Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln, 1850 |
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... PROFESSORS AGASSIZ , HORSFORD , and WYMAN , of Harvard University , and they have the promise in future , from many scientific gentlemen , of articles not pre- viously published elsewhere . They have not confined themselves to an ...
... PROFESSORS AGASSIZ , HORSFORD , and WYMAN , of Harvard University , and they have the promise in future , from many scientific gentlemen , of articles not pre- viously published elsewhere . They have not confined themselves to an ...
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... Professors Agassiz , Horsford , and Wyman , and Dr. A. A. Gould , whose counsel and assist- ance have greatly aided us in our labors . To Messrs . Fol- som and Fairbanks , of the Boston Athenæum , and Messrs ... PROFESSOR viii PREFACE .
... Professors Agassiz , Horsford , and Wyman , and Dr. A. A. Gould , whose counsel and assist- ance have greatly aided us in our labors . To Messrs . Fol- som and Fairbanks , of the Boston Athenæum , and Messrs ... PROFESSOR viii PREFACE .
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... PROFESSOR AGASSIZ is a native of Switzerland , and was born in the Canton of Friburg , in the town of Mottier , on the 28th of May , 1807. His ancestors were of French origin , and were among those Protestants whom the revocation of the ...
... PROFESSOR AGASSIZ is a native of Switzerland , and was born in the Canton of Friburg , in the town of Mottier , on the 28th of May , 1807. His ancestors were of French origin , and were among those Protestants whom the revocation of the ...
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... Professor of Zoology and Geology , which he still holds . Since his arrival in this country , Professor Agassiz has presented a large number of communications to the American Academy and other scientific bodies , and has pub- lished ...
... Professor of Zoology and Geology , which he still holds . Since his arrival in this country , Professor Agassiz has presented a large number of communications to the American Academy and other scientific bodies , and has pub- lished ...
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... Professor Otto , about fourteen years ago , but it was not fully explained and brought to public notice till 1845. It is the substance called gun - cotton by Professor Schon- bein , and xyloidine by M. Pelouze . Considering the very ...
... Professor Otto , about fourteen years ago , but it was not fully explained and brought to public notice till 1845. It is the substance called gun - cotton by Professor Schon- bein , and xyloidine by M. Pelouze . Considering the very ...
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Page 355 - Mayne, like a shewer from the South to the North, and from the North to the West, and then downe to the South againe.
Page 237 - We found the pillar to be of solid salt, capped with carbonate of lime, cylindrical in front and pyramidal behind. The upper or rounded part is about forty feet high, resting on a kind of oval pedestal, from forty to sixty feet above the level of the sea. It slightly decreases in size upwards, crumbles at the top, and is one entire mass of crystallization.
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Page 147 - Sometimes it will be more convenient to arrange the two charts in symmetrical positions, one to the left and the other to the right of the subject's median plane, and with a slight inclination toward this plane.