Report of the Annual Meeting, المجلد 31

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Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors 186061 By a Com
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Report on the Action of Prison Diet and Discipline on the Bodily
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Professor DAUBENY on the Evolution of Ammonia from Volcanos
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Freight as affected by Differences in the Dynamic Properties of Steam
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Report on the Progress of Celestial Photography since the Aberdeen
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On the Theory of Exchanges and its recent extension By BALFOUR
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On the Recent Progress and Present Condition of Manufacturing Che
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On EthnoClimatology or the Acclimatization of Man By JAMES
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On Experiments on the Gauging of Water by Triangular Notches
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Report on Field Experiments and Laboratory Researches on the Con
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Provisional Report on the Present State of our Knowledge respecting
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Contributions to a Report on the Physical Aspect of the Moon
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Preliminary Report of the Dredging Committee for the Mersey and
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Preliminary Report on the Best Mode of Preventing the Ravages
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Rev W N MOLESWORTH on the Progress of Cooperation at Rochdale
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On the Explosions in British CoalMines during the year 1859
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Brief Summary of a Report on the Flora of the North of Ireland
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On the Psychical and Physical Characters of the Mincopies or Natives
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Report from the Balloon Committee By Colonel SYKES M P F R S
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Mr R A MACFIE on Patents considered Internationally
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Interim Report of the Committee for Dredging on the North and East
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Continuation of Report to determine the Effect of Vibratory Action
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Report on the Theory of Numbers Part III By H J STEPHEN
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MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS
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Mr W H L RUSSELL on the Calculus of Functions with Remarks on
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Mr J S STUART GLENNIE on the Application of the Principle of the Conser
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Mr THOMAS ROSE on Presentations of Colour produced under novel conditions
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Mr J P GASSIOT on the Deposit of Metals from the Negative Terminal of
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Messrs ARCHIBALD SMITH and F J EVANS on the Effect produced on
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Mr G JOHNSTONE STONEY on the Amount of the direct Magnetic Effect of
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Professor HARKNESS on the Old Red Sandstone of South Perthshire 114
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Mr GEORGE H MORTON on the Pleistocene Deposits of the District around
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Professor PHILLIPSs Notice of the Postglacial Gravels of the Valley of
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Messrs J T WILKINSON and J WHITAKER on the Burnley Coalfield
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Professor DAUBENY on the Functions discharged by the Roots of Plants
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Stauridia with Remarks on the Relation between the Polyp and its Medu
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Rev ALFRED MERLE NORMAN on the Crustacea Echinodermata and Zoo
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Dr P L SCLATERs Remarks on the late Increase of our Knowledge of
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PHYSIOLOGY
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lis Retina in the Eyes of Animals 171
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Dr J TURNBULL on the Physiological and Medicinal Properties of Sulphate
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Mr R ALCOCKs Journey in the Interior of Japan with the Ascent of Fusi
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Captain CAMERONs Notices on the Ethnology Geography and Commerce
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Dr JAMES HECTOR On the Capabilities for Settlement of the Central Parts
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Captain W P SNOW on the Geographical Science of Arctic Explorations
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Rev W CAINE on Ten Years Statistics of the Mortality amongst the Orphan
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Dr W CLARKE on a Revision of National Taxation
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Mr J HEYWOOD on the Inspection of Endowed Educational Institutions 222
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Mr W NEWMARCH on the Extent to which Sound Principles of Taxation
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Rev Canon RICHSON on the IncomeTax 240
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Colonel SYKESs Notes on the Progress and Prospects of the Trade of England
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Sir W G ARMSTRONG on the Patent Laws 252
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Mr PETER EFFERTZ on a Brickmaking Machine 258
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Mr J ROBINSON on the Application of Workshop Tools to the Construction
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N ADLER on the Almanac
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Dr MOUATT on Prison Dietary in India 170
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Mr B STEWART on the Photographic Records given at the Kew Observatory
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Rev T RANKINs Meteorological Observations at Huggate Yorkshire 73
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Mr DANIEL VAUGHAN on Cases of Planetary Instability indicated by the
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الصفحة xvii - To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
الصفحة 25 - It is also impossible to conceive either the beginning or the continuance of life, without an overruling creative power ; and, therefore, no conclusions of dynamical science regarding the future condition of the earth can be held to give dispiriting views as to the destiny of the race of intelligent beings by which it is at present inhabited.
الصفحة xli - That the gentlemen whose names are appended be requested to act as a Committee (with power to add to their number) for the purpose of carrying out the previous resolution and of reporting to an adjourned public meeting to be held during the second week in October next.
الصفحة 131 - The German and Irish millions, like the Negro, have a great deal of guano in their destiny. They are ferried over the Atlantic and carted over America, to ditch and to drudge, to make corn cheap and then to lie down prematurely to make a spot of green grass on the prairie.
الصفحة 102 - I conclude further, that the dark lines of the solar spectrum which are not evoked by the atmosphere of the earth, exist in consequence of the presence, in the incandescent atmosphere of the sun, of those substances which in the spectrum of a flame produce bright lines at the same place.
الصفحة lxiii - When it is considered that stone bridges do not exceed 200 feet in span, nor cast-iron bridges 250 feet, we can estimate the progress which has been made in crossing rivers 400 or 500 feet in width, without any support at the middle of the stream. Even spans, greatly in excess of this, may be bridged over with safety, provided we do not exceed 1800 to 2000 feet, when the structure would be destroyed by its own weight.
الصفحة liii - Newton to introduce, at a later period, the idea of an attraction varying directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance, and thus to reduce celestial phenomena to tho greatest simplicity, by comprehending them under a single law.
الصفحة lxv - Wray's compound and pure gutta-percha far surpass the commercial gutta-percha hitherto employed; but it remains to be seen whether the mechanical and commercial difficulties in the employment of these new materials can be successfully overcome. The external protecting covering is still a subject of anxious consideration. The objections to iron wire are its weight and liability to corrosion. Hemp has been substituted, but at present with no satisfactory result. All these difficulties, together with...
الصفحة 149 - This formula is submitted at present temporarily as being accurate enough for use for ordinary practical purposes for the measurement of water by notches similar to the one experimented on, and for quantities of water limited to nearly the same range as those in the experiments ; but...
الصفحة 101 - In the atmosphere around the sun, therefore, there must be present vapour of sodium, which, according to the mechanical explanation thus suggested, being particularly opaque for light of that quality prevents such of it as is emitted from the sun from penetrating to any considerable distance through the surrounding atmosphere.

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