Science, Volume 45John Michels (Journalist) American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1917 Since Jan. 1901 the official proceedings and most of the papers of the American Association for the Advancement of Science have been included in Science. |
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... nature students , the men and women who love nature , or love science , for the sake of nature or science , without any set and im- mediate utilitarian purpose . This museum should keep aloft the standard of those who delight in all ...
... nature students , the men and women who love nature , or love science , for the sake of nature or science , without any set and im- mediate utilitarian purpose . This museum should keep aloft the standard of those who delight in all ...
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... nature is in itself a good thing ; exactly as the writing of a beautiful poem , or the chiseling of a beautiful statue is in itself a good thing . A nation that does not understand this is not wholly civ- ilized ; and a democracy that ...
... nature is in itself a good thing ; exactly as the writing of a beautiful poem , or the chiseling of a beautiful statue is in itself a good thing . A nation that does not understand this is not wholly civ- ilized ; and a democracy that ...
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... nature . It is only such out - doors work which will give us the chance to interpret aright the labo- ratory ... natural histories as those of Wilson and Audubon . There are many points in its life's history which are still obscure , and ...
... nature . It is only such out - doors work which will give us the chance to interpret aright the labo- ratory ... natural histories as those of Wilson and Audubon . There are many points in its life's history which are still obscure , and ...
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... nature and assembled on Thursday morn- ing in the university auditorium . It was opened with an address on " The Manufactur- er's Dependence upon Ceramic Research " by Mr. W. D. Gates , president of the American Terra Cotta and Ceramic ...
... nature and assembled on Thursday morn- ing in the university auditorium . It was opened with an address on " The Manufactur- er's Dependence upon Ceramic Research " by Mr. W. D. Gates , president of the American Terra Cotta and Ceramic ...
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... Nature the Gazette de Hol- lande emphasizes the use made in Germany of geological advice in trench warfare , and Pro- fessor Salomon , of Heidelberg , is said to have urged the formation of a special organiza- tion of geologists in ...
... Nature the Gazette de Hol- lande emphasizes the use made in Germany of geological advice in trench warfare , and Pro- fessor Salomon , of Heidelberg , is said to have urged the formation of a special organiza- tion of geologists in ...
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Page 446 - I asserted — and I repeat — that a man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling, it would rather be a man — a man of restless and versatile intellect — who, not content with an equivocal...
Page 273 - The astronomer discovers that geometry, a pure abstraction of the human mind, is the measure of planetary motion. The chemist finds proportions and intelligible method throughout matter; and science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
Page 254 - Majesty and the United States of America for the protection of Migratory Birds in Canada and the United States.
Page 58 - Education and on Health and Public Instruction of the American Medical Association, the Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States and the Association of American Medical Colleges, will be held at the Congress Hotel, Chicago, on February 5 and 6, 1917.
Page 631 - An act to save daylight and to provide standard time for the United States', approved March 19, 1918, as amended, shall be advanced one hour.
Page 408 - RICHARDS, professor of mechanical engineering and head of the department since 1911, has been appointed dean of the College of Engineering and director of the Engineering Experiment Station of the University of Illinois to succeed Dr. WF M. Goss who has resigned to become president of the Railway Car Manufacturers
Page 273 - Engineers, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
Page 446 - Mr. Huxley slowly and deliberately arose. A slight, tall figure, stern and pale, very quiet and very grave, he stood before us and spoke those tremendous words — words which no one seems sure of now, nor, I think, could remember just after they were spoken, for their meaning took away our breath, though it left us in no doubt as to what it was. He was not ashamed to have a monkey for his ancestor; but he would be ashamed to be connected with a man who used great gifts to obscure the truth. No one...
Page 404 - Council were created a Body Corporate under the name of "The Imperial Trust for the Encouragement of Scientific and Industrial Research " to hold and dispose of money and other property for the purposes of the Committee.
Page 426 - That there be formed a National Research Council, whose purpose shall be to bring into cooperation existing governmental, educational, industrial, and other research organizations, with the object of encouraging the investigation of natural phenomena, the increased use of scientific research in the development of American industries, the employment of scientific methods in strengthening the national defense, and such other applications of science as will promote the national security and welfare...