Nature, Volume 15Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1877 |
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Page 239 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Page 276 - Here on its fragile stalk, to direct the traveller's journey Over the sea-like, pathless, limitless waste of the desert.
Page 141 - ... the nature of things depending on them would be changed. Water and earth composed of old worn particles and fragments of particles, would not be of the same nature and texture now with water and earth composed of entire particles in the beginning. And therefore that nature may be lasting, the changes of corporeal things are to be placed only in the various separations and new associations and motions of these permanent particles...
Page 270 - Still, we could plainly see that all about the trapezium is a mass of stars ; the rest of the nebula also abounding with stars, and exhibiting the characteristics of resolvability strongly marked.
Page 97 - Engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man...
Page 101 - FRS, Vice-president, in the chair. — The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to the Society's menagerie during the month of November 1892. — Dr. Hickson read a paper entitled "A Revision of the Genera of the Alcyoaaria Stolonifera, with a description of one new genus and several new species.
Page 89 - The following Candidates were elected Members of the Society : — Horatio Waddington, Esq., late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Page 13 - Polaris,' who sacrificed his life in the advancement of science on November 8, 1871. This tablet has been erected by the British Polar Expedition of 1875, who, following in his footsteps, have profited by his experience.
Page 265 - On the remains of a large Crustacean, probably indicative of a new species of Eurypterus, or allied genus (Eurypterus ? Stevensoni) from the Lower Carboniferous series (Cement-stone group) of Berwickshire.
Page 23 - The total supply of fish obtained upon the coasts of the United Kingdom has not diminished of late years, but has increased, and it admits of further augmentation to an extent the limits of which are not indicated by any evidence we have been able to obtain (cvi).