Nature, Volume 48

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Sir Norman Lockyer
Macmillan Journals Limited, 1893
 

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Page 110 - That the Conference expresses the hope that, as soon as may be practicable, the astronomical and nautical days will be arranged everywhere to begin at mean midnight.
Page 24 - The book is primarily written to meet the needs of students preparing for the examinations of the Conjoint Board of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons of England.
Page 250 - IN a number of papers communicated to the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Boston Society of Natural History, Mr.
Page 238 - Reports of Observations and Experiments in the Practical Work of the Division Made under the Direction of the Entomologist.
Page 165 - FRS, 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...
Page 69 - 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 June, July.
Page 24 - On the Structure and Use of the Malpighian BOdies of the Kidney, with Observations on the Circulation through that gland," published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1842.
Page 86 - THE problem of animal heat is one of the oldest problems of scientific speculation. Nevertheless it is only within recent years that we have been able to speak of it in terms of modern knowledge. Among the earliest contributors to such knowledge we may cite John Mayow and Joseph Black. Mayow was the first to suggest that atmospheric air is not a simple element and that its nitre-aerie particles," in combining with the blood in the lungs, produce the animal heat, while Black demonstrated that the...
Page 25 - ... capable in the prevention of disease, gives rise to many interesting problems, some of which are being solved, some are only partially touched, and others remain unelucidated. In this volume an attempt will be made to summarise and bring to a focus the essential points in evolution, environment, parasitism, prophylaxis, and sanitation bearing upon the preservation of the public health. The following Writers are preparing Volumes for this Series : — Prof.
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