Report of the Annual Meeting, المجلد 32Office of the British Association, 1863 |
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الصفحة 112
... tube is 1 · 1 inch . " Prof. de Souza here describes in considerable detail the process of making and filling such a barometer - tube . [ For this process the English reader is referred to Mr. Welsh's original paper in the Philosophical ...
... tube is 1 · 1 inch . " Prof. de Souza here describes in considerable detail the process of making and filling such a barometer - tube . [ For this process the English reader is referred to Mr. Welsh's original paper in the Philosophical ...
الصفحة 115
... tube could neither be filled by the ordinary method , nor , of course , transported full . The course taken was therefore to learn at Kew how to perform the filling process by Mr. Welsh's method , so as to put it in practice at Coimbra ...
... tube could neither be filled by the ordinary method , nor , of course , transported full . The course taken was therefore to learn at Kew how to perform the filling process by Mr. Welsh's method , so as to put it in practice at Coimbra ...
الصفحة 120
... tubes of these creatures . Few opportunities existed of obtaining Entozoa ; those that did occur were not neglected , but the number was so meagre that no list has been attempted . Of Echinodermata we dredged twenty - seven species ...
... tubes of these creatures . Few opportunities existed of obtaining Entozoa ; those that did occur were not neglected , but the number was so meagre that no list has been attempted . Of Echinodermata we dredged twenty - seven species ...
الصفحة 132
... tube containing it remained unaltered ( a condition which could not be absolutely ensured ) , the standards measured at various times would not really be the same standard . A possibility at least of error would thus occur at each ...
... tube containing it remained unaltered ( a condition which could not be absolutely ensured ) , the standards measured at various times would not really be the same standard . A possibility at least of error would thus occur at each ...
الصفحة 134
... tube used cannot be kept full of mercury for any length of time , as it would become impure by partial amalgamation with the ter- minals , and that consequently each time a mercury standard is used it has , practically , to be remade ...
... tube used cannot be kept full of mercury for any length of time , as it would become impure by partial amalgamation with the ter- minals , and that consequently each time a mercury standard is used it has , practically , to be remade ...
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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...