Nature, Volume 47Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1893 - Electronic journals |
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... present at all events , to create in one town more than one institution in which la- boratories and lecture rooms and the other machinery of scientific instruction shall be provided on the large scale which the elaboration of the ...
... present at all events , to create in one town more than one institution in which la- boratories and lecture rooms and the other machinery of scientific instruction shall be provided on the large scale which the elaboration of the ...
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... present surface . The next pause was at 1om .; after that the lake sank ( the fall always being rapid ) to its present level . Traces of still higher terraces are to be found on the north shore , but as these neither can be identified ...
... present surface . The next pause was at 1om .; after that the lake sank ( the fall always being rapid ) to its present level . Traces of still higher terraces are to be found on the north shore , but as these neither can be identified ...
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... present . Then the lake was formed by a general subsidence of the mountain region , the lowland remaining compara- tively unaffected . The movements of the parts depressed may have been to some extent differential ; but this , in Prof ...
... present . Then the lake was formed by a general subsidence of the mountain region , the lowland remaining compara- tively unaffected . The movements of the parts depressed may have been to some extent differential ; but this , in Prof ...
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... present century . C. LL . M. BRITISH FUNGUS FLORA . British Fungus - Flora , a Classified Text - Book of Mycology . By George Massee . In 3 vols . Vol . I. ( London and New York : George Bell and Sons , 1892. ) T was in 1836 that ...
... present century . C. LL . M. BRITISH FUNGUS FLORA . British Fungus - Flora , a Classified Text - Book of Mycology . By George Massee . In 3 vols . Vol . I. ( London and New York : George Bell and Sons , 1892. ) T was in 1836 that ...
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... present instance is all the more noticeable from the contrast they afford to the rest of the " get up " of the work , which is admirable . These shortcomings are not thus dwelt on in any cap- tious spirit , but are pointed out in the ...
... present instance is all the more noticeable from the contrast they afford to the rest of the " get up " of the work , which is admirable . These shortcomings are not thus dwelt on in any cap- tious spirit , but are pointed out in the ...
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Page 111 - I. By Sir W. THOMSON, LL.D., DCL, FRS, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Glasgow...
Page 120 - That the magnitudes of these standards should be determined on the electro-magnetic system of measurement with reference to the centimetre as unit of length, the gramme as unit of mass, and the second as unit of time, and that by the terms centimetre and gramme are meant the standards of those denominations deposited with the Board of Trade. 3. That the standard of electrical resistance should be denominated the ohm, and should have the value 1,000,000,000 in terms of the centimetre and second. 4....
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Page 120 - As a unit of resistance, the international ohm, which is based upon the ohm equal to 10" units of resistance of the CGS system of electromagnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice, 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area and of the length of 106.3 centimetres.