The Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society, Volum 12

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The Society, 1910
 

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Side 266 - It is observed that dew is never copiously deposited in situations much screened from the open sky, and not at all in a cloudy night ; but if the clouds withdraw even for a few minutes, and leave a clear opening, a deposition of dew presently begins, and goes on increasing. . . . Dew formed in clear intervals will often even evaporate again when the sky becomes thickly overcast.
Side 78 - These two memoirs taken together furnish, to those who are capable of understanding the reasoning, a complete demonstration — That the whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery.
Side 78 - It holds a position wholly its own; and the considerations it suggests are most interesting in their nature. In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the operations of matter and the abstract mental processes of the most abstract branch...
Side 90 - ... and restricted range, while there is no finite line of demarcation which limits the powers of the Analytical Engine. These powers are co-extensive with our knowledge of the laws of analysis itself, and need be bounded only by our acquaintance with the latter. Indeed we may consider the engine as the material and mechanical representative of analysis, and that our actual working powers in this department of human study will be enabled more effectually than heretofore to keep pace with our theoretical...
Side 308 - Variation in pressure is not defined by the height of the leaves above the ground, nor by the resistance of the conducting tracts supplying the leaves. In each case the osmotic pressure was much greater than the tension of the water-supply could have been.
Side 149 - They were again in great Distress, in not knowing where Dunholme lay ; but as they proceeded, a Woman wanting her Cow, called aloud to her Companion, to know if she had seen her? Who answered, She was in Dunholme. This was an happy and heavenly Sound to the distressed Monks, who thereby had Intelligence that their Journey's End was at Hand, and the Saint's Body near its Resting-place; " thereupon with great Joy they arrived with his Body at
Side 91 - Apart from the question of its saving labour in operations now possible, we think the existence of such an instrument would place within reach much which, if not actually impossible, has been too close to the limits of human skill and endurance to be practically available.
Side 147 - A general habit of leanness, hip bones high and ill -covered, and scarcely any part of the carcase so formed and covered as to please an eye that is accustomed to fat beasts of the finer breeds.
Side 167 - ... covered with pustules, which at length become cup-shaped, and are powdered within with an olive-yellow meal, consisting of the spores of a fungus. This also has been partially investigated by Martius, who has illustrated his observations with some characteristic figures. Two other diseases are mentioned in the work of Martius, which are, however, so imperfectly known, that it is not necessary to notice them upon the present occasion.
Side 156 - GOst. some particular ones reach 70 and upwards; but their most essential difference from every other breed of cattle is, in having no horns at all; some few indeed (in every other respect Polls) have two little unmeaning horns, from two to four inches long, hanging down loose from the same parts that other cattle's horns grow, and are joined to the head by a little loose skin and flesh.

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