Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Volume 49, Part 1900 |
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Page 121 - ... bulletins of the Office of Experiment Stations of the US Department of Agriculture.
Page 396 - 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 83 - 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 395 - 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 320 - 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 xxvii - Associates for any single meeting shall be admitted on the payment of three dollars ; such Associates to have all the privileges of the meeting, except reading papers and voting. Members of scientific societies whose meetings are contemporaneous with or immediately subsequent to that of the Association and which are recognized by vote of the Council as ' Affiliated Societies, ' may become Associate Members for that meeting on the payment of three dollars.
Page xxxi - Committee shall be the board of supervision of the Association, and no business shall be transacted by the Association that has not first been referred to, or originated with, the Committee.
Page xxvii - The objects of the Association are, by periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science in different parts of America, to give a stronger and more general impulse and more systematic direction to scientific research, and to procure for the labors of scientific men increased facilities and a wider usefulness.
Page 394 - 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, respectfully petitions Congress to provide for the establishment in that region of a National Forest Reserve. RESOLUTION ADOPTED AND REFERRED TO THE COUNCIL BY SECTION G, JUNE 26, 1900.
Page 366 - The abolition of all parties in municipal politics. (2) 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...