Report of the Twenty-sixth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science : Held At Cheltenham in August 1856.

British Association for the Advancement of Science

Verlag: London : John Murray, 1857

Beschreibung

lxxiii, 464 p., 200 p., 4 p., 9 leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Contemporary hard boards. Wear to extremities. Chipping and loss to spine. Binding slightly weak. Library bookplate on inside board. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily. Contents are: Report from the Committee appointed by the British Association for the Advancement of Science; Interim Report to the British Association; Dredging Report.-Frith of Clyde. 1856; Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1855-56: By Rev. Baden Powell; Photochemical Researches. By Professor Bunsen and Dr. Henry e. Roscoe; On the Trigonometry of the Parabola, and the Geometrical Origin of Logarithms. By Rev. James Booth; Report on the Marine Testaceous Mollusca of the North-east Atlantic and neighbouring Seas, and the physical conditions affecting their development. Robert MacAndrew; Report on the present state of our knowledge with regard to the Mollusca of the West coast of North America. Philip P. Carpenter; Abstract of the First Report on the Oyster Beds and Oysters of the British Shores. T.C. Eyton; Report on Cleavage and Foliation in Rocks, and on the Theoretical Explanations of these Phaenomena-Part I. John Phillips; On the Stratigraphical Distribution of the Oolitic Echinodermata. Thomas Wright; On the Tensile Strength of Wrought Iron at various Temperatures. William Fairbairn; Mercantile Steam Transport Economy. Charles Atherton; On the Vital Powers of the Spongiadae. J.S. Bowerbank. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1405220082

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Titel: Report of the Twenty-sixth Meeting of the ...

Verlag: London : John Murray

Erscheinungsdatum: 1857

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good