Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 69

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Page 130 - From my father's door, in the latter part of March and the early part of April, we could see perhaps a dozen columns of smoke rising over the woods in different places where the work was going on.
Page 133 - Hecatasus. and some others tell us that opposite the land of the Celts [*v rait avrmipav rf)r K(>rntr}c r«B«»«] there exists in the Ocean an island not smaller than Sicily, and which, situated under the constellation of The Bear, is inhabited by the Hyperboreans; so called because they live beyond the point from which the North wind blows. ... If one may believe the same mythology, Latona was born in this island, and for that reason the inhabitants honour Apollo more than any other deity. A sacred...
Page 398 - The same definite quantity of either positive or negative electricity moves always with each univalent ion, or with every unit of affinity of a multivalent ion.
Page 150 - Pearson rather unguardedly concluded "that we are forced to the perfectly definite conclusion that the mental characters In man are inherited In precisely the same way as the physical.
Page 405 - Like the action producing volatilization, the "red heat "is confined to the superficial layers of molecules only. The metal instantly assumes, or loses, the appearance of red heat the moment the current is turned on or off, showing that, if the appearance is really due to a rise of temperature, it does not penetrate much below the surface. The extra activity of the metallic molecules necessary to volatilize them is, in these experiments, confined to the surface only, or the whole mass would evaporate...
Page 134 - ... can probably be determined with greater accuracy than that of the temple axis itself, the estimate of date in this paper is based upon the orientation of the avenue. Further evidence will be given, however, to show that the direction of the axis of the temple, so far as it can now be determined, is sufficiently accordant with the direction of the avenue. The orientation of this avenue may be examined upon the same principles that have been found successful in the case of Greek and Egyptian temples...
Page 203 - ... motor' area is hidden in sulci; for instance, the area extends into the sulc. centralis and the sulc. precentralis. also into occasional sulci which cross the precentral gyrus. The names printed large on the stippled area indicate the main regions of the 'motor' area; the names printed small outside the brain, indicate broadly by their pointing lines the relative topography of some of the chief subdivisions of the main regions of the 'motor
Page 398 - According to it, the equivalent weights of bodies are simply those quantities of them which contain equal quantities of electricity, or have naturally equal electric powers; it being the ELECTRICITY which determines the equivalent number, because it determines the combining force. Or, if we adopt the atomic theory or phraseology, then the atoms of bodies which are equivalent to each other in their ordinary chemical action, have equal quantities of electricity naturally associated with them.
Page 398 - ... upon that knowledge comes the fact, that the electricity, which we appear to be capable of loosening from its habitation for a while, and conveying from place to place, whilst it retains its chemical force, can be measured out, and being so measured is found to be as definite in its action as any of those portions which, remaining associated with the particles of matter, give them their chemical relation ; we seem to have found the link which connects the proportion of that we have evolved to...
Page 365 - ... the base of the wing, its stem nearly as long as the cell ; stem of the second posterior longer than the cell...

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