Proceedings, Volume 49

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Page 119 - ... bulletins of the Office of Experiment Stations of the US Department of Agriculture.
Page 384 - BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be dispatched to the President of the United States, to the President of the United States...
Page 81 - Without entering into details, I will give the conclusions I then arrived at in the very words I used: 1. The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an evident periodicity of properties. 2. Elements which are similar as regards their chemical properties have atomic weights which are either of nearly the same value ( eg platinum, iridium, osmium ) or which increase regularly ( eg potassium, rubidium, caesium).
Page 383 - Be it resolved, That the Congress of the United States be urged to pass legislation to provide financial assistance to qualified college students in need of it.
Page 308 - Indians taught them how to take them : which was, with great sprindges, which lifted up their feete from the ground : and the snare was made with a strong string, whereunto was fastened a knot of a cane, which ran close about the neck of the conie, because they should not gnaw the string.
Page 306 - ... drowned. A single hook may be set for vermin, or baited and left in the water, especially for large fish ; for the smaller fish, the trawl or trot-line holding several hooks may be stretched across a body of water, and thus the game may be secured in the absence of the fisherman . In one sense, most hooks used in taking birds and fishes are traps. They are baited and cast into the water or placed in such position on land that the hunter is out of sight. A line is attached to hooks of this kind,...
Page 382 - ... Association for the Advancement of Science. Adopted by Section E and referred to the Council of the Association, June 27, 1900. JA HOLMES, Secretary Section E. Adopted by the Council June 28, 1900. It was announced that the following resolutions had been adopted by the Council : Resolved, That the American Association for the Advancement of Science, recognizing the importance of the preservation in its original condition of some portion of the hardwood forests of the Southern Appalachian region,...
Page 354 - The creation of independent municipal parties ; that is, parties presenting policies upon municipal questions only. (3) The preservation of the status quo. (4) The adoption by the national parties of municipal programs in municipal matters, with the introduction of such changes as will cause parties to become the exponents of live and pertinent principles, rather than of dead and irrelevant issues or personal affiliations. Assuming that the present position of the party in municipal politics is not...
Page 361 - Separation of Municipal from State and National Elections. — The tendency to vote a "straight ticket," to neglect to differentiate local from national questions, is very strong. But where municipal elections are separate, not only is it made much easier for the voter to express his...
Page 300 - ... contrary he also knows how to allay suspicions in one direction, to arouse them in another, — always with the trap in his mind. The action of the trap itself is also frequently assisted by the hunter out of sight. He releases the pent-up force of gravity, of elasticity. Finally, the result of the trap's action is to hand the victim over to the hunter to carry away or to kill. Often the trap does the killing outright, and the result is raw material for the elaborative industries; but in other...

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