Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Volumen7

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J. Hughes, Printer, 1875
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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Página xxxviii - INDUCTION, then, is that operation of the mind, by which we infer that what we know to be true in a particular case or cases, will be true in all cases which resemble the former in certain assignable respects. In other words, Induction is the process by which we conclude that what is true of certain individuals of a class is true of the whole class, or that what is true at certain times will be true in similar circumstances at all times.
Página xxxix - Generalization from Experience. It consists in inferring from some individual instances in which a phenomenon is observed to occur, that it occurs in all instances of a certain class; namely, in all which resemble the former, in what are regarded as the material circumstances.
Página 169 - ... announcements which they shall have to communicate — that there are yet behind, to search out and to declare, not only secrets of nature which shall increase the wealth or power of man, but truths which shall ennoble the age and the country in which they are divulged, and by dilating the intellect, react on the moral character of mankind.
Página 96 - teshoa' and is employed as a scraper in dressing buffalo skins. By accident, I learned that the implement is not only modern, as I obtained one of the same character, together with some perforated tusks of the elk, from an old Indian grave, which had been made on the upper side of a butte, and had become exposed by the gradual wearing away of the latter.
Página 481 - ... is equal to one-fourth of all the heat received from the sun by the North Atlantic, from the Tropic of Cancer up to the Arctic Circle.
Página 483 - SE trades would blow across the equator, and the medial line between them would therefore be at some distance to the south of the equator. Thus the equatorial waters would be impelled more to the southern than to the northern hemisphere ; and the warm water carried over in this manner to the southern hemisphere would tend to increase the difference of temperature between the two hemispheres. This change, again, would in turn tend to strengthen the NE and to weaken the SE trades, and would thus induce...
Página 491 - ... alone. But when the fish is compelled to sojourn in thick, muddy water charged with gases which are the product of decomposing organic matter (and this must be the case very frequently during the droughts which annually exhaust the creeks of tropical Australia), it commences to breathe air with its lung in the way indicated above.
Página lv - If a die were marked with one figure or number of spots on four sides, and with another figure or number of spots on the two remaining sides, it would be more probable that the former would turn up than the latter ; though, if it had a thousand sides marked in the same manner, and only one side different...
Página 416 - ... in places, and effectually barred all progress towards the Pole. For 450 miles he sailed in front of this cliff, and found it unbroken by a single inlet. While thus coasting along, his ships (the Erebus and Terror) were often in danger from stupendous icebergs and thick pack ice, that frequently extended in masses too close and serried to be bored through.
Página 80 - ... and of wooden spears, firesticks, and other objects too numerous to mention, but by which the fact is established that they had reached already a certain state of civilisation, which in many respects seems not to have been inferior to that possessed by the Maoris when New Zealand was first visited by Europeans. At the same time, if we consider the position of the kitchen middens on the dunes in the vicinity of...

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