Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 17U.S. Government Printing Office, 1924 - Science Each volume comprises one or more monographs, many of which are issued also as separates. |
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... letter to the son continues : I now often impressed upon you the necessity of bodily labor , that you might attain a strong and healthy physical system , so as to be able to stand long hours of study when you came to manhood , for it ...
... letter to the son continues : I now often impressed upon you the necessity of bodily labor , that you might attain a strong and healthy physical system , so as to be able to stand long hours of study when you came to manhood , for it ...
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... letter from the trustees of the Sudlersville school , which reads as follows : This is to certify that Mr. Simon ... letter to refute the Copernican theory of the universe . Newcomb has said of this letter : " It was evidently wholly ...
... letter from the trustees of the Sudlersville school , which reads as follows : This is to certify that Mr. Simon ... letter to refute the Copernican theory of the universe . Newcomb has said of this letter : " It was evidently wholly ...
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... Letters and Arts , Venice . 1898 : Honorary member Royal Academy of Sciences , Amsterdam . 1899 : Corresponding member Royal Institute of Science and Letters , Milan . 1899 : Foreign correspondent Bureau of Longitudes , Paris . 1901 ...
... Letters and Arts , Venice . 1898 : Honorary member Royal Academy of Sciences , Amsterdam . 1899 : Corresponding member Royal Institute of Science and Letters , Milan . 1899 : Foreign correspondent Bureau of Longitudes , Paris . 1901 ...
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... Letters and Arts , Padua . 1907 : Commander of the Legion of Honor , France . 1907 : Honorary Fellow Physical Society , London . 1907 : Foreign member Society of Sciences , Christiania . 1907 : Foreign member Royal Society of Sciences ...
... Letters and Arts , Padua . 1907 : Commander of the Legion of Honor , France . 1907 : Honorary Fellow Physical Society , London . 1907 : Foreign member Society of Sciences , Christiania . 1907 : Foreign member Royal Society of Sciences ...
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... letter as well as by published paper and volume . It was potent with beginners and assistants as well as with veterans and directors . It was applied with singleness of purpose , and solely in the interest of the science . Those who ...
... letter as well as by published paper and volume . It was potent with beginners and assistants as well as with veterans and directors . It was applied with singleness of purpose , and solely in the interest of the science . Those who ...
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Page 5 - When an officer is known or suspected to be guilty of malversation in office, some member of the house of representatives usually brings forward a resolution to accuse the party, or for the appointment of a committee to consider and report upon the charges brought against him.
Page 36 - The Uranian and Neptunian systems, investigated with the 26-inch equatorial of the United States Naval observatory.
Page 55 - Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, with Logarithmic and other Mathematical Tables, and Examples of their Use and Hints on the Art of Computation, by Simon...
Page 5 - On the Right Ascensions of the Equatorial Fundamental Stars and the Corrections Necessary to Reduce the Right Ascensions of Different Catalogues to a Mean Homogeneous System.
Page 38 - On the recurrence of solar eclipses with tables of eclipses from BC 700 to AD 2300, by Simon Newcomb.
Page 16 - Sciences in 1900; the Bruce Gold Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in...
Page 96 - The Earliest Winged Insects of America: a re-examination of the Devonian Insects of New -Brunswick, in the light of criticisms and of new studies of other Palaeozoic types.
Page 189 - Deprivation of the comforts of life has a greater tendency to diminish stature than the weight," and "that the importance of mode of life as a factor in determining the size of growing children in this community is at least equal to and possibly even greater than that of race.
Page 3 - I date my birth into the world of sweetness and light on one frosty morning in January, 1857, when I took my seat between two well-known mathematicians, before a blazing fire in the office of the Nautical Almanac at Cambridge, Mass.
Page 95 - A brief account of some of the scientific institutions of Boston and vicinity.