Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Volume 49John C. Clark, 1900 |
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Page 382 - BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be dispatched to the President of the United States, to the President of the United States...
Page 381 - Be it resolved, That the Congress of the United States be urged to pass legislation to provide financial assistance to qualified college students in need of it.
Page xxiii - The objects of the Association are, by periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science in different parts of America, to give a stronger and more general impulse and more systematic direction to scientific research, and to procure for the labors of scientific men increased facilities and a wider usefulness.
Page 306 - Indians taught them how to take them : which was, with great sprindges, which lifted up their feete from the ground : and the snare was made with a strong string, whereunto was fastened a knot of a cane, which ran close about the neck of the conie, because they should not gnaw the string.
Page xxvii - Council shall meet on the day preceding each annual meeting of the Association, and arrange the programme for the first day of the sessions. The time and place of this first meeting shall be designated by the Permanent Secretary. Unless otherwise agreed upon, regular meetings of the Council...
Page 86 - That he may have plenty of his ingredients, let him use 20 times as much quicksilver, 20 times as much platina, and in short of anything else he pleases to use : neither he nor I can make a single grain. Pray be careful in trying what it is he makes, for the mistake must happen by not trying it rightly. My reason for not saying where it was found was that I might make some advantage of it as I have a right to do.
Page 380 - It was announced that the following resolutions had been adopted by the Council : Resolved, That the American Association for the Advancement of Science, recognizing the importance of the preservation in its original condition of some portion of the hardwood forests of the Southern Appalachian region, respectfully petitions Congress to provide for the establishment in that region of a National Forest Reserve. RESOLUTION ADOPTED AND REFERRED TO THE COUNCIL BY SECTION G, JUNE 26, 1900.
Page 79 - Without entering into details, I will give the conclusions I then arrived at in the very words I used: 1. The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an evident periodicity of properties. 2. Elements which are similar as regards their chemical properties have atomic weights which are either of nearly the same value ( eg platinum, iridium, osmium ) or which increase regularly ( eg potassium, rubidium, caesium).
Page 271 - crude fiber" (cellulose). While this work was in progress the authors accumulated considerable data on the gross relationship of the main parts. As a result of three dozen observations they give these figures for the average weights and percentages: whole nut 610 grams; integument 170 grams (27.9 per cent.); endosperm 333 grams (54.5 per cent.); milk 107 grams (17.6 per cent. ). The volume of the milk averaged 105 cc. THE RHEOTROPISM OF ROOTS. BY FC NEWCOMBE. The paper deals with the following topics...
Page 352 - The creation of independent municipal parties ; that is, parties presenting policies upon municipal questions only. (3) The preservation of the status quo. (4) The adoption by the national parties of municipal programs in municipal matters, with the introduction of such changes as will cause parties to become the exponents of live and pertinent principles, rather than of dead and irrelevant issues or personal affiliations. Assuming that the present position of the party in municipal politics is not...