Report of the Annual Meeting, المجلد 32Office of the British Association, 1863 |
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الصفحة 16
... moon ; ir- regular circle . below the last . Sept. 6 8 0 p.m. Blackheath = 2nd mag . * ...... ( approxi- mate time ) . 26 10 0 p.m. Greenwich ...... 3rd mag . Bluish white .. 1 to 2 secs . ... From a ? tween point be Polari and a ...
... moon ; ir- regular circle . below the last . Sept. 6 8 0 p.m. Blackheath = 2nd mag . * ...... ( approxi- mate time ) . 26 10 0 p.m. Greenwich ...... 3rd mag . Bluish white .. 1 to 2 secs . ... From a ? tween point be Polari and a ...
الصفحة 21
... Moon shining brightly .. Id . Id . 20 ° 15 ° The next meteor fol- Id . lowed this one at an interval of a few seconds , springing from nearly the same place . Cloudy after this time Id . for the remainder of the evening . Id . No train ...
... Moon shining brightly .. Id . Id . 20 ° 15 ° The next meteor fol- Id . lowed this one at an interval of a few seconds , springing from nearly the same place . Cloudy after this time Id . for the remainder of the evening . Id . No train ...
الصفحة 22
... moon . 12 5 45 p.m. Southern Hay , Larger than any Deep blue Exeter . Roman candle- ball . 12 5 48 p.m. Barlaston , Stone Elongated as long Greenish as the moon's white . diameter . of Cygnus . Alti- tude 60 ° or 70 ° , down W. branch ...
... moon . 12 5 45 p.m. Southern Hay , Larger than any Deep blue Exeter . Roman candle- ball . 12 5 48 p.m. Barlaston , Stone Elongated as long Greenish as the moon's white . diameter . of Cygnus . Alti- tude 60 ° or 70 ° , down W. branch ...
الصفحة 23
... Moon ten days old . Threw strong moving 50 ° ......... Inclined shadows . Left a bright | track 50 ° , which lasted 10 seconds . Appeared to burst ? Longitudinally west- ward . Probably started from W. H. Wood . the head of Draco ...
... Moon ten days old . Threw strong moving 50 ° ......... Inclined shadows . Left a bright | track 50 ° , which lasted 10 seconds . Appeared to burst ? Longitudinally west- ward . Probably started from W. H. Wood . the head of Draco ...
الصفحة 24
... moon . blue . A greenish tint 4 or 5 seconds From the zenith in predominated . Aldebaran or Mars Mars for half 3 seconds by From 1 Hev . Ca 3 seconds ...... From S.E. by E. 19 5 30 p.m. Sherwood , 7 miles Much larger than Blue ...
... moon . blue . A greenish tint 4 or 5 seconds From the zenith in predominated . Aldebaran or Mars Mars for half 3 seconds by From 1 Hev . Ca 3 seconds ...... From S.E. by E. 19 5 30 p.m. Sherwood , 7 miles Much larger than Blue ...
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مقاطع مشهورة
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 106 - Such facts show how indirectly the conditions of life must act. Again, innumerable instances are known to every naturalist of species keeping true, or not varying at all, although living under the most opposite climates. Such considerations as these incline me to lay very little weight on the direct action of the conditions of life.
الصفحة 213 - Report on the Marine Testaceous Mollusca of the North-east Atlantic and Neighbouring Seas, and the physical conditions affecting their development ; — PP Carpenter, Report on the present state of our knowledge with regard to the Mollusca of the West Coast of North America;— TC Eyton, Abstract of First Keport on the Oyster Beds and Oysters of the British Shoreil — Prof.
الصفحة 121 - I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education to request that you will be good enough to furnish me with twenty copies of your pamphlet ' On the Opportunities of Advancing Science enjoyed by the Mercantile Marine,' to send to all the Navigation Schools under this department.
الصفحة 101 - ... confounded with the African kinds, are known from them by the short, broad shape of the intermaxillary bone, which is separated from the maxilla by a straight suture, while in the crocodiles of the African rivers the intermaxillary bone is produced behind and between the edge of the maxilla. One species...
الصفحة 381 - ... my legs projected and my arms hung down by my side; that my countenance was serene and placid, without the earnestness and anxiety he had noticed before going into the ring, and then it struck him I was insensible. He wished to approach me, but could not, and he felt insensibility coming over himself; that he became anxious to open the valve, but in consequence of having lost the use of his hands he could not, and ultimately did so by seizing the cord with his teeth and dipping his head two or...
الصفحة 252 - Huyghens' construction, and only attempted at a later date to give it a mechanical basis. In this attempt he failed. " If we reflect," says Stokes, " on the state of the subject as Fresnel found it and as he left it, the wonder is not that he failed to give a rigorous dynamical theory, but that a single mind was capable of effecting so much.
الصفحة 382 - A fourth was thrown out at four miles on descending ; it flew in a circle, and shortly alighted on the top of the balloon. The two remaining pigeons were brought down to the ground. One was found to be dead ; and the other, a carrier...
الصفحة 372 - Regnault's hygrometers, and also to compare the results as found by the two hygrometers together ; to collect air at different elevations ; to note the height and kind of clouds, their density and thickness, at different elevations ; to determine the rate and direction of different currents in the atmosphere, if possible ; to make observations on sound ; to note atmospherical phenomena in general, and to make general observations.
الصفحة 379 - ... saturated with moisture. On emerging from the cloud at Ih. 17m. we came into a flood of light, with a beautiful blue sky, without a cloud above us, and a magnificent sea of cloud below, its surface being varied with endless hills, hillocks, mountain chains, and many snow-white masses rising from it. I here tried to take a view with the camera, but we were rising with too great...