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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... nearly serve for an arboretum . Here an adequate botanical library and an herbarium ( both essentials ) will doubtless be provided : we believe there is already a foundation for them . And so , if Mr. Shaw's long - cherished intentions ...
... nearly serve for an arboretum . Here an adequate botanical library and an herbarium ( both essentials ) will doubtless be provided : we believe there is already a foundation for them . And so , if Mr. Shaw's long - cherished intentions ...
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... nearly an hour . The time required for passage , therefore , will be about four days ; so that , although the total dis- tance is shorter than at Panama , the time re- quired for a steamer would be about the same . In the article by Mr ...
... nearly an hour . The time required for passage , therefore , will be about four days ; so that , although the total dis- tance is shorter than at Panama , the time re- quired for a steamer would be about the same . In the article by Mr ...
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... nearly ten years . The second point which he studied was the relation existing between epidemic infectious diseases , and the pecuniary status of the dif- ferent grades of the community . Upon this point he finds that poverty does not ...
... nearly ten years . The second point which he studied was the relation existing between epidemic infectious diseases , and the pecuniary status of the dif- ferent grades of the community . Upon this point he finds that poverty does not ...
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... nearly filled up the lake - basin . The thickness of the flow considerably exceeds 100 feet , and may be as great as 150 feet on the average . The lava- field is about three miles and one - fourth in length , and a mile in width , and ...
... nearly filled up the lake - basin . The thickness of the flow considerably exceeds 100 feet , and may be as great as 150 feet on the average . The lava- field is about three miles and one - fourth in length , and a mile in width , and ...
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... nearly all the nitrate of lead is decomposed , there is a greater liberation of gas at the anode . The development of gas is to be avoided at the beginning of the charge : otherwise the peroxide of lead , or , strictly speaking , the ...
... nearly all the nitrate of lead is decomposed , there is a greater liberation of gas at the anode . The development of gas is to be avoided at the beginning of the charge : otherwise the peroxide of lead , or , strictly speaking , the ...
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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