Report of the ... and ... Meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Volume 49,Partie 1879J. Murray, 1879 |
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Page 372 - Arranged to meet the requirements of the Syllabus of the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, South Kensington.
Page 426 - IN that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster.
Page xxi - Empire, with one another and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
Page 426 - Rivilin, the clear and cold, That throws his blue length, like a snake, from high? Or, where deep azure brightens into gold O'er Sheaf, that mourns in Eden? Or, where roll'd On tawny sands, through regions passion-wild, And groves of love, in jealous beauty dark, Complains the Porter, Nature's thwarted child, Born in the waste, like headlong Wiming?
Page 26 - We are thus led to the conception of an essential unity in the two great kingdoms of organic nature — a structural unity, in the fact that every living being has protoplasm as the essential matter of every living element of its structure...
Page 27 - The essential phenomena of living beings are not so widely separated from the phenomena of lifeless matter as to render it impossible to recognize an analogy between them ; for even irritability, the one grand character of all living beings, is not more difficult to be conceived of as a property of matter than the physical phenomena of radial energy. It is quite true that between lifeless and living matter there is a vast difference, a difference greater far than any which can be found between the...
Page 13 - A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects, and Doctrines. From the Time of the Apostles to the Age of Charlemagne.
Page 462 - A society for the general advancement of Mechanical Science, and more particularly for promoting the acquisition of that species of knowledge which constitutes the profession of a Civil Engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man...
Page 13 - Controversies of the Christian Church from the time of the Apostles to the Age of Charlemagne. They commence at the period at which the "Dictionary of the Bible " leaves off% and form a continuation of it.
Page 461 - German origin, and is derived from the word flaat, signifying the same as our English word state, or a body of men existing in a social union. Statistics, therefore, may be said, in the words of the Prospectus of this Society, to be the ascertaining and bringing together of those " facts which are calculated to illustrate the condition and prospects of society...