Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Volume 37

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Page xix - All Recommendations of Grants of Money, Requests for Special Researches, and Reports on Scientific Subjects, shall be submitted to the Committee of Recommendations, and not taken into consideration by the General Committee, unless previously recommended by the Committee of Recommendations.
Page 182 - Daubeny, on the Present State of our Knowledge with respect to Mineral and Thermal Waters; — Major E.
Page 103 - Paul with untiring zeal journeyed often " in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the wilderness, in weariness and painfulness, in hunger and thirst, in cold and nakedness...
Page 158 - The piers are 60 feet in height, from the bed of the river to the top of the parapet, and 24 feet in width.
Page xvii - Annual Subscribers, or Associates for the year, subject to the approval of a 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.
Page xix - Meeting, Committees, consisting severally of the Members most conversant with the several branches of Science, to advise together for the advancement thereof. The Committees shall report what subjects of investigation they would particularly recommend to be prosecuted during the ensuing year, and brought under consideration at the next Meeting.
Page 188 - Observations on the Character and Measurements of Degradation of the Yorkshire Coast; First Report of Committee on the Physical Character of the Moon's Surface, as compared with that of the Earth ; — R.
Page 188 - Fairbairn, on the Mechanical Properties of Metals as derived from repeated Meltings, exhibiting the maximum point of strength and the causes of deterioration ; — Robert Mallet, Third Report on the Facts of Earthquake Phenomena (continued). Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Mr.
Page 187 - Allman, on the Present State of our Knowledge of the Freshwater Polyzoa ; — Registration of the Periodical Phenomena of Plants and Animals ; — Suggestions to Astronomers for the Observation of the Total Eclipse of the Sun on July 28, 1851. Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Sir David Brewster's Address, and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees. PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST MEETING, at Ipswich, 1851, Published at 16«.
Page 103 - I have been in the deep; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

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