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... Geographical Reconnaissance along the Seventy - third Meridian , 78 Boycott ( Prof. A. E. ) , Sinistral Limnaea peregra , 403 Boyle ( Prof. J. E. ) , Agricultural Economics , 79 Boys ( Prof. C. V. ) , The Apparatus of Dr. Russ , 40 ...
... Geographical Reconnaissance along the Seventy - third Meridian , 78 Boycott ( Prof. A. E. ) , Sinistral Limnaea peregra , 403 Boyle ( Prof. J. E. ) , Agricultural Economics , 79 Boys ( Prof. C. V. ) , The Apparatus of Dr. Russ , 40 ...
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... Geography , 260 Choulant ( L. ) , Translated and Edited by Dr. M. Frank . History and Bibliography of Anatomic Illustration in its Relation to Anatomic Science and the Graphic Arts , 141 Chree ( Dr. C. ) , Simultaneous Values of ...
... Geography , 260 Choulant ( L. ) , Translated and Edited by Dr. M. Frank . History and Bibliography of Anatomic Illustration in its Relation to Anatomic Science and the Graphic Arts , 141 Chree ( Dr. C. ) , Simultaneous Values of ...
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... Geographic Aspects of Tradition , 165 Fletcher ( Sir Walter M. ) , The Role of Physiology , 59 Flett ( Dr. J. S. ) ... Geographical Society , 316 Ford ( E. ) , The Life - history of the Dog Fishes , 585 Forster ( Dr. M. O. ) , Chemistry of ...
... Geographic Aspects of Tradition , 165 Fletcher ( Sir Walter M. ) , The Role of Physiology , 59 Flett ( Dr. J. S. ) ... Geographical Society , 316 Ford ( E. ) , The Life - history of the Dog Fishes , 585 Forster ( Dr. M. O. ) , Chemistry of ...
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... Geography ( Presidential Address to the Geography Section of the British Association ) , 58 , 120 Hogben ( Dr. L. T. ) , Preliminary Account of the Spermato- genesis of Sphenodon , 388 Holland ( Sir Thomas ) , the resignation of , from ...
... Geography ( Presidential Address to the Geography Section of the British Association ) , 58 , 120 Hogben ( Dr. L. T. ) , Preliminary Account of the Spermato- genesis of Sphenodon , 388 Holland ( Sir Thomas ) , the resignation of , from ...
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... Geography for Junior Classes , 527 Martin ( L. C. ) , The Physical Meaning of Spherical Aberra- tion , 589 Martin ( M. J. ) . The Electrical Transmission of Photo- graphs , 334 " " " Marvin ( Dr. C. F. ) , The Law of the Geoidal Slope ...
... Geography for Junior Classes , 527 Martin ( L. C. ) , The Physical Meaning of Spherical Aberra- tion , 589 Martin ( M. J. ) . The Electrical Transmission of Photo- graphs , 334 " " " Marvin ( Dr. C. F. ) , The Law of the Geoidal Slope ...
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Page 58 - My design in this book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose them and prove them by reason and experiment," and he is very careful in pursuance of this design to make his statements as free from hypotheses as possible. Again and again he uses the word
Page 58 - Do not several sorts of rays make vibrations of several bignesses, which according to their bignesses excite sensations of several Colours, much after the manner that the vibrations of the Air, according to their several bignesses, excite sensations of several sounds? " Then he suggests that the violet rays make the shorter vibrations, and the red ones the longer vibrations.
Page 292 - led us to undertake the preliminary investigations that preceded our active work. He recommended to us the books which enabled us to form sane ideas at the outset. It was a helping hand at a critical time, and we shall always be grateful.
Page 330 - of the body, and to a long line of male and female ancestors separated by hundreds, and even thousands, of generations from the present time ; and these characters, like those written on paper in invisible ink, lie ready to be evolved whenever the organism is disturbed by certain
Page 335 - to put forward considers, therefore, radiation as a high species of vibration in the lines of force which are known to connect particles, and also masses, of matter together. It endeavours to dismiss the
Page 58 - 1000 miles and becoming infinitesimal in comparison with its original amount, to act upon a wooden ship in such a way that a plank of that ship flew out of its place to a height of 100 ft. How does the energy get from the one place to the other?
Page 292 - the practicability of mechanical flight -—and for the next stage, which is the commercial and practical development of the idea, it is probable that the world may look to others. The world, indeed,
Page 335 - By line of magnetic force, or magnetic line of force, or magnetic curve, I mean that exercise of magnetic force which is exerted in the lines usually called magnetic curves, and which equally exist as passing from or to magnetic poles, or forming concentric circles round an electric current.
Page 330 - crowded with invisible characters proper to both sexes, to both the right and left sides of the body, and to a long line of male and female ancestors separated by hundreds, and even thousands, of generations from the present time ; and these characters, like those written on paper in invisible ink, lie ready to be evolved whenever the organism is disturbed by certain
Page 292 - be supine if it does not realise that a new possibility has come to it, and that the great universal highway overhead is now soon to be opened.