Science, Volume 6John Michels (Journalist) American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1885 Since Jan. 1901 the official proceedings and most of the papers of the American Association for the Advancement of Science have been included in Science. |
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... four pounds , on the London and north - western railway , following the example of the German roads , where they are quite common . Of freight - cars , only about twenty per cent have brakes in England ; and these are so placed that ...
... four pounds , on the London and north - western railway , following the example of the German roads , where they are quite common . Of freight - cars , only about twenty per cent have brakes in England ; and these are so placed that ...
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... four to five feet in length , made of feathers ; another , forty - five whistles made from the tibiae of deer , the ' stop ' being formed by inserting a mass of asphaltum , and the larger end of the bone covered with asphaltum in which ...
... four to five feet in length , made of feathers ; another , forty - five whistles made from the tibiae of deer , the ' stop ' being formed by inserting a mass of asphaltum , and the larger end of the bone covered with asphaltum in which ...
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... four epidemics , of which the date of beginning has been accurately recorded , three began in May in places south of latitude 33 ° north , but none earlier than June in places north of Charleston ( 32 ° 46 ′ north ) : four began as late ...
... four epidemics , of which the date of beginning has been accurately recorded , three began in May in places south of latitude 33 ° north , but none earlier than June in places north of Charleston ( 32 ° 46 ′ north ) : four began as late ...
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... four years thereafter , had furnished more linear feet of sewers per capita of population than in any other of the large cities of the Union . For fourteen years ( 1843-56 inclusive 1 ) the average annual death - rate of the city had ...
... four years thereafter , had furnished more linear feet of sewers per capita of population than in any other of the large cities of the Union . For fourteen years ( 1843-56 inclusive 1 ) the average annual death - rate of the city had ...
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... four classes , ac- cording to their endowment in worldly goods ; those who are very rich at one end of the category , and those who suffer from abject pov- erty at the other . Between these extremes lie the great mass of the people ...
... four classes , ac- cording to their endowment in worldly goods ; those who are very rich at one end of the category , and those who suffer from abject pov- erty at the other . Between these extremes lie the great mass of the people ...
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Page 340 - vision. In vain,—the blurred record was as blank as ever. The next night he saw the fish again, but with no more satisfactory result. When he awoke it disappeared from his memory as before. Hoping that the same experience might be repeated on the third night, he placed a pencil and
Page 99 - quite like the French academy, — a sovereign organ of the highest literary opinion, a recognized authority in matters of intellectual tone and taste, we shall hardly have, and perhaps we ought not to wish to have it."
Page 6 - communications concerning the proposed change in the time for beginning the astronomical day, as recommended by the recent International meridian conference at Washington, the lords of the committee of council on education requested the following committee to advise them as to what steps should be taken in the matter : Prof. JC Adams,
Page 382 - Helmholtz, HLF The sensations of tone as a physiological basis for the theory of music. 2d
Page 31 - the extent to which the strata above or below the gassand are cracked; (c) the dip of the gassand, and the position of the anticlines and synclines; (d) the relative proportions of water, oil, and gas contained in the sand; and (e) the pressure under which the gas exists before being tapped by wells.
Page 433 - and The preventable causes of disease, injury, and death in American manufactories and workshops, and the best means and appliances for preventing and avoiding them. The
Page 266 - terms such as a competent mathematician could deal with, disentangled from all reference to heredity, and in that shape submitted it to Mr. J. Hamilton Dickson, of St. Peter's college, Cambridge. I asked him kindly to investigate for me the surface of frequency of error that would result from these three data, and the various
Page 265 - discountenances extravagant fears that they will inherit all their weaknesses and diseases. The converse of this law is very far from being its numerical opposite. Because the most probable deviate of the son is only twothirds that of his midparentage , it does not in the least follow that the most probable deviate of the midparentage is
Page 333 - and the tooth became the most efficient weapon of attack. Still later, armor was discarded, and flight or concealment became the main methods of escape, and swift pursuit the principle of attack, while claws were added to teeth as assailing weapons. Finally, mentality came into play, intelligence became the most efficient agent both in attack and
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| Title | Science, Volume 6 |
| Editor | John Michels (Journalist) |
| Contributor | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| Publisher | American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1885 |
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