Science, Volume 14John Michels (Journalist) American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1889 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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... various sources , will enable the committee to submit to the society in due time a comprehensive statement of the conditions and circumstances which have induced and contributed to this most disastrous fail- ure . - Sanitary Engineering ...
... various sources , will enable the committee to submit to the society in due time a comprehensive statement of the conditions and circumstances which have induced and contributed to this most disastrous fail- ure . - Sanitary Engineering ...
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... various unsuccessful attempts to bury them , deposit them in the rivers , and burn them in open air , a num- ber of specially designed furnaces were built for the destruction of these accumulations , to which are now added the offal ...
... various unsuccessful attempts to bury them , deposit them in the rivers , and burn them in open air , a num- ber of specially designed furnaces were built for the destruction of these accumulations , to which are now added the offal ...
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... various grasses . It brings forth living young ; and its rate of multiplication is very great , it being esti- mated that a single louse in spring may become the ancestor of many millions before autumn . Fortunately this insect has a ...
... various grasses . It brings forth living young ; and its rate of multiplication is very great , it being esti- mated that a single louse in spring may become the ancestor of many millions before autumn . Fortunately this insect has a ...
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... various sizes and styles to fit machines of different makes . Notes on Electric Railways using Thomson - Houston System . The popularity of electric railways is evidenced by the recent purchase of the Des Moines Broad Gauge Railway ...
... various sizes and styles to fit machines of different makes . Notes on Electric Railways using Thomson - Houston System . The popularity of electric railways is evidenced by the recent purchase of the Des Moines Broad Gauge Railway ...
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... various processes of language - making may be studied with comparative ease . Just as the various natural processes by which mountains are levelled and the earth's surface carved out and re- modelled are more apparent , and more readily ...
... various processes of language - making may be studied with comparative ease . Just as the various natural processes by which mountains are levelled and the earth's surface carved out and re- modelled are more apparent , and more readily ...
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Page 170 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
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Page 154 - Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness ; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.
Page iv - W. BAKER & Co:s Breakfast Cocoa Is Absolutely Pure, and it is Soluble. To increase the solubility of the powdered cocoa, various expedients are employed, most of them being based upon the action of some alkali, potash, soda or even ammonia. Cocoa which has been prepared by one of these chemical processes, can usually be recognized at once by the distinct alkaline reaction of the infusion in water. W, Baker & Co.
Page 240 - The Reconstruction Of Europe : a Sketch of the Diplomatic and Military History of Continental Europe, from the Rise to the Fall of the Second French Empire.
Page 175 - ... varying series of crops ; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation; the analysis of soils and water; the chemical composition of manures, natural or artificial, with experiments designed to test their comparative effects...
Page 154 - ... million years ago, or we should not have so much as the least observed underground increment of temperature. That is to say, I conclude that Leibnitz's epoch of emergence of the consistentior status was probably between those dates.
Page 44 - An Act to provide for taking the tenth and subsequent censuses' [approved March 3, 1879], provides that ' Schedule No. i (here reproduced) shall contain inquiries ... as to the physical and mental health of each person enumerated, whether active or disabled, maimed, crippled, bedridden, deaf, dumb, blind, insane, or idiotic, and whether employed or unemployed, and. if unemployed, during what portion of the year.
Page 11 - Bear constantly in mind that it is my wish and purpose that the hospital shall ultimately form a part of the medical school of that university for which I have made ample provision by my will.