Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 31

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Taylor & Francis, 1881
 

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Page 555 - Pendulum vibrating Seconds of Mean Time in the Latitude of London in a Vacuum at the Level of the Sea...
Page 95 - The PRESIDENT then delivered his Address, (p. 65.) It was proposed by Mr. LATHAM, seconded by Mr. FIELD, and resolved:— " That the thanks of the Society be given to the President for his Address, and that he be requested to allow it to be printed in the Quarterly Journal of the Society.
Page 557 - ... feet in focal length, and mounting it upon the same principle. The circumstances of his local situation, in the centre of manufacturing industry and mechanical construction, were eminently favourable to the success of this undertaking ; and in Mr. Nasmyth he was fortunate...
Page 96 - In compound fracture, on the other hand, the wound extends to the surface, where it comes in contact with the air ; and here the operator can never be sure that the ' most consummate skill will not be neutralised by subsequent putrefaction. " In the earliest of his published communications, Mr. Lister clearly enunciates, and illustrates by cases of a very impressive character, the scientific principles upon which the antiseptic system rests. He refers to the researches of Pasteur, and shows their...
Page 243 - We may legitimately infer that each additional diminution of a millionth would produce a still greater retardation of cooling, so that in such vacua as exist in planetary space the loss of heat — which in that case would only take place by radiation — would be exceedingly slow.
Page 415 - Smith* concludes that the greatest quantity of carbonic acid is expired from one and a half to two and a half hours after...
Page vi - Note on the occurrence of ganglion cells in the anterior roots of the cat's spinal nerves. Proc. Roy. Soc. London, vol. 31. SCHAPER, A.
Page 452 - It is also probable that the absolute velocity of the molecules is increased so as to make the mean velocity with which they leave the negative pole greater than that of ordinary gaseous molecules.
Page 554 - gave expressions adapted for working all the problems that a crystal can present, and it gave them in a form that appealed at once to the sense of symmetry and appropriateness of the mathematician ... he thus placed the keystone into the arch of the science of crystallography
Page 309 - With this arrangement the number of sounding gases and vapors was rapidly increased. But I was soon made aware that the glass lenses withdrew from the beam its most effectual rays. The silvered mirrors employed in my previous researches were therefore invoked ; and with them, acting sometimes singly and sometimes as conjugate mirrors, the curious and striking results which I have now the honor to submit to the Society were obtained.

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