Report of the ... Meeting, Volume 1

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The Association., 1889

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Halaman 651 - There are more multimillionaires in the United States than in all the rest of the world combined, even if we include the quasi-governmental wealth of the princes of India and the East.
Halaman xiii - To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain ft more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
Halaman 54 - ... the strongest expressions of our admiration of the patriotic and princely support he has given to astronomy, in regions so remote. It will be a source of honest pride to him while he lives, to reflect that the first brilliant trait of Australian history marks the era of his government, and that his name will be identified with the future glories of that colony, in ages yet to come, as the founder of her science. It is a distinction truly worthy of a British governor. The colonial acquisitions...
Halaman 229 - ... at about forty feet above the sea-level ; on the north it is cut out from the cliff by encroachment of the sea, from this point the glaciated surface is continuous in a southerly direction for a distance of one mile to Black Point, the north headland of Hallett's Cove. On the line of the glacier, there now intervenes the...
Halaman 400 - ... in a paper read before the Royal Society of New South Wales, in Dec., 1880, and published in its Journal for that year.
Halaman xiii - Committee two years in advance. 5. There shall be a General Council, having the supreme control, to be composed of Delegates from the different Colonies or Colonial Scientific Societies. The number of Delegates from each Society or Colony shall be proportionate to the number of Members from the particular Colony or Society — subscribing or otherwise — taking part in the proceedings (ie, after the preliminary meetings). Each Colony or Society shall be allowed to nominate a Delegate for each one...
Halaman 11 - ... meditations of more experienced minds, men not incapable of surveying with accuracy a limited district, though they may not pretend to draw the general outline of the map, or fill up the whole of its details. Many such there are who only wait for instructions, and who require no other stimulus than that of being invited, to render the most essential service to researches and calculations of the highest order ; and it is upon this ground especially that we venture to pronounce an Institution wanting,...
Halaman 7 - Here, however, is a brighter prospect. Our first triumphs in those fair climes have been the peaceful ones of science ; and the treasures they have transmitted to us are imperishable records of useful knowledge, speedily to be returned with interest, to the improvement of their condition and their elevation in the scale of nations.
Halaman 91 - ... thus, by means of the perfect and absolute determination of the position on the earth's surface of one point, to be enabled to lay down with perfect accuracy the whole of the remainder of the country, not merely with relation to that spot, but with relation to the remainder of the earth's surface.
Halaman 241 - ... table-hills and stony downs, are the soft silt plains, which, together with the former, cover the gypseous clays, marls, calcareous shales, limestone, sand, and gravel drifts of Cretaceous age. The greatest thickness of these beds, which has been proved by boring at Tarkininna, is about 1,200 feet. The mound springs, which are the natural indicators of artesian water beneath these plains, are found in many places near the outcrops of bed rock, between the junction of which and the Cretaceous...

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