Nature, Volume 70

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Sir Norman Lockyer
Macmillan Journals Limited, 1904
 

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Page viii - PUCKLE— AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON CONIC SECTIONS AND ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY. With Numerous Examples and Hints for their Solution ; especially designed for the Use of Beginners. By GH PUCKLE, MA New Edition, revised and enlarged.
Page 116 - With this purpose in view it will be the aim of the school to train the children carefully in habits of observation and clear reasoning,- so that they may gain an intelligent acquaintance with some of the facts and laws of nature...
Page 33 - Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 199 - Old things have passed away, and behold, all things have become new.
Page 75 - The view which I am so bold as to put forth considers, therefore, radiation as a high species of vibration in the lines of force which are known to connect particles and also masses of matter together. It endeavours to dismiss the aether, but not the vibrations.
Page 52 - Milk : Its Production and Uses. With Chapters on Dairy Farming, The Diseases of Cattle, and on the Hygiene and Control of Supplies. By EDWARD P.
Page 82 - ... as it w-ould be disgraceful to abase it. I see no impossibility in eugenics becoming a religious dogma among mankind, but its details must first be worked out sedulously in the study. Over-zeal leading to hasty action would do harm by holding out expectations of a near golden age which would certainly be falsified and cause the science to be discredited.
Page xxviii - Managers upon the qualifications of all candidates whose names are sent in to him. The Professor of Pathology shall at the same time nominate one of the candidates as the person best qualified, in his opinion, for election, and the Managers shall either elect the person so nominated, or such other of the candidates as the three Managers may unanimously agree to elect.
Page 234 - ... The present volume contains a very exhaustive " Report on the Climate and Weather of Baltimore and Vicinity," and represents the results of many years' study of the Baltimore region. It is doubtful if the weather of any district has been so thoroughly studied as this region has been by Dr. Fassig. The Report is divided into two parts. The first deals with the average and extreme values of the meteorological elements recorded in the city of Baltimore. The discussion is based upon observations...
Page 215 - Each essay must be accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the name and address of the author and bearing on the outside the motto or device which is inscribed upon the essay.

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