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... referred to papers by Profs . Rankine and Clerk - Maxwell . It was at this meeting ( April 13 ) that Prof. Henrici drew atten- tion to a work then little known in this country , viz . Culmann's " Graphische Statik " - " l'excellente ...
... referred to papers by Profs . Rankine and Clerk - Maxwell . It was at this meeting ( April 13 ) that Prof. Henrici drew atten- tion to a work then little known in this country , viz . Culmann's " Graphische Statik " - " l'excellente ...
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... referred to in the opening paragraphs of this notice . The immediate object of the book is to furnish help to students preparing for the South Kensington Examinations and for those of the City and Guilds of London Institute . The Manual ...
... referred to in the opening paragraphs of this notice . The immediate object of the book is to furnish help to students preparing for the South Kensington Examinations and for those of the City and Guilds of London Institute . The Manual ...
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... referred to the extreme difficulty of the spectroscopic discrimination in the case of the meteor- swarms which are just passing from the first stage of con- densation , and it may well be that we shall have to wait for many years before ...
... referred to the extreme difficulty of the spectroscopic discrimination in the case of the meteor- swarms which are just passing from the first stage of con- densation , and it may well be that we shall have to wait for many years before ...
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... referred to the spectrum of o Ceti , as photo- graphed by Prof. Pickering for the Henry Draper Memorial , the slide having been kindly placed at his disposal by the Council of the Royal Astronomical Society . All the bright hydrogen ...
... referred to the spectrum of o Ceti , as photo- graphed by Prof. Pickering for the Henry Draper Memorial , the slide having been kindly placed at his disposal by the Council of the Royal Astronomical Society . All the bright hydrogen ...
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... referred to . The capacity of this box would be only rudely propor- tionate to that of the skull in individual cases , but ought to be closely proportionate in the average of many cases The relation they bear to one another affords , as ...
... referred to . The capacity of this box would be only rudely propor- tionate to that of the skull in individual cases , but ought to be closely proportionate in the average of many cases The relation they bear to one another affords , as ...
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