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... question of waves as affected by gravity and cohesion jointly , but have only been led to bring it to an issue by a curious phenomenon which we noticed at the surface of the water round a fishing - line one day slipping out of Oban ...
... question of waves as affected by gravity and cohesion jointly , but have only been led to bring it to an issue by a curious phenomenon which we noticed at the surface of the water round a fishing - line one day slipping out of Oban ...
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... question in NATURE , vol . iv . p . 487 , as it is one that legitimately strikes at the root of all my speculations , and which , if un- answerable , conveys an objection that must demolish the whole structure I have endeavoured to ...
... question in NATURE , vol . iv . p . 487 , as it is one that legitimately strikes at the root of all my speculations , and which , if un- answerable , conveys an objection that must demolish the whole structure I have endeavoured to ...
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... question that all of these rocks occur as members of stratified formations . Moreover , the manner in which serpentines are found interstratified with steatite , chlorite , argillite , diorite , hornblende , and feldspar rocks , and ...
... question that all of these rocks occur as members of stratified formations . Moreover , the manner in which serpentines are found interstratified with steatite , chlorite , argillite , diorite , hornblende , and feldspar rocks , and ...
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... question whether the bands are bright - centred or dark - centred , which , in the case of slight polarisation , is difficult to decide , would thus be replaced by the simpler question , whether the bands in the field were of the same ...
... question whether the bands are bright - centred or dark - centred , which , in the case of slight polarisation , is difficult to decide , would thus be replaced by the simpler question , whether the bands in the field were of the same ...
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... question - Has any such transition from genera to genera ever been seen to occur ? Prof. Cope answers in the affirmative , and gives eleven probable and six ascertained cases , for the details of which we must refer to pp . 42—46 ...
... question - Has any such transition from genera to genera ever been seen to occur ? Prof. Cope answers in the affirmative , and gives eleven probable and six ascertained cases , for the details of which we must refer to pp . 42—46 ...
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Página 180 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Página 15 - Champlain, the Green Mountains of Vermont, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The...
Página 245 - Anatomy as a compendious, reliable, and, notwithstanding its small dimensions, most comprehensive guide on the subject of which it treats. To praise or to criticise the work of so accomplished a master of his favorite science would be equally out of place. It is enough to say that It realizes, in a remarkable degree, the anticipations which have been formed of it; and that it presents an extraordinary combination of wide, general views, with the clear, accurate, and succinct statement of a prodigious...
Página 310 - PRIZE." 2. That this Prize be adjudged once in three years. 3. That it be adjudged for the best original memoir, invention or discovery, in connexion with Mathematico-physical or Mathematico-experimental science that may have been published during the three years immediately preceding...
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Página 182 - The sun's rays are the ultimate source of almost every motion which takes place on the surface of the earth. By its heat are produced all winds, and those disturbances in the electric equilibrium of the atmosphere which give rise to the phenomena of lightning, and probably also to those of terrestrial magnetism and the aurora.
Página 137 - In that paper it was demonstrated experimentally, that the mechanical power exerted in turning a magneto-electric machine is converted into the heat evolved by the passage of the currents of induction through its coils; and, on the other hand, that the motive power of the electro-magnetic engine is obtained at the expense of the heat, due to the chemical reaction of the battery by which it is worked.
Página 137 - On the Calorific Effects of Magneto-Electricity, and on the Mechanical Value of Heat.
Página 13 - Mining Tools. A MANUAL OF MINING TOOLS. For the Use of Mine Managers, Agents, Students, &c. By WILLIAM MORGANS, Lecturer on Practical Mining at the Bristol School of Mines.
Página 107 - Andrews' curved lines are to be placed with their planes parallel to one another, and separated by intervals proportional to the differences of the temperatures to which the curves severally belong, and with the origins of coordinates of the curves situated in a straight line perpendicular to their planes, and with th<!