Science, Volume 50Moses King, 1919 - Science Since Jan. 1901 the official proceedings and most of the papers of the American Association for the Advancement of Science have been included in Science. |
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Page 472 - The objects of the Association are to promote intercourse among those who are cultivating science in different parts of America, to cooperate with other scientific societies and institutions, to give a stronger and more general impulse and more systematic direction to scientific research, and to procure for the labors of scientific men increased facilities and a wider usefulness. Article
Page 473 - Meetings , The Association shall hold an annual meeting at such time and place as may be determined by the Council. Other meetings of the Association and of the Sections may be authorized by the Council. The Divisions and the Branches may hold annual and other meetings.
Page 400 - version as follows: 1. To promote the study of problems concerned with the figure and physics of the earth. 2. To initiate and coordinate researches which depend upon international cooperation and to provide for their scientific discussion and publication. 3. To facilitate special researches, such as the comparison of instruments used in different countries.
Page 245 - I can lift up one hand to heaven that I was born of honest parents, that modesty, humility, patience and veracity lay in the same egg, and came into the world with me. To have had a happy home in which unselfishness reigned, parents whose self-sacrifice
Page 144 - if the nation could purchase a potential Watt, or Davy, or Faraday, at the cost of a hundred thousand pounds down, he would be dirt-cheap at the money. It is a mere commonplace and everyday piece of knowledge that what these men did has produced untold millions of wealth, in the narrowest economical sense of the word.
Page 266 - specially that it will belong not to share the opinion of those narrow minds who disdain everything in science which has not an immediate application. You know Franklin's charming saying f He was witnessing the first demonstration of a purely scientific discovery, and people round him said: "But what is the use of it!
Page 221 - that it has not already been well understood in Washington, but that renewed interest may be taken and even more liberal appropriations granted. The federation resolution urges that " a broad program of scientific and technical research is of major importance to the national welfare." Good! Now that everybody is agreed, how was it
Page 341 - agency for the improvement of public health, the prevention of disease and the mitigation of suffering throughout the world. It will
Page 520 - RAYMOND PEARL, professor of biometry and vital statistics in the School of Hygiene and Public Health of the Johns Hopkins University has been
Page 223 - Please, sir, he's cleaning the back parlour window, said the temporary head of the philosophical class. So he is, to be sure, rejoined Squeers. We go upon the practical mode of teaching,