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Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria, Volum 24 Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.) Visualització completa - 1887 |
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Pàgina 72 - We started very early in the morning under the expectation that we should see the natives; and in order that they should not be frightened, I directed Buckley to advance, and we would follow him at the distance of a quarter of a mile. Buckley made towards a native well, and after he had ridden about eight miles, we heard a coo-ey, and when we arrived at the spot, I witnessed one of the most pleasing and affecting sights. There were three men, five women, and about a dozen children.
Pàgina 70 - Sheep but is highly pleased at the idea of being appointed Superintendent of the Natives with a fixed Stipend so that to use his own expression "he may know what he has to depend upon" and be enabled to make a few presents to his native friends.
Pàgina 5 - Province who are distinguished for their attainments in Science, Literature, or Art, may be proposed for election as Honorary Members, on the recommendation of an absolute majority of the Council. The election shall be conducted in the same manner as that of Ordinary Members, but nine-tenths of the votes must be in favour of the Candidate. XXV.
Pàgina 11 - There shall be for each Section a Chairman to preside at the meetings, and a Secretary to keep minutes of the proceedings, who shall jointly prepare and forward to the Hon. Secretaries of the Society, on or before the 7th of...
Pàgina 139 - ... present beings came into existence. The celestial bodies, as well as the manifestations in space, are attributed to them. Certain animals therefore which typify them must not be killed for fear of letting in a deluge. This shows they knew something of those stars that were the earliest...
Pàgina 109 - Deodara is very compact and resinous, and has a fine, fragrant, refreshing smell, like that felt when walking in pine groves towards evening or in moist weather : and very different from that of the Cedar of Lebanon. Its wood has a remarkably fine, close grain, capable of receiving a very high polish : so much so, indeed, that a table formed of the section of a trunk nearly 4 feet in diameter, sent by Dr. "Wallich to Mr. Lambert, has been compared to a slab of brown agate.
Pàgina 141 - Yurree (Castor), Wanjel (Pollux). Two young men that pursue Purra, and kill him at the commencement of the great heat ; and Coonar-toorung (Mirage) is the smoke of the fire by which they roast him. When their smoke is gone weeit (autumn) begins. Purra (Capella) ; Kangaroo. Who is pursued and killed by Yurree and Wanjel. Unurgunite (a small star marked fifth magnitude, 22, between two larger ones, in the body of Canis Major). He fights Mityan and makes him run away for having tried to induce one of...
Pàgina 6 - Council may be convened at any other time on the authority of the President, or of three members of the Council. Due notice of all Council meetings to be sent to each member.
Pàgina 116 - It is evident from these results, independently of other experiments which will be presently stated, that the form of the front, whether flat or sharp, has no observable effect on the resistance; and that whether the engine and tender be in front, or two carriages of the same weight, the motion of the train and the resistance to its motion will be exactly the same.
Pàgina 81 - Mr. Gellibrand, when visiting the then wild natives of Port Phillip, was struck with the same thing. " They are a fine race of men," he says ; " many of them handsome in their persons, and all well made.