Report of the Annual Meeting, Band 9Office of the British Association, 1840 |
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Seite 142 - Report from the Committee for inquiring into the Analysis of the Glands, &c., of the Human Body;—Second Report of the London Sub-Committee of the British Association Medical Section, on the Motions and Sounds of the Heart;—Prof. Johnston, on the Present State of our Knowledge in regard to Dimorphous Bodies ;—Col. Sykes, on the Statistics of the Four
Seite 142 - Were Fox, Esq., Experiments on the Electricity of Metallic Veins, and the Temperature of Mines;— Provisional Report of the Committee of the Medical Section of the British Association, appointed to investigate the Composition of Secretions, and the organs producing them ;—Dr. G. O.
Seite 142 - William Taylor, on the various modes of Printing for the Use of the Blind ;—JW Lubbock, Esq., on the Discussions of Observations of the Tides which have been obtained by means of the grant of money which was placed
Seite 142 - CONTENTS:—Rev. W. Whewell, Account of a Level Line, measured from the Bristol Channel to the English Channel, by Mr. Bunt;—Report on the Discussions of Tides, prepared under the direction of the Rev. W.
Seite 1 - JOURNAL OF A PASSAGE FROM THE PACIFIC TO THE ATLANTIC, crowing the Andes in the Northern Provinces of Peru, and descending the great River
Seite 36 - of the common air lose their elasticity, and are condensed into the dew which lines the glass*." The subsequent laborious comparisons instituted by the French philosophers
Seite 47 - whether I used ice or snow. (Note.) I am informed that Dr. Black explains. the above-mentioned phenomena in the same manner, only instead of using the expression 'heat is generated or produced,' he says, 'latent heat is evolved or set free'; but as this expression relates to an hypothesis depending
Seite xiii - Hawkes, Esq. CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. Professor Agassiz, Neufchatel. M. Arago, Secretary of the Institute, Paris. A. Bache, Principal of Girard College, Philadelphia. Professor Berzelius, Stockholm. Professor De la Rive, Geneva. Professor Dumas, Paris. Professor Ehrenberg, Berlin. Baron Alexander von Humboldt, Berlin. Professor Liebig, Giessen. Professor
Seite 142 - John Richardson, on North American Zoology ;—Rev. J. Challis, on the Mathematical Theory of Fluids;—Mr. JT Mackay, a Comparative View of the more remarkable Plants which characterize the neighbourhood of Dublin and Edinburgh, and the South-west of Scotland, &c.;—Mr. JT Mackay, Comparative geographical notices
Seite xxvi - *24. For Procuring Drawings, illustrative of the Species and their Details, of the Radiate Animals of the British Islands, to accompany a Report of the State of our Knowledge of such Animals : under the superintendence of Mr. Gray, Mr. Forbes, Mr. Goodsir, Mr. Patterson, Mr. Thompson of Belfast, and Dr. George Johnston ... 50 0