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 28
... appearance , was the most esteemed form . We possess another specimen of this shape , about the same size , of which one side is perfectly flat , being formed of a quartz layer , whilst the other or rounded portion , owing to the thick ...
... appearance , was the most esteemed form . We possess another specimen of this shape , about the same size , of which one side is perfectly flat , being formed of a quartz layer , whilst the other or rounded portion , owing to the thick ...
Σελίδα 30
... appearance , as the Chatham Islands weapons . What dis- tinguishes it from the form of the mere are the prominent points above the handle , so that in this respect it resembles the weapon No. 3 from the Chatham Islands . Similar ...
... appearance , as the Chatham Islands weapons . What dis- tinguishes it from the form of the mere are the prominent points above the handle , so that in this respect it resembles the weapon No. 3 from the Chatham Islands . Similar ...
Σελίδα 46
... appearance of structure and of culture which would have been lost had the English system prevailed , and the result is , that the moment a word in the language is seen , its pronunciation is 46 Transactions . - Miscellaneous . The Maori ...
... appearance of structure and of culture which would have been lost had the English system prevailed , and the result is , that the moment a word in the language is seen , its pronunciation is 46 Transactions . - Miscellaneous . The Maori ...
Σελίδα 47
... appearance . * The other day , in an Indian work of merit , I came across the words gui hye ; now who can tell , except he is told by an expert , what to make of this ? Pronounce the words to a Maori , and he would at once write down ...
... appearance . * The other day , in an Indian work of merit , I came across the words gui hye ; now who can tell , except he is told by an expert , what to make of this ? Pronounce the words to a Maori , and he would at once write down ...
Σελίδα 82
... appearance of being covered with long flexible hair , and not with immovable armour , showing only the outer colour of the feather as in ordinary birds . From this flexibility , I infer that the golden colour of the centre part of the ...
... appearance of being covered with long flexible hair , and not with immovable armour , showing only the outer colour of the feather as in ordinary birds . From this flexibility , I infer that the golden colour of the centre part of the ...
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Abdomen acuminate acute Antennæ apex Auckland basal base beds birds branches broad brown burrow capsule cells Cephalothorax Chatham Islands Chilton Trans cilia claw close colour costa County of Waipawa curved dark fuscous diameter dorsal Dunedin erect feet female Forewings frond genus grey hairs Hawke's Bay hindmargin Hindwings Hutton inches long joint Kaimatera kauri laciniate larvæ leaves legs length limestone lines long lobes lower Lyttelton male Maori Maori language margins Matapiro Maxilla moderately Moll N.Z. Crust N.Z. Inst Napier narrow Norsewood oblique oblong obtuse pair pale palpi Pareora system Patea pedicels perianth Petane Philosophical Society plant posterior recurved round Scinde Island Shakespeare Cliff short side slender slightly South Island species specimens spots stem Stewart Island stout teeth Thomson Trans tibiæ tips Transactions transverse Tuatara upper veins W.C. Obs Wanganui Wellington whitish xvii Zealand Zealand Institute Zool
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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 399 - The fundamental conditions are : — 1. That aqueous vapour and carbon compounds are present in stellar or interplanetary space. 2. That these gaseous compounds are capable of being dissociated by radiant solar energy while in a state of extreme attenuation. 3. That...
Σελίδα 14 - 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 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. Then I do not know that this sum would differ...
Σελίδα 171 - Antennae }, 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 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 67 - ... 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. So,, you see, there is a real parallel between the work of Copernicus and his successors on the one hand, and the work of Lobatchewsky and his successors on the other.