Report of the ... and ... Meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Volume 65, Part 1895J. Murray, 1895 |
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... importance of uniformity in the record of scientific facts , as well as the necessity for an easy method of comparing ... important , circumstances have hitherto been neglected in the formation of such scales , without an attention to ...
... importance of uniformity in the record of scientific facts , as well as the necessity for an easy method of comparing ... important , circumstances have hitherto been neglected in the formation of such scales , without an attention to ...
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... important part . It has enabled the passage of a shot to be followed from its seat in the gun to its destination . In the gun , by means of electrical contacts arranged in the bore , a time- curve of the passage of the shot can be ...
... important part . It has enabled the passage of a shot to be followed from its seat in the gun to its destination . In the gun , by means of electrical contacts arranged in the bore , a time- curve of the passage of the shot can be ...
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... important , it gives at the same time material assist- ance to the investigators whom it thus brings together . The reports on the state of science at the present time , as they appear in the last volume of our Proceedings , occupy the ...
... important , it gives at the same time material assist- ance to the investigators whom it thus brings together . The reports on the state of science at the present time , as they appear in the last volume of our Proceedings , occupy the ...
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... or nine parts per annum . Transactions , annually . Marlborough College . E. Meyrick 300 1s . 6d . 3s . and 5s . Report , annually . Index of the more important Papers , and especially those CORRESPONDING SOCIETIES . 53.
... or nine parts per annum . Transactions , annually . Marlborough College . E. Meyrick 300 1s . 6d . 3s . and 5s . Report , annually . Index of the more important Papers , and especially those CORRESPONDING SOCIETIES . 53.
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... Important Sanitary Problems Presidential Address Technical Education in Glasgow and the West of Scotland : a Retrospect and a Prospect Compulsory Purchase as a Substitute for the Revision of Judicial Rents Ferguson , Prof. J. On the ...
... Important Sanitary Problems Presidential Address Technical Education in Glasgow and the West of Scotland : a Retrospect and a Prospect Compulsory Purchase as a Substitute for the Revision of Judicial Rents Ferguson , Prof. J. On the ...
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Page xxvii - 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 760 - ... 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 821 - I look with confidence to the future, to young and rising naturalists, who will be able to view both sides of the question with impartiality.
Page 817 - Beagle,' as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts, as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers.
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 682 - 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 503 - Carmarthenshire mountains and married a youth in the neighbourhood, and who afterwards, offended with her husband, quitted his dwelling for ever and returned to her watery abode. In the Shetland Islands the tale is told of a seal which cast its skin and appeared as a woman. A man of the Isle of Unst possessed himself of the seal-skin and thus captured and married her. She lived with him until one day she recovered the skin, resumed her seal-shape and plunged into the sea, never more to return. In...
Page xxx - 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 that he should send it, together with the original Memoir, by book-post, on or before addressed thus— 'General Secretaries, British Association, 22 Albemarle Street, London, \V.
Page 504 - 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,...
Page 495 - For these and such other villages and places as may appear to be suitable, the Committee propose to record — (1) Physical types of the inhabitants ; (2) Current traditions and beliefs ; (3) Peculiarities of dialect ; (4) Monuments and other remains of ancient culture ; and (5) Historical evidence as to continuity of race. »% All communications should be addressed to ' THE SECRETARY OF THE ETHNOGRAPHIC SURVEY, British Association, Burlington House, London, W.