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Pagina v
... quantities into new denominations . International commerce is also impeded by the same cause , which is productive of constant inconvenience and frequent mistake . It is much to be regretted that two standards of measure so nearly alike ...
... quantities into new denominations . International commerce is also impeded by the same cause , which is productive of constant inconvenience and frequent mistake . It is much to be regretted that two standards of measure so nearly alike ...
Pagina vii
... quantities . " Astronomical Memoranda . The Lalande prize of the French Academy has been awarded to Mr. Alvan Clark , of Cambridgeport , Mass . , for his discovery of the companion star of Sirius , the great object- glass ( 18 inches in ...
... quantities . " Astronomical Memoranda . The Lalande prize of the French Academy has been awarded to Mr. Alvan Clark , of Cambridgeport , Mass . , for his discovery of the companion star of Sirius , the great object- glass ( 18 inches in ...
Pagina viii
... quantities from the leaves . The successful culture of the Cinchona plants in India must be regarded as a subject of the highest importance , not merely to the prosperity of India , but indirectly to the whole world ; as the exploration ...
... quantities from the leaves . The successful culture of the Cinchona plants in India must be regarded as a subject of the highest importance , not merely to the prosperity of India , but indirectly to the whole world ; as the exploration ...
Pagina xi
... quantity of graphite , and a brown mould resembling vegetable mould . Ordinary carbonate of soda ( washing soda ) can have carbon extracted from it , and if the latter is acted upon by dilute nitric acid , and the solution evaporated ...
... quantity of graphite , and a brown mould resembling vegetable mould . Ordinary carbonate of soda ( washing soda ) can have carbon extracted from it , and if the latter is acted upon by dilute nitric acid , and the solution evaporated ...
Pagina xiii
... quantity of food of the fish , and to the number and force of the destructive agencies at work . Any circumstance which increases or decreases the quantity of crustacea and sand - eels must ON THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE . XIII able, are of ...
... quantity of food of the fish , and to the number and force of the destructive agencies at work . Any circumstance which increases or decreases the quantity of crustacea and sand - eels must ON THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE . XIII able, are of ...
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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.