Report of the Annual MeetingJ. Murray., 1895 |
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... Daily Tilting ( i ) Extract from Journal of Records obtained in 1894 .............................. ..... 96 99 ' k ) Movements of Water in a Well ....... 104 ( 7 ) An Experiment on Evaporation ... 106 ( m ) Effects produced by emptying ...
... Daily Tilting ( i ) Extract from Journal of Records obtained in 1894 .............................. ..... 96 99 ' k ) Movements of Water in a Well ....... 104 ( 7 ) An Experiment on Evaporation ... 106 ( m ) Effects produced by emptying ...
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... daily in the Sectional Minute- Book , and a copy forwarded without delay to the Printer , who is charged with publishing the same before 8 A.M. on the next day in the Journal of the Sectional Proceedings . Business of the Sectional ...
... daily in the Sectional Minute- Book , and a copy forwarded without delay to the Printer , who is charged with publishing the same before 8 A.M. on the next day in the Journal of the Sectional Proceedings . Business of the Sectional ...
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... daily in the Minute - Book , which should be confirmed at the next meeting of the Committee . Lists of the Reports and Memoirs read in the Sections are to be entered in the Minute - Book daily , which , with all Memoirs and Copies or ...
... daily in the Minute - Book , which should be confirmed at the next meeting of the Committee . Lists of the Reports and Memoirs read in the Sections are to be entered in the Minute - Book daily , which , with all Memoirs and Copies or ...
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... daily obtaining a wider extension . But probably the application of electricity which is tending to pro- duce the greatest change in our mental , and even material condition , is the electric telegraph and its sister , the telephone ...
... daily obtaining a wider extension . But probably the application of electricity which is tending to pro- duce the greatest change in our mental , and even material condition , is the electric telegraph and its sister , the telephone ...
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... daily use throughout the world . The British Islands have more than 3,000 , and India and the United States have ... daily weather map , but that was not the case , for in the Great Exhibition of 1851 the Electric Telegraph Company sold ...
... daily use throughout the world . The British Islands have more than 3,000 , and India and the United States have ... daily weather map , but that was not the case , for in the Great Exhibition of 1851 the Electric Telegraph Company sold ...
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Page 752 - ... the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic in states.
Page 8 - 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 impede its progress.
Page xxvii - SUBSCRIBERS shall pay, on admission, the sum of Two Pounds, and in each following year the sum of One Pound. They shall receive gratuitously the Reports of the Association for the year of their admission and for the years in which they continue to pay without intermission their Annual Subscription. By omitting to pay this subscription in any particular year, Members of this class (Annual Subscribers) lose for that and XXU BULKS OF THE ASSOCIATION.
Page 687 - False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness...
Page xxx - 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 687 - ... Collected plants and insects, knows not half the halo of interest which lanes and hedgerows can assume. Whoever has not sought for fossils, has little idea of the poetical associations that surround the places where imbedded treasures were found. Whoever at the seaside has not had a microscope and aquarium, has yet to learn what the highest pleasures of the seaside are.
Page xxix - Notice to Contributors of Memoirs. — Authors are reminded that, under an arrangement dating from 1871, the acceptance of Memoirs, and the days on which they are to be read, are now, as far as possible, determined by Organizing Committees for the several Sections before the beginning of the Meeting.
Page 356 - For the purpose of inquiring into the rate of erosion of the sea-coasts of England and Wales, and the influence of the artificial abstraction of shingle or other material in that action.
Page xxxv - Societies.* 1. Any Society is eligible to be placed on the List of Corresponding Societies of the Association which undertakes local scientific investigations, and publishes notices of the results.
Page xxxv - Association, a schedule, properly filled up, which will be issued by him, ar.d which will contain a request for such particulars with regard to the Society as may be required for the information of the Corresponding Societies Committee. 5. There shall be inserted in the Annual Report of the Association a list, in an abbreviated form, of the papers published by the Corresponding Societies during the past twelve months which contain the results of the local scientific work conducted by them...