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Extracts from Resolutions of the General Committee
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Report of the Committee appointed to consider and report on the various
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Report of the Committee appointed for the purpose of calling the atten
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The Rev W S SYMONDS on the Physical Geology of the Bonecaves of
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Sixth Report of the Committee for Exploring Kents Cavern Devon
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Third Report of the Committee for the purpose of investigating the rate
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Second Report of the Committee appointed to get cut and prepared
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Second Report of the Committee consisting of C W MERRIFIELD
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Mr J E TAYLOR on the Occurrence of Seams of Hard Sandstone in Middle
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Report of the Committee on the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage
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Dr JOHN BARKER on the Immersion Method of Illumination of the Micro
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Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors 186970 By a Com
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Mr RALPH TATE on a Census of the Marine Invertebrate Fauna of the Lias
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Report on Recent Progress in Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Functions
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Prof T H HUXLEY on the relations of Penicillium Torula and Bacterium
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Committee for the purpose of promoting the extension improvement
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Dr CATONS Contribution to the Migration Theory
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On a New Steampower Meter By Messrs AsитON and STOREY
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Mr T D FORSYTHS Letter on Eastern Turkestan
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Report of the Rainfall Committee for the Year 186970 consisting
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Dr THOMAS DE MESCHIN on the Impolicy on economic grounds of convert
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Mr W HOPE on the History of the Shell that won the Battle of Sedan
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Report on the Heat generated in the Blood in the process of Arteria
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Mr WILLIAM CARRUTHERS on the Sporangia of Ferns from the Coalmea
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NOTICES AND ABSTRACTS
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Professor A CAYLEY on the Problem of the inandcircumscribed Triangle 9
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Mr WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE on Musical Intervals 15
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Dr W J MACQUORN RANKINES Investigation of the Mathematical Theory
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ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM
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METEOROLOGY
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Address by Prof ROLLESTON M D F R S President of the Section
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Col J A GRANT on the Vegetable Products of Central Africa
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Mr W SAVILLE KENT on an existing Favositoid Coral 119
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Mr ROBERT SWINHOE on the Natural History of Hainan 128
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Mr FREDERIC T MOTT on the Scientific Value of Physical Beauty 134
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Professor JOHN CLELAND on the Physical Relations of Consciousness and
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the Fins of Fishes 141
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Mr W BOYD DAWKINS and GEORGE BUSK on the Discovery of Platycnemic
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Professor P MARTIN DUNCAN on the Geological Changes which have Occurred
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Mr ALEXANDER BUCHAN on the Great Movements of the Atmosphere 167
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Lord MILTON on Railway Routes across North America and the Physical
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Colonel H YULEs Notes on Analogies of Manners between the IndoChinese
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Mr R DUDLEY BAXTER on National Debts 187
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Mr ALFRED HAVILAND on a Proposed Rearrangement of the Registration
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Mr J PARRY on Baths and Washhouses 197
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Mr CHARLES BROOKEs Queries respecting Ether
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Mr THOMAS A WELTON on Immigration and Emigration as affecting
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Professor H E ROSCOE on Vanadium illustrated by Preparations of its Com
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Mr GUSTAV BISCHOF jun on a New System of Testing the Quality of
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Mr RICHARD EATON on certain Economical Improvements in obtaining Motive
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Mr WILLIAM P MARSHALL on the MartiniHenry and WestleyRichards
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Mr ROBERT SABINE Pneumatic Dispatch On Pneumatic Transmission
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Mr E SCHUNCK on the Chemical Composition of Cotton
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Mr THOMAS MOFFAT on Geological Systems and Endemic Diseases
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Mr PETER SPENCE on an Attempt to determine the Boilingpoint of
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Dr LEITH ADAMS on Newly discovered Species of Elephants
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Mr James BRYCE on the Matrix of the Gold in the Scottish Goldfields
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Página lxxix - But the great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact...
Página lxxxiii - But expectation is permissible where belief is not ; and, if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period when the earth was passing through physical and chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter.
Página xviii - 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.
Página 255 - D. Brewster, Reports respecting the Two Series of Hourly Meteorological Observations kept in Scotland ; — Report on the subject of a series of Resolutions adopted by the British Association at their Meeting in August 1838, at Newcastle ; — R.
Página 2 - The Gods, who haunt The lucid interspace of world and world, Where never creeps a cloud, or moves a wind, Nor ever falls the least white star of snow, Nor ever lowest roll of thunder moans, Nor sound of human sorrow mounts to mar Their sacred everlasting calm!
Página lxxxviii - There can be no reason, then, for doubting that, among insects, contagious and infectious diseases of great malignity are caused by minute organisms which are produced from pre-existing germs, or by homogenesis ; and there is no reason, that I know of, for believing that what happens in insects may not take place in the highest animals. Indeed, there is already strong evidence that some diseases of an extremely malignant and fatal character, to which man is subject, are as much the work of minute...
Página 257 - CONTENTS : — Seventh Report of a Committee appointed to conduct the Cooperation of the British Association in the System of Simultaneous Magnetical and Meteorological Observations ; — Lt.-Col.
Página lxxxix - And thus mankind will have one more admonition that " the people perish for lack of knowledge ;" and that the alleviation of the miseries, and the promotion of the welfare, of men must be sought, by those who will not lose their pains, in that diligent, patient, loving study of all the nmltitudinous aspects of Nature, the results of which constitute exact knowledge, or Science.
Página lxxxiii - ... and this hole is soldered up when all the air in the case has been replaced by steam. By this method they may be kept for years, without putrefying, fermenting or getting mouldy. Now this is not because oxygen is excluded, inasmuch as it is now proved that free oxygen is not necessary for either fermentation or putrefaction. It is not because the tins are exhausted of air, for Vibriones and Bacteria live, as Pasteur has shown, without air or free oxygen.
Página 173 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison : that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold ; and the gold of that land is good : there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

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