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 21
... surface , in undisturbed ground over which extensive forests are growing , containing trees of enormous size , there is no doubt that the use of polished stone implements dates far back in pre - historic times ; I mean to say , to a ...
... surface , in undisturbed ground over which extensive forests are growing , containing trees of enormous size , there is no doubt that the use of polished stone implements dates far back in pre - historic times ; I mean to say , to a ...
Σελίδα 25
... surface , were other- wise somewhat round , and varied in size from 7 inches to 12 inches on the average . This " hoanga was placed flat on the ground , and the implement ground by rubbing it to and fro thereon with water . Numbers of ...
... surface , were other- wise somewhat round , and varied in size from 7 inches to 12 inches on the average . This " hoanga was placed flat on the ground , and the implement ground by rubbing it to and fro thereon with water . Numbers of ...
Σελίδα 27
... handle , where on one side the material has been so far removed that the curvature goes over the whole surface . It is not nearly so well finished as the okewa HAAST . - Stone Weapons of the Moriori and the Maori . 27.
... handle , where on one side the material has been so far removed that the curvature goes over the whole surface . It is not nearly so well finished as the okewa HAAST . - Stone Weapons of the Moriori and the Maori . 27.
Σελίδα 43
... surface of which various jets of steam were arising . The eruptions were now very rapid , and in one instance there were no less than four huge eruptions in three minutes . Although one of these large masses was ejected considerably ...
... surface of which various jets of steam were arising . The eruptions were now very rapid , and in one instance there were no less than four huge eruptions in three minutes . Although one of these large masses was ejected considerably ...
Σελίδα 44
... surface of the island the steam still continued to rise in small jets , seems to be sufficient proof of the correctness of the conjecture formed by Dr. Buck- land , that it had now passed from a submarine volcano to that of a volcanic ...
... surface of the island the steam still continued to rise in small jets , seems to be sufficient proof of the correctness of the conjecture formed by Dr. Buck- land , that it had now passed from a submarine volcano to that of a volcanic ...
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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.