Report of the Annual Meeting, Issue 63J. Murray., 1894 - Science |
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... represent , unite our efforts to realise it , in the assurance that if once the claim of science to liberal public support is admitted , the rest will follow . In selecting a subject on which to address you this evening I have followed ...
... represent , unite our efforts to realise it , in the assurance that if once the claim of science to liberal public support is admitted , the rest will follow . In selecting a subject on which to address you this evening I have followed ...
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... represents more than any other branch of the subject what Treviranus termed the ' philosophy of living nature . ' Notwith- standing the very general interest which several of its problems excite at the present moment I do not propose to ...
... represents more than any other branch of the subject what Treviranus termed the ' philosophy of living nature . ' Notwith- standing the very general interest which several of its problems excite at the present moment I do not propose to ...
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... represent the external influence or stimulus , the striking of the clock , the normal reaction . And now may I ask you to consider in detail one or two illustrations of physiological reaction - of the letting off of specific energy ...
... represent the external influence or stimulus , the striking of the clock , the normal reaction . And now may I ask you to consider in detail one or two illustrations of physiological reaction - of the letting off of specific energy ...
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... represent them graphically . Again , it is found that in many physiological reactions , the period of rising energy ' ( as Helmholtz called it ) is followed by a period during which the responding structure is not only inactive , but ...
... represent them graphically . Again , it is found that in many physiological reactions , the period of rising energy ' ( as Helmholtz called it ) is followed by a period during which the responding structure is not only inactive , but ...
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... represent that of hearing in , animals low in the scale of organisation - as , e.g. , in the Ctenophora - has ... represents a ' specific energy ' or merely a certain combination of specific energies which are excited by colours . The ...
... represent that of hearing in , animals low in the scale of organisation - as , e.g. , in the Ctenophora - has ... represents a ' specific energy ' or merely a certain combination of specific energies which are excited by colours . The ...
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Page 820 - Engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man...
Page 846 - I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best — what we call goodness or virtue — involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence.
Page 123 - As a unit of resistance, the international ohm, which is based upon the ohm, equal to 10* units of resistance of the Centimeter-Gramme-Second System of electro- magnetic 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 grammes in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area, and of the length of 106'3 centimeters.
Page 127 - ... the electromotive force that, steadily applied to a conductor whose resistance is one international ohm, will produce a current of...
Page 128 - The liquid should consist of a neutral solution of pure silver nitrate, containing about 15 parts by weight of the nitrate to 85 parts of water. The resistance of the voltameter changes somewhat as the current passes. To prevent these changes having too great an effect on the current, some resistance besides that of the voltameter should be inserted in the circuit.
Page xxiv - Committees for the several Sections before the beginning of the Meeting. It has therefore become necessary, in order to give an opportunity to the Committees of doing justice to the several Communications, that each Author should prepare an Abstract of his Memoir, of a length suitable for insertion in the published Transactions of the Association, and...
Page lxxv - Committee appointed for the purpose of recording the Position, Height above the Sea, Lithological Characters, Size, and Origin of the Erratic Blocks of England, Wales, and Ireland, reporting other matters of interest connected with the same, and taking measures for their Preservation, 219.— W.
Page xxiv - Committee may also hold such preliminary meetings as the President of the Committee thinks expedient, but shall, under any circumstances, meet on the first Wednesday of the Annual Meeting, at 11 AM, to...
Page 126 - Ampere, which is one-tenth of the unit of current of the CGS system of electromagnetic units and which is represented sufficiently well for practical use by the unvarying current which, when passed through a solution of nitrate of silver in water, in accordance with a certain specification, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 of a gramme per second.
Page 763 - To conclude therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of .sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain, that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in ihe book of God's word, or in the book of God's works, Divinity or Philosophy ; but rather let 'men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both...