Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 51

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Metcalf and Company, 1916
Vol. 12 (from May 1876 to May 1877) includes: Researches in telephony / by A. Graham Bell.
 

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Página 253 - Contributions from the Entomological Laboratory of the Bussey Institution, Harvard University, No.
Página 944 - 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...
Página 883 - President of the University of California, and Director of the Lick Observatory.
Página 849 - Branscomb is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society...
Página 727 - We are the more inclined to this opinion since the intense radiation acts through the sclera as well as through the cornea, thus affecting the whole structure. It is also a well known clinical fact that diseases of the fundus produce at times cataractous changes in the posterior cortex that are held to be due to impaired nutrition of the lens. The development of glass blowers' cataract is so slow that it is quite hopeless to reach its cause experimentally, but from the facts here stated we incline...
Página 245 - ... upwards and outwards, and hence of increasing diameter. Daly adopts essentially this view and adds: — "When one remembers that most of the detritus abraded from the main reef goes to form talus on the outer submarine slope; and, secondly, that the growth of new coral is much faster on that side, we cannot fail to expect a centrifugal tendency for the encircling reef, as the island sinks" (Glacial-Control Theory of Coral Reef, Proc.
Página 869 - He was a man of singular beauty and purity of character. While he was at the bar no one harbored a suspicion that the exigency of forensic controversy, in which he was almost constantly engaged, could ever tempt him to aught that was unfair or unworthy of the highest ideals of a noble and honorable profession. As Chief Justice, it is enough to say that with conspicuous fidelity he fully and consistently maintained the best traditions of that high office. He took a deep interest in the efforts to...
Página 192 - The greater part of the bottom in most lagoons, is formed of sediment ; large spaces have exactly the same depth, or the depth varies so insensibly, that it is evident that no other means, excepting aqueous deposition, could have levelled the surface so equally.
Página 203 - ... Atlantic Ocean. 74. Barbados 330 Jukes-Brown, No marked shelf. Hill, Gregory. 75. Cuba 15 Hill. No general shelf; broad local shelves bearing 18 m. of water or less. 76. Jamaica 20 Hill. No shelf on north side; broad shelf on south side, bearing less than 35 m. of water. Leading References for Table III. A. Agassiz, The Islands and Coral Reefs of Fiji, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Vol. 33, 1899; The Coral Reefs of the Tropical Pacific, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., Vol. 28, 1903. CW Andrews, A Monograph...
Página 508 - ... single continuous rods without connection with the theca or epitheca. An outer ring, the beginning of the epitheca, similar to the ring described in skeleton A, surrounds the basal plate. The primary exosepta are developed in dorso-ventral succession and independently of the entosepta. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, April, 1915. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Duerden, JE 1904. The Coral Siderastrea radians and its Postlarval Development. Carnegie Institution, Washington. Publn. No. 20. v+ 130 p., 11 pi. Faurot, L....

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