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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... present work , was delivered in the Session of 1884-85 The object of the lectures was to popularize the doctrine that , in heat - engines , the work given out is due to the conversion of the molecular motion of heat into the visible ...
... present work , was delivered in the Session of 1884-85 The object of the lectures was to popularize the doctrine that , in heat - engines , the work given out is due to the conversion of the molecular motion of heat into the visible ...
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... present year was very great . In Boston , twenty - seven in- dividuals applied for surgical aid at the City Hospital , and nine beds are occupied by injured persons . At the Massachusetts General Hospital the number is nearly as great ...
... present year was very great . In Boston , twenty - seven in- dividuals applied for surgical aid at the City Hospital , and nine beds are occupied by injured persons . At the Massachusetts General Hospital the number is nearly as great ...
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... present the Englishman with a portion of my winnings , I am none the less a stealer of horses . Similarly , if a publisher takes an Englishman's book without the Englishman's consent , and pub- lishes it , he has appropriated what does ...
... present the Englishman with a portion of my winnings , I am none the less a stealer of horses . Similarly , if a publisher takes an Englishman's book without the Englishman's consent , and pub- lishes it , he has appropriated what does ...
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... present state of affairs , and cannot find anybody to depose that the country is suf- fering , where is the case to meet which , or the hardship to remove which , Congress can act ? As to the constitutional powers of Congress to pass ...
... present state of affairs , and cannot find anybody to depose that the country is suf- fering , where is the case to meet which , or the hardship to remove which , Congress can act ? As to the constitutional powers of Congress to pass ...
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... present statute cannot be amended ( say , by substitution of the word ' person ' for the words ' citizen of the United States ' ) so as to practically enact one : or treaty made with Great Britain , which , under the treaty - making ...
... present statute cannot be amended ( say , by substitution of the word ' person ' for the words ' citizen of the United States ' ) so as to practically enact one : or treaty made with Great Britain , which , under the treaty - making ...
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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.
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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.