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Seite 43 - April, 1877 ; and Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, Vienna, in August, 1877. He was Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, and of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Seite xxii - THE Treasurer shall receive all sums of Money due to the Society, transact all its pecuniary affairs, and keep a regular account of receipts and payments, in the mode which may seem most proper to the Council. XI. OF THE DUTIES OF THE SECRETARIES. 1. THE Secretaries shall have the management of the correspondence of the Society and Council. 2. They shall attend all Meetings of the Society and Council, take minutes of their proceedings, and enter them in books provided for that purpose; they shall...
Seite xxi - OF SPECIAL GENERAL MEETINGS. 1. THE Council may at any time call a Special General Meeting of the Society. 2. At least three days...
Seite xvii - OF THE CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. THE CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY was established November the 15th, 1819, for the purpose of promoting scientific enquiries, and of facilitating the communication of facts connected with the advancement of Philosophy and Natural History ; and became a Body Corporate by virtue of a CHARTER granted by His late Majesty King WILLIAM the Fourth.
Seite xxii - THE DUTIES OF THE PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENTS. 1. THE duty of the President shall be, to take the Chair at the Meetings of the Society and Council ; to regulate and keep order in all their proceedings; to state questions and propositions to the Meeting ; to report the result of ballots ; and to carry into effect the regulations of the Society. 2. In the absence of the President, the Chair shall be taken by one of the Members of the Council in the following order; viz.
Seite 270 - These facts, I think, depend partly on the tenuity of hydrogen gas, and partly on the rapidity with which the pulsations of sound are conveyed through this very elastic medium. The celerity of the transmission of sound through common air is the same in every degree of rarefaction; but in hydrogen gas it is more than three times swifter. The bell therefore strikes a medium which is at once thin and fugacious; fewer particles are struck, and these sooner escape from the action of the stroke.
Seite 269 - The most remarkable fact is, that the admixture of hydrogen gas with atmospheric air has a predominant influence in blunting or stifling sound. If one half of the volume of atmospheric air be extracted, and hydrogen gas be admitted to fill the vacant space, the sound will now become scarcely audible.
Seite 1 - IN the Course of Lectures which I deliver in the University of Cambridge, I exhibit models of almost all the more important machines which are in use in the manufactures of Britain. The number of these is so large, that had each of them been permanent and separate, on a scale requisite to make them work...
Seite 348 - YY covered by a thick coating of lithic, which is occasionally broken by a layer of the triple crystals, and the external surface is principally composed of the fusible Calculus. — Its present weight, after being sawn, is 32 oz. 7 dr.; the specific gravity 1.756, which after being two days in water became 1.768.
Seite 175 - Lastly, the bones of species which are apparently the same with those that still exist alive, are never found except in the very latest alluvial depositions, or those which are either formed on i the sides of rivers, or on the bottoms of ancient lakes or marshes...