Science, Band 6John Michels (Journalist) American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1885 Since Jan. 1901 the official proceedings and most of the papers of the American Association for the Advancement of Science have been included in Science. |
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Seite 342 - He had been for two weeks striving to decipher the somewhat obscure impression of a fossil fish on a stone slab in which it was preserved. Weary and perplexed he put his work aside at last, and tried to dismiss it from his mind. Shortly after, he waked one night persuaded that while asleep he had seen his fish with all the missing features perfectly restored. But when he tried to hold and make fast the image, it escaped him. Nevertheless, he went early to the Jardin des Plantes, thinking that on...
Seite 342 - In the morning he was surprised to see, in his nocturnal sketch, features which he thought it impossible the fossil itself should reveal. He hastened to the Jardin des Plantes, and, with his drawing as a guide, succeeded in chiselling away the surface of the stone, under which portions of the fish proved to be hidden.
Seite 8 - ... discerned the simple, earnest, generous character of the man, that shone through every page of his writings. I imagine that reflections such as these swept through the minds alike of loving friends and of honourable antagonists when Mr. Darwin died ; and that they were at one in the desire to honour the memory of the man who, without fear and without reproach, had successfully fought the hardest intellectual battle of these days.
Seite 481 - THE MOON: CONSIDERED AS A PLANET, A WORLD, AND A SATELLITE. BY JAMES NASMYTH, CE, AND JAMES CARPENTER, FRAS Late of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
Seite 288 - ... been soaked, I could bend it easily. I would rather be soaked than burned. Some of my bones don't .grow close to my body, snug, like the branches of a tree, and I am glad they don't, for if they did I could not play leap frog or other nice games I know.
Seite 10 - Highness, my Lords and Gentlemen, Trustees of the British Museum, in the name of the Darwin Memorial Committee, to request you to accept this statue of Charles Darwin. We do not make this request for the mere sake of perpetuating a memory; for so long as men occupy themselves with the pursuit of truth, the name of Darwin runs no more risk of oblivion than does that of Copernicus, or that of Harvey.
Seite 457 - The chief features of the phenomenon are the following : — On certain occasions when the wind is from some easterly point, the helm suddenly forms. At first a heavy bank of cloud rests along the Cross Fell range, at times reaching some distance down the western slopes, and at others hovering...
Seite 81 - It is impossible, by the unaided action of natural processes, to transform any part of the heat of a body into mechanical work, except by allowing heat to pass from that body into another at a lower temperature.
Seite 358 - There was a gradual increase in the size of the brain during this period, and...
Seite 211 - The effect of the presence in a substance, of a quantity of actual energy, in causing transformation of energy, is the sum of the effects of all its parts...