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 33
... wood , stone or earthenware . In order that you may understand the conditions under which these antiquities have been so long preserved , I will endeavour to give you , as shortly as I can , an idea of the general structure of the lake ...
... wood , stone or earthenware . In order that you may understand the conditions under which these antiquities have been so long preserved , I will endeavour to give you , as shortly as I can , an idea of the general structure of the lake ...
Σελίδα 34
... ' horns or crooked branches of trees , as is still done by some of the North American Indians , and was formerly done ( as regards crooked pieces of wood and other rude implements ) by the Maoris ; but he 84 Transactions . - Miscellaneous .
... ' horns or crooked branches of trees , as is still done by some of the North American Indians , and was formerly done ( as regards crooked pieces of wood and other rude implements ) by the Maoris ; but he 84 Transactions . - Miscellaneous .
Σελίδα 38
... wood - a two - feet diameter log will have nine inches of sap- wood , leaving only six inches of heart , the heart not being very well defined . By this specimen of rimu ( a board twelve inches wide ) the difficulty in discriminating ...
... wood - a two - feet diameter log will have nine inches of sap- wood , leaving only six inches of heart , the heart not being very well defined . By this specimen of rimu ( a board twelve inches wide ) the difficulty in discriminating ...
Σελίδα 39
... wood , and very suitable for church furniture . Totara ( Podocarpus totara ) is the third timber of importance . It is largely used in the South for building purposes , but in Auckland we only know it as a good " pile " timber , and for ...
... wood , and very suitable for church furniture . Totara ( Podocarpus totara ) is the third timber of importance . It is largely used in the South for building purposes , but in Auckland we only know it as a good " pile " timber , and for ...
Σελίδα 40
... wood ; the grub in the kauri will bore in any direction . I have here a sample of kauri bored with this grub . The sap - wood will be attacked first ; but if found in a building , it will soon go right through , heart and sap falling a ...
... wood ; the grub in the kauri will bore in any direction . I have here a sample of kauri bored with this grub . The sap - wood will be attacked first ; but if found in a building , it will soon go right through , heart and sap falling a ...
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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.