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Pagina xi
... five Herculis . Mr. Higgins , in his observation on Spectra of Stars , has had occasion to notice the phenomena , and he describes the change as observable , even after intervals so brief as three or four nights . - The so - called ...
... five Herculis . Mr. Higgins , in his observation on Spectra of Stars , has had occasion to notice the phenomena , and he describes the change as observable , even after intervals so brief as three or four nights . - The so - called ...
Pagina xiv
... five per cent . of the total number of full herrings that are destroyed every year by other causes . These facts , which cannot be controverted , prepare us for the conclusions arrived at by the commissioners with reference to the ...
... five per cent . of the total number of full herrings that are destroyed every year by other causes . These facts , which cannot be controverted , prepare us for the conclusions arrived at by the commissioners with reference to the ...
Pagina 16
... five kilometres and a half , in nearly a right line , except a turn under the Place de la Madeleine . The foot pavements are 1.90 metres on each side , the central drain is 3.60 metres in breadth , with a depth of 1.35 ; so large , in ...
... five kilometres and a half , in nearly a right line , except a turn under the Place de la Madeleine . The foot pavements are 1.90 metres on each side , the central drain is 3.60 metres in breadth , with a depth of 1.35 ; so large , in ...
Pagina 17
... five feet , six feet , seven feet , ten feet six inches , eleven feet six inches , and at its termination to twelve feet six inches in diameter . drain is now entirely finished , and in full work . Its minimum fall is twelve feet in the ...
... five feet , six feet , seven feet , ten feet six inches , eleven feet six inches , and at its termination to twelve feet six inches in diameter . drain is now entirely finished , and in full work . Its minimum fall is twelve feet in the ...
Pagina 19
... five acres in extent ; that on the north is fourteen . In the reservoir it will be deodorized and discharged in a similar way to that we have already described . " The pumping stations will each consist of an engine - house , contain ...
... five acres in extent ; that on the north is fourteen . In the reservoir it will be deodorized and discharged in a similar way to that we have already described . " The pumping stations will each consist of an engine - house , contain ...
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Pagina 170 - It is conceivable that the various kinds of matter, now recognized as different elementary substances, may possess one and the same ultimate or atomic molecule existing in different conditions of movement. The essential unity of matter is an hypothesis in harmony with the equal action of gravity upon all bodies. We know the anxiety with which this point was investigated by Newton, and the care he took to ascertain that every kind of substance, ' metals, stones, woods, grain, salts, animal substances,'...
Pagina 256 - As with an invisible trowel, the mass is divided and subdivided into smaller and smaller portions, until it is reduced to an aggregation of granules not too large to build withal the finest fabrics of the nascent organism. And, then, it is as if a delicate finger traced out the line to be occupied by the spinal column, and moulded the contour of the body...
Pagina 306 - Thus, by means of repeated selection alone, the length of the ears has been doubled, their contents nearly trebled, and the " tillering" power of the seed increased five-fold.
Pagina 288 - The Negro exhibits permanently the imperfect brain, projecting lower jaw, and slender bent limbs of a Caucasian child some considerable time before the period of its birth. The aboriginal American represents the same child nearer birth. The Mongolian is an arrested infant newly born. And so forth.
Pagina 77 - The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton. So great and grand are they, that, in the contemplation of them, a certain force of character is requisite to preserve us from bewilderment.