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Excerpt from The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 8There's one Generalissimo whom all belligerents take orders from, General Mud. If we could continue summer weather conditions another three months, we might get a decision. But it's unsafe to reckon on more than five weeks of good ofensivo weather. From the Somme to the Channel the character of the soil renders the mud the worst in all creation after the autumn rains begin in good earnest.The Germans,...

Excerpt from Fifty Years of Darwinism: Modern Aspects of Evolution, Centennial Addresses in Honor of Charles Darwin, Before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Baltimore, Friday, January 1, 1909 The greatness of a man is shown in what he is, in what he does, and in What he sets a-doing. If the long list of contributions to the ses sions Of this Association for these fifty years were searched for products of thought whose...

Excerpt from Science, Vol. 1 Geographical, Congress, International, 110, 257, Prizes, 258, Journals, American, 506, J 0111112115. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst...

Excerpt from Outlines of Geologic History, With Especial Reference to North America: A Series of Essays The essays in this volume were presented before Section E, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at the meeting in Baltimore in December, 1908. The original plan of the papers involved the formulation of the principles of correlation, as applied to the formations of different periods. This plan was conceived by Bailey ...

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Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Association: For the Advancement of Science, Thirty-Eighth Meeting, Held at Toronto, Ontario, August, 1889 On the proper motions of the stars in the Harvard College Observatory zone between the limits of 50° and 55° declination. By W! A. Rogers (title) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a rep...

Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: For the Forty-Third Meeting Held at Brooklyn, N. Y On the precautions necessary in the use of mercurial thermometers in de termining the amount of superheat in steam. By D. S. Jacobus Improvements in methods of testing automatic fire sprinkler heads. By D. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find mo...

Excerpt from The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 9HE draft has been a great inventory of the resources of the T nation - it has shown both our physical assets and our human liabilities. The material was found to be of good grade, hut per cent. Of the registrants were rejected by the physicians of the local boards and per cent. By the up sur geons as physically unfit for general military service, a total of per cent.The first draft was necessarily a r...

Excerpt from The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 11Group I. Expenditures arising from Recent and Previous Wars War and Navy Departments. Primary Government Functions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the...

Excerpt from Water for Industry: A Symposium Presented on December 29, 1953 at the Boston Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science The world is in a race for industrial leadership in which the United States and its allies must maintain pre-eminence as a bulwark against nations seeking to destroy democratic government. The industrial might of the democratic nations is a strong deterrent to further world conflict, for ...

Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: Third Meeting, Held at Philadelphia, Penn, September, 1884 Then there is the very interesting discussion concerning changes upon the moon's surface. Considering the difference between our modern telescopes and those employed fifty or a hundred years ago, I think it still far from certain that the differences between the representations of earlier and later ob...

Excerpt from Hand-Book of Minneapolis: Prepared for the Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Held in Minneapolis, August 15-22, 1883 Previous to the inception of this volume no concise history, either of the City of Minneapolis or of the State of Minnesota, had ever been attempted. The materials at hand for its preparation were, therefore, of a very fragmentary nature, and have with difficul...

Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Association: For the Advancement of Science, for the Thirty-Ninth Meeting, Held at Indianapolis, Indiana Past Presidents. - James D. Dana of New Haven, James Hall of Albany, J. S. Newberry of New York, B. A. Gould of Cambridge, T. Sterry Hunt of New York, Joseph Lovering of Cambridge, J. E. Hilgard of Washington, Simon Newcomb of Washington, O. C. Marsh of New Haven, George F. Barker of Philadelphia, G...

Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Association: For the Advancement of Science, Thirty-Eight Meeting, Held at Toronto, Ontario, August, 1889 Harger, Oscar, New Haven, Conn. Born in Oxford, Conn., Jan. 12, 1843. Died in New Haven, Conn., Nov. 6, 1887. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical ...

Excerpt from Science, Vol. 1 Geographical, Congress, International, 110, 257, Prizes, 258, Journals, American, 506, J 0111112115. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst...

Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Association: For the Advancement of Science, Nineteenth Meeting, Held at Troy, New York, August, 1870In the absence of the President, the vice-president occupied the chair. 1 Mr. Hartt being absent, his place was filled by Mr. F. W. Putnam.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an imp...

Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: Fifty-Second Meeting Held at Washington, D. C., December, 1902 January, 1903Anthropology - roland B. Dixon, Peabody Museum. Cam bridge, Mass.Social and Economic Science - frank H. Hitchcock, U. S. De partment of Commerce and Labor, Washington, D. C.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.fo...

Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fifty Eighth Meeting: Held at Chicago, Illinois, December, 1907, January, 1908College, Schenectady, N. Y. Geology and Geography - J. P. 10011108, The University of Chi cago, Chicago, Ill. Zoology - E. B. Wilson, Columbia University, New York, N. Y. Botany - C. E. Bessey, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb. Anthropology and Psychology - franz boas, Franklin A...

Excerpt from Proceedings the American Association: For the Advancement of Science The Chairman of the Local Committee then submitted letters, which had been received in reply to the letters of invitation issued by that committee, accepting the invitation, from Lieut. J. M. Gillies, of Washington, Samuel Henry Dickson, of New York, Z. Allen, Esq., of Providence, R. I., Prof. J. C. Booth, of Philadelphia, Prof. J. S. Hubbard, of Washington, D. ...