Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 75Taylor & Francis, 1905 - Electronic journals |
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acid Acland active afterwards Anatomy animals appeared appointed became born British Association career CHARLES HERMITE chemical chemistry College connection contributed Council death devoted Dublin early Edinburgh elected a Fellow Elswick EMIL DU BOIS-REYMOND energy experimental experiments friends gave Geological George GEORGE FERGUSSON GEORGE FRANCIS FITZGERALD Gilbert Gladstone HENRY TRIMEN HENRY WENTWORTH ACLAND honorary honours Hospital important influence Institution interest investigations John Bennet Lawes John Hall Gladstone knowledge laboratory labours Lacaze-Duthiers later lectures London Lord Armstrong Marcet mathematical Maxwell Medal medicine memoir meteorological method Museum observations observatory obtained original Oxford Paget papers physical practical President Prof Professor Professorship published pupils remarkable researches Roberts Rothamsted Royal Society School Schunck scientific Simpson Sir Henry Sir John Lawes Sir William Stokes success theory tion took treatise Trimen University volume WILLIAM CHANDLER ROBERTS-AUSTEN Zoology
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Page 248 - I value in a scientific mind most of all that love of truth, that care in its pursuit and that humility of mind which makes the possibility of error always present more than any other quality. This is the mind which has built up modern science to its present perfection, which has laid one stone upon the other with such care that it to-day offers to the world the most complete monument to human reason.
Page 198 - That the difference between the pressure on a plane in a given direction passing through any point p of a fluid in motion and the pressure which would exist in all directions about p if the fluid in its neighborhood were in a state of relative equilibrium depends only on the relative motion of the fluid immediately about p; and that the relative motion due to any motion of rotation may be eliminated without affecting the differences of the pressures above mentioned.
Page 173 - India, in 1880, he was for some years a member of the Council of the last-named Society, and contributed several papers on Indian Geography to its Proceedings.
Page 77 - Medal from the Royal Society in 1882 for his valuable contributions to the morphology and classification of the mammalia and to anthropology. He received the degree of LL.D. from the Universities of Edinburgh, St. Andrews, and Dublin (Trinity College) ; D.Sc. from Cambridge, and DCL from Durham (1889), and Oxford (1891), the public orator welcoming him as a proof of the proverbial saying attributed to one of the seven wise men of Greece, a/>xn iivSpa lei^ei, and as having passed with ever increasing...
Page 281 - In the present state of science, it seems hardly possible to frame a dynamic theory of molecular action which shall embrace the phenomena of thermodynamics, of radiation, and of the electrical manifestations which accompany the union of atoms.
Page 198 - In the third section of the memoir under consideration, Stokes applies the same principles to find the equations for an elastic solid. In his view the two elastic constants are independent and not reducible to one, as in Poisson's theory of the constitution of matter. He refers to indiarubber as hopelessly violating Poisson's condition. Stokes' position, powerfully supported by Lord Kelvin, seems now to be generally accepted. Otherwise, many familiar materials must be excluded from the category of...
Page 198 - ... investigations, He greatly admired the work of Green, and his comparison of opposite styles may often recur to the reader of mathematical lucubrations. Speaking of the Reflection and Refraction of Sound, he remarks that "this problem had been previously considered by Poisson in an elaborate memoir, Poisson treats the subject with extreme generality, and his analysis is consequently very complicated. Mr Green, on the contrary, restricts himself to the case of plane waves, a case evidently comprising...
Page 221 - Commission appointed to inquire into the best mode of distributing the Sewage of Towns, and applying it to beneficial and profitable uses.
Page 107 - The University of Edinburgh conferred on him the honorary degree of LL.D., and he was unanimously complimented with the freedom of the city.
Page 184 - Commission which had been appointed to enquire into administration of the Mint as far back as 1848. Under that Act the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the time being became Master, Worker, and Warden of the Royal Mint. No salary was attached to the office, but it was provided that all its duties should be performed and exercised by his