Nature, Volume 41

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Sir Norman Lockyer
Macmillan Journals Limited, 1890 - Electronic journals

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Page 12 - to keep these old definitions carefully in mind. I shall employ the word tempering in the sense of softening, as Falstaff uses it when he says of Shallow :— "I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him.
Page xxxv - GENERAL FORMULA FOR THE UNIFORM FLOW OF WATER IN RIVERS AND OTHER CHANNELS. By E. GANGUILLET and WR KUTTER, Engineers in Berne, Switzerland. Translated from the German,
Page 192 - Plane Co-ordinate Geometry, as Applied to the Straight Line and the Conic Sections. With Numerous Examples. New Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Crown Svo.
Page 72 - MATABELE LAND AND THE VICTORIA FALLS: a Naturalist's Wanderings in the Interior of South Africa. From the Letters and Journals of FRANK.
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Page 171 - translation of place (transport) of one part of matter or of one body from the vicinity of those bodies which directly touch it, and are considered at rest, into the vicinity of others.
Page xiv - Ganguillet (E.) and WR Kutter, a General Formula for the Uniform Flow of Water in Rivers and other Channels,
Page 39 - become included in the body which has been composed of their metamorphosed and diversely combined or confluent brethren ; so included, any derivative germ-cell or the nucleus of such may commence and repeat the same processes,

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