Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Volume 25J. Murray, 1856 - Science |
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Page xviii - 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 xvii - Its objects are— to give a stronger impulse, and a more systematic direction to scientific enquiry— 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 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 lxix - Action of Gases on Light 18 16 1 Establishment at Kew Observatory, Wages, Repairs, Furniture, and Sundries ... 133 4 7 Experiments by Captive Balloons 81 8 0...
Page lxx - Publications of the British Association Catalogue of Stars 351 14 6 Meteorological Observations at Inverness 30 18 11 Magnetic and Meteorological Co-operation 16 16 8 Meteorological Instruments at Edinburgh 18 11 9 Reduction of Anemometrical Observations at Plymouth 25...
Page 7 - MOUNTAINEERING IN 1861; a Vacation Tour. By JOHN TYNDALL, FRS, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Square crown 8vo.
Page 194 - This third and intermediate kind of knowledge, is that for the advancement of which this section of the British Association was established. It enables its possessor to plan a structure or machine for a given purpose without the necessity of copying some existing example — to compute the theoretical limit of the strength and stability of a structure, or the efficiency of a machine of a particular kind — to ascertain how far an actual structure or machine fails to attain that limit, and to discover...
Page lvi - In a national, or universal point of view, the labour of the savant, or speculative thinker, is as much a part of production in the very narrowest sense, as that of the inventor of a practical art; many such inventions having been the direct consequences of theoretic discoveries, and every extension of knowledge of the powers of nature being fruitful of applicalions to the purposes of outward life.
Page 173 - Since the first establishment of the institution in 1839 there have been received 521. The number of present inmates is 348, leaving a remainder of 173. Of these, 17 have died ; 12 have been sent back to their prisons for misconduct ; 144 have been placed out in various situations in the world. Of the 144 thus placed out, 7 have relapsed into crime ; 9 are of doubtful characters ; and 128 are conducting themselves to the satisfaction of the directors.
Page 80 - Director-General of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland ; and JAMES NICOL, FRSE, FGS, Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen. Constructed by ALEX. KEITH JOHNSTON, FRSE, &c., Geographer to the Queen, Author of the "Physical Atlas,