Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Volume 37J. Murray, 1868 - Science |
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1st mag 2nd mag 3rd mag 7).-The mean value 8).-Work of deflection Area of specimen breaking strain Broke in neck cast steel Committee corresponding elongation corresponding to 112 crater Crustacea deflection for unity Diameter of specimen Ditto electrometer expended in producing experiment Fireball formula 12).-Value formula 7).-The mean formula 8).-Work Height of specimen Holyhead hour inch of section inches length iron Kew Observatory Length between supports limit of elasticity Linné Llandeilo Mare Serenitatis Mark on bar Maximum meteors methyl miles minute modulus of elasticity Number of revolutions observations Observatory p.m. Ibid Port Louis pressure and section producing rupture Prof Professor R. I. Murchison Remarks Report responding deflection Results of Exp Scotland Sheffield species square inch Steel from Messrs strain per square supports 4 feet Table temperature tion tons TRANSVERSE STRAIN unit of length unity of pressure unity of section wind Yellow second
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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 - 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.
Page 95 - 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.
Page xviii - Payments, and previous to 1845 a further sum of Two Pounds as a Book Subscription, or, since 1845 a further sum of Five Pounds. New Life Members who have paid Ten Pounds as a composition. Annual Members who have not intermitted their Annual Subscription. 2. At reduced or Members
Page 174 - Committee for inquiring into the Analysis of the Glands, &c. of the Human Body ; — Second Report of the London Sub-Committee of the British Association Medical Section, on the Motions and Sounds of the Heart ; — Prof.
Page 189 - J indicates Subscribers not entitled to the Annual Report. Names without any mark before them are Life Members not entitled to the Annual Report. Names of Members of the GENEBAL COMMITTEE are printed in SMALL CAPITALS.
Page 110 - cast out an orphan of nature, naked and helpless, into the savage forest, he must have perished before he could have learned how to supply his most immediate and urgent wants. Suppose him to have been created, or to have started into being, one knows not how, in the full strength of his bodily powers, how long must it have been before he could have known the proper use of his limbs, or how to apply them to climb the tree 1
Page xix - PAPERS AND COMMUNICATIONS. The Author of any paper or communication shall be at liberty to reserve his right of property therein.
Page 124 - ), so far as any one State can pretend to do so, by the country which, in proportion to its powers, has economized its material resources to the highest point, and acquired the highest degree of moral ascendency by an honest and consistent allegiance to the laws of morality in its domestic policy and in its foreign relations.
Page xvii - Transactions, in the British Empire, shall be entitled, in like manner, to become Members- of the Association. The Officers and Members o'f 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. Persons not belonging to such Institutions shall be elected...