Report of the ... and ... Meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Volume 50, Part 1880J. Murray, 1880 - Science |
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Page 448 - This index of refraction is still more materially affected when a body passes from the solid to the liquid, or from the liquid to the gaseous condition...
Page 512 - As an immediate effect of the manifestation of mechanical force, we see that a part of the muscular substance loses its vital properties, its character of life ; that this portion separates from the living part, and loses its capacity of growth and its power of resistance. We find that this change of properties is accompanied by the entrance of a foreign body (oxygen) into the composition of the muscular fibre * * * ; and all experience proves, that this conversion of living muscular fibre into compounds...
Page 531 - The amount of tissue metamorphosed in a given time may be measured by the quantity of nitrogen in the urine. The sum of the mechanical effects produced in two individuals, in the same temperature, is proportional to the amount of nitrogen in their urine ; whether the mechanical force has been employed in voluntary or involuntary motions, whether it has been consumed by the limbs or by the heart and other viscera.
Page 287 - It was found in all cases that the difference between the spectrum of the chloride and the spectrum of the metal was that under the same spark-conditions all the short lines were obliterated.
Page 42 - Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland, and Professor of Geology in the Royal College of Science. 14 Hume-street, Dublin. *Hulse, Sir Edward, Bart., DOL 47 Portland-place, London, W. ; and Breamore House, Salisbury. 1861. {HUME, Rev. Canon ABRAHAM, RO.L., LL.D., FSA All Souls' Vicarage, Rupert-lane, Liverpool.
Page 638 - Balfour, early embryological changes imply that — " the functions of the central nervous system, which were originally taken by the whole skin, became gradually concentrated in a special part of the skin which was step by step removed from the surface, and has finally become in the higher types a well-defined organ imbedded in the subdermal tissues. . . . The embryological evidence shows that the ganglion-cells of the central part of the nervous system are originally derived from the simple undifferentiated...
Page xxiv - If it should be inconvenient to the Author that his paper should be read on any particular days, he is requested to send information thereof to the Secretaries in a separate note.
Page 54 - The masses are rough and knotted, like mulberry calculi, with rounded protuberances projecting from the surface on every side. The black coating is not uniform, being most marked between the projections. These projections have sometimes a bright metallic surface, showing them to consist of nodules of iron; and they also contain lumps of an olive-green mineral, having a distinct and easy cleavage. The greater part of the stony material is of a grey colour with the green mineral irregularly disseminated...