 | Birds - 1816 - 338 pages
...when she has done, breeding, to assume the garb of the male. The late ingenious Mr John Hunter, FRS in a paper read before the Royal Society, and published in the philosophical transactions for 1780, says — " It is remarked by those who are conversant with this bird, when wild, that there... | |
 | Thomas Bewick - Birds - 1826 - 446 pages
...she baa done breeding, to assume the garb of a male. That illustrious physiologist, John Hunter, in a paper read before the Royal Society, and published in the Philosophical Transaction? for 1780, says—" It is remarked by those who are conversant with this bird, when wild,... | |
 | Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1909 - 196 pages
...An estimate of the degree of legitimate natality drawn from observations made at Budapest. [Abstract of a paper read before the Royal Society and published in the Philosophical Transactions. .] 1894, LVII, 690-702. General remarks on the construction of a table of natality 690 Special remarks... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott - Botany, Medical - 1842 - 578 pages
...merchandise. The fact of Mr. Blane's discovery of the scented andropogon, and the story from Arrian, formed the subject of a paper read before the Royal Society; and, by most persons, the Andropogon Nardus Indica was at the time received as the Spikenard of the ancients.... | |
 | Literature - 1863 - 640 pages
...ELECTRICIANS enlivened their Christmas holidays by talking about Mr. Gassiot's latest experiments, which formed the subject of a paper read before the Royal Society. As the former experiments by the same persevering gentleman have been repeatedly noticed in this Journal,... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1857 - 650 pages
...evincing throughout the high qualifications of the author for the conduct of such an Expedition. 285 then made in his health, obliged him to return home...afford him the means of continuing his inquiries. For gome years subsequently, Captain Beechey was chiefly employed in continuing these services, and in... | |
 | Joseph Ellison Portlock - Geology - 1858 - 154 pages
...the general relations and geometrical similarity of all crystals belonging to the same system ; it formed the subject of a paper read before the Royal Society, and was in the press at the time of his decease. With a liberality equally characteristic both of Mr. Brooke... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1860 - 722 pages
...been found in a cavern in the solid limestone rock." The fossils were described by Sir Everard Home in a paper read before the Royal Society, and published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1817 ; in November 1820 Mr. Whidby discovered a second ossiferous cavern, and sent up the bones... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1863 - 432 pages
...ARTS. ELECTRICIANS enlivened their Christmas holidays by talking about Mr Gassiot's latest experiments, which formed the subject of a paper read before the Royal Society. As the former experiments by the same persevering gentleman have been repeatedly noticed in this Journal,... | |
 | Literature - 1863 - 888 pages
...ABTS. ELECTRICIANS enlivened their Christmas holidays by talking about Mr Gassiot's latest experiments, which formed the subject of a paper read before the Royal Society. As the former experiments by the same persevering gentleman have been repeatedly noticed in this Journal,... | |
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Islands, which formed the subject of a paper read before the Royal Society, and published in the ' Philosophical Transactions... 
