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... Rock - shelters at this spot . ( Drawn up by Mr. B. HARRISON ) Fourth Report of the Committee , consisting of Professor FLOWER ( Chairman ) , Mr. D. MORRIS ( Secretary ) , Mr. CARRUTHERS , Dr. SCLATER , Mr. THISELTON- DYER , Dr. SHARP ...
... Rock - shelters at this spot . ( Drawn up by Mr. B. HARRISON ) Fourth Report of the Committee , consisting of Professor FLOWER ( Chairman ) , Mr. D. MORRIS ( Secretary ) , Mr. CARRUTHERS , Dr. SCLATER , Mr. THISELTON- DYER , Dr. SHARP ...
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... , F.R.S. Recent Discovery of Rock - salt at Carrickfergus , and geological and practical considerations connected with it . Date and Place 1853. Hull ..... Lecturer Subject of Discourse lx REPORT - 1891 . List of Evening Lectures.
... , F.R.S. Recent Discovery of Rock - salt at Carrickfergus , and geological and practical considerations connected with it . Date and Place 1853. Hull ..... Lecturer Subject of Discourse lx REPORT - 1891 . List of Evening Lectures.
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... Rock Shelters at that spot . Completion of a Report on the Cretaceous Polyzoa . To appoint Mr. Willey to investi- gate the Morphology of the Ascidians at the Zoological Sta- tion at Naples , or , failing this , to appoint some other ...
... Rock Shelters at that spot . Completion of a Report on the Cretaceous Polyzoa . To appoint Mr. Willey to investi- gate the Morphology of the Ascidians at the Zoological Sta- tion at Naples , or , failing this , to appoint some other ...
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... Rocks ...... Earthquakes in Scotland British Fossil Corals 100 0 0 Bagshot Leaf - beds 100 0 0 Fossil Flora 25 0 0 Tidal Observations 0 0 4 0 Plant Beds 100 0 0 Organic Acids 00 30 0 0 £ 1739 4 O 1868 . 100 0 0 30 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 ...
... Rocks ...... Earthquakes in Scotland British Fossil Corals 100 0 0 Bagshot Leaf - beds 100 0 0 Fossil Flora 25 0 0 Tidal Observations 0 0 4 0 Plant Beds 100 0 0 Organic Acids 00 30 0 0 £ 1739 4 O 1868 . 100 0 0 30 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 ...
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... Rocks 500 £ 1092 4 2 Ancient Earthworks 10 0 0 75 0 0 15 0 0 30 0 0 100 0 0 66 0 0 25 0 50 00 100 0 0 15 0 0 of 4 16 6 10 0 25 0 600 1877 . Liquid Carbonic Acids in Minerals Elliptic Functions Rocks Thermal Conductivity of Zoological ...
... Rocks 500 £ 1092 4 2 Ancient Earthworks 10 0 0 75 0 0 15 0 0 30 0 0 100 0 0 66 0 0 25 0 50 00 100 0 0 15 0 0 of 4 16 6 10 0 25 0 600 1877 . Liquid Carbonic Acids in Minerals Elliptic Functions Rocks Thermal Conductivity of Zoological ...
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Page xi - To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another, and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
Page xiii - If it should be inconvenient to the Author that his paper should be read on any particular days, he is requested to send information thereof to the Secretaries in a separate note.
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Page 569 - Workmen's Associations should be so organized and governed as to furnish the best and most suitable means for attaining what is aimed at, that is to say, for helping each individual member to better his condition to the utmost in body, mind, and property.
Page xiii - 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 145 - Then insert the cork and zinc rod, passing the glass tube through the hole prepared for it. Push the cork gently down until its lower surface is nearly in contact with the liquid. The air will thus be nearly all expelled, and the cell should be left in this condition for at least...
Page 142 - As a unit of resistance, the international ohm, which is based upon the ohm equal to 10" units of resistance of the CGS system of electromagnetic 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 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area and of the length of 106.3 centimetres.
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Page 582 - HULL— COAL FIELDS of GREAT BRITAIN ; their History, Structure, and Resources ; with Notices of the Coal Fields of other parts of the World. By EDWARD HULL, MA, FRS, Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland, Professor of Geology in the Royal College of Science, Dublin, &c.
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