Nature, Volume 65Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1902 |
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Page 124 - The advancement of the highest interests of national science and learning and the custody of objects of art and of the valuable results of scientific expeditions conducted by the United States have been committed to the Smithsonian Institution. In furtherance of its declared purpose — for the "increase and diffusion of knowledge among men" — the Congress has from time to time given it other important functions.
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Page 49 - For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it. I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
Page 61 - Dealing with the means for physical and mental characters we are forced to the perfectly definite conclusion : That the mental characters in man are inherited in precisely the same manner as the physical.
Page 266 - It is proposed to found in the city of Washington, an institution which with the cooperation of institutions now or hereafter established, there or elsewhere, shall in the broadest and most liberal manner encourage investigation, research, and discovery — show the application of knowledge to the improvement of mankind, provide such buildings, laboratories, books, and apparatus, as may be needed; and afford instruction of an advanced character to students properly qualified to profit thereby.
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Page 153 - His statement is that the oral cavity produces independently a harmonic or partial tone which has no definite relation to the fundamental tone emitted by the larynx. A vowel, according to him, is a special acoustic phenomenon, depending on the intermittent production of a special partial, or "formant/
Page 43 - And these birds, save in two instances, refused to touch cinnabar caterpillars [with black and orange bands], which were new to their experience. They did not, like other birds, have to learn by particular trials that these caterpillars are unpleasant. Their experience had already been gained through the banded glass slips ; or so it seemed. I have also found that young birds who had learnt to avoid cinnabar caterpillars left wasps untouched. Such observations must be repeated and extended. But they...