Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Band 10

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Seite 313 - of the Palaeozoic Period, with Critical Descriptions of Illustrative Species. Illustrated with 15 Lithograph Plates and numerous Engravings.
Seite 764 - The Electrical Researches of the Honourable Henry Cavendish, FRS Written between 1771 and 1781, Edited from the original manuscripts in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire, KG, by J. CLERK MAXWELL, FRS Demy 8vo. cloth, iSs. Hydrodynamics, a Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Fluid Motion, by HORACE LAMB, MA, Professor of Mathematics in the University of Adelaide.
Seite 762 - On the Right Ascensions of the Equatorial Fundamental Stars, and the Corrections necessary to reduce the Right Ascensions of Different Catalogues to a mean Homogeneous System.
Seite 314 - THE PHILOSOPHY OF Music ; being the substance of a Course of Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in February and March 1877. By William Pole, FRS, FRSE, Mus.
Seite 738 - Annual Report of the Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 1878-1879.
Seite 42 - ... either from the centre to the circumference, or from the circumference to the centre, as the direction of the rotation of the plate was one way or the other.
Seite 637 - Framework," read before the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and published in the Transactions of that Society in 1869. But perhaps the most important of all is his paper "On the Application of Graphic Methods to the Determination of the Efficiency of Machinery," read before the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and published in the Transactions, Vol.
Seite 307 - Annual Report of the Department of Mines. New South Wales, for the year 1875. Sydney, Is7(i. One vol. 4to, pp. 1(17. Mineral Map and General Statistics of New South Wales, Australia.
Seite 328 - The sum of the angles of any triangle can never exceed two right angles ; (2) If the sum of the angles of any one triangle is two right angles, then the sum of the angles in every triangle is two right angles. But independently of the theory of parallels, this is in substance as far as we can go. If we assume that the sum of the angles of any triangle is less than two right angles, then we arrive at the conclusion that this sum depends on the area of the triangle, the defect from two right angles...
Seite 516 - Generally speaking, all the volcanic regions which we know have in the main been areas of elevation, and we would expect the same to hold good in those vast and permanent hollows of the earth which are occupied by the waters of the ocean...

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