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Page lxix - Observer' at a salary of 100£ per annum, his duty being 'forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation.
Page xvii - 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 241 - CONTENTS : — Seventh Report of a Committee appointed to conduct the Co-operation of the British Association in the System of Simultaneous Magnetical and Meteorological Observations ; — Lt.-Col.
Page 238 - Provisional Report of the Committee of the Medical Section of the British Association, appointed to investigate the Composition of Secretions, and the Organs producing them ; — Dr. GO Rees, Report from the Committee for inquiring into the Analysis of the Glands, &c.
Page xxxvi - I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you that my Lords are...
Page 245 - Committee on the Defects of the present methods of Measuring and Registering the Tonnage of Shipping, as also of Marine Engine-Power, and to frame more perfect rules, in order that a correct and uniform principle may be adopted to estimate the Actual Carrying Capabilities and Working-power of...
Page 258 - MOUNTAINEERING IN 1861; a Vacation Tour. By JOHN TYNDALL, FRS, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Square crown 8vo.
Page xvii - Committees, of Philosophical Institutions shall be entitled, in like manner, to become Members of the Association. All Members of a Philosophical Institution recommended by its Council or Managing Committee shall be entitled, in like manner, to become Members of the Association. Persons not belonging to such Institutions shall be elected by the General Committee or Council, to become Life Members of the Association, Annual Subscribers, or Associates for the year, subject to the approval of a General...
Page 239 - Pattinson, on some Galvanic Experiments to determine the Existence or Non-Existence of Electrical Currents among Stratified Rocks, particularly those of the Mountain Limestone formation, constituting the Lead Measures of Alton Moor ; — Sir D.
Page xlvi - Resistance ; and that the sum of £50 be placed at their disposal for the purpose." This was the afterwards well-known Committee on Electrical Standards, which, with various additions to its list of members, continued in existence till 1870, and in furtherance of whose labours sums amounting altogether to £590 were paid by the Association. I need scarcely remind the Society that...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Report of the Annual Meeting |
| Author | British Association for the Advancement of Science |
| Publisher | J. Murray., 1861 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Jun 2007 |
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