Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1874 Vols for 1849-1963/64 include "General appendix to the Smithsonian report" (varies slightly) |
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents Visualització completa - 1915 |
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents Visualització completa - 1901 |
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Pàgina 258 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Pàgina 197 - If the Almighty stamped on the brow of the first murderer the indelible and visible mark of his guilt, He has also established laws by which every succeeding criminal is not less irrevocably chained to the testimony of his crime ; for every atom of his mortal frame, through whatever changes its several particles may migrate, will still retain, adhering to it through every combination, some movement derived from that very muscular effort by which the crime itself was perpetrated.
Pàgina 11 - Tables and Results of the Precipitation, in Rain and Snow, in the United States, and at some stations in adjacent parts of North America, and in Central and South America.
Pàgina 136 - Report of the Meteorological Committee of the Royal Society for the year ending December, 1874.
Pàgina 196 - Whilst the atmosphere we breathe is the everliving witness of the sentiments we have uttered, the waters, and the more solid materials of the globe, bear equally enduring testimony of the acts we have committed.
Pàgina 199 - Thy Father has written for thee." "Come, wander with me," she said, "Into regions yet untrod; And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God.
Pàgina 11 - The Secular Variations of the Elements of the Orbits of the Eight Principal Planets, Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter.
Pàgina 193 - This is an irresolvable nebula, figured by Sir John Herschel, during his residence at the Cape of Good Hope. Its favourable position, as seen in southern latitudes, enabled Herschel to trace the outline of the nebula much farther than any preceding observer had done. The singular figure of this object seems to suggest some power of attraction operating on the particles of matter, or the...
Pàgina 212 - Elliott's sketch of the Botany of South Carolina and Georgia was at this time in course of publication, and Dr. Torrey planned a counterpart systematic work upon the botany of the Northern States. The result of this was his " Flora of the Northern and Middle Sections of the United States, ie, north of Virginia," — which was issued in parts, and the first volume concluded in the summer of 1824.
Pàgina 258 - ... proceeded from hence only, that he found he was not able, from experiment and observation, to give a satisfactory account of this medium, and the manner of its operation in producing the chief phenomena of nature."* The doctrine of direct action at a distance cannot claim for its author the discoverer of universal gravitation.