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... Ramsgate harbour , and terminated on the 17th , the vessel in Dover harbour . This curve is characterized by a rapid fall , which took place immediately upon the culmination of the great wave , value 27 between 9 A.M. of the 10th , and ...
... Ramsgate harbour , and terminated on the 17th , the vessel in Dover harbour . This curve is characterized by a rapid fall , which took place immediately upon the culmination of the great wave , value 27 between 9 A.M. of the 10th , and ...
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... Ramsgate . At the commencement of the great wave the barometer at the Western Isles was more than half an inch below that at Ramsgate , wind S.W. , force 9. The two anterior waves , which were scarcely perceptible at Ramsgate , were ...
... Ramsgate . At the commencement of the great wave the barometer at the Western Isles was more than half an inch below that at Ramsgate , wind S.W. , force 9. The two anterior waves , which were scarcely perceptible at Ramsgate , were ...
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... Ramsgate . TABLE III . Barometric altitudes and differences observed at Stornoway in the Western Isles , and Helstone in Cornwall , during the transit of the Great Symme- trical Wave of November 1846 . Epoch , Nov. Hel- stone . Storno ...
... Ramsgate . TABLE III . Barometric altitudes and differences observed at Stornoway in the Western Isles , and Helstone in Cornwall , during the transit of the Great Symme- trical Wave of November 1846 . Epoch , Nov. Hel- stone . Storno ...
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... Ramsgate and Stornoway , and goes far to show that the greater differences of atmospheric pressure result more or less from the north - western system of waves , and that the greater oscillations approach us from the north - west . sion ...
... Ramsgate and Stornoway , and goes far to show that the greater differences of atmospheric pressure result more or less from the north - western system of waves , and that the greater oscillations approach us from the north - west . sion ...
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... Ramsgate ; and it closely agrees with the Helstone curve , in being altogether lower and not intersecting the Ramsgate curve . The whole extent of the British Isles is divided into two barometric areas , distinguished in one case by the ...
... Ramsgate ; and it closely agrees with the Helstone curve , in being altogether lower and not intersecting the Ramsgate curve . The whole extent of the British Isles is divided into two barometric areas , distinguished in one case by the ...
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Seite 320 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Seite 323 - The consideration, then, of ideas and words as the great instruments of knowledge, makes no despicable part of their contemplation who would take a view of human knowledge in the whole extent of it. And perhaps, if they were distinctly weighed and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic than what we have been hitherto acquainted with.
Seite v - To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
Seite xxvi - London, for such portion of the sum granted as may from time to time be required. In grants of money to Committees, the Association does not contemplate the payment of personal expenses to the Members. In all cases where additional grants of money are made for the continuation of Researches at the cost of the Association, the sum named shall be deemed to include, as a part of the amount, the specified balance which may remain unpaid on the former grant for the same object. General Meetings. On Wednesday,...
Seite v - General Meeting. COMPOSITIONS, SUBSCRIPTIONS, AND PRIVILEGES. LIFE MEMBERS shall pay, on admission, the sum of Ten Pounds. They shall receive gratuitously the Reports of the Association which may be published after the date of such payment. They are eligible to all the offices of the Association. ANNUAL SUBSCRIBERS shall pay, on admission, the sum of Two Pounds, and in each following year the sum of One Pound. They shall receive gratuitously the Reports of the Association for the year of their admission...
Seite 351 - Report on this subject observed, that in accordance with the resolution adopted at the last Meeting of the Association...
Seite v - The Officers and Members of the Councils, or Managing Committees, of Philosophical Institutions, shall be entitled, in like manner, to become Members of the Association. All Members of a Philosophical Institution recommended by its Council or Managing Committee, shall be entitled, in like manner, to become Members of the Association.
Seite vii - Vice-Présidents, one or more Secretaries, and a Treasurer, shall be annually appointed by the General Committee. COUNCIL. In the intervals of the Meetings, the affairs of the Association shall be managed by a Council appointed by the General Committee. The Council may also assemble for the despatch of business during the week of the Meeting.
Seite vii - Office-bearers for the time being, or Delegates, altogether not exceeding three in number, from any Philosophical Society publishing Transactions. 4. Office-bearers for the time being, or Delegates, not exceeding three, from Philosophical Institutions established in the place of Meeting, or in any place where the Association has formerly met. 5. Foreigners and other individuals whose assistance is desired, and who are specially nominated in writing for the Meeting of the year by the President and...
Seite xliii - Europe, and with heavy orders for agricultural produce, the farmers in the interior of the stale of New York, informed of the state of things by the magnetic telegraph, were thronging the streets of Albany with innumerable team-loads of grain almost as quickly after the arrival of the steamer at Boston as the news of that arrival could ordinarily have reached them.