Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Band 22

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Seite 22 - The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Seite 22 - Let us not then refuse to believe even what we do not see, and let us supply the defects of our corporeal eyes, by using those of the soul ; but especially let us learn to render the just homage of respect and veneration to the Divinity, whose will it seems to be, that we should have no other perception of him than by his effects in our favour. Now, this adoration, this homage, consists in pleasing him, and we can only please him in doing his will.
Seite xvii - Association are, by periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science In different parts of America, to give a stronger and more general impulse and more systematic direction to scientific research, and to procure for the labors of scientific men increased facilities and a wider usefulness.
Seite 399 - And assuredly, there is no mark of degradation about any part of its structure. It is, in fact, a fair average human skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher, or might have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage.
Seite 152 - We reached the cave and entered it, first by a wooden way carried over the bowlders, and then along a narrow ledge to the point eaten deepest into the shale. "When the wind is from the south, the falling water, I am told, can be seen tranquilly from this spot ; but, when we were there, a blinding hurricane of spray was whirled against us.
Seite 135 - We had often before remarked, that considerable alterations in the temperature of the atmosphere are as sensibly felt by the human frame, at a very low part of the scale, as in the higher. The difference...
Seite 427 - to memorialize Congress and the several State legislatures upon the importance of promoting the cultivation of timber and the preservation of forests, and to recommend proper legislation for securing these objects.
Seite 145 - At the rate of excavation assigned to it by Sir Charles Lyell, namely, a foot a year, five thousand years or so will carry the Horseshoe Fall far higher than Goat Island. As the gorge recedes it will drain, as it has hitherto done, the banks right and left of it, thus leaving a nearly level terrace between Goat Island and the edge of the gorge.
Seite 389 - Menan, by the writer, measured 5 inches across the disk and tentacles, but their bodies were mutilated. Entire ones of much smaller size were dredged by Dr. Packard and Mr. Cooke in 110 and 150 fathoms, soft mud, near St. George's Bank. The largest of these was 8 inches long, and like other species of the genus, inhabited a thick, tough, felt-like, muddy tube.
Seite xxii - Association until this admission fee and the subscription for the meeting at which he is elected have been paid. RULE 20. The names of all persons two years in arrears for annual dues shall be erased from the list of members ; provided that two notices of indebtedness, at an interval of at least three months, shall have been previously given. ACCOUNTS. RULE 21. The accounts of the Association shall be audited, annually, by auditors appointed at each meeting. ALTERATIONS OP THE CONSTITUTION.

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