Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Part 2 |
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Page xxiii - The objects of the Association are, by periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science in different parts of America, to give a stronger and more general impulse and more systematic direction to scientific research, and to procure for the labors of scientific men increased facilities and a wider usefulness.
Page 239 - Albyflcative shall be the sixt, Then of Cybation, the seaventh shall follow next. The secret of our Sublymation the eyght shall show ; The nynth shall be of Fermentatyon ; The tenth of our Exaltation I trow.
Page 14 - ... to ascertain what they are. Among these new minerals are some of great interest to science. Time, however, will not allow, even if your patience would permit me, to give the facts in detail ; but in justice to the describers of those announced to be new, I will print, as an appendix to this address, as complete a list as I have been able to make- of the names of the proposed new American mineral species, with the names of their sponsors. The list will, I trust, be instructive both as a warning...
Page 87 - Conference, the United States Transit of Venus Commission took a very different view of the case. Its members knew that the probable error of a contact observation is 0.15 of a second of arc, that there may always be a doubt as to the phase observed, and that a passing cloud may cause the loss of the transit. They also knew that the photographic method cannot be defeated by passing clouds, is not liable to any uncertainty of interpretation, seems to be free from systematic errors, and is so accurate...
Page 3 - ... valleys and plains that were the scenes of our youthful excursions. In vain did we doubt that the glittering spangles of mica and the still more alluring brilliancy of pyrites gave assurance of the existence of the precious metals in those substances, or that the cutting of glass by the garnet and by quartz proved that these minerals were the diamond ; but, if they were not precious metals, and if they were not diamonds, we in vain inquired of our companions, and even of our teachers, what they...
Page 70 - ... was left by him where he found it. In my exposition of his views, I have only endeavored, in addition, to show in what manner a contracting globe and a solid nucleus may be related to the great facts of local subsidence and accumulation.
Page 92 - S) and vanish when n—Q, that is to say, at the beginning and end of the evolution by friction of the earth-moon system. It is quite clear, therefore, that the remarkable expression (1) found by Mr. Darwin, is not peculiar to his special hypothesis of a viscous earth, but can be deduced equally well from the totally distinct hypothesis of an absolutely rigid earth retarded by the tidal action of a liquid ocean. I was led by this result to consider the case of the earth-moon separating (as I believe...
Page xvii - Committee to confer with Committees of Foreign Associations for the Advancement of Science with reference to an International Convention of Scientific Associations.
Page 251 - Basil Valentine his Triumphant Chariot of Antimony, with Annotations of Theodore Kirkringius...
Page 2 - the investigation of the mineral and fossil bodies which compose the fabric of the globe, and more especially for the natural and chemical history of the minerals and fossils of the United States.