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W. Froude: Experiments on the Surface-friction experienced by a Plane moving through water.
pp.118-124, [Plates II-VII...incomplete]
British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1873 42nd Meeting
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Page xvii - To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
Page xix - Committee two years in advance ; and the Arrangements for it shall be entrusted to the Officers of the Association. General Committee. The General Committee shall sit during the week of the Meeting, or longer, to transact the business of the Association. It shall consist of the following persons :— CLASS A.
Page lvi - That the gentlemen whose names are appended be requested to act as a Committee (with power to add to their number) for the purpose of carrying out the previous resolution and of reporting to an adjourned public meeting to be held during the second week in October next.
Page lxix - I can bear it; the die is cast; the book is written; to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which ; it may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.
Page xviii - New Life Members who have paid Ten Pounds as a composition. Annual Members who have not intermitted their Annual Subscription. 2. At reduced or Members' Price, viz., two-thirds of the Publication Price.
Page 247 - Report on the Progress of Celestial Photography since the Aberdeen Meeting; — B. Stewart, on the Theory of Exchanges, and its recent extension; — Drs. E. Schunck, R. Angus Smith, and HE Roscoe, on the Recent Progress and Present Condition of Manufacturing Chemistry in the South Lancashire District ; — Dr.
Page xvii - 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 Meeting. COMPOSITIONS, SUBSCRIPTIONS, AND PRIVILEGES.
Page lxix - ... oppositions of science falsely so called ' — abroad in the world at the present time. And I hope to satisfy you that those who set up their own conceptions of the orderly sequence which they discern in the phenomena of nature, as fixed and determinate laws, by which those phenomena not only are within all human experience, but always have been, and always must be, invariably governed, are really guilty of the intellectual arrogance they condemn in the systems of the ancients, and place themselves...
Page xxi - Committee (vide p. xxiii), and will receive, on application to the Treasurer in the Reception Room, Tickets entitling them to attend its Meetings. The Committees will take into consideration any suggestions which may be offered by their Members for the advancement of Science. They are specially requested to review the recommendations adopted at preceding Meetings, as published in the volumes of the Association and the communications made to the Sections at this Meeting, for the purposes of selecting...
Page xix - Sections for the present and preceding years, with Authors of Reports in the Transactions of the Association. 2. Members who by the publication of Works or Papers have furthered the advancement of those subjects which are taken into consideration at the Sectional Meetings of the Association.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Volume 42 |
| Author | British Association for the Advancement of Science |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1873 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 10 Apr 2007 |
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