Nature, Volume 72

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Sir Norman Lockyer
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Page 294 - and walks 1 yards in a straight line; he then turns through any angle whatever and walks another i yards in a second straight line. He repeats this process n times. I require the probability that after these n stretches he is at a distance between r and r + Sr from his starting point,
Page 319 - Not only, then, is the doctrine of the transmutation of species in itself disproved by the best physiological reasonings, but the additional assumptions which are requisite to enable its advocates to apply it to the explanation of the Geological and other phenomena of the earth, are altogether gratuitous and fantastical.
Page 93 - Particulars as to the scope of the exhibition and the conditions attaching to exhibits are given in the official programme, a limited number of copies of which can be obtained on application to the Director of Special Inquiries and Reports, Board of Education Library, St. Stephen's House, Cannon Row, Whitehall, London, SW
Page 203 - to Mr. R. Henry Rew for his work in connection with the preparation of the reports of the special committee appointed by the society to investigate the production and consumption of meat and milk in the United Kingdom, and for his paper entitled
Page 15 - THE President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries has appointed a departmental committee to inquire, by means of experimental investigation and otherwise, into the pathology and etiology of epizootic abortion, and to consider whether any, and, if so, what, preventive and remedial measures may with advantage be adopted with respect to that disease.
Page 241 - We believe—we must believe, in this day—that everything in God's universe of worlds and stars is made of atoms, in quantities x, y or z respectively. Men and women, mice and elephants, the red belts of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn are one and all but ever shifting, ever varying, swarms of atoms. Every mechanical work of
Page 242 - This work is the first attempt which I have seen to bring into suitable compass, in an intelligible manner, the various problems which are occupying the attention of many physicists and chemists. There are few errors, and these are unimportant. Whether the author might not have omitted much fine writing is a question of taste.
Page 30 - per cent, less specific gravity in its upper parts, where the pressure is small, this condition cannot have lasted many minutes. The rigidity of a solid shell of superficial extent so vast in comparison with its thickness, must be as nothing, and the slightest disturbance would cause some part to bend down, crack, and allow the liquid to run
Page 299 - THE council of the Royal Meteorological Society, being desirous of advancing the general knowledge of meteorology and of promoting an intelligent public interest in the science, has appointed a lecturer who is prepared to deliver lectures to scientific societies, institutions, and schools on payment of a moderate fee and the cost of travelling expenses, the subjects
Page 13 - Natural History in Zoological Gardens; being some Account of Vertebrated Animals, with Special Reference to those usually seen in the Zoological Society's Gardens in London and Similar Institutions.

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