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... commenced a series of investigations migratory habits of the species . upon
the living corals of Kingston harbour and its neighAt last steps are being taken to
alter the anomalous bourhood . He took advantage of his opportunities for state
of ...
... commenced a series of investigations migratory habits of the species . upon
the living corals of Kingston harbour and its neighAt last steps are being taken to
alter the anomalous bourhood . He took advantage of his opportunities for state
of ...
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He remarked that the great mass of his able number of years he had been
diligently collecting data was compiled from measurements taken on conscripts ,
statistics concerning the stature , colour of eyes and hair , and explained an
ingenious ...
He remarked that the great mass of his able number of years he had been
diligently collecting data was compiled from measurements taken on conscripts ,
statistics concerning the stature , colour of eyes and hair , and explained an
ingenious ...
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Mr . H . St . J . Donisthorpe exhibited specimens of the rare beetle , Cis
bilamellatus , Wood , taken at Shirley on WE regret to learn of the death of Prof .
D . W . Fiske on October 10 last . - Mr . W . J . Lucas exhibited a speciSeptember
17 .
Mr . H . St . J . Donisthorpe exhibited specimens of the rare beetle , Cis
bilamellatus , Wood , taken at Shirley on WE regret to learn of the death of Prof .
D . W . Fiske on October 10 last . - Mr . W . J . Lucas exhibited a speciSeptember
17 .
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Engineer , PROJECTILES HAVE BEEN TAKEN ON THESE In Crown 8vo .
Handsome Cloth . 200 Illustrations . 35 . 6d . PLATES WITH AN EXPOSURE OF
ELEMENTARY COAL MINING . By GEORGE L . KERR , M . E . , M . Inst . M . E . "
An ...
Engineer , PROJECTILES HAVE BEEN TAKEN ON THESE In Crown 8vo .
Handsome Cloth . 200 Illustrations . 35 . 6d . PLATES WITH AN EXPOSURE OF
ELEMENTARY COAL MINING . By GEORGE L . KERR , M . E . , M . Inst . M . E . "
An ...
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It is impossible to do full willingly have taken us on their shoulders and borne |
justice to this delightful book in a short notice . The us off . ” work forms a valuable
adjunct to the good text - books already written on the subject , and it shows to
the ...
It is impossible to do full willingly have taken us on their shoulders and borne |
justice to this delightful book in a short notice . The us off . ” work forms a valuable
adjunct to the good text - books already written on the subject , and it shows to
the ...
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Page 96 - Translated by J. Arthur Thomson, Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen, and Margaret R. Thomson. Edited with an Introduction by Rev. WD Morrison, LL.D. Crown 8vo.
Page 226 - In primis hoc volunt persuadere, non interire animas, sed ab aliis post mortem transire ad alios, atque hoc maxime ad virtutem excitari putant, metu mortis neglecto. Multa praeterea de sideribus atque eorum motu, de mundi ac terrarum magnitudine, de rerum natura, de deorum immortalium vi ac potestate, disputant et juventuti tradunt.
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Page 179 - Women announces the offer of a third prize of 2ooJ. for the best thesis written by a woman, on a scientific subject, embodying new observations and new conclusions based on an independent laboratory research in biological, chemical, or physical science.
Page 108 - Society has been not infrequently greatly hampered in giving its advice, by the knowledge that the funds absolutely needed for the carrying out of the matters in question in accordance with our present scientific knowledge would not be forthcoming. Though I am now speaking on my own responsibility, I am sure that the Society is with me if I say that the expenditure by the Government on scientific research and scientific institutions, on which its commercial and industrial prosperity so largely depend,...
Page 34 - ... chambers, forming tunnels, making roads, guarding their home, gathering food, feeding the young, tending their domestic animals, — each one fulfilling its duties industriously, and without confusion, — it is difficult altogether to deny to them the gift of reason ; and the preceding observations tend to confirm the opinion that their mental powers differ from those of men, not so much in kind as in degree.
Page 168 - CONTENTS.— The Sources of Supply.— Economic Aspect of Liquid Fuel.— Chemical Composition of Fuel Oils —Conditions of Combustion in Oil Fuel Furnaces.— Early Methods and Experiments. — Modern Burners and Methods.— Oil Fuel for Marine...
Page 24 - An abundance of information conveyed in a popular and attractive form. . . . Will be of great use to all who are in any way interested in coal mining."— Scottish Critic.
Page 179 - ... chemical or physical science. The theses offered in competition are to be presented to the Executive Committee of the Association and must be in the hands of the Chairman of the Committee on the Prize, MRS.
Page 108 - ... and scientific institutions which are always at once forthcoming in the United States. In my opinion, the scientific deadness of the nation is mainly due to the too exclusively mediaeval and classical methods of our higher public schools, and can only be slowly removed by making in future the teaching of science, not from text-books for passing an examination, but, as far as may be possible, from the study of the phenomena of nature by direct observation and experiment, an integral and essential...
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| Title | Nature, Volume 71 |
| Editor | Sir Norman Lockyer |
| Publisher | Macmillan Journals Limited, 1905 |
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