The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, 47권A. and C. Black, 1849 |
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... Species of Manna from New South Wales . By THOMAS ANDERSON , M.D. , F.R.S.E. , Lecturer on Chemistry , and Chemist to the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland . Communicated by the Author , 122 132 XVI . Statistics of Nutmegs ...
... Species of Manna from New South Wales . By THOMAS ANDERSON , M.D. , F.R.S.E. , Lecturer on Chemistry , and Chemist to the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland . Communicated by the Author , 122 132 XVI . Statistics of Nutmegs ...
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... Species of Hippopotamus of Western Africa , ARTS . 26. The Portland Vase , MISCELLANEOUS . 27. On the Tricks of Fire - eaters and Conjurors , XVIII . List of Patents granted for Scotland from 22d June to 22d September 1849 , XIX . INDEX ...
... Species of Hippopotamus of Western Africa , ARTS . 26. The Portland Vase , MISCELLANEOUS . 27. On the Tricks of Fire - eaters and Conjurors , XVIII . List of Patents granted for Scotland from 22d June to 22d September 1849 , XIX . INDEX ...
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... species , restricted by limits more or less extensive , were distributed each according to special * zones of temperature , complicated , nevertheless , by influences determined by the orographic form of continents and their ...
... species , restricted by limits more or less extensive , were distributed each according to special * zones of temperature , complicated , nevertheless , by influences determined by the orographic form of continents and their ...
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... species , the nearer we approach the warm regions . The pteropods , although more indifferent as to temperature , have afforded me the same general re- sults , * with respect to their geographical distribution in the oceans . " The ...
... species , the nearer we approach the warm regions . The pteropods , although more indifferent as to temperature , have afforded me the same general re- sults , * with respect to their geographical distribution in the oceans . " The ...
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... species over an immense extent of latitude , in the same basin , currents must be regarded as the cause of it . " Identical species , in two neighbouring basins , indicate direct communication between them . " The largest tributaries do ...
... species over an immense extent of latitude , in the same basin , currents must be regarded as the cause of it . " Identical species , in two neighbouring basins , indicate direct communication between them . " The largest tributaries do ...
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197 페이지 - A Manual of Botany : being an Introduction to the Study of the Structure, Physiology, and Classification of Plants.
371 페이지 - ... this Report, Dr. Smith states that the pollution of air in crowded rooms is really owing to organic matter and not merely carbonic acid ; that all the water of great towns contains organic matter; that water purifies itself from organic matter in various ways, but particularly by converting it into nitrates, — that water can never stand long with advantage unless on a large scale, and should be used when collected or as soon as filtered.
44 페이지 - ... been able to bring them to the test of such experiments as would confirm or refute them; and should therefore have delayed the publication of them until these experiments had been made, if you, sir, and some other of my philosophical friends had not thought them as plausible as any other conjectures which have been formed on the subject ; and that, though they should not be verified by further experiments, or approved of by men of science in general, they may perhaps merit a discussion, and give...
42 페이지 - During the last summer also, a friend of mine gave some account of them to M. Lavoisier, as well as of the conclusion drawn from them, that dephlogisticated air is only water deprived of phlogiston ; but at that time so far was M. Lavoisier from thinking any such opinion warranted, that, till he was prevailed upon to repeat the experiment himself, he found some difficulty in believing that nearly the whole of the two airs could be converted into water.
349 페이지 - It will not only render the study of Geography more attractive, but actually show it in its true light, namely, as the science of the relations •which exist between nature and man throughout history ; of the contrasts observed between the different parts of the globe; of the laws of horizontal and vertical forms of the dry land, in its contact with the sea ; of climate, &c.
386 페이지 - NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66 Chancery Lane, in the county of Middlesex, civil engineer, " certain improvements in steam-boilers," being a communication from a foreigner residing abroad.
375 페이지 - I discovered chromate of iron disseminated in these rocks ; and ten or fifteen miles farther south (near the city of Harmanjick) there is an abundant deposit of this mineral. A circumstance worthy of remark, is, that this chromate of iron (the first that has been discovered in Asia Minor) is found in serpentine as elsewhere. This important fact can explain to a certain extent the formation of this chromate. It is well known that serpentine contains all the elements of chromate of iron, which, during...
248 페이지 - AD 1618 is stated to have been attended by a train no less than 104° in length. The comet of 1680, the most celebrated of modern times, and on many accounts the most remarkable of all, with a head not exceeding in brightness a star of the second magnitude, covered with its tail an extent of more than 70° of the heavens, or, as some accounts state, 90°.
380 페이지 - America, the consumer really eats more than half a pound of gypsum and indigo : — and I have little doubt that in many instances Prussian blue is substituted for indigo. And yet, tell these green tea drinkers that the Chinese eat dogs, cats and rats, and they will hold up their hands in amazement and pity the taste of the poor Celestials. In five minutes from the time of the colour being thrown into the pan the desired effect was produced.