Science, Том 6Since Jan. 1901 the official proceedings and most of the papers of the American Association for the Advancement of Science have been included in Science. |
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The more one has, the more one receives,' seems to be exemplified in the finances of our greatest university, the observatory of which has just received a bequest of nearly three hundred thousand dollars ...
The more one has, the more one receives,' seems to be exemplified in the finances of our greatest university, the observatory of which has just received a bequest of nearly three hundred thousand dollars ...
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... nearly three hundred thousand dollars from the will of the late Mr. Robert Treat Paine of Brookline , Mass . The observatory receives one - half of this amount at once , -a sum large enough to enable the early resumption of the ...
... nearly three hundred thousand dollars from the will of the late Mr. Robert Treat Paine of Brookline , Mass . The observatory receives one - half of this amount at once , -a sum large enough to enable the early resumption of the ...
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Such assertions are thoroughly unsci- entific ; most of them are entirely , the remain- der nearly worthless . Of what seem to me the prerequisites to be fulfilled before a general theory of life is advanced , I have written else- ...
Such assertions are thoroughly unsci- entific ; most of them are entirely , the remain- der nearly worthless . Of what seem to me the prerequisites to be fulfilled before a general theory of life is advanced , I have written else- ...
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The voyage of the Challenger began , for deep - sea work , off the coast of Spain ; thence , via the Canaries , across the Atlantic to the West Indies at St. Thomas ; northward in a nearly direct line to Halifax , via Bermuda ...
The voyage of the Challenger began , for deep - sea work , off the coast of Spain ; thence , via the Canaries , across the Atlantic to the West Indies at St. Thomas ; northward in a nearly direct line to Halifax , via Bermuda ...
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From this a ridge ex- tends a short distance westward , and another nearly due north to the equator . Sheering off from the African coast , with which it never- theless preserves a curious parallelism , it ex- tends north - westward ...
From this a ridge ex- tends a short distance westward , and another nearly due north to the equator . Sheering off from the African coast , with which it never- theless preserves a curious parallelism , it ex- tends north - westward ...
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Стр. 340 - vision. In vain,—the blurred record was as blank as ever. The next night he saw the fish again, but with no more satisfactory result. When he awoke it disappeared from his memory as before. Hoping that the same experience might be repeated on the third night, he placed a pencil and
Стр. 99 - quite like the French academy, — a sovereign organ of the highest literary opinion, a recognized authority in matters of intellectual tone and taste, we shall hardly have, and perhaps we ought not to wish to have it."
Стр. 6 - communications concerning the proposed change in the time for beginning the astronomical day, as recommended by the recent International meridian conference at Washington, the lords of the committee of council on education requested the following committee to advise them as to what steps should be taken in the matter : Prof. JC Adams,
Стр. 382 - Helmholtz, HLF The sensations of tone as a physiological basis for the theory of music. 2d
Стр. 31 - the extent to which the strata above or below the gassand are cracked; (c) the dip of the gassand, and the position of the anticlines and synclines; (d) the relative proportions of water, oil, and gas contained in the sand; and (e) the pressure under which the gas exists before being tapped by wells.
Стр. 433 - and The preventable causes of disease, injury, and death in American manufactories and workshops, and the best means and appliances for preventing and avoiding them. The
Стр. 266 - terms such as a competent mathematician could deal with, disentangled from all reference to heredity, and in that shape submitted it to Mr. J. Hamilton Dickson, of St. Peter's college, Cambridge. I asked him kindly to investigate for me the surface of frequency of error that would result from these three data, and the various
Стр. 265 - discountenances extravagant fears that they will inherit all their weaknesses and diseases. The converse of this law is very far from being its numerical opposite. Because the most probable deviate of the son is only twothirds that of his midparentage , it does not in the least follow that the most probable deviate of the midparentage is
Стр. 333 - and the tooth became the most efficient weapon of attack. Still later, armor was discarded, and flight or concealment became the main methods of escape, and swift pursuit the principle of attack, while claws were added to teeth as assailing weapons. Finally, mentality came into play, intelligence became the most efficient agent both in attack and