Science, Volume 44John Michels (Journalist) American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1916 - Science Since Jan. 1901 the official proceedings and most of the papers of the American Association for the Advancement of Science have been included in Science. |
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... practical agriculturists . THE Graduate School of the University of Illinois has recently made an appropriation for a geological expedition to Hudson Bay during the summer of 1916. The work will be in charge of Professor T. E. Savage ...
... practical agriculturists . THE Graduate School of the University of Illinois has recently made an appropriation for a geological expedition to Hudson Bay during the summer of 1916. The work will be in charge of Professor T. E. Savage ...
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... practical hygiene would be through the organi- zation of a National Health League which would hope ultimately to have a representa- tive organization in every large community . It should be the duty of such a body to encour- age right ...
... practical hygiene would be through the organi- zation of a National Health League which would hope ultimately to have a representa- tive organization in every large community . It should be the duty of such a body to encour- age right ...
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... practical way to combat the cockchafer of wheat . Reference was also made to similar work that has recently been conducted in Florida and Trinidad , B. W. I. The writer spoke also of the present status of the chinch - bug disease and of ...
... practical way to combat the cockchafer of wheat . Reference was also made to similar work that has recently been conducted in Florida and Trinidad , B. W. I. The writer spoke also of the present status of the chinch - bug disease and of ...
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... practical discoveries of artisans and ingenious chemical experimenters , the doc- trine of physicists , the stern and uncom- promising logic of mathematicians , and the vision of metaphysical dreamers seeking to grasp truths far beyond ...
... practical discoveries of artisans and ingenious chemical experimenters , the doc- trine of physicists , the stern and uncom- promising logic of mathematicians , and the vision of metaphysical dreamers seeking to grasp truths far beyond ...
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... practical utility of atomic weights , although not forgotten , was not the prime incentive in the work under discussion . The real inspiration leading to the pro- tracted labor of revising these fundamental quantities was the hope of ...
... practical utility of atomic weights , although not forgotten , was not the prime incentive in the work under discussion . The real inspiration leading to the pro- tracted labor of revising these fundamental quantities was the hope of ...
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Page 306 - Fund was founded in 1902, under the direction of the Royal College of * Physicians of London and the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and Is governed by representatives of many medical and scientific institutions.
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Page 417 - Again, in their theory of form, both Aristotle and subsequent logicians came very near to the theory of the logical variable. But to come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two very different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Page 514 - That which stirs their pulses is the love of knowledge and the joy of discovery of the causes of things sung by the old poet — the supreme delight of extending the realm of law and order ever farther towards the unattainable goals of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, between which our little race of life is run.
Page 570 - THE second annual report of the Committee of the Privy Council for Scientific and Industrial Research for the year 1916-17 has been published.
Page 264 - That there be formed a National Research Council, whose purpose shall be to bring into cooperation existing governmental, educational, industrial and other research organizations with the object of encouraging the investigation of natural phenomena, the increased use of scientific research in the development of American industries, the employment of scientific methods in strengthening the national defense, and such other applications of science as will promote the national security and welfare. That...
Page 409 - I am going to emphasise the importance of theory in science. But to avoid misconception I most emphatically state that I do not consider one source as in any sense nobler than the other, or intrinsically more interesting.