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Page xxix - 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.
Page 125 - Faraday, in his mind's eye, saw lines of force traversing all space where the mathematicians saw centres of force attracting at a distance : Faraday saw a medium where they saw nothing but distance : Faraday sought the seat of the phenomena in real actions going on in the medium, they were satisfied that they had found it in a power of action at a distance impressed on the electric fluids.
Page 65 - Furthermore, if we accept the hypothesis the odds appear to be against the present attainment of trustworthy numerical results, since the data for calculation obtained mostly from observations on continental areas are far too meagre to give satisfactory average values for the entire mass of the earth. In short, this phase of the case seems to stand about where it did twenty years ago, when Huxley warned us that the perfection of our mathematical mill is no guaranty of the quality of the grist, adding...
Page 68 - On the Distribution of Strain in the Earth's Crust resulting from Secular Cooling; with special reference to the growth of continents and the formation of mountain chains.
Page 27 - LITERATURE. THE Committee on Indexing Chemical Literature respectfully presents to the Chemical Section its seventh annual report. During the year just closed three bibliographies have been published by the Smithsonian Institution. A Table of Specific Gravity for Solids and Liquids. The Constants of Nature, Part I (new edition, revised and enlarged). By Frank Wigglesworth Clarke. Washington, DC, 1888. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections No. 659. 8vo, pp. xi, 409. This volume contains the...
Page 73 - How the apples were got in" and what kind they are. As to the future we can only guess, less or more vaguely, from our experience in the past and from our knowledge of present needs. Though the dawn of that future is certainly not heralded by rosy tints of over-confidence amongst those acquainted with the difficulties to be overcome, the prospect on the whole has never been more promising. The converging lights of many lines of investigation are now brought to bear on the problems presented by our...
Page xxxii - Council shall meet on the day preceding each annual meeting of the Association, and arrange the programme for the first day of the sessions. The time and place of this first meeting shall be designated by the Permanent Secretary. Unless otherwise agreed upon, regular meetings of the Council...
Page 27 - Smithsonian Institution. A Table of Specific Gravity for Solids and Liquids. The Constants of Nature, Part I (new edition, revised and enlarged). By Frank Wigglesworth Clarke. Washington, DC, 1888. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections No. 659. 8vo, pp. xi, 409. This volume contains the specific gravities of 5,227 distinct substances and 14,465 separate determinations, being more than twice as many as in the first edition with supplement. Index to the Literature of Columbium, 1801-1887. By Frank...
Page 131 - ... of which has been demonstrated by experiment. No less clearly does the magnetic field appear as a system of lines of stress in the ambient ether. Definiteness has taken the place of the metaphysical speculations of earlier times. Complete ignorance has at least been superseded by half knowledge. We may not yet affirm with Edlund that the ether is electricity, but we are doubtless nearer a solution of this old problem than ever before. "The discord is vanishing slowly, And melts in the dominant...
Page 60 - The more recent investigations of Stokes, to which allusion has already been made, forbid our entertaining anything like so confident an opinion of the earth's primitive fluidity or of a symmetrical and continuous arrangement of its strata. But, though it must be said that the sufficiency of Laplace's arguments has been seriously impugned, we can hardly think the probability of the correctness of his conclusions has been proportionately diminished. ' Suppose, however, that we reject the idea of original...