Report of the Meeting, المجلد 8The Association., 1901 |
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الصفحة 25 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...
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 312 - SprachBrugmann's which was mentioned to wissenschaft, iv. (1889), pp. 104-106. me in conversation by my friend Prof. VIII ON SOME CEREMONIES OF THE CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN TRIBES1 MY esteemed friend Mr. Lorimer Fison has asked me to contribute a note on some anthropological subject which might be read at the meeting of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Science in 1900. I propose, therefore, to make a few remarks on some of the customs of the Central Australian aborigines as they are described...
الصفحة 316 - ... else. The object of the real totem sacrament which Messrs. Spencer and Gillen have discovered is not to attain to a mystical communion with a deity, but simply to ensure a plentiful supply of food for the rest of the community by means of sorcery. In short, what we have found is not religion, but that which was first the predecessor, and afterwards the hated rival of religion ; I mean magic.
الصفحة 63 - For anything that geology or palaeontology are able to show to the contrary, a Devonian fauna and flora in the British Islands may have been contemporaneous with Silurian life in North America, and with a Carboniferous fauna and flora in Africa.
الصفحة xix - Committee of doing justice to the several Communications, that each Author should prepare an Abstract of his Memoir, of a length suitable for insertion in the published Transactions of the Association, and that he should send it, together with the original Memoir, by bookpost, on or before August i, addressed thus: — "General Secretaries, British Association, 22, Albemarle Street, London, W.
الصفحة 238 - Pier about three years since, which is now crumbled away to less than an inch in thickness: in fact deducting the space occupied by the cells, which cover both surfaces as closely as possible, barely half an inch of solid wood is left; and though its progress is slower in oak, that wood is equally liable to be attacked by it.
الصفحة 317 - Wales. This account must be briefly resumed: At a certain stage in the initiation ceremonies of these tribes the women and children huddled together and were securely covered up with blankets and bushes. Then a number of men came from the sacred ground where the initiation ceremonies were performed. Some of them swung bull-roarers, and some of them took up lighted sticks from a fire, and threw them over the women and children "to make them believe that Dhuramoolan had tried to burn them.
الصفحة xvii - Committee shall sit during the week of the Meeting, or longer, to transact the business of the Association. It shall consist of the following persons : — CLASS A.
الصفحة 71 - Otaheite; and after astronomical observations should be completed, to prosecute the design of making discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean, by proceeding to the south as far as the latitude of 40°; then, if I found no land, to proceed to the west between 40° and 35°, till I fell in with New Zealand, which I was to explore; and thence to return to England by such route as I should think proper.