Science, Volume 66John Michels American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1927 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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... Problems with New Illustrations , 425 ALLEN , E. , Automatic Dehydrating Apparatus , 427 Allotype , The Use of the Term , J. C. BRADLEY , 563 American Association for the Advancement of Science , Nashville Meeting , 19 , 517 ; Newspaper ...
... Problems with New Illustrations , 425 ALLEN , E. , Automatic Dehydrating Apparatus , 427 Allotype , The Use of the Term , J. C. BRADLEY , 563 American Association for the Advancement of Science , Nashville Meeting , 19 , 517 ; Newspaper ...
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... problems in biology are already solved , and any of the others may bring up new points of view . Practically also , one line of genuine work in any field is just as difficult as in any other and just as important . To sneer at any other ...
... problems in biology are already solved , and any of the others may bring up new points of view . Practically also , one line of genuine work in any field is just as difficult as in any other and just as important . To sneer at any other ...
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... problems with precision , in the careful gathering of facts , in making fair deductions through accurate reasoning ... problem with reasonable hope of its solution . There is a tremendous demand to - day for those so trained . We have ...
... problems with precision , in the careful gathering of facts , in making fair deductions through accurate reasoning ... problem with reasonable hope of its solution . There is a tremendous demand to - day for those so trained . We have ...
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... problems and practices , after which he will organize an adequate research laboratory . It has not yet been determined where it will be established . PROFESSOR ARCHIBALD VIVIAN HILL , F.R.S. , who recently returned to England after ...
... problems and practices , after which he will organize an adequate research laboratory . It has not yet been determined where it will be established . PROFESSOR ARCHIBALD VIVIAN HILL , F.R.S. , who recently returned to England after ...
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... problems have become very urgent for American nurserymen and horticul- turists , especially in view of the quarantine which will be in full operation by 1930 . R. H. BELL , who has been assistant director of agri- cultural extension ...
... problems have become very urgent for American nurserymen and horticul- turists , especially in view of the quarantine which will be in full operation by 1930 . R. H. BELL , who has been assistant director of agri- cultural extension ...
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Page 9 - June 30, 1951, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated a sum not to exceed...
Page 287 - New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 122 - True, I talk of dreams; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind...
Page 31 - RESOLUTIONS RESOLUTION ON TRANSLATIONS OF REPORTS ON SEISMOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS PUBLISHED IN THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE (Submitted by Section of Seismology and adopted at general assembly of the Union, April 29, 1927) Whereas, it has become known that the reports of much of the seismological investigations carried on in Japan will hereafter be published in the Japanese language only, and Whereas, This procedure is calculated to deprive most of the American students in this field of research of the advantages...
Page 256 - Competitors will not be required to report for examination at any place, but will be rated on their education, training, and experience; and writings to be filed with the application.
Page 205 - No structure found in the brain of an ape is lacking in the human brain, and, on the other hand, the human brain reveals no formation of any sort that is not present in the brain of the gorilla or chimpanzee. . . . The only distinctive feature of the human brain is a quantitative one.
Page 389 - Howard is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He...
Page 204 - To unravel Man's pedigree, we have to thread our way, not along the links of a chain, but through the meshes of a complicated network.
Page 48 - a defective gene — such a thing as produces diabetes, cretinism, feeblemindedness — is a frightful thing; it is the embodiment, the material realization of a demon of evil; a living self-perpetuating creature, invisible, impalpable, that blasts the human being in bud or leaf. Such a thing must be stopped wherever it is recognized."32 Fisher's primary criticism was levelled at the use of Hardy's table to demonstrate the inefficacy of selection.
Page 207 - What is Man's origin ? Was Darwin right when he said that Man, under the action of biological forces which can be observed and measured, has been raised from a place amongst anthropoid apes to that which he now occupies ? The answer is Yes ! and in returning this verdict I speak but as foreman of the jury — a jury which has been empanelled from men who have devoted a lifetime to weighing the evidence.