Nature, Volume 31

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Sir Norman Lockyer
Macmillan Journals Limited, 1885
 

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Page 201 - FELKIN, HM— Technical Education in a Saxon Town. Published for the City and Guilds of London Institute for the Advancement of Technical Education.
Page 295 - The sphere of the stars," he affirms, " is stationary ; and the earth, making a revolution, produces the daily rising and setting of stars and planets*.
Page 222 - LECTURES in connection with the London Society for the Extension of University Teaching have been going on in Whitechapel now for more than six years.
Page 107 - October, 1 884, for the purpose of discussing and, if possible, fixing upon a meridian proper to be employed as a common zero of longitude and standard of time-reckoning throughout the whole world...
Page 156 - I never yet met with anybody who could not learn to write. Writing is a form of drawing; therefore if you give the same attention and trouble to drawing as you do to writing, depend upon it, there is nobody who cannot be made to draw, more or less well.
Page 112 - I have touched, for in formation kindly afforded me ; to thank you for the attention with which you have listened to me...
Page 205 - President, in the chair. The following were elected Fellows of the Society : — Mr.
Page 111 - The incalculable value of such a fund to men of science or their families requiring temporary aid must be apparent to all, and looking at the unfortunate necessity for its existence which the calls upon it prove, I venture to commend it to your support. It will, perhaps, not be out of place here to say a few words with regard to the administration of this fund, the existence of which dates from 1859, and is in a great degree due to the exertions of the late Mr. Gassiot. The Council of the Royal Society...
Page 133 - Council for the tenth year and to elect officers. The report set forth the work done in connection with the Museum during the past year, which had included lectures by the Council of the Sanitary Assurance Association in addition to those arranged by the Council of the Museum. The accounts showed that there was urgent need for increased subscriptions if the Museum was to be continued, for the small invested capital had had to be made use of this year to meet the current expenses. The report was adopted...
Page 317 - THE PREVENTABLE CAUSES OF DISEASE, INJURY, AND DEATH IN AMERICAN MANUFACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS, AND THE BEST MEANS AND APPLIANCES FOR PREVENTING AND AVOIDING THEM.

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