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... Association for the Promotion of Science was held in Washing- ton , D. C. , in the rooms of the Smithsonian Institution , during the week commencing with Wednesday , April 20 , 1854. The Presi- dent , elected at the Cleveland meeting ...
... Association for the Promotion of Science was held in Washing- ton , D. C. , in the rooms of the Smithsonian Institution , during the week commencing with Wednesday , April 20 , 1854. The Presi- dent , elected at the Cleveland meeting ...
Side 5
... Association did great service to astronomers by reducing into catalogues the observations of Lalande and Lacaille . A catalogue of part of Bessel's zones has been published at St. Petersburg , and a catalogue of part of Argelander's ...
... Association did great service to astronomers by reducing into catalogues the observations of Lalande and Lacaille . A catalogue of part of Bessel's zones has been published at St. Petersburg , and a catalogue of part of Argelander's ...
Side 6
... Association in 1845 , is founded mainly on the older catalogues , but contains , also , stars to the seventh magnitude inclusive , observed once only by Lalande or Lacaille . The places of the stars in this catalogue are , consequently ...
... Association in 1845 , is founded mainly on the older catalogues , but contains , also , stars to the seventh magnitude inclusive , observed once only by Lalande or Lacaille . The places of the stars in this catalogue are , consequently ...
Side 10
... Association was closed with a grand dinner , given by the Earl of Harrowby , the President , to the members and friends of the Association . Sir R. Murchison discharged the duties of chairman , and nearly 800 ladies and gentlemen were ...
... Association was closed with a grand dinner , given by the Earl of Harrowby , the President , to the members and friends of the Association . Sir R. Murchison discharged the duties of chairman , and nearly 800 ladies and gentlemen were ...
Side 11
... Association , held at Tubingen , in 1853 , in Wurtemberg , Prof. Karnat stated that Germany possesses coal sufficient to supply the whole world with fuel for at least 500 years . At the same Congress it was reported that a number of ...
... Association , held at Tubingen , in 1853 , in Wurtemberg , Prof. Karnat stated that Germany possesses coal sufficient to supply the whole world with fuel for at least 500 years . At the same Congress it was reported that a number of ...
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Side 274 - ... consumed by a given weight of animal, within a given time, and the amount of increase obtained from a given weight of food. The results, which formed the subject of the present communication, afforded further illustration of some of the points brought forward in the former one ; but...
Side 377 - These astronomers are of opinion that this fluid ring is not of very recent formation, and that it is not subject to rapid change , and they have come to the extraordinary conclusion that the inner border of the ring has, since the time of Huygens, been gradually approaching the body of Saturn, and that we may expect, sooner or later, perhaps in some dozen of years, to see the rings united with the body of the planet.
Side 162 - A wire laid across from cither of the above-named places on this side will pass to the north of the Grand Banks, and rest on that beautiful plateau to which I have alluded, and where the waters of the sea appear to be as quiet and as completely at rest as it is at the bottom of a mill-pond.
Side 269 - It fully equalled the expectations of all ; so that solidified milk will hereafter rank among the necessary appendages to the sick room. In fine, this article makes paps, custards, puddings, and cakes, equal to the best milk ; and one may be sure it is an unadulterated article, obtained from well-pastured cattle, and not the produce of distillery slops ; neither can it be watered. For our steamships, our packets, for those travelling by land or by sea, for hotel purposes, or use in private families,...