Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Band 39

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Report of a Committee appointed at the Nottingham Meeting 1866
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Report of a Committee consisting of Mr C W MERRIFIELD F R S
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Report of the Committee appointed to consider and report how
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Preliminary Report of the Committee appointed for the determination
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On the Chemical Reactions of Light discovered by Professor Tyndall
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On Fossils obtained at Kiltorkan Quarry Co Kilkenny By WM HEL
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Report of the Committee on the Chemical Nature of Cast Iron
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Report on the practicability of establishing A Close Time for
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Second Report on the British Fossil Corals By Dr P MARTIN Duncan
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The Rev J MCANNs Philosophical Objection to Darwinism or Evolution
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Report of the Committee appointed to get cut and prepared Sections
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Fifth Report of the Committee for Exploring Kents Cavern Devon
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Report of the Committee on the Connexion between Chemical Consti
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On Emission Absorption and Reflection of Obscure Heat By Prof
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Report on the best means of providing for a uniformity of Weights
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Supplement to the Second Report of the Committee on the Condensation
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Report on Mineral Veins in Carboniferous Limestone and their Organic
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Notes on the Foraminifera of Mineral Veins and the adjacent Strata
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Interim Report of the Committee on the Laws of the Flow and Action
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On the Influence of Form considered in Relation to the Strength
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Professor G C FOSTERS Description of some Lectureexperiments in Elec
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On the Penetration of Armourplates with long Shells of large capacity
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MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS
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Mr W K CLIFFORD on the Theory of Distance 666
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Mr W R BIRT on Secular Variations of Lunar Tints and Spots and Shadows
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Mr T DAVIDSONs Notes on the Brachiopoda hitherto obtained from
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Mr EDWARD HULL on the Source of the Quartzose Conglomerate of the
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Mr H WOODWARD on Freshwater Deposits of the Valley of the River Lea
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Mr R BROWN on the Mammalian Fauna of Northwest America 109
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Letter from Prof WYVILLE THOMSON to the Rev A M NORMAN on
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on the Human Mesocolon illustrated by that of the Wombat 120
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Dr J D HEATONs further Observations on Dendroidal Forms assumed
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Sir DUNCAN GIBB on the Paucity of Aboriginal Monuments in Canada
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Mr T S PRIDEAUX on the occasional definition of the Convolutions of
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BEKE on a Canal to unite the Upper Nile and Red Sea 159
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Captain R C MAYNE on the Straits of Magellan and the Passages leading
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Captain T P WHITES Notice of a Bifurcate Stream at Glen Lednoch Head
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Address by the Right Honourable Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE Bart C B
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Mr WILLIAM BOTLEY on the Condition of the Agricultural Labourer 179
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Mr FRANK P FELLOWES on our National Accounts 190
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Mr R MAIN on Naval Finance 196
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Mr JOHN FREDERIC BATEMAN and JULIAN JOHN REVYs Description of
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Mr THOMAS LOGIN on Roads and Railways in Northern India as affected
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Mr G J SYMONS on a Method of determining the true amount of Evapora
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Prof LEONE LEVI on the Economical Condition and Wages of the Agricultural
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Mr JAMES THOMSON on new forms of Pteroplax and other Carboniferous
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Mr ROGERS FIELD and G J SYMONS on the Determination of the Real Amount
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Mr H WOODWARD on the Occurrence of Stylonurus in the Cornstone of Here
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Seite xlii - 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.
Seite 169 - L'honneur est comme une île escarpée et sans bords : On n'y peut plus rentrer dès qu'on en est dehors.
Seite 315 - Commission appointed to inquire into the best mode of distributing the Sewage of Towns, and applying it to beneficial and profitable uses.
Seite 143 - Whom men could not honour in presence, because they dwelt far off, they took the counterfeit of his visage from far, and made an express image of a king whom they honoured, to the end that by this their forwardness they might flatter him that was absent, as if he were present.
Seite 137 - I have lived with communities of savages in South America and in the East, who have no laws or law courts but the public opinion of the village freely expressed. Each man scrupulously respects the rights of his fellow, and any infraction of those rights rarely or never takes place. In such a community, all are nearly equal.
Seite 2 - is that study which knows nothing of observation, nothing of induction, nothing of experiment, nothing of causation.
Seite 253 - Tide Observations, under the direction of the Rev. W. Whewell ; — WS Harris, upon the working of Whewell's Anemometer at Plymouth during the past year ;— Report of a Committee appointed for the purpose of superintending the scientific co-operation of the British Association in the System of Simultaneous Observations in Terrestrial Magnetism and Meteorology ; — Reports of Committees appointed to provide Meteorological Instruments for the use of M.
Seite 137 - ... rights rarely or never takes place. In such a community, all are nearly equal. There are none of those wide distinctions, of education and ignorance, wealth and poverty, master and servant, which are the product of our civilization; there is none of that wide-spread division of...
Seite civ - ... :'Admitting to the full as highly probable, though not completely demonstrated, the applicability to living beings of the laws which have been ascertained with reference to dead matter, I feel constrained at the same time to admit the existence of a mysterious something lying beyond, a something...
Seite 222 - ... as Liebreich also shows, is not preceded by the stage of excitement so well known when chloroform is administered by inhalation. The narcotic condition is due to the chloroform liberated from the hydrate in the organism, and all the narcotic effects are identical with those caused by chloroform. In birds the hydrate produces vomiting in the same manner, and to as full a degree, as does chloroform itself. The sleep produced by hydrate of chloral is prolonged, and during the sleep there is a period...

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