Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 9Metcalf and Company, 1874 Vol. 12 (from May 1876 to May 1877) includes: Researches in telephony / by A. Graham Bell. |
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Page 129 - On the Right Ascensions of the Equatorial Fundamental Stars and the Corrections Necessary to Reduce the Right Ascensions of Different Catalogues to a Mean Homogeneous System.
Page 241 - Peabody one of the trustees of the fund appropriated for the promotion of science and useful knowledge in the county of Essex, and since its incorporation one of the " Trustees of the Peabody Academy of Science.
Page 274 - Figures and Descriptions of most of those Mosses peculiar to Eastern North America which have not been heretofore figured," and forms an imperial octavo volume, with one hundred and twenty-nine copperplates, published in 1864.
Page 229 - NOTICE.— With the view of diminishing the chances of Collision, the Steamers of this Line take a specified course for all seasons of the year. On the Outward Passage from Queenstown to New York or Boston, crossing the Meridian of 50 at 43 Lat., or nothing to the North of 43.
Page 264 - Catalogue of the Plants growing spontaneously within thirty miles of the city of New York...
Page 272 - Arts, in the year 1842. The observations which he continued to make were communicated to his correspondents and friends, the authors of the Flora of North America, then in progress. As soon as the flowering plants of his district had ceased to afford him novelty, he turned to the Mosses, in which he found abundant scientific occupation, of a kind well suited to his bent for patient and close observation, scrupulous accuracy, and nice discrimination. His first publication in his chosen department,...
Page 267 - At the actual inception of the enterprise, the botany of Eastern Texas was opened by Drummond's collections, as well as that of the coast of California by those of Douglas, and afterward those of Nuttall. As they clearly belonged to our own phyto-geographical province, Texas and California were accordingly annexed botanically before they became so politically. While the field of botanical operations was thus enlarging, the time which could be devoted to it was restricted. In addition to his chair...
Page 265 - Street. The Flora of the Northern States was never carried further; although a "Compendium," a pocket volume for the field, containing brief characters of the species which were to have been described in the second volume, along with an abridgment of the contents of the first, was issued in 1826. Moreover, long before Dr. Torrey could find time to go on with the work, he foresaw that the natural system was not much longer to remain, here and in England, an esoteric doctrine, confined to profound...
Page 267 - Batis and Darlingtonia), there is a long series of important, and some of them very extensive, contributions to the reports of government explorations of the western country, — from that of Long's expedition already referred to, in which he first developed his powers, through those of Nicollet, Fremont, and Emory, Sitgreaves, Stansbury, and Marcy, and those contained in the ampler volumes of the Surveys for Pacific Railroad routes, down to that of the Mexican Boundary, the botany of which forms...
Page 267 - The remaining half of the first volume appeared in June, 1840. The first part of the second volume followed in 1841 ; the second in the spring of 1842; and in February, 1843, came the third and the last ; for Dr. Torrey's associate was now also immersed in professorial duties, and in the consequent preparation of the works and collections which were necessary to their prosecution. From that time to the present the scientific exploration of the vast interior of the continent has been actively carried...