Science Volume 19 (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...effect of water, may be compared with it. NOTES AND NEWS. In the death of Thomas Hockley, which occurred on the 12th of March, in Philadelphia, the scientific institutions in that city have suffered a serious loss. Mr. Hockley was a member of nearly all the local learned societies, and as an officer of many of them did much to promote scientissc work. As treasurer of the University Archaeological Association, the Department of Archaeology of the University of Pennsylvania, the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society, as well as of the Zoological Society and the Fairmount Park Art Association, he gave his services without pecuniary profit or even the prominence which he deserved, and he will be remembered as one who did much to advance public interests through self-sacrificing devotion to the general good.--At the Berlin Geographical Society, on Jan. 2, Herr L. Cremer read a report upon the journey undertaken by him in the summer of 1801 to Spitzbergen, with the object of exploring the coal leds there. The author in the course of his six weeks journey travelled along the west coast as far as Magdalena Bay, and found, besides the coal beds in Ice Fjord and Bell Sound, which were discovered by Swedish explorers, various other coalveins which appear to be well worth working.--In the second lecture of the Lecture Association of the University of Pennsylvania's course on "Early Religious Ide.as," on Feb. 28, Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson spoke as follows: "The primitive animism of the men of the age of stone always remained at the foundation of the religion of Egypt, and continued to develop' its superstitious practices, whilst the national faith had assumed an ever-growing metaphysical character. At the opening of history the Egyptians had..

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...effect of water, may be compared with it. NOTES AND NEWS. In the death of Thomas Hockley, which occurred on the 12th of March, in Philadelphia, the scientific institutions in that city have suffered a serious loss. Mr. Hockley was a member of nearly all the local learned societies, and as an officer of many of them did much to promote scientissc work. As treasurer of the University Archaeological Association, the Department of Archaeology of the University of Pennsylvania, the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society, as well as of the Zoological Society and the Fairmount Park Art Association, he gave his services without pecuniary profit or even the prominence which he deserved, and he will be remembered as one who did much to advance public interests through self-sacrificing devotion to the general good.--At the Berlin Geographical Society, on Jan. 2, Herr L. Cremer read a report upon the journey undertaken by him in the summer of 1801 to Spitzbergen, with the object of exploring the coal leds there. The author in the course of his six weeks journey travelled along the west coast as far as Magdalena Bay, and found, besides the coal beds in Ice Fjord and Bell Sound, which were discovered by Swedish explorers, various other coalveins which appear to be well worth working.--In the second lecture of the Lecture Association of the University of Pennsylvania's course on "Early Religious Ide.as," on Feb. 28, Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson spoke as follows: "The primitive animism of the men of the age of stone always remained at the foundation of the religion of Egypt, and continued to develop' its superstitious practices, whilst the national faith had assumed an ever-growing metaphysical character. At the opening of history the Egyptians had..

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United States

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August 2012

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August 2012

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246 x 189 x 13mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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244

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978-1-236-23152-9

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9781236231529

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1-236-23152-X



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