Science, Volume 10John Michels (Journalist) American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1887 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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... person so that it reflected the hands of the medium at work on a slate under the table . He plainly saw the hand open the slate , read the question , and noiselessly write the answer , which the fair medium had the impudence to present ...
... person so that it reflected the hands of the medium at work on a slate under the table . He plainly saw the hand open the slate , read the question , and noiselessly write the answer , which the fair medium had the impudence to present ...
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... persons observed the shadow - bands , which appeared before and after totality . The general result of their observations indicated that the bands were about five inches wide and eight inches apart , that they were colored like the ...
... persons observed the shadow - bands , which appeared before and after totality . The general result of their observations indicated that the bands were about five inches wide and eight inches apart , that they were colored like the ...
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... persons who steal bottles or unlawfully have them in their possession ; fourteen regulate the sale of butter and ... person that prospered was per se a ' fraud ' which must be regu- lated . The special frauds to be regulated ' in the ...
... persons who steal bottles or unlawfully have them in their possession ; fourteen regulate the sale of butter and ... person that prospered was per se a ' fraud ' which must be regu- lated . The special frauds to be regulated ' in the ...
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... persons almost to a minimum . That such is not the case is vividly suggested by the statistics which a teacher of the deaf - mute has had the patience to gather . He has counted the average number of words which a pupil in his school ...
... persons almost to a minimum . That such is not the case is vividly suggested by the statistics which a teacher of the deaf - mute has had the patience to gather . He has counted the average number of words which a pupil in his school ...
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... persons . At the Massachusetts General Hospital the number is nearly as great . In New York and in Brooklyn there ... person . Of the females , fourteen were struck upon the left ear , and six upon the right . Five of the women were ...
... persons . At the Massachusetts General Hospital the number is nearly as great . In New York and in Brooklyn there ... person . Of the females , fourteen were struck upon the left ear , and six upon the right . Five of the women were ...
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Page 184 - Receive them free, and sell them by the weight; Bags of fiery opals, sapphires, amethysts, Jacinths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen costly stones of so great price, As one of them indifferently rated, And of a carat of this quantity, May serve, in peril of calamity, To ransom great kings from captivity.
Page 206 - A SOUND mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this world ; he that has these two, has little more to wish for ; and he that wants either of them, will be but little the better for any thing else.
Page 168 - PLATTNER.— Manual of Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis with the Blow-Pipe. From the last German edition, revised and enlarged. By Prof. Th. Richter, of the Royal Saxon Mining Academy. Translated by Prof. H. B. Cornwall, assisted by John H.
Page 55 - The Committee on Disinfectants of the American Public Health Association.
Page 168 - AB Organic Analysis. A Manual of the Descriptive and Analytical Chemistry of certain Carbon Compounds in Common Use ; a Guide in the Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Organic Materials in Commercial and Pharmaceutical Assays, in the estimation of Impurities under Authorized Standards, and in Forensic Examinations for Poisons, with Directions for Elementary Organic Analysis.
Page 168 - CHEMICAL EXAMINATION OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS. — A Manual of the Constituents of the Distilled Spirits and Fermented Liquors of Commerce, and their Qualitative and Quantitative Determinations.
Page 207 - Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subservient only to greater qualities. Seek out somebody that may know how discreetly to frame his manners ; place him in hands where you may, as much as possible, secure his innocence, cherish and nurse up the good, and gently correct and weed out any bad inclinations, and settle in him good habits. This is the main point ; and this being provided for, learning may be had into the bargain, and that, as I think, at a very easy rate, by methods that...
Page 128 - An act defining butter, also imposing a tax upon and regulating the manufacture, sale, importation, and exportation of oleomargarine...
Page 206 - And thus I have done with what concerns the body and health, which reduces itself to these few and easily observable rules: plenty of open air, exercise, and sleep; plain diet, no wine or strong drink, and very little or no physic, not too warm and straight clothing, especially the head and feet kept cold, and the feet often used to cold water and exposed to wet.
Page 27 - Congress shall have power to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries, and to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers.