Proceedings, כרך 11 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד xiv - The objects of the Association are, by periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science In different parts of America, to give a stronger and more general impulse and more systematic direction to scientific research, and to procure for the labors of scientific men increased facilities and a wider usefulness.
עמוד 104 - ... incessantly worked by a steam-engine — air was condensed to an amount sufficient to counteract the external hydrostatic pressure. The ingenious contrivance fully justified the expectations of the engineer ; but the workmen were thus compelled to labor in air condensed under a pressure of about three atmospheres. Among other curious results of this state of things noticed by M. Triger were the remarkable effects of condensed air on combustion. Much annoyance was at first experienced "from the...
עמוד 102 - Hence, when individuals multiply from generation to generation, it is but a repetition of the primordial type-idea ; and the true notion of the species is not in the resulting group but in the idea or potential element which is at the basis of every individual of the group...
עמוד 26 - Islands, pursuing, at first, a course toward the northwest, as far as the latitude of 30° and then gradually wheeling to the northeast, and following a path nearly parallel to the American coast, to the east of Newfoundland, until they are lost in midocean ; the entire path when delineated, resembling a parabolic curve, whose apex is near the latitude of 30°. That their dimensions are sometimes very great, being not less than one thousand miles in diameter, while their path over the ocean can sometimes...
עמוד 141 - Nine of them were assigned to the Mohawk nation; nine to the Oneida; fourteen to the Onondaga; ten to the Cayuga ; and eight to the Seneca. The sachems, united, ibrmed the Council of the League; the ruling body in which resided the executive, legislative, and judicial authority.
עמוד 33 - But he considered what he called the " dynamics of the atmosphere" as connected with, and resulting from, the diurnal and annual motions of the earth. While, from the first, I have heartily embraced Redfield's doctrine, that ocean gales are progressive whirlwinds, and have further fully believed that he had established their laws or modes of action on an impregnable basis, a regard to truth and candor obliges me to say, that I have never been a convert to his views respecting the ultimate causes...
עמוד 24 - Redtield's disinterested labors in behalf of steam navigation contributed to save, would, we believe, be of small amount compared with the sailors and ships which the rules founded on his theory of storms, when fully applied to practice, will save from shipwreck. We have already seen that the attention of Mr. Redfield was first drawn to the subject of storms in the year 1821, by examining the position of trees prostrated by the great September gale, which passed over Connecticut and the western part...
עמוד 25 - I chanced at that period to meet him for the first time on board a steamboat on the way from New York to New Haven. A stranger accosted me, and modestly asked leave to make a few inquiries respecting some observations I had recently published in the American Journal of Science on the subject of Hailstorms. I was soon made sensible that the humble inquirer was himself a proficient in meteorology.
עמוד 37 - Ohio, and forms the upper stratum beneath the soil of all the highlands, both timber and prairie, of all the counties north of the Osage and Missouri, and also St. Louis, and the other Mississippi counties on the south.
עמוד 127 - Race," to which the northern tribes belong, even in Dr Meigs' greatly enlarged catalogue of the Morton collection, as augmented since...