Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution, with Abstracts of the Discourses, Volume 11W. Nicol, Printer to the Royal Institution, 1887 - Science |
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Page 147 - after, And pine for what is not, Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught." " Our sweetest songs are those that tell
Page 597 - AND FIRST PENETRATED THE OBSCURITY WHICH HAD VEILED FOR AGES THE HIEROGLYPHICS OF EGYPT. ENDEARED TO HIS FRIENDS BY HIS DOMESTIC VIRTUES, HONOURED BY THE WORLD FOR HIS UNRIVALLED ACQUIREMENTS. HE DIED IN THE HOPES OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE JUST. BORN AT MILVERTON, IN SOMERSETSHIRE, JUNE 13TH, 1773, DIED IN PARK SQUARE, LONDON, MAY
Page 474 - in the year. Thanks were voted to the President, Treasurer, and the Honorary Secretary, to the Committees of Managers and Visitors, and to the Professors, for their valuable services to the Institution during the past year. The following Gentlemen were unanimously elected as Officers for the ensuing year: PRESIDENT—The Duke of Northumberland, EGDCL LL.D.
Page 288 - in 1884. The Books and Pamphlets presented in 1884 amounted to about 276 volumes, making, with 506 volumes (including Periodicals bound) purchased by the Managers, a total of 782 volumes added to the Library in the year. The following Gentlemen were unanimously elected as Officers for the ensuing year : PRESIDENT—The Duke of Northumberland, DCL LL.D.
Page 85 - voted to the President, Treasurer, and the Honorary Secretary, to the Committees of Managers and Visitors, and to the Professors, for their valuable services to the Institution during the past year. The following Gentlemen were unanimously elected as Officers for the ensuing year : PRESIDENT—The Duke of Northumberland, DCL LL.D. TREASURER—George Busk, Esq. FRS SECRETARY—Sir William Bowman, Bart.
Page 117 - d'une vérité philosophique qui n'avait pas échappé aux anciens. Sans la lumière, la nature était sans vie, elle était morte et inanimée; un Dieu bienfaisant en apportant la lumière, a répandu sur la surface de la terre l'organisation, le sentiment et la pensée." GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, Monday,
Page 288 - testifying to the continued prosperity and efficient management of the Institution, was read and adopted. The Real and Funded Property now amounts to above 85,400Z., entirely derived from the Contributions and Donations of the Members. Forty-four new Members paid their Admission Fees in 1884. Sixty-three Lectures and Twenty Evening Discourses
Page 146 - is brought to a close in the following words:— " Finally it may not be a logical deduction, but to my imagination it is far more satisfactory to look at such instincts as the young cuckoo ejecting its foster-brothers, ants making slaves, the
Page 71 - 2. That it is an Art which, like them, is governed and directed by general laws; and that these laws may be laid down and taught with as much precision and exactness as the laws of harmony, perspective, and proportion.
Page 571 - or uttered sayings to be remembered. He did not think abstractedly. A philosophical fact, a difficult calculation, an ingenious instrument, or a new invention, would engage his attention; but he never spoke of morals, or metaphysics, or religion. Of the last, I never heard