Biographical Memoirs, Volume 1

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National Academy of Sciences, 1877 - Scientists
List of papers contained in v. 1-9 is given in National Academy of Sciences. Proceedings ... Index ... 1915-24, 1926.
 

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Page 39 - Heaped with long toil the earth, while yet the Greek Was hewing the Pentelicus to forms Of symmetry, and rearing on its rock The glittering Parthenon.
Page 200 - The degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on him by the principal universities of this country, and few of our leading societies were willing to forego the honor of numbering him among their associates. He was elected in succession president of the , American Philosophical Society, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and, of the National Academy of Sciences established by Congress. Nor were foreigners less forward in acknowledging his merit. He was a member of the Royal Society...
Page 268 - Hosack were professors of scientific repute; he took his medical degree in 1818 ; opened an office in his native city, and engaged in the practice of medicine with moderate success, turning the while his abundant leisure to scientific pursuits, especially to botany. In 1817, while yet a medical student, he reported to the Lyceum of Natural History — of which he was one of the founders — his Catalogue of the Plants growing spontaneously within thirty miles of the city of New York...
Page 243 - W.) New method of correcting Lunar Distances, and improved method of finding the error and rate of a chronometer, by equal altitudes, ovo, cloth 2 oo CHURCH (JOHN A.) Notes of a Metallurgical Journey in Europe.
Page 283 - Figures and Descriptions of most of those Mosses peculiar to Eastern North America which have not been heretofore figured," and forms an imperial octavo volume, with 129 copper-plates, published in 1864.
Page 209 - Philadelphia. 1842 — Oct. Address delivered at the close of the twelfth exhibition of American manufactures, held by the Franklin Institute. 1842 — Dec. On a modification of Lloyd's induction inclinometer. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., ii, 237. 1843 — Jan. On a new dew-point hygrometer. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., ii, 249. 1843 — May. Results of two years...
Page 74 - G feet, giving an area of 28 square feet; and of the second tier 3' 8" by 5 feet- area 18¿ square feet ; the horizontal traverse of the guns being limited to 44 degrees. " Within three or four years of the time just mentioned two other casemated batteries were built, each having a single tier of guns in casemates, with exterior openings of 4...
Page 69 - An act for the appointment of a commission for the preservation of the harbor of New York from encroachments, and to prevent obstructions to the necessary navigation thereof...
Page 74 - ... (carriage with tongue,) which has served as the type of nearly all subsequent casemate gun-carriages. It is strange that, even while adopting the plans of Montalembert, European engineers should have almost wholly overlooked these maxims, and that it was reserved for our own illustrious engineer to make their application, and, in perfecting the casemate and the embrasure, to become a co-worker with Montalembert, by bringing the casemated water-battery to its highest degree of perfection.
Page 64 - At the date of his appointment the system of coast defence had been for about twenty years in progress of construction, and during that period most of those ports and harbors of the United States deemed most important to ourselves or most assailable by a naval foe had been, at least, partially fortified. At many such points, indeed, no new work had been as yet constructed, owing to the existence of forts or batteries more or less adequate built before or during the war of 1812. These works, where...