Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionThe Institution, 1889 |
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Abstract Acad acid æther Amer American Archæology Astron astronomical beds Berlin black tamanous body bones Bull Cambrian canoes Carboniferous catalogue Chem Chemakum chemical Chemistry color comet Compt County Cretaceous crystals described Devonian diameter earth earthquakes Eocene equatorial exploration fauna feet figs fish fossils genera genus Geol gives Guyot heat Hist inches Indians instrument investigation January Jour July June Klallams Leipzig limestone London measured meridian circle method miles mineral motion mound Museum Nachr Nature Neuchâtel North observations Observatory obtained origin paper Paris phenomena photographic Phys physical plates portion potlatch present Proc Prof Professor published recent region relations right ascension River rocks schists Silurian Smithsonian Institution Society species specific gravity stars stone surface tamanous temperature tion tribes tube Twanas Ueber United velocity volume XXXII XXXIV York
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Seite 314 - Assuming as the ratio of the specific heat of air at constant pressure to that at constant volume the...
Seite 405 - A MANUAL OF THE ALKALI TRADE, including the Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid, Sulphate of Soda, and Bleaching Powder. By JOHN LOMAS, Alkali Manufacturer, Newcastle-uponTyne and London. With 232 Illustrations and Working Drawings, and containing 386 pages of text.
Seite 38 - That which stirs their pulses is the love of knowledge and the joy of the discovery of the causes of things sung by the old poets; the supreme delight of extending the realm of law and order ever farther towards the unattainable goals of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, between which our little race of life is run.
Seite 42 - It is a favorite popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under a sort of moral obligation to abstain from going beyond that generalization of observed facts which is absurdly called 'Baconian' induction. But any one who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as fact; and any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every step therein has been made by the 'Anticipation of Nature...
Seite 52 - The rate of change of the quantity of motion (momentum) is proportional to the force which causes it, and takes place in the direction of the straight line in which the force acts.
Seite 40 - Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.
Seite 39 - Nevertheless, that which is true of the infancy of physical science in the Greek world, that which is true of its adolescence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, remains true of its riper age in these latter days of the nineteenth century. The great steps in its progress...
Seite 24 - March 2, 1867), it was ordered that " fifty copies of all documents hereafter printed by order of either house of Congress, and fifty copies additional of all documents printed in excess of the usual number, together with fifty copies of each publication issued by any Department or Bureau of the Government, be placed at the disposal of the Joint Committee on the Library, who shall exchange the same* through the agency of the Smithsonian Institution, for such works published in foreign countries,...
Seite 411 - A Practical Treatise on the Examination of Milk and its Derivatives, Cream, Butter and Cheese.
Seite 56 - Hutton ; and the former, aided by a marvellous power of clear exposition, placed upon an irrefragable basis the truth that natural causes are competent to account for all events, which can be \ proved to have occurred, in the course of the secular changes which have taken place during the deposition of the stratified rocks. The publication of ' The Principles of Geology,' in 1830, constituted an epoch in geological science.