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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... nearly the same breadth , and only gradually diminishes in breadth till the handle is reached . It has , therefore , no prominent points . It is 15 inches long , 3 inches broad , and of an inch thick . The blade , as in the foregoing ...
... nearly the same breadth , and only gradually diminishes in breadth till the handle is reached . It has , therefore , no prominent points . It is 15 inches long , 3 inches broad , and of an inch thick . The blade , as in the foregoing ...
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... results , man is almost exclusively frugiverous , drawing nearly 30 Transactions . - Miscellaneous . Notes on the Difference in Food Plants now used Civilized Man as compared with those used Prehistoric Times By W T L Travers, F L.
... results , man is almost exclusively frugiverous , drawing nearly 30 Transactions . - Miscellaneous . Notes on the Difference in Food Plants now used Civilized Man as compared with those used Prehistoric Times By W T L Travers, F L.
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New Zealand Institute. results , man is almost exclusively frugiverous , drawing nearly all he requires for food , as well as for shelter and clothing , from the plants which spring up in profusion around him . On the other hand , in the ...
New Zealand Institute. results , man is almost exclusively frugiverous , drawing nearly all he requires for food , as well as for shelter and clothing , from the plants which spring up in profusion around him . On the other hand , in the ...
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New Zealand Institute. ground - floor without a space left for ventilation . Nearly if not all the ground - floors on the east side of Lower Queen - street are decaying with " dry rot . " I have known 12 in . x 3 in . all heart kauri ...
New Zealand Institute. ground - floor without a space left for ventilation . Nearly if not all the ground - floors on the east side of Lower Queen - street are decaying with " dry rot . " I have known 12 in . x 3 in . all heart kauri ...
Σελίδα 49
... nearly at the sound of Hawaii . The reasons why English orthography is so irregular are sufficiently obvious : - 1. The peculiar sounds given to the vowels in the English alphabet . 2. The adoption of a peculiar mode of pronouncing ...
... nearly at the sound of Hawaii . The reasons why English orthography is so irregular are sufficiently obvious : - 1. The peculiar sounds given to the vowels in the English alphabet . 2. The adoption of a peculiar mode of pronouncing ...
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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.