Report of the Annual Meeting of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, Том 3South African Association for the Advancement of Science., 1907 |
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... extreme ways of looking at life and its affairs , characteristic of two eternally opposed atti- tudes of different minds the melancholy and the sanguine . The Greek poet Hesiod , who was an eloquent exponent of the melancholy view - a ...
... extreme ways of looking at life and its affairs , characteristic of two eternally opposed atti- tudes of different minds the melancholy and the sanguine . The Greek poet Hesiod , who was an eloquent exponent of the melancholy view - a ...
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... extreme and mean state of the barometer . " Buchan made the first material advance since the time of Dove in explaining the barometric oscillations , and he followed Dalton in distinguishing between weight and elasticity , without going ...
... extreme and mean state of the barometer . " Buchan made the first material advance since the time of Dove in explaining the barometric oscillations , and he followed Dalton in distinguishing between weight and elasticity , without going ...
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... extreme ends of their swing should attract attention , for they would appear to linger there , in going and returning , for a longer period than anywhere else in their journey . All available weather charts from 1876 onwards were ...
... extreme ends of their swing should attract attention , for they would appear to linger there , in going and returning , for a longer period than anywhere else in their journey . All available weather charts from 1876 onwards were ...
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... extreme summer to the extreme winter position , as affords a maximum of these congenial conditions . This is one of the reasons why the track must vary in different years , especially when it leads across mountain ranges on which the ...
... extreme summer to the extreme winter position , as affords a maximum of these congenial conditions . This is one of the reasons why the track must vary in different years , especially when it leads across mountain ranges on which the ...
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... extreme winter to their extreme summer positions and back again . Secondary and minor . anti - cyclonic systems are formed which have irregular movements of their own , quite irrespective of the general progressive movement of the more ...
... extreme winter to their extreme summer positions and back again . Secondary and minor . anti - cyclonic systems are formed which have irregular movements of their own , quite irrespective of the general progressive movement of the more ...
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Report of the Annual Meeting of the South African Association for the ..., Том 7 Полный просмотр - 1910 |
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annual anti-cyclonic anti-cyclonic systems April average baloyi barometer Barometric Pressure British Association Bulawayo Cape Colony Cape Town carapace cent character charts coast colour curve cyclones direction districts diurnal diurnal variation Durban East London extreme feet feldspar femoral tubercle geometrica geometrica-group inches increase irrigation isobars Johannesburg July June Kimberley kraal labour land large number lime manure matter maximum melaphyre Meteorological minimum month Monthly Means Natal native negro night nitrogen North observations Observatory ocean oculifera Orange River Orange River Colony oscillation period phosphoric acid plants plastron present Pretoria probably progressive movements quartz rain rainfall rays readings reduced relative humidity Rhodesia rock sea-level season Sept shields soil South Africa species specimens stations sub-group summer surface TABLE temperature variability tentoria tion Transvaal trimeni verreauxii weather whole winter
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Стр. 217 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
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Стр. xxiv - Council, and the work was prepared under the auspices of the South African Governments and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, the cost of production being principally defrayed by the various South African Governments.
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Стр. 171 - Had it not been for the charts compiled from the results of the untiring labours of travellers by land and observers at sea in the field of terrestrial magnetism during the last century, not only would science have been miserably poorer, but it is not too much to say that the modern iron or steel steamship traversing the ocean on the darkest night at great speed would have been almost an impossibility, whereas with their aid the modern navigators can drive their ships at a speed of 26'5 statute miles...