Report of the Annual Meeting, Band 75,Teil 1905

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General Meetings
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Changes of Climate as shown by Movements of the Snowline and Upper
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Corresponding Societies Committee Report of the Committee consisting
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Catalogue of the more important Papers published by the Corresponding
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Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis Report of the Committee consist
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Seismological Investigations Tenth Report of the Committee consisting
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Experiments for Improving the Construction of Practical Standards
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The Transformation of Aromatic Nitroamines and Allied Substances and
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The Study of HydroAromatic Substances Report of the Committee con
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Investigation of the Fossiliferous Drift Deposits at Kirmington Lincolnshire
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The Movements of Underground Waters of Northwest Yorkshire Sixth
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Occupation of a Table at the Zoological Station at Naples Report
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Mr O H LATTER Professor E A MINCHIN Dr P C MITCHELL Professor
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Age of Stone Circles Interim Report of the Committee consisting of
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Anthropometric Investigations among the Native Troops of the Egyptian
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Anthropological Photographs Interim Report of the Committee consisting
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Botanical Photographs Report of the Committee consisting of Professor
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Apioidal Binary Starsystems By ALEXANDER W ROBERTS D Sc F R A S
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Star Streaming By Professor J C KAPTEYN
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Recent Developments in Agricultural Science By A D HALL M A
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Habits and Peculiarities of some South African Ticks By CHAS P LOUNS
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Report on an Investigation of the Batoka Gorge and Adjacent Portions of
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Report on Ruins in Rhodesia By DAVID RANDALLMACIVER
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SECTION A MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE
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On Instruments for Stereoscopic Surveying By H G FOURCADE
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THURSDAY AUGUST 17
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On the Theory of Algol Variables By J H JEANS
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TUESDAY AUGUST 29
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The Distances of the Nearer Fixed Stars By R T A INNES
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upon our Views of Heat and Radiation By M BLIEDEN M D
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Seite 494 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Seite xxv - 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.
Seite 17 - Kelvin has shown that if a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth the molecules of water would be of a size intermediate between that of a cricket ball and of a marble.
Seite 314 - For, if the wit be too dull, they sharpen it ; if too wandering, they fix it ; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it.
Seite xxviii - If it should be inconvenient to the Author that his paper should be read on any particular days, he is requested to send information thereof to the Secretaries in a separate note.
Seite 233 - ... parallel of south latitude; it runs eastward along that parallel to the point of its intersection by the...
Seite 607 - I suppose, have thus suffered; and if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.
Seite 29 - A theory, reposing on vene cautce, which brings into quantitative correlation the lengths of the present day and month, the obliquity of the ecliptic, and the inclination and eccentricity of the lunar orbit, must, I think, have strong claims to acceptance.
Seite 17 - The molecule system probably presents some sort of analogy with that of a triple star ; the three atoms, replacing the stars, revolving about one another in some sort of dance which cannot be exactly described. I doubt whether it is possible to say how large a part of the space occupied by the whole molecule is occupied by the atoms ; but perhaps the atoms bear to the molecule some such relationship as the molecule to the drop of water referred to. Finally, the corpuscles may stand to the atom in...
Seite 504 - Altogether it distributes about 2,275 cubic feet per second, and irrigates therewith about 141,000 acres, of which rice is the most important crop. The Association has 14,000 members and controls 9,600 miles of distributary channels. In each parish is a council, or, as it is called, a consorzio, composed of all landowners who take water. Each consorzio elects one or two deputies, who form a sort of water parliament. The deputies are elected for three years, and receive no salary. The assembly of...

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