 | Percy Fry Kendall, Herbert Edward Wroot - 1924 - 1198 páginas
...and other bodies. The topics dealt with, apart from the Mesozoic strata, were chiefly petrographical. He was one of the first, if not the very first to adopt the methods of Sorby, and an early association with Poulet Scrope — a great pioneer in Vulcanology... | |
 | Arthur Irwin Dasent - 1924 - 372 páginas
...conceived to be his proper sphere in life — an actor-manager with ideas, energetic and resourceful — he was one of the first, if not the very first, to make an experiment, till then unattempted in London, which must, I think, have commended itself unreservedly... | |
 | Newton McFaul MacTavish - 1925 - 352 páginas
...subjedts. He has a fondness for the scenery of Northern Ontario, and it is an interesting fact that he was one of the first, if not the very first, to prove the merits of that part of Canada as a great field for landscape painting. Another Canadian landscape... | |
 | Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger - 1927 - 510 páginas
...composed Earl Haakon, his finest tragedy. Our chief interest in Ohlenschlager centers in the fact that he was one of the first, if not the very first, to conceive of X using the figures of Norse mythology in his plots. His plays attained a sort of recognition... | |
 | C. J. Butler, I. Elliott - 1993 - 398 páginas
...Naval Observatory in Washington. He also observed Jupiter and Saturn and, according to AA Rambaut, he was one of the first, if not the very first, to notice the proper motion of Jupiter's Red Spot. Burton, shortly before his death at the age of 35,... | |
 | 1913 - 1118 páginas
...established in 1806 by the Rowland boys' father. This elder Rowland, by the way, owned a clipper ship; and he was one of the first, if not the very first, to install steamboat service between Norfolk and New York. When the war began, Thomas Rowland entered... | |
 | 1873 - 698 páginas
...Nantucket. With a small spy-glass he caught an early sight of Halley's comet, at its last return in 1835. He was one of the first, if not the very first, to see it in this country. Mr. Mitchell was familiar with meteorological ' phenomena, of which he kept... | |
 | Charles Davison - 1927 - 266 páginas
...the vibratory motion from the wave-like motion or visible waves, Michell was in advance of his time. He was one of the first, if not the very first, to assign the vibratory motion in earthquakes to the propagation of elastic waves in the earth's crust.... | |
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He was one of the first, if not the very first, to practise excision in cases of carious joints. 
