Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 31

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Metcalf and Company, 1896
Vol. 12 (from May 1876 to May 1877) includes: Researches in telephony / by A. Graham Bell.
 

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Page 397 - And if any book shall be lost or injured, the person to whom it stands charged shall replace it by a new volume or set, if it belongs to a set...
Page 376 - Hear me for my cause" was all he asked, and those who paused to listen fell under the spell of his enthusiasm and received his testimony. That was a period of great strain, when Robert Stephenson, one of his own professional caste, turned upon him in Parliament and spoke of his project as " one of those chimeras so often formed to induce English capitalists to part with their money, the end being that these schemes leave them poorer, though they make others much richer.
Page 393 - OF THE PRESIDENT. 1. It shall be the duty of the President, and, in his absence, of the senior...
Page 401 - American islands, during the preceding two years, on heat or on light; the preference always being given to such discoveries as shall, in the opinion of the Academy, tend most to promote the good of mankind.
Page 367 - We are not unmindful of the fact that by publishing more, we could help to strengthen the university, and that we ought to do so if it were possible. Indeed, every one of us five is now preparing work for publication or expects to be doing so this summer, but such work progresses very slowly because the more immediate duties of each day leave us so little of that freshness without which good theoretical work can not be done.
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Page 120 - Mabory ; the chemical potential of the metals, by Wilder D. Bancroft. Among the conclusions are : (i) The potential difference between a metal and an electrolyte is not a function of the concentration of the salt solution, nor of the nature of the positive ion, except in certain special cases. (2) It is a function of the electrode, of the negative ion, and of the solvent...
Page 367 - The chapters with which we propose to complete the book deal mainly with special applications, or with topics peculiar to modern analysis. Meanwhile we have successfully used the volume in all the Freshman sections this year. * * * " The greatest hindrance to the success of the department, especially in the higher kinds of work, lies, as we think, in the excessive amount of teaching required of each teacher; commonly from seventeen to twenty or more hours per week.
Page 370 - who enjoys our full confidence, whom we have put to the test in very trying circumstances, and who has always served the cause of liberty and humanity." M. de Lesseps has told the vexations of his Roman mission very interestingly in his " Recollections," but with singular absence of personal consciousness even in failure. He often defends himself, and designs to do so ; but it is always an argument for the merit of the work upon which he is engaged, rather than any declaration of his own higher...

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