Report of the Annual MeetingJ. Murray., 1887 |
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Page 783 - Engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man...
Page xxvii - Pounds, and in each following year the sum of One Pound. They shall receive gratuitously the Reports of the Association for the year of their admission and for the years in which they continue to pay without intermission their Annual Subscription. By omitting to pay this subscription in any particular year, Members of this class (Annual Subscribers) lose for that and...
Page 571 - Now the most startling result of Faraday's law Is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot avoid concluding that electricity also, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite elementary portions, which behave like atoms of electricity.
Page xxix - If it should be inconvenient to the Author that his paper should be read on any particular days, he is requested to send information thereof to the Secretaries in a separate note.
Page xxvii - 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.
Page xxix - Committees for the several Sections before the beginning of the Meeting. It has therefore become necessary, in order to give an opportunity to the Committees of doing justice to the several Communications, that each Author should...
Page 568 - ... of those last shown on the scale. But what form of energy is represented by the oscillating line? Swinging to and fro like a mighty pendulum to points equidistant from a neutral centre; the divergence from neutrality conferring atomicity of one, two, three, and four degrees as the distance from the centre is one, two, three, or four divisions; and the approach to, or retreat from, the neutral line deciding the electro-negative or electro-positive character of the element— all on the retreating...
Page 567 - Here, then, is one of the elements the spectrum of which does not emanate equally from all its atoms, but some atoms furnish some, other atoms others, of the lines and bands of the compound spectrum of the element.
Page lviii - Cuneiform researcli up to the present time. Correlation of Physical Forces. The Atlantic Telegraph. Recent Discoveries in Africa. The Ironstones of Yorkshire. The Fossil Mammalia of Australia. Geology of the Northern Highlands. Electrical Discharges in highly rarefied Media. ¡Physical Constitution of the Sun. (Arctic Discovery. Spectrum Analysis.
Page lvii - Leslie, JP Smith. HM Brunei, P. Le Neve Foster, JG Gamble, JN Shoolbred. Crawford Barlow, H. Bauerman, EH Carbutt, JC Hawkshaw, JN Shoolbred. AT Atchison, JN Shoolbred, John Smyth, jun. WR Browne, HM Brunei, JG Gamble, JN Shoolbred. W. Bottomley, jun., WJ Millar, JN Shoolbred, JP Smith. AT Atchison, Dr. Merrifield, JN Shoolbred. AT Atchison, RG Symea, HT Wood. AT Atchison, Emerson Bainbridge, HT Wood. AT Atchison, HT Wood. AT Atchison, JF Stephenson, HT Wood. A. i'.