Nature, Volume 57

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Sir Norman Lockyer
Macmillan Journals Limited, 1898 - Electronic journals

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Page 114 - Ah! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal Peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
Page 213 - The consequences were not long in following, and have transformed this country into a kind of arid desert. The water-courses are dried up, and the irrigating canals empty.
Page 293 - J + 1/8 + 1/16 + &c. ; \ = 1/8 + 1/16 + &c., and so on. The prepotencies or subpotencies of particular ancestors, in any given pedigree, are eliminated by a law that deals only with average contributions, and the varying prepotencies of sex in respect to different qualities, are also presumably eliminated.
Page 253 - Museum, and in which the medals, decorations, and other insignia of the deceased, as well as his clothes, will be carefully arranged and catalogued. The city must also erect on a public square a statue of Dr. Evans, the price of which must not be less than 1,000,000 francs nor more than 2,000,000 francs. THE next annual meeting of the British Medical Association will be held at Edinburgh on July 26-29, under the presidency of Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart, KCB An address in medicine will be delivered...
Page 46 - The paper will be found instructive t<> both observers and students. —The equations of hydrodynamic> in a form suitable for application to problems connected with the movements of the earth's atmosphere, by J. Cottier.
Page 75 - THE FERTILITY OF THE LAND: A summary Sketch of the Relationship of Farm-Practice to the Maintaining and Increasing of the Productivity of the Soil.
Page 131 - THE Annual Reports of the Medical Officer of the Local Government Board constitute in many respects the best treatise on practical hygiene we possess. Their diligent perusal by the embryo health officer would equip him as no ordinary text-book can do for the intelligent discharge of his duties. It would be well if candidates for Public Health degrees were examined upon the salient features of these reports.
Page 170 - Not only are no powers to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted of except those of which we know the principle, and no extraordinary events to be alleged in order to explain a common appearance...
Page 262 - Dewar, it was found that no matter whether the palladium exists as black, sponge, foil, wire, or compact metal, or whether it is charged by direct exposure to hydrogen gas (the proper conditions being observed, as explained), or charged electrolytically, the amount of hydrogen occluded in each case is approximately the same, the atomic ratio palladium : hydrogen varying between i -37 and i -47.
Page 106 - TUESDAY last being St. Andrew's Day, the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society was held in their apartments at Burlington House. The auditors of the Treasurer's accounts having read their report, and the Secretary having read the list of Fellows elected and deceased since the last anniversary, the President (Lord Lister) proceeded to deliver the anniversary address.

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