Annual Record of Science and Industry, Volume 5Spencer Fullerton Baird Harper & Brothers, 1876 - Industrial arts Annual record for 1874-78 contains "Select works on science published during 1874-78." |
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Page 598 - XVIII. The Nature of Light: With a General Account of Physical Optics.
Page 650 - SKETCHES OF CREATION. Sketches of Creation: a Popular View of some of the Grand Conclusions of the Sciences in reference to the History of Matter and of Life. Together with a Statement of the Intimations of Science respecting the Primordial Condition and the Ultimate Destiny of the Earth and the Solar System. By ALEXANDER WINCHELL, LL.D., Professor of Geology, Zoology, and Botany in the University of Michigan, and Director of the State Geological Survey.
Page 649 - Travels and Adventures in the Unexplored Regions of the Centre of Africa. By Dr.
Page 649 - LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS. The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa, from 1865 to his Death. Continued by a Narrative of his Last Moments and Sufferings, obtained from his Faithful Servants Chuma and Susi.
Page 325 - RESEARCHES IN PRE-HISTORIC AND PROTO-HISTORIC COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY, MYTHOLOGY, AND ARCHAEOLOGY, in connexion with the Origin of Culture in America and the Accad or Sumerian Families.
Page 604 - Law of Storms, considered in connexion with the ordinary Movements of the Atmosphere. Translated by RH Scott, MA Svo.
Page 352 - Saurians, turtles, and other reptiles this bone is well seen. In certain amphibians as in the salamanders, the bone is long, wedge-shaped, and partially projects between the tibia and fibula. Mr. Morse has expressed his belief that the ascending process of the astragalus represented the intermedium of reptiles. He had published in the '• Annals of the New York Lyceum of Natural History...
Page clxvii - May, 1875, and issued since my remarks were written, which states that "a communication made by Dr. Prunieres (de Marvejols) before the meeting of the French Association for the Advancement of Science, at Lille, treated of the curious artificial perforations common among the Neolithic skulls of the Lozere.
Page 598 - A New Treatise on Elements of Mechanics : Establishing Strict Precision in the Meaning of Dynamical Terms : accompanied with an Appendix on Duodenal Arithmetic and Metrology.
Page 162 - When I consider the variety of theories that may be formed on the slender foundation of one or two facts, I am convinced that it is the business of the true philosopher to avoid them altogether. It is more laborious to accumulate facts than to reason concerning them ; but one good experiment is of more value than the ingenuity of a brain like Newton's.