Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volumen1Metcalf and Company, 1848 Vol. 12 (from May 1876 to May 1877) includes: Researches in telephony / by A. Graham Bell. |
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... direction of the Committee on Publications , at the close of the current volume of the Memoirs of the Academy . The Marquis of Northampton , President of the Royal Soci- ety , was chosen a Foreign Honorary Member of the Academy . Henry ...
... direction of the Committee on Publications , at the close of the current volume of the Memoirs of the Academy . The Marquis of Northampton , President of the Royal Soci- ety , was chosen a Foreign Honorary Member of the Academy . Henry ...
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... direction where the meteor was seen , the sun shining dimly at the time through cirrus cloud . The intensity of the light of this meteor was such as to render it a more conspicuous object than the moon at full would have been . The same ...
... direction where the meteor was seen , the sun shining dimly at the time through cirrus cloud . The intensity of the light of this meteor was such as to render it a more conspicuous object than the moon at full would have been . The same ...
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... direction of persons who have , all their lives , been accustomed to hear the language spoken in its purity . Peculiarities of particular districts of the mother country are as much to be avoided as provincialisms or Americanisms . This ...
... direction of persons who have , all their lives , been accustomed to hear the language spoken in its purity . Peculiarities of particular districts of the mother country are as much to be avoided as provincialisms or Americanisms . This ...
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... Direction of the British Associ- ation for the Advancement of Science . 4to . London , 1845. From the Association . Address at the Inauguration of the Honorable Edward Everett , as President of the University in Cambridge . 8vo . pamph ...
... Direction of the British Associ- ation for the Advancement of Science . 4to . London , 1845. From the Association . Address at the Inauguration of the Honorable Edward Everett , as President of the University in Cambridge . 8vo . pamph ...
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... direction nearly opposite to the sun . The observations this evening are made with the annular micrometer . " March 5th . From this date up to the 24th , the spider - line mi- crometer was employed , the field being illuminated with red ...
... direction nearly opposite to the sun . The observations this evening are made with the annular micrometer . " March 5th . From this date up to the 24th , the spider - line mi- crometer was employed , the field being illuminated with red ...
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Página 187 - To INCREASE KNOWLEDGE. It is proposed — 1. To stimulate men of talent to make original researches, by offering suitable rewards for memoirs containing new truths; and, — 2. To appropriate annually a portion of the income for particular researches, under the direction of suitable persons.
Página 188 - The volumes of the memoirs to be exchanged for the transactions of literary and scientific societies, and copies to be given to all the colleges and principal libraries in this country. One part of the remaining copies may be offered for sale ; and the other carefully preserved, to form complete sets of the work, to supply the demand from new institutions.
Página 191 - The emphasis upon publications as a means of diffusing knowledge was expressed by the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. In his formal plan for the Institution, Joseph Henry articulated a program that included the following statement: "It is proposed to publish a series of reports, giving an account of the new discoveries in science, and of the changes made from year to year in all branches of knowledge not strictly professional.
Página 188 - ... 3. The results obtained from these appropriations to be published: with the memoirs before mentioned, in the volumes of the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge.
Página 345 - Map of the Mineral Lands adjacent to Lake Superior, ceded to the United States by the Treaty of 1842 with the Chippewas.
Página 191 - LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS. 9. Modern literature. 10. The fine arts, and their application to the useful arts. 11. Bibliography. 12. Obituary notices of distinguished individuals.
Página 29 - Such is the state of our language,' says Sheridan, a man certainly not prejudiced against his native tongue, ' that the darkest hieroglyphics, or most difficult ciphers that the art of man has hitherto invented, were not better calculated to conceal the sentiments of those...
Página 156 - On three several Hurricanes of the Atlantic, and their Relations to the Northers of Mexico and Central America, with Notices of other Storms.
Página 189 - Solution of experimental problems, such as a new determination of the weight of the earth, of the velocity of electricity and of light; chemical analyses of soils and plants; collection and publication of articles of science, accumulated in the offices of government.
Página 157 - FLS On the Growth of Plants in closely glazed Cases. 8vo. London, 1842. From the Author. Two hundred and ninety-sixth Meeting. May 25, 1847. — ANNUAL MEETING. The PRESIDENT in the chair. A communication was received, through Mr. Bowen, from Mr. John B. Williams, US Consul at Russell, Bay of Islands, New Zealand, being a meteorological register kept at that place, by Mr. Williams, as follows : — METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER Kept at Russell, New Zealand, from April 24/A, 1843, to Aug.