Biographical Memoirs, Volum 2National Academy of Sciences, 1886 List of papers contained in v. 1-9 is given in National Academy of Sciences. Proceedings ... Index ... 1915-24, 1926. |
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Pàgina 370 - It is instructive to observe in this memoir how Draper's exact mind revolted against the misuse, by writers on electricity, of the words "tension...
Pàgina 361 - For this reason they merit a much more critical examination than has yet been given them ; for by their aid we may be able to ascertain points of great interest in other departments of science. Thus, if we are ever able to acquire certain knowledge respecting the physical state of the sun and other stars, it will be by an examination of the light they emit.
Pàgina 103 - Frogs the vagus comprises the glosso-pharyngeal and accessory nerves ; that the trigeminus comprises the facial, the abducens, and in the Salamanders the patheticus and portions of the motor communis ; that other evidence sustains the hypothesis, that the whole of the motor communis is a dependence of the trigeminus ; if to these we add the hypoglossus (which in Frogs is exceptionally a spinal nerve), we shall have three pairs of cranial nerves, each having all the characters of a common spinal nerve,...
Pàgina 115 - THE wisest man could ask no more of Fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the Many, honored by the Few ; To count as naught in World, or Church, or State, But inwardly in secret to be great...
Pàgina 329 - Asia, Europe, and North America, are the three grand stages of humanity in its march through the ages. Asia is the cradle where man passed his infancy, under the authority of law, and where he learned his dependence upon a sovereign master. Europe is the school where his youth was trained, where he waxed in strength and knowledge, grew to manhood, and learned at once his liberty and his moral responsibility. America is the theatre of his activity during the period of manhood; the land where he applies...
Pàgina 97 - Yet it cannot be denied, however wide the separation, that the Negro and Orang do afford the points where man and the brute, when the totality of their organization is considered, most nearly approach each other.
Pàgina 97 - The organization of the anthropoid Quadrumana justifies the naturalist in placing them at the head of the brute creation, and placing them in a position in which they, of all the animal series, shall be nearest to man. Any anatomist, however, who will take the trouble to compare the skeletons of the Negro and Orang, cannot fail to be struck at sight with the wide gap which separates them. The difference between the cranium, the pelvis, and the conformation of the upper extremities in the Negro and...
Pàgina 324 - The greater the diversity of organs, the more active and superior is the life of the individual. The greater the variety of individualities and relations in a society of individuals, the greater also is the sum of life, the more universal is the development of life, the more complete, and of a more elevated order.
Pàgina 319 - Neuchatel," in his Travels through the Alps of Savoy, 1843 (first edition) and 1845 (second edition), page 28. Desor, in the same journal, xxxv, 308, 1843, in a paper on Agassiz's recent glacier researches, introduces a translation of Guyot's account of the banded structure, but cuts it short at the words, "opposite sides of a transverse valley," leaving off the explanatory remarks which follow.
Pàgina 332 - ... the second triad it was spiritual life, that of man, a planting of the moral world in the material, for the exaltation of the latter in aim and character. Guyot thus shows that the old document is philosophical in its arrangement, true to the principles of development in history, and essentially true in the order of its announcements, and that the best explanation which science is now able to give on the great subject of cosmogony is also that which best explains, in all its details, the first...