Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Volume 65J. Murray, 1895 |
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Page 7 - 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 697 - 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 xxxvii - 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 xliii - Presidents elect. 5. The past and present General Treasurers, General and Assistant General Secretaries. 6. The Local Treasurer and Secretaries for the ensuing Meeting. 7. Ordinary Members. (2) The Ordinary Members shall be elected annually from the General Committee. ( 3 ) There shall be not more than twenty-five Ordinary Members, of 1 Passed by the General Committee at Belfast, 1874.
Page xxxviii - ... may be offered by their Members for the advancement of Science. They are specially requested to review the recommendations adopted at preceding Meetings, as published in the volumes of the Association and the communications made to the Sections at this Meeting, for the purposes of selecting definite points of research to which individual or combined exertion may be usefully directed, and branches of knowledge on the state...
Page xxxviii - Committee (vide p. xxix), and will receive, on application to the Treasurer in the Reception Room, Tickets entitling: them to attend its Meetings. The Committees will take into consideration any suggestions which may be offered by their Members for the advancement of Science. They are specially requested to review the recommendations adopted at preceding Meetings, as published in the volumes of the Association, and the communications made to the Sections at this Meeting, for the purposes of...
Page lxviii - Prof. H. Marshall Ward. FE Beddard, Prof. WA Herdman, Dr. SJ Hickson, G. Murray, Prof. WN Parker, H. Wager. G. Brook, Prof. WA Herdman, G. Murray, W. Stirling, H. Wager. GC Bonrne, JB Farmer, Prof.
Page xxxiv - The Officers and Members of the Councils, or Managing Committees, of Philosophical Institutions shall be entitled, in like manner, to become Members of the Association. All Members of a Philosophical Institution recommended by its Council or Managing Committee shall be entitled, in like manner, to become Members of the Association. Persons not belonging to such Institutions...
Page 702 - ... 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 513 - It is believed that most of the words — as distinguished from their pronunciation — in use have been recorded in the publications of the English Dialect Society or elsewhere. But it is better to record them again than to leave them unrecorded. Nor should it be forgotten in this connection that a word of ten bears a different shade of meaning in one place from what it bears in another. In recording any words, care should therefore be taken to seize not only the exact sound, but the exact signification,...