The American Journal of Science and ArtsS. Converse, 1863 |
Continguts
| 1 | |
| 17 | |
| 31 | |
| 44 | |
| 57 | |
| 65 | |
| 71 | |
| 78 | |
| 319 | |
| 346 | |
| 356 | |
| 375 | |
| 386 | |
| 395 | |
| 409 | |
| 415 | |
| 84 | |
| 94 | |
| 101 | |
| 110 | |
| 116 | |
| 124 | |
| 133 | |
| 143 | |
| 150 | |
| 156 | |
| 157 | |
| 171 | |
| 185 | |
| 188 | |
| 197 | |
| 210 | |
| 218 | |
| 243 | |
| 256 | |
| 273 | |
| 283 | |
| 289 | |
| 302 | |
| 308 | |
| 309 | |
| 418 | |
| 426 | |
| 445 | |
| 462 | |
| 1 | |
| 11 | |
| 38 | |
| 46 | |
| 57 | |
| 64 | |
| 76 | |
| 83 | |
| 92 | |
| 99 | |
| 161 | |
| 173 | |
| 212 | |
| 227 | |
| 233 | |
| 241 | |
| 258 | |
| 269 | |
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Frases i termes més freqüents
acetate aerolite alumina ammonia amount angle animal appears Arrowacks atmosphere axis beds beryl birds bitumen body calcite carbonate carbonic acid Carboniferous cent cephalization character chemical chlorid coal color containing coral corresponding Crustaceans crystals curve DeCandolle Decapods depth described Devonian distance equation fact feet formation formula fossil genera genus geological give glacier glucina heat hydrastine hydrogen inches iron JOUR Journal lake lens less light limestone manganese mass matter mean temperature mean velocity metal meteor method miles mineral Miocene nature nearly nitric acid nitrite nitrogen observations obtained oxyd oxygen phalanges plants plate portion potash precipitate present prism produced Prof pyrites quantity remarkable river rocks salts sandstone SCI.-SECOND SERIES seen shales shell side silica Silurian soda soluble solution species specimens spectrum star strata structure sulphuric acid surface thallium tion valley valve vapor
Passatges populars
Pàgina 462 - Silliman, junior, Connecticut; Theodore Strong, New Jersey; John Torrey, New York; JG Totten, United States Army, Connecticut; Joseph Winlock, United States Nautical Almanac, Kentucky; Jeffries Wyman, Massachusetts; JD Whitney, California; their associates and successors duly chosen, are hereby incorporated, constituted, and declared to be a body corporate, by the name of the National Academy of Sciences.
Pàgina 462 - That the National Academy of Sciences shall consist of not more than fifty ordinary members, and the said corporation hereby constituted shall have power to make its own organization, including its constitution, bylaws, and rules and regulations; to fill all vacancies created by death, resignation, or otherwise; to provide for the election of foreign and domestic members, the division into classes, and all other matters needful or usual in such institution, and to report the same to Congress.
Pàgina 451 - ... if any process of physical causation can be discovered by which the genera and families of ordinary animals have been produced, that process of causation is amply sufficient to account for the origin of Man.
Pàgina 452 - Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that Man is, in substance and in structure, one with the brutes; for, he alone possesses the marvellous endowment of intelligible and rational speech...
Pàgina 463 - States as may be designated, and the Academy shall, whenever called upon by any department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art, the actual expense of such investigations, examinations, experiments, and reports to be paid from appropriations which may be made for the purpose, but the Academy shall receive no compensation whatever for any services to the Government of the United States.
Pàgina 441 - How moving them ? is a question for human definition ; but the answer to which does not and cannot affect the Divine meaning of the change. Yet when we reflect that this Higher Will is everywhere reason and wisdom, it seems a juster as well as a more comprehensive view to regard it as operating by subordination and evolution rather than by ' interference ' or
Pàgina 168 - We may suppose in these oil-bearing beds an accumulation of organic matters, whose decomposition in the midst of a marine calcareous deposit has resulted in their complete transformation into petroleum, which has found a lodgment in the cavities of the shells and corals immediately near.
Pàgina 463 - In pure or applied chemistry connected with the national defense, the actual expense of such investigations, examinations, experiments, and reports to be paid from appropriations which may have been made for that purpose by Congress, but the society shall receive no compensation whatever for any services to the Government of the united States...
Pàgina 101 - First, by showing that the plates of salt when subjected to the strictest examination show no trace of a film of moisture. Secondly, by abolishing the plates of salt altogether, and obtaining the same results in a cylinder open at both ends. It was next surmised that the effect was due to the impurity of the London air ; and the suspended carbon- particles were pointed to as the cause of the opacity to radiant heat. This objection was met by bringing air from Hyde Park, Uampstead Heath, Primrose...
Pàgina 344 - ... am therefore constrained to return, at least in part, to the theory many years ago strongly advocated by Agassiz, that, in the .period of extremest cold of the Glacial epoch, great part of North America, the north of the Continent of Europe, great part of Britain, Ireland, and the AVestern Isles,1* were covered by sheets of true glacier-ice in motion, which moulded the whole surface of the country, and in favorable places scooped out depressions that subsequently became lakes.