Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volumes 54 à 55

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Metcalf and Company, 1919
Vol. 12 (from May 1876 to May 1877) includes: Researches in telephony / by A. Graham Bell.
 

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Page 423 - Librarian, all of whom shall be elected by ballot at the Annual Meeting, and shall hold their respective offices for one year, and until others are duly chosen and installed.
Page 501 - ... to the author of any important discovery or useful improvement in light or in heat, which shall have been made and published by printing, or in any way made known to the public, in any part of the continent of America, or any of the American islands ; preference being always given to such discoveries as shall, in the opinion of the Academy, tend most to promote the good of mankind...
Page 512 - Memoir of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, with Notices of his Daughter.
Page 430 - Parker, Judge Bigelow, Mr. GB Emerson, Professor Bowen, Dr. Jarvis, Professor HR Storer, and Dr. Pickering took part. On the motion of Professor HR Storer it was voted, That a committee be appointed to consider and report upon the subject of this discussion. Pending the appointment of this committee the meeting adjourned.
Page 426 - Academy as may seem to them likely to promote its interests. CHAPTER VII ThE TREASURER AND THE TREASURY ARTICLE 1 . The Treasurer shall collect all money due or payable to the Academy, and all gifts and bequests made to it. He shall pay all bills due...
Page 20 - ... limestone was laid down. * 7) The limestones and older rocks were then uplifted, folded, faulted, and eroded. 8) A period of volcanic activity followed, during which andesitic flows and ash buried the eroded sediments. 9) A period of erosion followed. 10) The eroded hills of andesite were submerged along the edge of the island and a series of coastal sediments was deposited. 11) The island was then differentially uplifted and eroded. 12) Post-Glacial outbursts of volcanic activity built up the...
Page 159 - Linn, the tracheids everywhere increase from within outwards, throughout a number of annual rings, until they have attained a definite size, which then remains constant for the following annual rings. Shepard and Bailey (1914) and subsequently Miss Gerry (1915) and Lee and Smith (1916) have shown that Sanio's law is not applicable to conifers in general. In Pinus Strobus Linn., P.

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