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Page 122 - FELKIN, HM— Technical Education in a Saxon Town. Published for the City and Guilds of London Institute for the Advancement of Technical Education.
Page 24 - Second, Revised, and Enlarged Edition. With a Preface by JOHANNES WISLICENUS, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Leipzig; and an Appendix 'Stereo-chemistry among Inorganic Substances,' by ALFRED WERNER, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Zurich.
Page 142 - Annalen on The Constitution and Metamorphoses of Chemical Compounds, and on the Chemical Nature of Carbon...
Page 129 - England than a scarcity of fertilisers — it means a scarcity of food. It is impossible that such a sinful violation of the divine laws of Nature should for ever remain unpunished ; and the time will probably come for England sooner than for any other country, when, with all her wealth in gold, iron, and coal, she will be unable to buy one-thousandth part of the food which she has, during hundreds of years, thrown recklessly away.
Page 135 - No incident in my scientific career is more widely known than the part I took many years ago in certain psychic researches. Thirty years have passed since I published an account o( experiments tending to show that outside our scientific knowledge there exists a Force exercised by intelligence differing from the ordinary intelligence common to mortals.
Page 136 - I cross the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern in that Matter — which we, in our ignorance of its latent powers, and notwithstanding our professed reverence for its Creator, have hitherto covered with opprobrium, — the promise and potency of all terrestrial life.
Page 99 - Bibliography of the Metals of the Platinum Group, Platinum, Palladium, Iridium, Rhodium, Osmium, Ruthenium, 1748-1896.
Page 271 - The Chairman proposed, in a few neat sentences, the toasts of the Queen and the Prince and Princess of Wales, and the other members of the Royal Family, which were pledged with enthusiasm. In proposing the Army, Navy, and Reserve Forces, Sir Henry said he was very glad to associate with it a soldier who was able, from the position which he held, to reply for all branches of the service, commanding as he did...
Page 214 - ... of a coal of unknown origin, and 0.45 per cent of a coal from Peru. Still later examinations in this laboratory of about 100 rocks, chiefly igneous, covering nearly the whole continental territory of the United States, show, not only its general qualitative and quantitative distribution, but that it predominates in the less siliceous igneous rocks and is absent, or nearly so, in those high in silica.
Page 127 - The virgin land has been rapidly absorbed, until at present there is no land left for wheat without reducing the area for maize, hay, and other necessary crops.