Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Volume 50J. Murray, 1880 |
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Page xxi - General Meeting. COMPOSITIONS, SUBSCRIPTIONS, AND PRIVILEGES. LIFE MEMBERS shall pay, on admission, the sum of Ten Pounds. They shall receive gratuitously the Reports of the Association which may be published after the date of such payment. They are eligible to all the offices of the Association. ANNUAL SUBSCRIBERS shall pay, on admission, the sum of Two Pounds, and in each following year the sum of One Pound. They shall receive gratuitously the Reports of the Association for the year of their admission...
Page 651 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Page xliii - H. B. Tristram, W. Turner, EB Tylor, Dr. EP Wright, C. Spence Bate, Dr. S. Cobbold, Dr. M. Foster, HT Stainton, Rev. H. B. Tristram, Prof. W. Turner. Dr. TS Cobbold, GW Firth, Dr. M. Foster, Prof. Lawson, HT Stainton, Rev. Dr. HB Tristram, Dr. EP Wright. Dr. TS Cobbold, Prof. M. Foster, E.
Page 723 - Observations on the Character and Measurements of Degradation of the Yorkshire Coast; First Report of Committee on the Physical Character of the Moon's Surface, as compared with that of the Earth ; — R.
Page xliii - Dr. E. Lankester, Dr. E. Perceval Wright. Prof. Dickie, MD, Dr. E. Lankester, Dr. Ogilvy. WS Church, Dr. E. Lankester, P. L. Sclater, Dr. E. Perceval Wright. Dr. T. Alcock, Dr. E. Lankester, Dr. PL Sclater, Dr. EP Wright. Alfred Newton, Dr. EP Wright. Dr. E. Charlton, A. Newton, Rev.
Page 721 - Report of progress in the investigation of the Action of Carbonic Acid on the Growth of Plants allied to those of the Coal Formations ; — Prof. HW Dove, Supplement to the Temperature Tables printed in the Report of the British Association for 1847 ; — Remarks by Prof.
Page 722 - Allman, on the Present State of our Knowledge of the Freshwater Polyzoa ;—Registration of the Periodical Phenomena of Plants and Animals ;—Suggestions to Astronomers for the Observation of the Total Eclipse of the Sun on July 28, 1851.
Page 726 - R. Angus Smith. and HE Roscoe, on the Recent Progress and Present Condition of Manufacturing Chemistry in the South Lancashire District; — Dr.
Page 731 - Report on the best means of providing for a Uniformity of Weights and Measures ; — Reporf on Tidal Observations.
Page xxvi - Committees and individuals, to whom grants of money have been entrusted by the Association for the prosecution of particular researches in science, are required to present to each following Meeting of the Association a Report of the progress which has been made ; and the...