighbouring country when on the verge of ruin , and steadily pursued by the same country in the climax of its prosperity . " The University of Berlin , " to use the ...
... similar efforts to those I have been advocating , undertaken by a neighbouring country when on the verge of ruin , and steadily pursued by the same country in the climax of its prosperity . " The University of Berlin , " to use the ...
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... similar in principle to Euclid's , but simplified by its limitation to commensu- rables . The Syllabus indicates a few of the more important general properties of proportion which ought to be proved by one or other of these methods ...
... similar in principle to Euclid's , but simplified by its limitation to commensu- rables . The Syllabus indicates a few of the more important general properties of proportion which ought to be proved by one or other of these methods ...
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