Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Volume 3

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Page 497 - The Author of any paper or communication shall be at liberty to reserve his right of property therein. ACCOUNTS. The Accounts of the Association shall be audited, annually, by Auditors appointed by the Meeting.
Page 495 - 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 197 - Whatever equivalent form is discoverable in arithmetical algebra considered as the science of suggestion, when the symbols are general in their form, though specific in their value, will continue to be an equivalent form when the symbols are general in their nature as well as in their form (Peacock 1833, pp.
Page 493 - ... it was contemplated, would form only one part of the Society's labours; the condensation, arrangement, and publication of those already existing, whether unpublished, or published only in an expensive or diffuse form, or in foreign languages, being a work of equal usefulness.
Page 408 - I offer the hypothesis, that the whole difference in the quantity of rain, at different heights above the surface of the neighbouring ground, is caused by the continual augmentation of each drop of rain from the commencement to the end of its descent, as it traverses successively the humid strata of air at a temperature so much lower than that of the surrounding medium as to cause the deposition of moisture upon its surface.
Page 87 - Between the brain and the muscles there is a circle of nerves; one nerve conveys the influence from the brain to the muscle, another gives the sense of the condition of the muscle to the brain.
Page 490 - The Statistical Society will consider it to be the first and most essential rule of its conduct to exclude carefully all opinions from its transactions and publications, — to confine its attention rigorously to facts, — and, as far as it may be found possible, to facts which can be stated numerically and arranged in tables.
Page 495 - 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. Persons not belonging to such Institutions shall be...
Page 466 - On the state of our knowledge respecting the Magnetism of the Earth, by SH Christie, MA, FRS, Professor of Mathematics, Woolwich. On the recent progress of Physiological Botany, by John Lindley, FRS, Professor of Botany in the University of London.
Page 183 - L'amplitude de ces pulsations peut être considérablement augmentée par des vibrations de même période communiquées à la masse entière du liquide et aux parois du réservoir qui le contient. Sous cette influence étrangère, les dimensions et l'état de la veine peuvent subir des changemens remarquables : la longueur de la partie limpide et continue peut se réduire presqu'à rien, tandis que les ventres de la partie trouble acquièrent une régularité de forme et une transparence qu'ils...

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