Nature, Volume 44Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1891 - Electronic journals |
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Page 37 - Arranged to meet the requirements of the Syllabus of the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, South Kensington.
Page 168 - SYSTEMATIC HANDBOOK OF VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS ; or, the Quantitative Estimation, of Chemical Substances by Measure, applied to Liquids, Solids, and Gases. Adapted to the requirements of Pure Chemical Research, Pathological Chemistry, Pharmacy, Metallurgy, Manufacturing Chemistry, Photography, etc., and for the Valuation of Substances used in Commerce, Agriculture, and the Arts.
Page 201 - Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Page 48 - FRS , President, in the chair. — The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of May 1891, calling special attention to a female Water-buck Antelope (Coitus ellipsiprymnus) from British East Africa, presented by Mr.
Page 120 - 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 that...
Page 287 - ... notice is given of the subject proposed. It is open to all members of the University, and consists of a gold medal of the value of ten guineas, together with the surplus dividends on the money invested.
Page 225 - In electricity he has made a remarkable discovery; you write two or three words on a paper; he takes it with him into a room, and turns a machine enclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine...
Page 62 - That it is desirable that, with a view to their exchange, at least one uniform observation of such a character as to be suitable for the preparation of synoptic charts be taken and recorded daily and simultaneously at as many stations as practicable throughout the world.
Page 41 - AT the meeting of the Linnean Society of New South Wales on March 25, the Rev. Dr. W. Woolls read a paper on the classification of Eucalypts.
Page 241 - Annual Report of the National Association for the Promotion of Technical and Secondary Education, and which we reproduce.