Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science, Bände 16-17

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Illinois State Academy of Science, 1923
Vol. 1 covers the organizational meeting, Springfield, Dec. 7, 1907, and the first regular meeting, Decatur, Feb. 22, 1908.
 

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Seite 417 - Association, has stated the main objectives of education to be as follows: 1. Health 2. Command of fundamental processes 3. Worthy home membership 4. Vocation 5. Citizenship 6. Worthy use of leisure 7. Ethical character...
Seite 186 - Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Seite 402 - Until recently, however, the value of the vital capacity determinations was not appreciated, and it is safe to predict that it will not be long before the vital capacity will be an indispensable part of the complete physical examination.
Seite 148 - It shall not be lawful to throw, discharge, dump, or deposit, or cause, suffer, or procure, to be thrown, discharged, dumped, or deposited, any refuse matter of any kind or description whatever other than that flowing from streets and sewers and passing therefrom in a liquid state into Lake Michigan...
Seite 29 - Our doubts are not as to the reality or truth of evolution, but as to the origin of species, a technical, almost domestic, problem. Any day that mystery may be solved.
Seite 269 - This form of myopia is usually primarily due to congenital astigmatism, a very common condition, and the consequent strain upon the accommodation of the eye in the effort to see. Risley has reported a series of cases in which astigmatic eyes had passed, while under his observation, from hypermetropic to myopic refraction. Neglected squint is an important factor in the serious impairment and destruction of vision. The bad advice to parents that the child beginning to squint will grow out of it, frequently...
Seite 139 - FIRST LAW In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and enlarges that organ, and gives it a power proportional to the length of time it has been so used; while the permanent disuse of any organ imperceptibly weakens and deteriorates it, and progressively diminishes its functional...
Seite 469 - They want, and they ought to have, the same facilities for understanding the true philosophy, the science and the art of their several pursuits (their life business), and of efficiently applying existing knowledge thereto, and widening its domain, which the professional classes have long enjoyed in their pursuits.
Seite 387 - Members who shall allow their dues to remain unpaid for two years, having been annually notified of their arrearage by the treasurer, shall have their names stricken from the roll.
Seite 408 - Wentworth 18 have decided that, in general, patients with a vital capacity of 90 per cent, or more of the normal standard adopted for their sex and height have little or no abnormal tendency to dyspnea.

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