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Page xxxii - The objects of the Association are, by periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science in different parts of America, to give a stronger and more general impnlse and more systematic direction to scientific research, and to procure for the labors of scientific men Increased facilities and a wider usefulness.
Page 109 - Engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man...
Page 114 - The Bessemer invention takes its rank with the great events which have changed the face of society since the Middle Ages. The invention of printing, the construction of the magnetic compass, the discovery of America and the introduction of the steam engine are the only capital events in modern history which belong to the same category as the Bessemer process.
Page 241 - That sky-world had no need of the light of the sun or of the moon. Fast by the lodge of the chief of the sky-people stood a huge celandine-tree and its golden yellow blossoms lighted the firmament of the sky-world. The sun and the moon are peculiar to this world. The chief of the sky people is called by the Iroquois in general Tha-ro"-hyaiea,''-ko" and by the Onondagas by this and in particular by the name Haon-hwcn-tcya-wa,''-ko". In the course of time Tha-ro"-hya-wa''-ko" received an offer of marriage...
Page 366 - The stone which the builders refused is become the head-stone of the corner. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.
Page 42 - ... was formed on a plate of glass and inclined at a very small angle to a plane silvered mirror which served as reflector. From an electric arc lamp the light was sent through an appropriate slit and prism, so that a selected spectral band of violet fell normally on the prepared plate in the dark room. The developed negative presented the alternate bands, in perfectly regular order more than a half millimeter apart.
Page 144 - Iroqnois in the basin of the present lake Ontario and northward, then outflowing at Rome, NY. to the Mohawk and Hudson rivers. Gradual re-elevation of the Rome outlet from the Champlain subsidence had lifted the surface of lake Iroquois in its western part from near the present lake level at Toronto to a height there of about 200 feet, finally holding this height during many years, with the formation of the well developed Iroquois beach.
Page 12 - The black, the brown and the red races differ anatomically so much from the white, especially in their splanchnic organs, that even with equal cerebral capacity, they never could rival its results by equal efforts.
Page 41 - Everyone is familiar with the formation of stationary waves upon an elastic stretched cord, and with the acoustic exhibition of stationary air waves in a closed tube by Kundt's method of light powders. That similar loops and nodes must be produced under proper conditions by interference of waves of light would appear obviously possible ; and so long ago as 1868 Dr.
Page 364 - ... be the basis of military operations against the latest addition to the republics of the world, such action being, as I shall herein point out, without foundation in justice. Lest it may be thought that, in addressing you, I am exceeding the just rights of those whom I have the honor to represent, I may be pardoned for calling your attention to the fact that the Constitution of the United States provides in substance that no person, howsoever humble he may be, shall be deprived of his life, liberty,...