 | Meteorology - 1820 - 472 pages
...indeed as those which constitute our ordinary sounds, but so remote, that the animals who perceive them may be said to possess another sense, agreeing...those slower vibrations of which we are sensible. I should be always most unwilling to occupy the time of this Society with idle speculations on mere... | |
 | A.P. Beresford, Alexander Dedekind, Andrew Jameson, Auguste de Saint-Hilaire, Benjamin Kidd, Bouffier de Sauvages, Charles Bucke, Edward Latham Ormerod, Esq. Thomas Hale, George Hubbard, Harry Wallis Kew, Herbert S. Shorthouse, I. Hopkins, James Caldwell, James Cavanah Murphy, Lippi, M.M.M., T. Slevan, Thorsley, Travers James Briant, William Carr, William Dunbar, William Hyde Wollaston - Agriculture - 1820 - 474 pages
...indeed as those which constitute our ordinary sounds, but so remote, that the animals who perceive them may be said to possess another sense, agreeing...those slower vibrations of which we are sensible. ART. XX. — Observations on Bees, made by means of the Mirror-Hive. By the Reverend WILLIAM DUNBAR,... | |
 | English literature - 1821 - 702 pages
...indeed, as those which constitute our ordinary sounds, but so remote, that the animals who perceive them may be said to possess another sense, agreeing...those slower vibrations of which we are sensible." {ears," says Mr. Perkins, " that water was an clastic fluid, was induced to make some experiments to... | |
 | 1821 - 530 pages
...nature indeed as those which constitute our ordinary sounds, but so remote that the animals who perceive them may be said to possess another sense, agreeing...those slower vibrations of which we are sensible. vii. On the Compressibility of Water. By JACOB PERKINS, Esq. The experiments of Canton long age demonstrated... | |
 | Science - 1821 - 502 pages
...indeed as those which constitute our ordinary sounds, but so remote, that the animals who perceive them may be said to possess another sense, agreeing...those slower vibrations of which we are sensible. ART. XXVI.— Description of a New Double Image Micrometer for Measuring the Diameter of Minute Celestial... | |
 | Science - 1824 - 628 pages
...those which constitute our ordinary sounds, but so remote, that the animals who perceive them may he said to possess another sense, agreeing with our own...those slower vibrations of which we are sensible. ART. V. — On certain Elevations of Land, connected with the Actions of Volcanoes. By J. MAC CULLOCH,... | |
 | Science - 1821 - 520 pages
...indeed as those which constitute our ordinary sounds, but so remote, that the animals who perceive them may be said to possess another sense, agreeing...possibly wholly unaffected by those slower vibrations of \yhich we are sensible. AKT. XXVI. — Description of a New Double Image •Micrometer for Measuring... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Insects - 1826 - 676 pages
...so remote, that the animals who perceive them may be said to possess another sense, agreeing "joith our own solely in the medium by which it is excited, and possibly wholly unaffected by these slower vibrations of which we are sensible*." That insects, however, hear nothing in common with... | |
 | James Rennie - Animals - 1831 - 434 pages
...nature as those which constitute our ordinary sounds, but so remote, that the animals who perceive them may be said to possess another sense, agreeing...which it is excited, and possibly wholly unaffected by the slower vibrations of which we are sensible*." » Dr. Wollaston irt Phil; Trans, for 1820, p. 314.... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1833 - 486 pages
...incomparably more frequent may exist, we may imagine, says the author, that animals like the Grylli, whose powers appear to commence nearly where ours...those slower vibrations of which we are sensible. Particulars respecting the Anatomy of the Dugong, intended as a Supplement to Sir TS Raffles's Account... | |
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Grylli (crickets or grasshoppers), whose powers appear to commence nearly where ours terminate, may hear still sharper sounds, which we do not know to exist ; and that there may be insects hearing nothing in common with us, but endued with a power of... 
