Report of the Annual MeetingJ. Murray., 1847 |
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Abel Abel's Abel's theorem acid Agassiz algebraical alisphenoid animals appears articulated barometric Belfast birds bones bony British canal cartilaginous centrum character Christiania coal coalesced coef connected cranial cranium Crelle's Journal crocodile curves Cuvier determined distinct diverging appendage elements elliptic functions elliptic integrals endoskeleton exoccipital expressed feet fishes fluid force formula Fossiles frontal Geoffroy hæmal arch hæmapophyses homology hyper-elliptic integrals inches iron Jacobi Legendre magnetic mammals mastoid memoir modifications nasal nerves neural arch neural spine neurapophyses notochord observations obtained occipital olfactory olfactory nerves orbitosphenoids Orkneys osseous ossified parapophyses parietal Paris petrosal phænomena plates posterior slope prefrontals present pressure Prof Professor quantity relation remarkable reptiles scapula segment skull slag slope of crest special homology species squamosal surface term theorem theory tion tons transformation trough tube tympanic variable velocity vertebral volume of Crelle's vomer wave
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الصفحة v - 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.
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الصفحة xvii - The undersigned, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, had the honor duly to receive the note of the 15th of April, addressed to him by the Earl of Aberdeen, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in reply to the note of the undersigned of the 10th of August last, relative to the seizure of the American vessel the Washington, for having been found fishing within the limits of the Bay of Fundy. "The note of the undersigned of the...
الصفحة 173 - ANALOGUE." — A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.
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الصفحة 242 - He becomes the true discoverer who establishes the truth : and the sign of the proof is the general acceptance. Whoever, therefore, resumes the investigation of a neglected or repudiated doctrine, elicits its true demonstration, and discovers and explains the nature of the errors which have led to its tacit or declared rejection, may calmly and confidently await the acknowledgments of his rights in its discovery.
الصفحة 216 - ... or as having an equal pretence to one or the other name. The suture, however, which marks the limits between the frontal n and parietal 7 is persistent in the menopome, and indeed in all batrachians but the anourans; and even in the very young larvae of these, Cuvier admits (and the observations of M. Dugés warrant the admission) " que l'on sépare une partie postérieure de forme ronde de l'antérieure qui est allongée
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الصفحة 13 - These experiments show that when the difference of pressure in the first and second spaces is considerable, we can by no means suppose that the mean pressure at the orifice is equal to the pressure at a distance in the second space, nor even that there exists a contracted vein, at which we may suppose the pressure to be the same as at a distance.
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