Science, Bind 9John Michels (Journalist) American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1887 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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Side 66 - If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs, and an instance in which it does not occur, have every circumstance in common save one, that one occurring only in the former; the circumstance in which alone the two instances differ is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon.
Side 98 - The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, and live at ease upon the interest of the fund. For this we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague.
Side 285 - ... the summit of the mountains situated parallel to the coast, as far as the point of intersection of the 141st degree of west longitude, (of the same meridian;) and finally, from the said point of intersection, the said meridian line of the 141st degree, in its prolongation as far as the Frozen Ocean.
Side 452 - Records, with engraved views of the college in 1821, and containing a full report of the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the college, is nearly ready for publication by the college. — The Ladies' health protective association of New York has six hundred members on its roll.
Side 207 - Maps. 8s. 6d. •THE LAST TWO KINGS OF MACEDON. EXTRACTS FROM THE FOURTH AND FIFTH DECADES OF LIVY. By FH RAWLINS, MA, Assistant Master at Eton.
Side 146 - GRAY— STRUCTURAL BOTANY, OR ORGANOGRAPHY ON THE BASIS OF MORPHOLOGY. To which are added the principles of Taxonomy and Phytography, and a Glossary of Botanical Terms.
Side 224 - INSTINCT is usually defined as the faculty of acting in such a way as to produce certain ends, without foresight of the ends, and without previous education in the performance.
Side 66 - Subduct from any phenomenon such part as is known by previous inductions to be the effect of certain antecedents, and the residue of the phenomenon is the effect of the remaining antecedents.
Side 36 - Lippincott's Pronouncing Biographical Dictionary. Containing complete and concise Biographical Sketches of the Eminent Persons of all Ages and Countries. By J. THOMAS, AM, MD Imperial 8vo.
Side 248 - Universities shall have for their object the teaching of such arts and sciences as are required for the purposes of the State, and the prosecution of original research in such arts and sciences.