Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Volume 49J. 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 xxiii - The General Committee shall sit during the week of the Meeting, or longer, to transact the business of the Association. It shall consist of the following persons : — CLASS A.
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 - To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British 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 - ... energy of lifeless nature may be converted into that of the countless multitudes of animal and vegetable forms which dwell upon the surface of the earth or people the great depths of its seas. 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 556 - Report of the Committee on the Distribution of the Organic Remains of the North Staffordshire Coal-field ; — Report of the Committee on Standards of Electrical Resistance; — GJ Symons, on the Fall of Rain in the British Isles in 1862 and 1863 ; — W.
Page 550 - Prof. Allman, on the Present State of our Knowledge of the Freshwater Polyzoa ¡—Registration of the Periodical Phenomena of Plants and Animals ; — Suggestions to Astronomers for the Observation of the Total Eclipse of the Sun on July 28, 1851.
Page xlix - Insect Metamorphosis. The Aims and Instruments of Scientific Thought. Coal and Coal Plants. Molecules. Common Wild Flowers considered in relation to Insects. The Hypothesis that Animals are Automata, and its History. The Colours of Polarized Light. Railway Safety Appliances. Force. The Challenger Expedition.
Page xxv - Committee (vide p. xxiii), and will receive, on application to the Treasurer in the Reception Room, Tickets entitling them to attend its Meetings. The Committees will take into consideration any suggestions which may be offered by their Members for the advancement of Science/ They are specially requested to review the recommendations adopted at preceding...