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 79
... genus was founded by Owen . † The Te Anau specimen of 1879 naturally attracted a good deal of attention in Europe . It was exhibited by Professor Newton at a meeting of the Zoological Society , on 17th January , 1882 , and subsequently ...
... genus was founded by Owen . † The Te Anau specimen of 1879 naturally attracted a good deal of attention in Europe . It was exhibited by Professor Newton at a meeting of the Zoological Society , on 17th January , 1882 , and subsequently ...
Σελίδα 111
... genus , whose habits are similar to the species already described . MUSTELA ERMINEA . - Stoat , or Large Weasel . This animal when full grown is about 14 inches in length , with a very slender body and short legs . The colour in summer ...
... genus , whose habits are similar to the species already described . MUSTELA ERMINEA . - Stoat , or Large Weasel . This animal when full grown is about 14 inches in length , with a very slender body and short legs . The colour in summer ...
Σελίδα 137
... genus Chromodoris , of which only one species was previously known to inhabit our coasts - viz . , C. aureo- marginata , a pretty little animal occasionally seen in Auckland Harbour . Captain Farquhar's species is larger , and much more ...
... genus Chromodoris , of which only one species was previously known to inhabit our coasts - viz . , C. aureo- marginata , a pretty little animal occasionally seen in Auckland Harbour . Captain Farquhar's species is larger , and much more ...
Σελίδα 139
... genus of animals found in the West Indies , South America , South Africa , and New Zealand ; I refer to the Peripatus . So puzzling are the characters presented by this genus , that it has been at different times referred to the errant ...
... genus of animals found in the West Indies , South America , South Africa , and New Zealand ; I refer to the Peripatus . So puzzling are the characters presented by this genus , that it has been at different times referred to the errant ...
Σελίδα 140
... genus is found in England , but an allied though much smaller form , the common pill - millipede ( Glomeris marginata ) , may be seen in almost every English garden ; and in old times , both it and the armadillo wood - louse were used ...
... genus is found in England , but an allied though much smaller form , the common pill - millipede ( Glomeris marginata ) , may be seen in almost every English garden ; and in old times , both it and the armadillo wood - louse were used ...
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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.