Nature, Volume 39Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1889 - Electronic journals |
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Page 311 - Flower, FRS, President, in the chair. — The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the months of...
Page 104 - I had not formerly sufficiently considered the existence of many structures which appear to be, as far as we can judge, neither beneficial nor injurious; and this I believe to be one of the greatest oversights as yet detected in my work.
Page 233 - ... tail is neither more nor less than the accumulation of this sort of luminous vapour darted off in the first instance TOWARDS the sun, as if it were something raised up, and, as it were, exploded by the sun's heat, out of the kernel, and then immediately and forcibly turned back and repelled from the sun.
Page 143 - Even the diagrams of this paper may suffice to show that the institutions of man are as distinctly stratified as the earth on which he lives. They succeed each other in series substantially uniform over the globe, independent of what seem the comparatively superficial differences of race and language, but shaped by similar human nature acting through successively changed conditions in savage, barbaric, and civilized life.
Page 239 - Vice-President, in the Chair. The SECRETARY read a report on the additions that had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of...
Page 99 - Washington in 1843 he presented papers, verbal communications, letters from foreign correspondents and observatories, proposals from the Royal Society of London and the British Association for the Advancement of Science in relation to Magnetic Observatories in the United States, at many meetings.
Page 219 - Does it not seem as if Algebra had attained to the dignity of a fine art, in which the workman has a free hand to develop his conceptions, as in a musical theme or a subject for painting? It has reached a point in which every properly-developed algebraical composition, like a skilful landscape, is expected to suggest the notion of an infinite distance lying beyond the limits of the canvas.
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