Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Bind 10

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1883
 

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Side 441 - Origin and History of the English Language, and of the early literature it embodies. By the Hon. George P. Marsh. US Minister at Turin, Author of " Lectures on the English Language.
Side 411 - JOHNSON.— A REPORT TO THE NAVY DEPARTMENT OF THE UNITED STATES ON AMERICAN COALS : Applicable to Steam Navigation and to other purposes.
Side 417 - ... caused the warmest admiration, and often aroused the excitable nature of Southern youths to the exhibition of enthusiastic demonstrations of approbation. Throughout Virginia, and indeed the entire South, his former students are scattered, who even now regard it as one of the highest privileges of their lives to have attended his lectures." Such was the impression which Professor Rogers left at the University of Virginia, that, when he returned thirty-five years later to aid in the celebration...
Side 438 - To the natural philosopher, the descriptive poet, the painter, and the sculptor, as well as to the common observer, the. power most important to cultivate, and, at the same time, hardest to acquire, is that of seeing what is before him.
Side 320 - ... clamped. (4.) After the adjustments for position and for focus have been made, successive contacts of the plates K and I are made with the stops H and H1, and the microscopes M and M1 are read for each contact. These operations having been repeated for each standard to be compared, the values of (M1 — M ) when reduced to a common unit and compared inter se, will give the relations required. It is the experience of the writer that the microscope carriage can be brought into actual contact with...
Side 416 - Rogers to geology was that made in connection with Henry D. Rogers, in a paper entitled " The Laws of Structure of the more Disturbed Zones of the Earth's Crust," presented by the two brothers at the meeting of the Association of American Geologists and Naturalists, held at Boston in 1842. This paper was the first presentation of what may be called in brief the Wave Theory of Mountain Chains. This theory was deduced by the brothers Rogers from an extended study of the Appalachian chain in Pennsylvania...
Side 437 - the law concerneth not itself with trifles," de minimus non curat lex; but in the vocabulary of nature, little and great are terms of comparison only; she knows no trifles, and her laws are as inflexible in dealing with an atom as with a continent or a planet.
Side 417 - Rogers who, twenty-five years before, had held them spellbound in his class of natural philosophy; and, as the great orator warmed up, these men forgot their age. They were again young, and showed their enthusiasm as wildly as when, in days of yore, enraptured by his eloquence, they made the lecture room of the university ring with their applause.
Side 82 - The one-celled spores are dark brown, like the two-celled, obovate, distinctly papillate or roughened in the upper part, and of about the same dimensions as the two-celled, perhaps a trifle smaller. A species in which some of the sori contain only two-celled spores must certainly be held to be a Puccinia, and the perplexing question arises, Are the one-celled spores a unilocular form of teleutospores similar to what is known in P. Cesatii Schr.,or are they the uredo spores of this species? I have...
Side 411 - The following are the titles of the preceding papers of this series: — 1. Notes on some Species in the Third and Eleventh Centuries of Ellis's North American Fungi. Proc.

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