Nature, Volumen58

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Sir Norman Lockyer
Macmillan Journals Limited, 1898

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Página 271 - The best blood of England flows in my veins; on my father's side I am a Northumberland, on my mother's I am related to kings, but this avails me not. My name shall live in the memory of man when the titles of the Northumberlands and the Percys are extinct and forgotten.
Página 33 - Physician-in-Chief to the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore ; formerly Professor of the Institutes of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal ; and Professor of Clinical Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Página 308 - Hornaday. has expressed the opinion that it is only a question of a very short time when the moose and caribou will all have disappeared from the hunting grounds of Maine.
Página 171 - the weight of a body is the force with which it is attracted by the Earth.
Página 158 - ONE lesson, Nature, let me learn of thee, One lesson which in every wind is blown, One lesson of two duties kept at one Though the loud world proclaim their enmity — Of toil unsevered from tranquillity; Of labor, that in lasting fruit outgrows Far noisier schemes, accomplished in repose, Too great for haste, too high for rivalry.
Página 279 - The paper in question deals with experiments with various birds, from a consideration of which the author draws the following conclusions : (i) That there is a general appetite for butterflies among insectivorous birds, even though they are rarely seen when wild to attack them.
Página 171 - When, as in astronomy, we endeavour to ascertain these causes by simply watching their effects, we observe; when, as in our laboratories, we interfere arbitrarily with the causes or circumstances of a phenomenon, we are said to experiment.
Página 241 - Swinburne. — PICTURE LOGIC : an Attempt to Popularise the Science of Reasoning. By ALFRED JAMES SWINBURNE, MA With 23 Woodcuts.
Página 291 - FOWLER AND GODLEE. THE DISEASES OF THE LUNGS. By JAMES KINGSTON FOWLER, MA, MD, FRCP, Physician to the Middlesex Hospital, and to the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton...
Página 157 - ... artificial manufacture of indigo on a large scale. The Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik, Ludwigshafen, is now manufacturing "indigo-blue" at a price which very seriously threatens the prosperity of the culture of indigo in India. ACCORDING to the Botanical Gazette, the coming meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Boston promises to be one of the most notable in the history of the Association. It is the fiftieth anniversary, and special efforts are being made to...

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