Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society

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Royal Microscopical Society, 1878

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Página 229 - Report on the Hydroida collected during the Exploration of the Gulf Stream by LF de Pourtales, Assistant United States Coast Survey.
Página 90 - LIGHT: a Series of Simple, entertaining, and Inexpensive Experiments in the Phenomena of Light, for the Use of. Students of every age.
Página 125 - ... unfetters the mind from prejudices of every kind, and leaves it open and free to every impression of a higher nature which it is susceptible of receiving, guarding only against enthusiasm and self-deception by a habit of strict investigation, but encouraging, rather than suppressing, everything that can offer a prospect or a hope beyond the present obscure and unsatisfactory state.
Página 159 - The following list of presents was read, and the thanks of the meeting were voted to the respective donors ; viz., FOR THE LIBRARY.
Página 55 - numerical aperture " is equal to the product of the refractive index of the medium in front of the objective, multiplied into the sine of the semi-angular aperture=n sin. w. This definition of "numerical aperture" offers at once a means by which all objectives, whether dry, water, or oil .immersion, can be directly compared. It is based on the theory whence Professors Abbe and Helmholtz deduced the limit of visibility. The...
Página 160 - The President proposed a vote of thanks to the author of the paper, and also to Mr.
Página 33 - President, in the chair. The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed.
Página 123 - In mathematics, chemistry, and every branch of natural philosophy, how many are the inquiries necessary for their improvement and completion, which, taken separately, do not appear to lead to any specifically advantageous purpose ! Ho'w many useful inventions, and how much valuable and improving knowledge, would have been lost, if a rational curiosity, and a mere love of information, had not generally been allowed to be a sufficient motive for the search after truth !" — Malthus's Principles of...
Página 93 - Society during the past month was read by the Secretary, and the thanks of the meeting were voted to the donors.
Página 182 - ... is as a rule prevented. I may add that Mr. Gosse has already dealt with the action of the manubria in other rotifers (I. c.). Now I do not know how it may strike others, but to me this mechanism is simply exquisite. We have three distinct lines of power, all at work and in rotation. In the first place there is a power at hinge K, then follows the power at hinge H, and then lastly comes that of the manubria ; the moment the main upper handles of the ramus get together, then, and not before, up...

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