Proceedings of the Royal Society of London

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Taylor & Francis, 1871

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Seite 131 - Guide to the Exhibition Rooms of the Departments of Natural History and Antiquities.
Seite 128 - The PRESIDENT then delivered his Address, (p. 65.) It was proposed by Mr. LATHAM, seconded by Mr. FIELD, and resolved:— " That the thanks of the Society be given to the President for his Address, and that he be requested to allow it to be printed in the Quarterly Journal of the Society.
Seite 31 - Institution for diffusing the Knowledge and facilitating the general Introduction of Useful Mechanical Inventions and Improvements, and for teaching, by courses of Philosophical Lectures and Experiments, the Application of Science to the Common Purposes of Life.
Seite 133 - The Theory of the Arts; or, Art in Relation to Nature, Civilization, and Man : comprising an Investigation, Analytical and Critical, into the Origin, Rise, Province, Principles, and Application of Each of the Arts, Lon., 1869, 2 vols. 770 " The
Seite viii - Assistant Physician to the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton ; Lecturer on Materia Medica at the Charing Cross School of Medicine and Assistant Physician to the Hospital Sm.
Seite 345 - Report of the Meteorological Reporter to the Government of Bengal. Meteorological Abstract for the year 1874.
Seite 239 - This experiment, in the author's opinion, indicates that this arch is composed of attenuated particlet of matter projected from the negative pole by electricity in all directions, but that the magnet controls their course; and these particles seem to be thrown by momentum on each side of the negative pole, beyond the limit of the electric current. This arch requires time for its formation, for when a charged condenser is discharged through the tube no arch is produced. The arch from the negative...
Seite 346 - Reports on Experiments made with the Bashforth Chronograph to determine the Resistance of the Air to the Motion of Projectiles 1865—1870, pp.
Seite 41 - In mechanics, — in nature there is no such thing as a pulling force — • though the term attraction may have been used in the above to denote the tendency of bodies to approach, the line of conclusions here indicated tends to argue that there is no such thing as attraction in the sense of a pulling force, and that two utterly isolated bodies cannot influence one another.
Seite 500 - These laminee are separated by short vertical piles of cells, believed to be medullary rays. In the transverse section the intersected mouths of the vessels form radiating lines ; and the whole structure is regarded as an early type of an exogenous cylinder; it is from this cylinder alone that the vascular bundles going to the leaves are given off. This woody zone is surrounded by a very thick cortical layer, which is parenchymatous...

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