Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Containing papers of a Biological character, Volume 76Royal Society and sold, 1905 - Biology Publishes refereed research papers in all aspects of the biological sciences. As a fast track journal, it specialises in the rapid delivery of the latest research to the scientific community. |
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Page 13 - The Society took a very active part in the measurement of a degree of latitude, afterwards in the length of a pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London, and in the comparison of the British Standards with the Linear Measure adopted in France. A committee was appointed to compare the Society's Standard yard with that of the Exchequer. Later, in 1834, when the Standard yard was lost in the destruction by fire of the Houses of Parliament, a Commission (all the members of which were Fellows...
Page 17 - From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue ; Far along the world-wide whisper of the southwind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunderstorm Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer and the Battleflags were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.
Page 287 - The single afferent nerve-fibre would therefore in regard to one set of its terminal branches be specifically excitor, and in regard to another set of its central endings be specifically inhibitory.
Page 18 - ... Africa. Two years later Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, requested the Society to appoint a Committee to make a thorough investigation into the origin, the transmission, and the possible preventives and remedies of tropical diseases, and especially of the malarial and " Blackwater " fevers prevalent in Africa, promising assistance, both on the part of the Colonial Office and of the Colonies concerned. A Committee was appointed, and, under its auspices, skilled investigators...
Page 21 - ... 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...
Page 18 - ... Since then a report entitled " Progress Report on Sleeping Sickness in Uganda " has been received and published as No. 2 Report of the Sleeping Sickness Committee. Colonel Bruce returned to England in September, bringing with him a further report which adduces evidence that — (1) Sleeping Sickness is caused by the entrance into the blood, and thence into the cerebro-spinal fluid, of a species of trypanosoma. (2) This species is probably that discovered by Forde and described by Dutton from...
Page 20 - The promotion of Natural Knowledge." The successive generations of Fellows have unsparingly contributed of their time to the introduction and promotion, whenever the opportunity was afforded them, of scientific knowledge and methods into the management of public concerns by Departments of the Government. The financial independence of the Royal Society, neither receiving, nor wishing to accept State aid for its own private purposes, has enabled the Society to give advice and assistance which, both...
Page 384 - THE ATOLL OF FUNAFUTI, BORINGS INTO A CORAL REEF AND THE RESULTS. Price 30s. To Fellows of the Royal Society, 20s.
Page 25 - Perkin, jun., FRS, for his masterly and fruitful researches in the domain of synthetic organic chemistry, on which he has been continuously engaged during the past twenty-five years. Dr. Perkin's name is identified with the great advances which have been made during the past quarter of a century in our knowledge of the ring or cyclic compounds of carbon. Thus, in the year 1880, the cyclic carbon compounds known to chemists were chiefly restricted to the unsaturated groupings of six carbon atoms met...
Page 22 - FRS, on account of his researches on the properties of radio-active matter, in particular for his capital discovery of the active gaseous emanations emitted by such matter, and his detailed investigation of their transformations. The idea of radiations producing ionization, of the type originally discovered by Rontgen, and the idea of electrified particles, like the cathode rays of vacuum tubes, projected from radio-active bodies, had gradually become familiar through the work of a succession of...