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Page 32 - Ganot's Elementary Treatise on Physics, Experimental and Applied, for the use of Colleges and Schools. Translated and edited by E. ATKINSON, FCS Seventh Edition, with 4 Coloured Plates and 758 Woodcuts. Post 8vo. 15.?.
Page 114 - Chemistry, Medicine, Surgery, and the Allied Sciences. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of other Sciences.
Page 124 - Notice to Contributors of Memoirs. — Authors are reminded that, under an arrangement dating from 1871, the acceptance of Memoirs, and the days on which they are to be read, are now as far as possible determined by Organizing Committees for the several Sections before the beginning of the Meeting.
Page 260 - ... at least one mile. Every person in charge of a dumb-barge when under way and not in tow shall, between sunset and sunrise, when below or to the eastward of a line drawn from the upper part of Silvertown, in the county...
Page 71 - In man the chief materials used for the production of muscular power are non-nitrogenous ; but nitrogenous matters can also be employed for the same purpose, and hence the greatly increased evolution of nitrogen under the influence of a flesh diet, even with no greater muscular exertion.
Page 42 - As it is impossible to enable the reader to recognise rocks and minerals at sight by aid of verbal descriptions or figures, he will do well to obtain a wellarranged collection of specimens, such as may be procured from Mr. TENNANT (149, Strand), Teacher of Mineralogy at King's College, London.
Page 58 - That the thanks of the meeting be given to the President for his Address, and that it be printed in the Journal of the Institute.
Page 177 - Food which had hitherto been found to pass the alimentary canal unchanged digested properly. (2 ) There appeared an increased power of evolving animal heat and storing up fat. Passing beyond my personal experience. I have experimented with it in other directions, particularly upon thin, cold, and aged people, who are unanimous in attributing to the liquid sustaining powers which are not commonly observed with alcoholic liquors.
Page 182 - ... perforated with fine holes (the more numerous and the finer the better) by means of a steel point ; or, better still, the bottom may be made of fine platinum gauze. Next a Bunsen funnel of the proper size i?
Page 177 - The beers of England and France, and for the most part those of Germany, become gradually sour by contact of air. This defect does not belong to the beers of Bavaria, which may be preserved at pleasure in half-full casks, as well as full ones, without alteration in the air.