Nature, Volume 55Nature Publishing Group, 1896 - Science |
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Page 64
No account of the organisation of the Scientific and Technical Research Department would be complete without some reference to the part which Sir Frederick Abel , the Secretary and Director of the Institute , has played in this matter .
No account of the organisation of the Scientific and Technical Research Department would be complete without some reference to the part which Sir Frederick Abel , the Secretary and Director of the Institute , has played in this matter .
Page 146
... as he conceived it , is manfully pursued with firmness and decision . His confident reliance on his own judgment seems never for a moment to desert him . As an illustration , one may quote his reference to the discovery of Neptune .
... as he conceived it , is manfully pursued with firmness and decision . His confident reliance on his own judgment seems never for a moment to desert him . As an illustration , one may quote his reference to the discovery of Neptune .
Page 309
Dr. Young characterises it as a book to be read and not to be used as a book of reference . ... One great blemish appears on the surface , for hardly any references are said to be given either to the original sources of the material ...
Dr. Young characterises it as a book to be read and not to be used as a book of reference . ... One great blemish appears on the surface , for hardly any references are said to be given either to the original sources of the material ...
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