Nature, Volume 73

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Sir Norman Lockyer
Macmillan Journals Limited, 1906 - Electronic journals
 

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Page xxxviii - In Handsome Cloth. With 59 Illustrations. 6s. net. SMOKE ABATEMENT. A Manual for the Use of Manufacturers, Inspectors, Medical Officers of Health, Engineers, and Others. BY WILLIAM NICHOLSON, Chief Smoke Inspector to the Sheffield Corporation.
Page 26 - July 14, 1894, provided that an essay deemed by the committee of award to be worthy of the prize shall have been offered. Essays intended for competition may be upon any subject in medicine, but...
Page 144 - On the Law which has regulated the Introduction of New Species,
Page 144 - Heat in a Gas Engine. — Explosion and Combustion in a Gas Engine. — PART II.— Petroleum Engines : The Discovery, Utilisation, and Properties of Oil.— Method of Treating Oil. — Carburators. — Early Oil Engines. — Practical Application of Gas and Oil Engines.— PART III.— Air Engines.— APPENDICES.— INDEX. "The best book now published on Gas, Oil, and Air Engines.
Page 76 - It should not be assumed that the inhabitants are enemies to our government, and it is to be hoped that every effort will be made to prevent any wanton destruction of property, or any unkind treatment of citizens.
Page 216 - Beltan or 2&/-&2#-day, all the boys in a township or hamlet meet in the moors. They cut a table in the green sod, of a round figure, by casting a trench in the ground of such circumference as to hold the whole company. They kindle a fire, and dress a repast of eggs and milk in the consistence of a custard. They knead a cake of oatmeal, which is toasted at the embers against a stone. After the custard is eaten up, they divide the...
Page 144 - I hope it is a satisfaction to you to reflect — and very few things in my life have been more satisfactory to me — that we have never felt any jealousy towards each other, though in some sense rivals. I believe I can say this of myself with truth, and I am absolutely sure that it is true of you.
Page 216 - At midday a struggle took place, at the risk of cut hands, for a slice, it being supposed to confer luck for the ensuing year on the fortunate devourer. As an act of gallantry...
Page 85 - The scholarships will be awarded to the best candidates holding a degree or equivalent in arts or science. Applications should reach the head of the training department not later than Monday, December 18.
Page 123 - ... course taken by the impulses, and on their central connections. In recent years a considerable amount of work has been done in mapping out the areas of the skin supplied by each of the cranial and spinal nerves. This work, essential both to physiology and to clinical medicine, received its chief impetus and most weighty contribution from the careful and detailed observations of Prof.

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