Miscellaneous Documents: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 49th Congress, 1st Session, Volume 4 |
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... give lectures on subjects of general interest . This programme , which was at first adopted provisionally , has become the settled policy of the Institution . The only material change is that expressed by the following resolutions ...
... give lectures on subjects of general interest . This programme , which was at first adopted provisionally , has become the settled policy of the Institution . The only material change is that expressed by the following resolutions ...
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... give instruc- tion as to the method of observing phenomena , and to furnish a variety of other matter connected with the progress of science . Of this series four large octavo volumes have been issued , and two more are nearly completed ...
... give instruc- tion as to the method of observing phenomena , and to furnish a variety of other matter connected with the progress of science . Of this series four large octavo volumes have been issued , and two more are nearly completed ...
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... gives the horizontal component of the force of the earth , while the vibrations of a similar bar placed in the plane of the dip , and poised horizontally like a scale - beam on two knite - edges , gives the variations in the vertical ...
... gives the horizontal component of the force of the earth , while the vibrations of a similar bar placed in the plane of the dip , and poised horizontally like a scale - beam on two knite - edges , gives the variations in the vertical ...
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... give the whole series of works on natural history , which constitute portions of what is called the Miscellaneous Collections , a critical examination , and present a report upon them at a future time . At present he would beg leave to ...
... give the whole series of works on natural history , which constitute portions of what is called the Miscellaneous Collections , a critical examination , and present a report upon them at a future time . At present he would beg leave to ...
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... give an altogether new value to the results of Lalande . The great mass of independent observations thus rendered ... gives about $ 5,000 as the probable cost of this reduction , to which from one - quarter to one - third should be added ...
... give an altogether new value to the results of Lalande . The great mass of independent observations thus rendered ... gives about $ 5,000 as the probable cost of this reduction , to which from one - quarter to one - third should be added ...
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