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Seite 64 - ... every one ; it may be truly affirmed to be of universal interest, and we strongly recommend it to our readers as a guide, alike indispensable to the housewife as to the pharmaceutical practitioner."— Medical Times. " Essential to the analysts appointed under the new Act. The most recent results are given, and the work is well edited and carefully written.
Seite 161 - AND AGUSTIA MALLEY in the Observatories of his Highness the Maharajah of Travancore, GCSI, in the Years 1852 to 1860. Being Trevandrum Magnetical Observations, Volume I. Discussed and Edited by John Allan Brown, FRS, late Director of the Observatories.
Seite 62 - Philomel, with melody Sing in our sweet lullaby; Lulla. lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla. lullaby: Never harm, Nor spell nor charm, Come our lovely lady nigh; So, good night, with lullaby. Weaving spiders, come not here; Hence, you long-legg'd spinners, hence! Beetles black, approach not near; Worm nor snail, do no offence.
Seite 264 - The prolonged helplessness of the offspring must keep the parents together for longer and longer periods in successive epochs ; and when at last the association is so long kept up that the older children are growing mature while the younger ones still need protection, the family relations begin to become permanent.
Seite 323 - Chemistry, Medicine, Surgery, and the Allied Sciences. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of other Sciences.
Seite 22 - THOSE names of copper, silver, and gold ' weights, which are commonly used among men, for ' the purpose of worldly business, I will now compre' hensively explain. 132. ' The very small mote, which may be discerned ' in a sun-beam passing through a lattice, is the least ' visible quantity, and men call it a trasarenu : 133.
Seite 40 - Thomson's idea that what we call matter may consist of the rotating portions of a perfect fluid, which continuously fills space. This definition involves the necessity of a creative act for the production or destruction of the smallest portion of matter, because rotation can only be produced or destroyed by us in a fluid in virtue of its viscosity (or internal friction), and in a perfect fluid there is nothing of the kind. 134.
Seite 186 - Description des étoiles fixes composée au milieu du dixième siècle de notre ère par l'astronome persan AbJ-al-Kahman al Sûfi.
Seite 64 - On one occasion, in order to see what he would do, I purposely laughed immoderately every time he failed. It so happened that he did so several times in succession — partly, I believe, in consequence of my laughing— and eventually he became so distressed that he positively pretended to catch the fly, going through all the appropriate actions with his lips and tongue...
Seite 296 - I am still obliged to give the pressures in atmospheres, as indicated by an air or hydrogen manometer, without attempting for the present to apply the corrections required to reduce them to true pressures. The only satisfactory method of obtaining these corrections would be to compare the indications of the manometer with those of a column of mercury of the requisite length; and this method, as is known, was employed by Arago and Dulong, and afterwards in his classical researches by Regnault, for...