Pioneers of Science in America: Sketches of Their Lives and Scientific WorkWilliam Jay Youmans D. Appleton, 1896 - 508 Seiten |
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Academy of Natural afterward American Philosophical Society Amos Eaton appointed Asa Gray astronomical attention Audubon Barton Bartram became birds Bond Boston botanist botany Carolina chemistry collection College Dana daughter death Denison Olmsted descriptions died discovery early Eaton elected England Europe expedition experiments explorations father Flora Franklin friends geological geologist honour Hosack hundred ical Indians institution interest invention Isaac Lea Journal of Science knowledge labours lectures Lesueur letters married memoir ment mineralogy Mitchell Morse mountain Muhlenberg natural history Natural Sciences naturalist North North Carolina Nuttall observations observatory obtained Olmsted paper Pennsylvania Philadelphia plants President Prof Professor published Rafinesque received remarkable returned Rittenhouse River says Schweinitz scientific Silliman soon species specimens survey telegraph theory Thomas Nuttall tion took Torrey Troost United visited volume William William Bartram WILLIAM CRANCH BOND William Maclure wrote Yale College York young
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Seite 4 - The institution soon manifested its utility, was imitated by other towns, and in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fashionable; and our people, having no...
Seite 343 - CATLIN'S ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, written during Eight Years of Travel and Adventure among the Wildest and most Remarkable Tribes now existing. Containing 360 Coloured Engravings from the Author's original Paintings.
Seite 97 - I bade adieu to Louisville, to which place I had four letters of recommendation, and was taught to expect much of everything there; but neither received one act of civility from those to whom I was recommended, one subscriber, nor one new bird; though I delivered my letters, ransacked the woods repeatedly, and visited all the characters likely to subscribe. Science or literature has not one friend in this place.
Seite 353 - I ever read with attention. It opened to me a new world of thought and enjoyment; invested things before almost unnoticed with the highest interest ; fixed my mind on the study of nature, and caused me to resolve at the time of reading it that I would immediately commence to devote my life to the acquisition of knowledge.
Seite 236 - If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.
Seite 394 - Figures and Descriptions of most of those Mosses peculiar to Eastern North America which have not been heretofore figured," and forms an imperial octavo volume, with one hundred and twenty-nine copperplates, published in 1864.
Seite 6 - ... the public gift, which enabled us to carry the design into execution. A convenient and handsome building was soon erected ; the institution has by constant experience been found useful, and flourishes to this day ; and I do not remember any of my political manoeuvres, the success of which gave me at the time more pleasure, or wherein, after thinking of it, I more easily excused myself for having made some use of cunning.
Seite 2 - At his table he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve the minds of his children.
Seite 327 - A Flora of the Northern and Middle United States, or a Systematic Arrangement and Description of all the Plants heretofore discovered in the United States north of Virginia.
Seite 442 - As an evidence of his high appreciation of abstract science derived from original investigation, he left his property in trust to the National Academy of Sciences, the income to be devoted to the prosecution of researches in physical and natural science' by assisting experimentalists and observers, and the publication of the results of their investigations.