Report of the Annual MeetingJ. Murray., 1895 |
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... obtained from " Quiet " Days 210 SECTIONS 7-8 . - Tables of Diurnal Inequalities for each Month of Year , for ... obtain the Help of Science ? CONTENTS . vii.
... obtained from " Quiet " Days 210 SECTIONS 7-8 . - Tables of Diurnal Inequalities for each Month of Year , for ... obtain the Help of Science ? CONTENTS . vii.
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British Association for the Advancement of Science. How shall Agriculture best obtain the Help of Science ? By Professor R ... obtained , with a View to determining whether other parts of the same Animal remain in the Rock The Collection ...
British Association for the Advancement of Science. How shall Agriculture best obtain the Help of Science ? By Professor R ... obtained , with a View to determining whether other parts of the same Animal remain in the Rock The Collection ...
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... obtained considerable development . But in 1830 , before the introduction of railways , cast iron had been sparingly used in arched bridges for spans of from 160 to 200 feet , and wrought iron had only been applied to large - span iron ...
... obtained considerable development . But in 1830 , before the introduction of railways , cast iron had been sparingly used in arched bridges for spans of from 160 to 200 feet , and wrought iron had only been applied to large - span iron ...
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... obtained photographic curves which afford addi- tional evidence as to the existence of allotropic modifications of ... obtain a material which may render practicable the dreams of Icarus and of Maxim , and for purposes of rapid transit ...
... obtained photographic curves which afford addi- tional evidence as to the existence of allotropic modifications of ... obtain a material which may render practicable the dreams of Icarus and of Maxim , and for purposes of rapid transit ...
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... obtained by other means . The velocity of the shot after it has left the gun is easily ascertained by the Boulangé apparatus . Electricity and photography have been laid under contribution for obtaining records of the flight of ...
... obtained by other means . The velocity of the shot after it has left the gun is easily ascertained by the Boulangé apparatus . Electricity and photography have been laid under contribution for obtaining records of the flight of ...
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Amer Ammonium hydrate Ammonium oxalate anal Ångström annually Arc Sun beach Ben Nevis British Association c.g.s. unit chalk Chem Classen clay cliff coast Colours Committee Corresponding Societies curves daily wave diagrams district disturbance diurnal earthquakes electric erosion Fe Fe Fe feet Fossil Frequency in Vacuo Geol Geological groynes inches inductance Inst instruments Intensity and Character investigations Kew Observatory Liverpool LL.D magnetic mean Meteorological miles millimetres motion movements N. H. Soc Naturalist Nitric acid observations obtained Oscillation Frequency OXYHYDROGEN FLAME pendulum permeance Phenomena Phil photographic Potassium cyanide Previous Measurements Proc Prof Professor R. I. Murchison records Report rock sand scientific Secretary Section seismographs shingle shocks slight Smith Sodium Sodium pyrophosphate stations Sulphuric acid surface Tartaric acid temperature tion Tokio Trans tremors Underground velocity Wave-length Intensity yards Zeits
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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...