Report of the Annual Meeting

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Report on the Gaussian Constants for the year 1829 or a Theory
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Second Supplementary Report on the Extinct Birds of the Mascarene
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Eighth Report of the Committee for Exploring Kents Cavern Devon
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Report of the Committee appointed for the purpose of promoting
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Preliminary Report of the Committee appointed to construct and print
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Experiments on the Surfacefriction experienced by a Plane moving
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Report on the Antagonism between the Action of Active Substances
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Professor DICKSON on the Cones of Pinus pinaster
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Preliminary Report of the Committee on Siemenss ElectricalResistance
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Interim Report of the Committee appointed for the purpose of making
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Report of the Committee consisting of the Rev Dr GINSBURG W HEP
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Mr W F MAYERS on the Panthays of Yunnan
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Sur lélimination des Fonctions Arbitraires By CH HERMITE Corr
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Report of the Committee on Earthquakes in Scotland The Committee
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F G S appointed to consider the mode in which new Inventions
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Report on the Mollusca of Europe compared with those of Eastern North
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Report of the Committee for the purpose of investigating the Chemical
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Report of the Committee consisting of the Rev Canon TRISTRAM Pro
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Report of the Committee appointed to organize an Expedition for
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Preliminary Report of a Committee consisting of Professor MICHAEL
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Report of the Committee appointed for the purpose of promoting
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On the Brighton Waterworks By EDWARD EASTON C E F G S
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On Amslers Planimeter By F J BRAMWELL C E
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Mr W MARSHAM ADAMS on the Mensurator a new Instrument for the Solu
Professor CLIFFORD on the Contact of Surfaces of the Second Order with
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Mr J E HILGARD on a Verification of the Probability Function
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ASTRONOMY
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Mr W F BARRETT on a Condition affecting the Spheroidal State of Liquids
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Mr GEORGE DINES on a new Hygrometer
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Address by J II GLADSTONE Ph D F R S President of the Section
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Mr T A READWIN on the Coal and IronMines of the Arigna District
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on Stigmariæ from the Fossiliferous Strata at Auchentorlie 127
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Prof P J VAN BENEDEN sur les Baleines du Crag dAnvers 134
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Professor P G TAIT on Double Neutral Points in Thermoelectric Currents 52
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Mr JOHN ROBERTSON on the Perforating Instruments of Pholas candida 140
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Prof W H FLOWER on the Arrangement and Nomenclature of the Lobes
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vation and Waste in Animated Frames and the extent to which such Opera
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The Rev J C ATKINSON on the Predominating Danish Aspect of the Local
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Mr JOHN EVANS on the Alphabet and its Origin 181
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The Rev W GREENWELL on the Barrows of the Yorkshire Wolds 187
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Prof T RUPERT JONES on some Bone and other Implements from the Caves
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Mr R S SYMES on Rubbings from St Patricks Chair Co Mayo Ireland 197
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Mr W P ANDREW on the EuphratesValley Route to India
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General R STRACHEY on the Scope of Scientific Geography illustrated
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MajorGeneral Sir JAMES E ALEXANDER on the Pollution of Rivers 220
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Professor HULL on a Proposal for supplying Pure Water to Villages
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BERGERON on the Rapid and Economical Transport of Merchandise 241
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of Rudder 243
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Maj Gen H Y D SCOTT on Defecating Sewage and Utilizing the Deposit
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METEOROLOGY
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Mr GEORGE HARRIS on Theories regarding Intellect and Instinct with
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Mr CHARLES MELDRUM on a Periodicity in the Frequency of Cyclones in
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ACOUSTICS
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RUDOLF KÖNIG on Musical Beats and Resultant Tones
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lxxi. oldal - I can bear it; the die is cast; the book is written; to be read either now or by posterity, I care not which ; it may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.
lviii. oldal - That the gentlemen whose names are appended be requested to act as a Committee (with power to add to their number) for the purpose of carrying out the previous resolution and of reporting to an adjourned public meeting to be held during the second week in October next.
lxxxiv. oldal - But when Science, passing beyond its own limits, assumes to take the place of Theology, and sets up its own conception of the Order of Nature as a sufficient account of its Cause, it is invading a province of Thought to which it has no claim, and not unreasonably provokes the hostility of those who ought to be its best friends.
lxxxiv. oldal - ... phenomena of Nature, each to its own deity. These deities were invested with more than human power ; but they were also supposed capable of human passions, and subject to human capriciousness. As the uniformities of Nature came to be more distinctly recognized, some of these deities were invested with a dominant control, while others were supposed to be their subordinate ministers. A serene majesty was attributed to the greater gods who sit above the clouds, whilst their inferiors might " come...
xx. oldal - Committees for the several Sections before the beginning of the Meeting. It has therefore become necessary, in order to give an opportunity to the Committees of doing justice to the several communications, that each Author should prepare an Abstract of his Memoir, of a length suitable for insertion in the published Transactions of the Association, and that he should send it, together with the original Memoir, by book-post, on or before September 1, addressed thus — " General Secretaries, British...
lxxvii. oldal - Race at the time, and which have come to be so in virtue of its whole previous culture.— Who, for example, could refuse to the marvellous aptitude for perceiving the relations of Numbers, which displayed itself in the untutored boyhood of George Bidder and Zerah Colburn, the title of an Intuitive gift? But who, on the other hand, can believe that a Bidder or a Colburn could suddenly arise in a race of Savages who cannot count beyond five?
283. oldal - Inrinancc ;—Interim Report on the Gauging of Water by Triangular Notches ;—List of the British Marine Invertebrate Fauna. Together with the Transactions of the Sections, Lord Wrottesley's Address, and Recommendations of the Association and its Committees.
xxi. oldal - Committee (vide p. xxiii), and will receive, on application to the Treasurer in the Reception Room, Tickets entitling them to attend its Meetings. The Committees will take into consideration any suggestions which may be offered by their Members for the advancement of Science. They are specially requested to review the recommendations adopted at preceding Meetings, as published in the volumes of the Association and the communications made to the Sections at this Meeting, for the purposes of selecting...
275. oldal - Pattinson, on some Galvanic Experiments to determine the Existence or Non-Existence of Electrical Currents among Stratified Rocks, particularly those of the Mountain Limestone formation, constituting the Lead Measures of Alston Moor ; — Sir D.
39. oldal - When a ray of light passes from one medium to another, it is refracted so that the ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction is equal to the ratio of the velocities in the two media.

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