Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Volume 25 |
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Page xvii - 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 165 - which forms the fulcrum when standing or walking, is perhaps the most characteristic peculiarity, in the human structure ;" but in an embryo, about an inch in length. Prof. Wyman found "that the great toe was shorter than the others ; and, instead of being parallel to them, projected at an angle from the side of the foot, thus corresponding with the permanent condition of this part in the quadrumana.
Page xvi - Science," for the purpose of receiving, purchasing, holding and conveying real and personal property, which It now Is, or hereafter may be possessed of, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to the restrictions, duties and liabilities set forth in the general laws which now or hereafter may be in force and applicable to such corporations. SECTION 2. Said corporation may have and hold by purchase, grant, gift or otherwise, real estate not exceeding one hnndred thousand dollars in value,...
Page 248 - Sequoias creates those streams. The thirsty mountaineer knows well that in every Sequoia grove he will find running water, but it is a mistake to suppose that the water is the cause of the grove being there ; on the contrary, the grove is the cause of the water being there. Drain off the water and the trees will remain, but cut off the trees, and the streams will vanish.
Page 102 - The amount of heat set free in any chemical reaction whatever is a measure of the total work, both chemical and physical, accomplished in the reaction. 2d. If a system of bodies, either simple or compound, taken under definite conditions, undergoes physical or chemical changes capable of bringing it to a new state without producing any mechanical effect exterior to the system, the amount of heat which is set free or absorbed as the effect of these changes, depends only on the initial and final state...
Page 171 - His structural superiority consists solely in the complexity and size of his brain. ... A very important lesson is derived from these and kindred facts. The monkeys were anticipated in the greater fields of the world's activity by more powerful rivals. The ancestors of the ungulates * held the fields and the swamps ; and the carnivora, driven by hunger, learned the arts and cruelties of the chase. The weaker ancestors of the Quadrumana possessed neither speed, nor weapons of offence...
Page 174 - ... men, unless existing in something like families, — that is, in groups avowedly connected, at least on the mother's side, and probably always with a vestige of connection more or less on the father's side, and unless these groups were like many animals, gregarious, under a leader more or less fixed. It is almost beyond imagination how man, as we know man, could by any sort of process have gained this step in civilization.
Page 182 - ... gemmules. They are supposed to be transmitted from the parents to the offspring, and are generally developed in the generation which immediately succeeds, but are often transmitted in a dormant state during many generations and are then developed. Their development is supposed to depend on their union with other partially developed cells or gemmules which precede them in the regular course of growth.
Page 355 - Association be appointed to consider the propriety of holding an International Congress of Geologists at Paris during the International Exhibition of 1878, for the purpose of getting together comparative collections, maps and sections, and for the settling of many obscure points relating to geological classification and nomenclature, and that to this committee be added our guests Dr.
Page 357 - ... free return tickets to members in attendance at this meeting. Resolved, That the thanks of the members of the Association be tendered to the Citizens of Providence, whose private hospitality has been so freely and so munificently extended during our whole sojourn in their beautiful city. Resolved, That the thanks of the Association be tendered to the Citizens of Providence, for the most noble and generous entertainment offered to its members on August 22.