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Page 380 - Meeting from Time to Time and from Place to Place, but no Business shall be transacted at any adjourned Meeting other than the Business- left unfinished at the Meeting from which the Adjournment took place.
Page 143 - It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The budding twigs spread out their fan To catch the breezy air; And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there.
Page 231 - In all chemical investigations, it has justly been considered an important object to ascertain the relative weights of the simples which constitute a compound. But unfortunately the enquiry has terminated here; whereas from the relative weights in the mass, the relative weights of the ultimate particles or atoms of the bodies might have been inferred, from which their number and weight in various other compounds would appear, in order to assist and to guide future investigations, and to correct their...
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Page 143 - It is hardly an exaggeration to say that the tip of the radicle thus endowed, and having the power of directing the movements of the adjoining parts, acts like the brain of one of the lower animals ; the brain being seated within the anterior end of the body, receiving impressions from the sense organs, and directing the several movements
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Page 332 - It seems possible to account for all the phenomena of heat, if it be supposed that in solids the particles are in a constant state of vibratory motion, the particles of the hottest bodies moving with the greatest velocity and through the greatest space ; that in fluids and elastic fluids, besides the vibratory motion, which must be...
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| Title | A Centenary of Science in Manchester (in a Series of Notes) Volume 29 of A Centenary of Science in Manchester, Robert Angus Smith Volume 9 of Literary and philosophical society of Manchester. Memoirs Volume 9 of Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester Volume 9 of Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society |
| Author | Robert Angus Smith |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, 1883 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 20 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 475 pages |
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