Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, Volume 57American Philosophical Society, 1918 |
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Pagina 30 - On the northwestern side, the seams are 30 feet apart and are 6 to 1 6 and 4 to 8 feet thick. These are said to unite farther north. The lower seam, of rather inferior quality, rests on the granite. On the eastern border, the Chesterfield shaft shows (i) coal shale, 6 feet, 10 inches; (2) coal, 5 feet, 6 inches; (3) coal shale, 3 feet; {4) coal, I foot, 6 inches; (5) hard grits, 2 feet, 6 inches; (6) shale and thin coal, 2 feet, 6 inches; (7) coal, 7 to 40 feet; (8) granite. The lowest coal has some...
Pagina 641 - If and while the disability is partial, the monthly compensation shall be a percentage of the compensation that would be payable for his total disability, equal to the degree of the reduction in earning capacity resulting from the disability, but no compensation shall be payable for a reduction in earning capacity rated at less than ten per centum.
Pagina 95 - ... 633-644. Bethe, A. 1894. Ueber die Erhaltung des Gleichgewichts. Zweite Mitteilung. Biol. Centralbl., Bd. 14, pp. 563-582. . 1899. Die Locomotion des Haifisches (Scyllium) und ihre Beziehungen zu den einzelnen Gehirntheilen und zum Labyrinth. Arch. ges. Physiol., Bd. 76, pp. 470-493Bezold, F. 1904. Weitere Untersuchungen ueber " Knochenleitung " und Schallleitungsapparat im Ohr. Zeitschr. Ohrenheilkunde, Bd. 48, pp. 107-171. Bigelow, HB 1904. The Sense of Hearing in the Goldfish Carassius auratus...
Pagina 70 - I was laying on the bank, observing tnc fish swimming about, I desired a gentleman, who was with me, to take a loaded gun, and go behind the shrubs and fire it. The reason for going behind the shrubs was, that there might not be the least reflection of light. The instant the report was made, the fish appeared to be all of one mind, for they vanished instantaneously into the mud at the bottom, raising as it were a cloud of mud. In about five minutes after they began to appear, till the whole came...
Pagina 643 - That in order to give to every commissioned officer and enlisted man and to every member of the Army Nurse Corps (female) and of the Navy Nurse Corps (female) when employed in active service under the War Department or Navy Department greater protection for themselves and their dependents than is provided in Article III...
Pagina 646 - ... payable to such person or persons, within the permitted class of beneficiaries as would under the laws of the State of the residence of the insured, be entitled to his personal property in case of intestacy. If no such person survive the insured, then there shall be paid to the estate of the insured an amount equal to the reserve value, if any, of the insurance at the time of his death, calculated on the basis of the American Experience Table of Mortality and three and one-half per centum interest...
Pagina 484 - ... 17 grams per day. 7. The pulse rate was astonishingly lowered. Many of the men showed morning pulse rates as low as 33 and daily counts of 32, 31, and 30 were obtained; at least one subject gave six definite counts on one morning of 29. 8. The blood pressure, both systolic and diastolic, was distinctly lowered. 9. The skin temperature, as measured on the surface of the hands and forehead, was, with some subjects, considerably lower than normal. With most of the men normal temperatures prevailed....
Pagina 635 - parent' includes a father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, stepfather, and stepmother, either of the person in the service or of the spouse. "(5) The terms 'brother' and 'sister' include brothers and sisters of the half blood as well as those of the whole blood, stepbrothers and stepsisters, and brothers and sisters through adoption. "(6) The term 'commissioned officer...
Pagina 500 - Hence the vitamines of the coarse material of grain not directly available as human food are brought into form for man's use very efficiently through milk production and very inefficiently through the production of meat. Thus, the result of recent studies in nutrition, which have made clearer the importance of the mineral elements and...
Pagina 323 - Although considerable evidence thus points to trophallaxis as the source of the social habit in wasps, ants, and termites, it must be admitted that the phenomenon has not been observed in the social bees. * * » * * * If we confine our attention largely to the ants, I believe it can be shown that trophallaxis, originally developed as a mutual trophic relation between the mother insect and her larval brood, has expanded with the growth of the colony like an ever-widening vortex till it involves, first...