Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 9Astronomical Society of the Pacific., 1897 |
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... appeared at that period . Certain American geologists hold the opinion that since the close of the ice age only some 7000 to 10,000 years have elapsed , but this most probably is greatly underestimated . One may now ask , How much must ...
... appeared at that period . Certain American geologists hold the opinion that since the close of the ice age only some 7000 to 10,000 years have elapsed , but this most probably is greatly underestimated . One may now ask , How much must ...
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... appeared on the globe , and since therefore the consumption through weathering and formation of carbonates must have been compensated by means of continuous supply , we must regard volcanic exhalations as the chief source of carbonic ...
... appeared on the globe , and since therefore the consumption through weathering and formation of carbonates must have been compensated by means of continuous supply , we must regard volcanic exhalations as the chief source of carbonic ...
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... appeared advantageous , seems with the advance of investigation rather to militate against the theory , because it becomes more and more impossible to reconcile the chronology demanded by CROLL'S hypothesis with the facts of observation ...
... appeared advantageous , seems with the advance of investigation rather to militate against the theory , because it becomes more and more impossible to reconcile the chronology demanded by CROLL'S hypothesis with the facts of observation ...
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... appearance to the one illustrated at page 86 , Vol . III , Publica- tions of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific , and in the hands of the successive observers who have used it , has proved capable of furnishing results of the ...
... appearance to the one illustrated at page 86 , Vol . III , Publica- tions of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific , and in the hands of the successive observers who have used it , has proved capable of furnishing results of the ...
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... appeared an account of a luminous appearance seen in the sky by Dr. BRAUNER , of Prague , on the thirteenth of that month . There were five streaks reaching from the western horizon towards the zenith , apparently not of very long ...
... appeared an account of a luminous appearance seen in the sky by Dr. BRAUNER , of Prague , on the thirteenth of that month . There were five streaks reaching from the western horizon towards the zenith , apparently not of very long ...
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aperture April Arcturian Astronomical Society Atlas atmosphere August Board of Directors bright BRUCE Medal C. D. PERRINE Capellan carbonic acid catalogue comet Comet-Medal Committee Committee-Messrs constellation December Decl Declination degrees eastward diameter dome eclipse EDWARD equatorial F. R. ZIEL feet Greenwich Hamilton Harvard College Observatory HOLDEN inches instruments interstellar medium January July June Jupiter latitude LEWIS SWIFT Library Lick Observatory longitude magnitude March Mars meeting Mercury meridian Messrs meteor minutes Miss O'HALLORAN MOLERA month Moon morning star motion Mount Hamilton moves nebulæ Neptune November Oakland observations October Pacific penumbra photographic planets plates President prisms Prof Professor proper-motion Publications quantity of carbonic R. G. AITKEN San Francisco Saturn SCHAEBERLE Secretary seen Sept September Shadow touching Sirian solar spectra spectroscope sun-spot telescope tion Transit umbra University Observatory Uranus Venus W. H. S. MONCK WILLIAM ALVORD Yerkes Observatory Yerkes telescope ΙΟ