Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Τόμος 18J. Hughes, Printer, 1886 The proceedings or notices of the member institutes of the society form part of the section "Proceedings" in each volume; lists of members are included in v. 1-41, 43-60, 64- |
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Σελίδα 12
... described except in many words . Next , the Maoris had not learnt to kiss - the Hindus cer- tainly know . The word " kiss " is very interesting by this new light on Maori etymology . The Sanscrit is kuch , a kiss ; the Maori has got ...
... described except in many words . Next , the Maoris had not learnt to kiss - the Hindus cer- tainly know . The word " kiss " is very interesting by this new light on Maori etymology . The Sanscrit is kuch , a kiss ; the Maori has got ...
Σελίδα 13
... described the preparation of kava , he says that the pretty girls sitting around the hava bowl did not " chew , " they did it so prettily that it should be called " ruminate . " That is precisely the case , the word comes from that ...
... described the preparation of kava , he says that the pretty girls sitting around the hava bowl did not " chew , " they did it so prettily that it should be called " ruminate . " That is precisely the case , the word comes from that ...
Σελίδα 26
... described in Vol . I. of the Transactions * -- were used for making the " patus , " and were also employed in the same way as the " mata " ( flint ) , though their edges cannot be made so sharp as that of the latter . Both are used with ...
... described in Vol . I. of the Transactions * -- were used for making the " patus , " and were also employed in the same way as the " mata " ( flint ) , though their edges cannot be made so sharp as that of the latter . Both are used with ...
Σελίδα 34
... described by Cook , that Dr. Keller compares the degree of civilization to which the inhabitants of the settlement of Meilen had apparently attained , as indicated by the remains discovered . After extracting from " Hawkesworth's ...
... described by Cook , that Dr. Keller compares the degree of civilization to which the inhabitants of the settlement of Meilen had apparently attained , as indicated by the remains discovered . After extracting from " Hawkesworth's ...
Σελίδα 47
... described as the Barukzye and the Sud- dozye . When spelt Barukzai and Suddozai the pronunciation is obvious , but as they stand in the previous orthography there is an uncertainty about the sound , inasmuch as the letter y is ...
... described as the Barukzye and the Sud- dozye . When spelt Barukzai and Suddozai the pronunciation is obvious , but as they stand in the previous orthography there is an uncertainty about the sound , inasmuch as the letter y is ...
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Σελίδα 61 - If a straight line meets two straight lines, so as to make the two interior angles on the same side of it taken together less than two right angles...
Σελίδα 12 - Approach thou now the lap of earth, thy mother, the wide-extending earth, the ever-kindly ; A maiden soft as wool to him who comes with gifts, she shall protect thee from destruction's bosom. Open thyself, O earth, and press not heavily, be easy of access and of approach to him ; As mother with her robe her child, so do thou cover him, O earth...
Σελίδα 397 - ... be furnished by a theory, according to which the radiant energy which is now supposed to be dissipated into space and irrecoverably lost to our solar system, could be arrested and brought back in another form to the sun himself, there to continue the work of solar radiation.
Σελίδα 67 - ... is just as well known, if the Euclidean assumptions are true, as the geometry of any portion of this room. ... So that here we have real knowledge of something at least that concerns the Cosmos; something that is true throughout the Immensities and the Eternities.
Σελίδα 67 - ... future eternity. He knows, indeed, that the laws assumed by Euclid are true with an accuracy that no direct experiment can approach, not only in this place where we are, but in places at a distance from us that no astronomer has conceived ; but he knows this as of Here and Now ; beyond his range is a There and Then of which he knows nothing at present, but may ultimately come to know more.
Σελίδα 171 - Antennffi f, in male filiform, moderately ciliated (1), basal joint elongate, without pecten. Labial palpi long, recurved, second joint thickened with dense scales, forming a short dense triangular projecting tuft towards apex beneath, terminal joint longer than second, slightly roughened anteriorly, acute.
Σελίδα 399 - That these dissociated vapors are capable of being compressed into the solar photosphere by a process of interchange with an equal amount of reassociated...
Σελίδα 396 - The heat thus generated is proportional to the mass of the moving body and the square of its velocity, and...
Σελίδα 67 - ... properties as space and time everything was accurately known. The very constitution of those parts of it which are at an infinite distance from us, 'geometry upon the plane at infinity...
Σελίδα 63 - Now suppose that three points are taken in space, distant from one another as far as the Sun is from a Centauri, and that the shortest distances between these points are drawn so as to form a triangle. And suppose the angles of this triangle to be very accurately measured and added together; this can at present be done so accurately that the error shall certainly be less than one minute, less, therefore, than the five-thousandth part of a right angle.