Nature, Volume 76Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1907 - Electronic journals |
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Page 150 - the study of agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations, either physically or mentally.
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Page 249 - ... the special chapters. The technical press, besides affording much information concerning new mining enterprises, has been largely drawn upon for prices, market reports, and new technical processes. As heretofore, the publication of this volume has been anticipated to a great extent by the issue in advance, in pamphlet form, of the several chapters which compose it.
Page 141 - It treats of all the tribes north of Mexico, including the Eskimo, and those tribes south of the boundary more or less affiliated with those in the United States. It has been the aim to give a brief description of every linguistic stock, confederacy, tribe, subtribe or tribal division, and settlement known to history or even to tradition, as well as the origin and derivation of every name treated, whenever such is known...
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Page 176 - Report of the Commission appointed to investigate the different electro-thermic processes for the smelting of iron ores and the making of steel in operation in Europe.
Page 123 - Government on forest matters in other parts of the country, and in 1864, he was appointed the first Inspector-General of Forests to the Government of India. He then set to work to introduce systematic forest management on scientific lines throughout India. A regular department was created, and a forest law was passed which provided for the demarcation and management of the State forests.
Page 27 - ... memory towards us, as a man that did for God and his Country overcome his enemies : Wherefore out of Our love and favour, according to the law of Armes, We have ordained and given him in his shield of Armes, the figure and description of three Turks...