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Seite 143 - Lo, the poor Indian, whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, and hears Him in the wind...
Seite 19 - ... from the clutches of the publicans, and the embraces of their pot companions, who followed them to the water's edge with many a hug, a kiss on each cheek, and a maudlin benediction in Canadian French. It was about the 12th of August that they left Mackinaw, and pursued the usual route by Green Bay, Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, to Prairie du Chien, and thence down the Mississippi to St. Louis, where they landed on the third of September.
Seite xvii - The objects of the 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 208 - I have at length arrived at results, which, if they do not justify me in announcing the solution of this important and interesting problem, must at least be regarded as astonishing coincidences. Let P be the point of equal attraction between any planet and the one next interior, the two being in conjunction ; P', that between the same and the one next exterior. Let also D = the sum of the distances of the points P, P...
Seite 187 - Department, and that of the Hon. Robert J. Walker, communicating both to Congress, have since been extensively circulated by the press. I will not here allude to the respective claims of Americans for priority or superior excellence of inventions and suggestions, believing that it will be becoming for all of us, to look to the great work that has been accomplished, by our united efforts, rather than to the single share of each.
Seite xx - Accounts. RULE 19. The Accounts of the Association shall be audited annually, by Auditors appointed at each meeting. Alterations of the Constitution. RULE 20. No Article of this Constitution shall be altered or amended without the concurrence of three-fourths of the members present, nor unless notice of the proposed amendment or alteration shall have been given at the preceding Annual Meeting.
Seite xvii - ... Political Economy, and of the theoretical and applied Sciences generally ; also Civil Engineers and Architects who have been employed in the construction or superintendence of public works, may become members on subscribing to these rules. RULE 4. Persons not embraced in the above provisions, may became members of the Association, upon nomination by the Standing Committee, and by a majority of the members present.
Seite 19 - One hundred and ten plants are enumerated, many of them from within the limits of this State ; and three are indicated as new species. In 1823, Major LONG, with a party of scientific gentlemen, under the direction of the Secretary of War, traversed the North West Territory (as Wisconsin was then called) ; but unfortunately the botanist was detained, and did not join the expedition. We have, consequently, only an account of a few plants gathered by the late lamented THOMAS...
Seite 346 - Long. 22 millims. : posterior femora of the male, 14 ; female, 12 ; posterior tibiae of the male, 13 ; of the female, 9 ; tarsi of the male, 4; of the female, 3^. From the vicinity of the river Platte. In the collection of Prof. AGASSIZ. PH. (D. ) ROBUSTUS, Hold. Uniform dark fuscous dorsum and upper surface of the femora sparsely scabrous ; feet rather short ; posterior femora of female very robust, rather suddenly contracted inferiorly at the extremity ; inferior margin with a row of robust spines...
Seite 217 - ... of nine planets, (four being hypothetical,) appear to harmonize with Kirkwood's analogy in all the four fundamental equations of condition for each planet. To suppose that so many independent variable quantities should harmonize together by accident, is a more strained construction of the premises than the frank admission that they follow a law of nature. If, in the course of time, the hypotheses of La Place and Kirkwood shall be found to be laws of nature, they will throw new light on the internal...