Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of TasmaniaThe Society., 1871 |
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Page 15 - that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distances from each other.
Page 69 - I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air...
Page 3 - A MANUAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE: containing the History, Nosology, Description, Statistics, Diagnosis, Pathology, and Treatment of Insanity. Second Edition. 8vo.
Page 12 - Adelaide would be 9h. 14m. 21.02s. Before leaving the subject of our astronomical labors I would add a word concerning the total eclipse of the sun, which will take place on the 17th of August, this year. The eclipse will be a most remarkable one, and unrivalled by any recorded in the annals of mankind in its magnitude and duration. At its commencement the moon will be unusually near the earth, and at the same time reaches the ascendingnode of her orbit.
Page 65 - ... and underneath was a fine, whitish, thick fur. The commotion excited by our presence, in this assemblage of several thousand timid animals, was very interesting to me, who knew little of their manners. The young cubs huddled together in the holes of the rocks, and moaned piteously, those more advanced scampered and rolled down to the water with their mothers, whilst some of the old males stood up in defence of their families, until the terror of the sailors' bludgeons became too strong to be...
Page 21 - Orion, but of a total change of form and character — a complete subversion of all the greatest and most striking features — accompanied with an amount of relative movement between the star and the nebula, and of the brighter portions of the latter inter se, which reminds us more of the capricious changes of form and place in a cloud drifted by the wind, than of anything heretofore witnessed in the sidereal heavens.
Page 75 - Stand with your back to the wind and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right.
Page 47 - I cannot conclude this memoir without again expressing my entire conviction of its very imperfect character. I should regret its publication, if I supposed it likely that any intelligent person could consider it otherwise than as an attempt to combine such information as we have, and to point out the want and the use of more. I shall neither be surprised nor mortified, if the lines which I have drawn shall turn out to be, in many instances, widely erroneous...
Page 12 - THE from which it would appear that they inhabit certain reaches of the rivers only : we never found them in swamps. The farthest south they were afterwards met with, was on the Albert River in the Gulf of Carpentaria, in lat. 18° S., which gives them a range of six and a half degrees of latitude over the northern part of the continent. Their nests never came under our notice, and consequently we are not aware either of the size or colour of their eggs ; neither did we see any young birds during...
Page 26 - He had seen the men sitting for an hour or so at one time, chipping one flint with another so as to give them the peculiar cutting sharp edges.