Proceedings of the Section of Sciences, Volume 30

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Page 788 - Ability must be based on a triple footing, every leg of which has to be firmly planted. In order that a man should inherit ability in the concrete, he must inherit three qualities that are separate and independent of one another : he must inherit capacity, zeal, and vigour ; for unless these three, or, at the very least, two of them, are combined, he cannot hope to make a figure in the world. The probability against inheriting a combination of three qualities not correlated together, is necessarily...
Page 1050 - This research was carried out with the aid of a grant from the United States Public Health Service. The authors are grateful to Professor Ray D. Owen, of the Biology Division of this Institute, for his helpful suggestions.
Page 863 - Des affaissements du sol attribués à l'expioitation houillère. Réponse de l'Union des charbonnages, mines et usines métallurgiques de la province de Liège, au mémoire de M. Gustave Dumont, intitulé : « Des affaissements du sol produits par l'expioitation houillère. » Liège, 1875, vol. in-4° de 335 pp.
Page 775 - ... long run, does not suddenly start into existence and disappear with equal abruptness, but rather, it rises in a gradual and regular curve out of the ordinary level of family life. The statistics show that there is a regular average increase of ability in the generations that precede its culmination, and as regular a decrease in those that succeed it. In the first case the marriages have been consentient to its production in the latter they have been incapable of preserving it !)". "After three...
Page 631 - GRAND' EURY C. — 1877. Mémoire sur la flore carbonifère du département de la Loire et du centre de la France étudiée aux trois points de vue : botanique, stratigraphique et géognostique.
Page 679 - Dr. SHAPLEY had indicated which stars might be members of the cluster and which not. The comparison stars were selected from the latter, the selection being based on distance from the center, magnitude and color-index. For the later measures of Messier 13 and for those of Messier 2 and 56, no such data were available.
Page 631 - Character of the Permian Sediments of the Angara Series in Central Shansi", Geol.
Page 681 - From (i) it follows that the motions resulting from a possible rotation of the clusters are small. Tangential components of the motions were derived therefore only because evidence of such motions had been found in the measures of spiral nebulae. The results for the clusters are: f Two pairs of 8o-foot-focus plates Mtang.= +oToooi + 0^0003 J3 \ One pair of 25-foot-focus plates /tt»ng.
Page 682 - It has been thought that the large displacements in the spirals might be due to a difference in quality in the old and the new plates. In that case the annual motions derived would be smaller for pairs of plates with longer intervals, but the total displacements would be of the same order, and should be the same for both the clusters and the spirals. We find, however, that the total rotational displacement in the case of the 80-foot focus plates is 0*.070 for the spirals.
Page 775 - Number of eminent men in each degree of kinship to the most eminent man of the family (85 families).

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