Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, المجلد 45Devonshire Press, 1913 List of members in each volume. |
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A. D. Inq Abbey abjured the realm Anno Ashburton Association Barnstaple Berry Head Bishop bowl Brandis Corner Braunton Brent Bucfestr Buckfast Buckfastleigh chalice Churchstow Clovelly Courtenay Cullompton Dartmoor date-letter Dawlish Devonshire dialect diameter Dict died Diptford Domesday Edward engine Exeter father feet Ferrers font Geological granite Greg Hatherleigh held Helen Saunders Henry House ibid Inscription invention James Jukes-Browne Kent's Cavern Kingsbridge land leopard's head letter lion passant London Lord Manor Mary Church Mayor Miss C. E. Larter Miss C. L. Peck Miss Helen Saunders Newton Abbot North Devon North Huish Okehampton paper parish Parliament Pengelly Plymouth probably raised beaches Read at Buckfastleigh Richard Road rocks Roger Savery Savery's shalbe Sir John South Molton Stokeinteignhead stone T. R. Archer Briggs Tavistock Teignmouth Testa Thomas Savery Torbay Torquay Torrington Totnes town Trans Vicar Vict W. P. Hiern West word
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الصفحة 4 - The COUNCIL of the CAMDEN SOCIETY desire it to be understood that they are not answerable for any opinions or observations that may appear in the Society's publications; the Editors of the several works being alone responsible for the same.
الصفحة 448 - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tow'r The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such, as wand'ring near her secret bow'r, Molest her ancient solitary reign.
الصفحة 25 - 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 447 - Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn, Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn. [Him have we seen the greenwood side along While o'er the heath we hied, our labour done, Oft as the woodlark piped her farewell song With wistful eyes pursue the setting sun...
الصفحة 358 - A CENTURY OF THE NAMES AND SCANTLINGS OF SUCH INVENTIONS, as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected...
الصفحة 360 - Mr. Savery, June 14th, 1699, entertained the Royal Society, with shewing a small model of his engine for raising water by the help of fire, which he set to work before them ; the experiment succeeded according to expectation, and to their satisfaction.
الصفحة 358 - Captain Savery denied it, and the better to conceal the matter, bought up all the Marquis of Worcester's books that he could purchase in Paternoster...
الصفحة 366 - I have known Captain Savery, at York's buildings, to make steam eight or ten times stronger than common air ; and then its heat was so great that it would melt common soft solder, and its strength so great as to blow open several joints of the machine ; so that he was forced to be at the pains and charge to have all his joints soldered with spelter or hard solder.
الصفحة 362 - It is now about six years since Mr Savery set up one of them for that curious gentleman Mr Balle, at Cambden House, Kensington, near London, which has succeeded so well that there has not been any want of water since it has been built.
الصفحة 424 - Day by day, except when the work was stopped, he visited the Cave, and recorded on maps and plans the exact spot where each specimen was found, for no less than sixteen years. The vast collection of palaeolithic implements and fossil bones, each of which bears traces of his handiwork, is represented in most of the museums in this country, and the annual reports, listened to with so much pleasure by crowds at the meetings of the British Association, are the most complete that have ever been published.