Report of the ... and ... Meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Volume 47,Partie 1877J. Murray, 1878 |
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Page 198 - Population invariably increases where the means of subsistence increase, unless prevented by some very powerful and obvious checks. 3. These checks, and the checks which repress the superior power of population, and keep its effects on a level with the means of subsistence, are all resolvable into moral restraint, vice, and misery.
Page xcviii - ... any doctrine professing to bring the phenomena of embryonic development within a general law which is not, like the theory of Darwin, consistent with their fundamental identity, their endless variability, their subjugation to varying external influences and conditions, and with the possibility of the transmission of the vital conditions and properties, with all their variations, from individual to individual, and, in the long lapse of ages, from race to race. I regard it, therefore, as no exaggerated...
Page xvii - 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 32 - Report of the Joint Committee of the Royal Society and the British Association, for procuring a continuance of the Magnetic and Meteorological Ob* servatories; — R.
Page lxxvi - Lister had the merit of being the first to apply the germ theory of putrefaction to explain the formation of putrid matters in the living body ; and he has founded on this theory the now well-known antiseptic treatment of wounds, the importance of which it would be difficult to overestimate.
Page 44 - But a few months ago one of them expressed the following sentiments in a paper read before the Chemical Section of the British Association.
Page 143 - Spencer and myself, the principle of which is to superimpose optically the various drawings, and to accept the aggregate result. Mr. Spencer suggested to me in conversation that the drawings reduced to the same scale might be traced on separate pieces of transparent paper and secured one upon another, and then held between the eye and the light. I have attempted this with some success. My own idea was to throw faint images of the several portraits, in succession, upon the same sensitised photographic...
Page xcviii - ... development of the race. If we admit the progressive nature of the changes of development, their similarity in different groups, and their common characters in all animals, nay, even in some respects in both plants and animals, we can scarcely refuse to recognise the possibility of continuous derivation in the history of their origin...
Page xx - ... before the beginning of the meeting. It has therefore become necessary, in order to give an opportunity to the committees of doing justice to the several communications, that each author should prepare...