Report of the Annual MeetingJ. Murray., 1870 |
Contents
| xvii | |
| xxv | |
| xxviii | |
| xxxiv | |
| xl | |
| lxxv | |
| lxxxi | |
| lxxxvii | |
| 1 | |
| 10 | |
| 47 | |
| 55 | |
| 66 | |
| 73 | |
| 82 | |
| 91 | |
| 96 | |
| 102 | |
| 137 | |
| 144 | |
| 150 | |
| 151 | |
| 171 | |
| 189 | |
| 209 | |
| 298 | |
| 308 | |
| 330 | |
| 332 | |
| 360 | |
| 381 | |
| 386 | |
| 402 | |
| 422 | |
| 423 | |
| 430 | |
| 1 | |
| 60 | |
| 66 | |
| 69 | |
| 75 | |
| 81 | |
| 88 | |
| 91 | |
| 97 | |
| 103 | |
| 104 | |
| 111 | |
| 117 | |
| 120 | |
| 127 | |
| 133 | |
| 151 | |
| 159 | |
| 165 | |
| 172 | |
| 173 | |
| 179 | |
| 190 | |
| 196 | |
| 206 | |
| 214 | |
| 220 | |
| 226 | |
| 238 | |
| 245 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
1st mag 2nd mag 3rd mag acid appears atoms August BALFOUR STEWART Barograph Barrow Hæmatite Steel Birmingham Breccia bright British Association Bryozoa carbon Cave-earth Cavern colour Committee Conodonts corals Crelle's Journal curve deflection deposit depth direction Duncan elongation Entomostraca excretal refuse experiments feet Foraminifera formula fossil Greensand Hawkhurst heat Horizontal hour Hyæna hydrogen Iron Company Jules Haime July Kew Observatory Langley Mills Large meteor Left no streak light limestone LL.D M'Coy Mark on bar meteors seen Metric System minerals minutes modulus of elasticity Moncalieri motion observations Observatory obtained Oolite p.m. Ibid Persei present Prof Professor R. I. Murchison Radiant radiant-point reefs Remarks Report resistance septa sewage ship species square inch Stalagmite strain surface temperature tion tons towns unit of length veins velocity Weight laid White
Popular passages
Page xlii - 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 169 - L'honneur est comme une île escarpée et sans bords : On n'y peut plus rentrer dès qu'on en est dehors.
Page xvii - 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 tho approval of a General Meeting.
Page 315 - Commission appointed to inquire into the best mode of distributing the Sewage of Towns, and applying it to beneficial and profitable uses.
Page 160 - On his return, he published an account of the country, full of the grossest and most palpable lies that were ever attempted to be imposed on the credulity of mankind...
Page 137 - I have lived with communities of savages in South America and in the East, who have no laws or law courts but the public opinion of the village freely expressed. Each man scrupulously respects the rights of his fellow, and any infraction of those rights rarely or never takes place. In such a community, all are nearly equal.
Page 149 - Each organism exhibits within a short ' space of time, a series of changes which, when supposed to ' occupy a period indefinitely great, and to go on in various ' ways instead of one way, give us a tolerably clear conception ' of organic evolution in general.
Page civ - ... which I regard, not as balancing and suspending the ordinary physical laws, but as working with them and through them to the attainment of a designed end. What this something, which we call life, may be, Is a profound mystery. We know not how many links In the chain of secondary causation may yet remain behind; we know not how few. It would be presumptuous indeed...
Page 3 - Were it not unbecoming to dilate on one's personal experience, I could tell a story of almost romantic interest about my own latest researches in a field where Geometry, Algebra, and the Theory of Numbers melt in a surprising manner into one another, like sunset tints or the colours of the dying dolphin, "the last still loveliest...
Page xvii - 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 and for the years in which they continue to pay without intermission their Annual Subscription. By omitting to pay this Subscription in any particular year, Members of this class (Annual Subscribers) lose for that and all future years the privilege of receiving the volumes of the Association gratis...