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Page 310 - ... to the degrees of master of arts, master of science, doctor of philosophy, and doctor of science.
Page 81 - Archaia; or, Studies of the Cosmogony and Natural History of the Hebrew Scriptures. By Professor "Dawson, Principal of McGill College, Canada.
Page xii - DAIRY CHEMISTRY FOR DAIRY MANAGERS, CHEMISTS, AND ANALYSTS A Practical Handbook for Dairy Chemists and others having Control of Dairies.
Page 4 - A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back.
Page 183 - Fellow of the Royal Society, and of the Royal College of Physicians, whose practice is duller than that of all Death's doctors, and his prescriptions in that preface unchristianly severe.
Page 190 - He who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is the benefactor of mankind ; but he who obscurely worked to find the laws of such growth is the intellectual superior as well as the greater benefactor of the two.
Page 92 - Denn wer den Besten seiner Zeit genug Gethan, der hat gelebt für alle Zeiten.
Page 165 - FRS, read a paper on the reptiles, batrachians and fishes collected by the late Mr. John Whitehead in the interior of Hainan.
Page 139 - Committee is supported by the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Institution of Naval Architects, the Iron and Steel Institute, and the Institution of Electrical Engineers...
Page 263 - Orionis the coolest, has been previously deduced by the discussion of other lines in their spectra. This result was embodied in a paper "On the Order of Appearance of Chemical Substances at different Stellar Temperatures," read to the Society in February, 1899.