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Page 212 - Boss ; and it was from Newcastle that I- wrote to my friends announcing my resolve to accompany it in whatever capacity I could obtain a situation amongst its officers. It was thus that, my scientific career was first shaped ; and it is to this expedition, which was one of the very earliest results of the labours of the British Association, that I am indebted for the honour you have conferred upon me in placing me in your president's chair.
Page 10 - Polly put down her head, and rubbed it against him, and while she was doing so, he tied a handkerchief over her eyes, and kissing her first on one side of the face, and then on the other, he said : Polly, God bless thee ! and instantly fired one of his pistols right into her ear. She fell down, gave one kick, and never moved nor moaned afterwards ; but I remember the tears gushed out of my eyes just as if a Christian had been shot, and even big Sam looked ready to cry as he stood over...
Page 16 - 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 48 - KirchhofFs original work on the solar spectrum and the interpretation of its lines. Since that time a great harvest has been gathered in the same field by many reapers. Spectroscopic astronomy has become a distinct and acknowledged branch of the science, possessing a large literature of its own and observatories specially devoted to it. The more recent discovery of the gelatine dry plate has given a further great impetus to this modern side of astronomy, and has opened a pathway into the unknown...
Page 18 - ... is none perhaps which can undertake it. Consider the difference, Gentlemen, between the limited circle of any of our scientific councils, or even the Annual Meetings of our Societies, and a Meeting at which all the Science of these kingdoms should be convened, which should be attended, as this first Meeting you see already promises, by deputations from every other Society, and in which foreign talent and character should be tempted to mingle with our own. With what a momentum would such an Association...
Page 49 - But his natural talents, great as they were, and his almost intuitive skill in tracing the relations of material phenomena, would have been of comparatively little value to himself and to society, had there not been superadded to them a beautiful moral simplicity and singleness of heart, which made him go on steadily in the way he saw before him, without turning to the right hand or to the left, and taught him to do homage to no authority before that of truth.
Page 24 - ... inquirer in another. For want of this knowledge we perpetually find speculations published which show the greatest ignorance of what has been done and written on the subjects to which they refer, and which must give a very unfavourable impression of our acquirements to well-informed foreigners.
Page 73 - ... the most important features in the progress of science in the past quarter of a century. Thirty-five years ago we were all delighted by Fechner's psycho-physical law, and at Leipzig I, with others of my day, studied it experimentally in the physiological laboratory of that great teacher, Carl Ludwig. The physiological methods of measurement (which are the physical ones) have been more and more widely, and with guiding intelligence and ingenuity, applied since those days to the study of the activities...
Page 15 - to give a stronger impulse and more systematic direction to scientific inquiry — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the...
Page 112 - ... of that large public, which profits by and admires your exertions, but is unable actively to join in them ; that my election was an act of humility on your part, which to reject would have looked like false humility, that is like pride, on mine. But I reflected further, and saw in my acceptance the means, of which necessarily so few are offered to Her Majesty, of testifying to you, through the instrumentality of her husband, that your labours are not unappreciated by your Sovereign, and that...
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| Title | The British Association for the Advancement of Science: A Retrospect 1831-1921 |
| Author | Osbert John Radcliffe Howarth |
| Publisher | The Association, 1922 |
| Length | 318 pages |
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