Nature, Volume 52Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1895 |
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Page 228 - And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.
Page 170 - for the development of the chemical theory of definite proportions, usually called the Atomic Theory, and for his various other labours and discoveries in physical and chemical science.
Page 127 - Y is the compression ratio and y is the ratio of the specific heats at constant pressure and constant volume of the working fluid.
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Page 136 - Report of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, read at the Annual Visitation of the Royal Observatory, 1860, June 2; and Address of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors, 1860, May 12.
Page 20 - Tuberculous matter is but seldom found in the meat substance of the carcase, it is principally found in the organs, membranes and glands. There is reason to believe that tuberculous matter, when present in meat sold to the public, is more commonly due to the contamination of the surface of the meat with material derived from other diseased parts, than to disease of the meat itself.
Page 124 - I was appointed one of the naturalists •of the Challenger when the expedition was being fitted out. During the past twenty-three years my time has been wholly taken up with the work of the expedition and in the study of those subjects which the expedition was organised to investigate. The direction of the whole of the work connected with the publication of the scientific results passed unexpectedly into my hands, and I have done my best in the circumstances to place on permanent record a trustworthy...
Page 202 - Moths," by Prof. John B. Smith. the paper being a contribution towards a monograph of the insects of the Lepidopterous family Noctuidae of Boreal North America.
Page 20 - Provided every part that is the seat of tuberculous matter be avoided and destroyed, and provided care be taken to save from contamination by such matter the actual meat substance of a tuberculous animal, a great deal of meat from animals affected by tuberculosis may be eaten without risk to the consumer.
Page 228 - To promote the increase of natural knowledge, and to forward the application of scientific methods of investigation to all the problems of life, to the best of my ability, in the conviction, which has grown with my growth and strengthened with my strength, that there is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is, when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.