Report of the ... and ... Meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Volume 47,Parte 1877

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Página 7 - Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state.
Página xx - Sections before the beginning of the Meeting. It has therefore become necessary, in order to give an opportunity to the Committees of doing justice to the several Communications, that each Author should prepare an Abstract of his Memoir, of a length suitable for insertion in the published Transactions of the Association, and that he should send it, together with the original Memoir, by book-post, on or before addressed thus— 'General Secretaries, British Association, 22 Albemarle Street, London,...
Página 89 - Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
Página 16 - A Short History of Natural Science and of the Progress of Discovery, From the Time of the Greeks to the Present Time.
Página xvii - 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.
Página 14 - The Student's Manual of Ecclesiastical History. A History of the Christian Church, from the Times of the Apostles to the full Establishment of the Holy Roman Empire and the Papal Power. By PHILIP SMITH, BA With Woodcuts. Post 8vo, 7*.
Página 14 - BIGG-WITHER (TP). Pioneering in South Brazil; three years of forest and prairie life in the province of Parana. Map and Illustrations. 2 vols. Crown Svo. 24>.
Página 7 - PENROSE'S (FC) Principles of Athenian Architecture, and the Optical Refinements exhibited in the Construction of the Ancient Buildings at Athens, from a Survey. With 40 Plates. Folio.
Página 89 - And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea...
Página lxxvi - Lister had the merit of being the first to apply the germ theory of putrefaction to explain the formation of putrid matters in the living body ; and he has founded on this theory the now well-known antiseptic treatment of wounds, the importance of which it would be difficult to overestimate.

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