Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 29

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Metcalf and Company, 1894
 

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Pagina 462 - HISTORY OF THE ROMANS UNDER THE EMPIRE. 8 vols. Crown 8vo., 35. 6d. each. THE FALL OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC: a Short History of the Last Century of the Commonwealth.
Pagina 428 - If I put on the cap and bells and made myself one of the court.fools of King Demos, it was less to make his majesty laugh than to win a passage to his royal ears for certain serious things which I had deeply at heart.
Pagina 429 - Longfellow as Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages and Literatures, and Professor of Belles Lettres in Harvard College.
Pagina 331 - Therefore each individual may properly be conceived as consisting of two parts, one of which is latent and only known to us by its effects on his posterity, while the other is patent, and constitutes the person manifest to our senses.
Pagina 460 - The Diploma of Honor was given him by the Universal Exhibition of Brussels ; a Gold Medal from that of Barcelona, and a Diploma of Honor from that at Melbourne. Other Medals and Diplomas were given which need not be mentioned in detail. 1888-92. Notes on Improvements applicable to his Inventions. 1894. WILLIAM WATSON. BENJAMIN JOWETT. BENJAMIN JOWETT, Master of Balliol College and Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford, died on October 1, 1893.
Pagina 35 - Agents. a-/3-Dichlorcrotonolactone is oxidized with even more difficulty than the corresponding dibromlactone. After boiling for several hours with eight times its weight of concentrated nitric acid (sp. gr. 1.42), a large part of the lactone remained unaltered, and could be recovered by distillation with steam. The aqueous solution was then evaporated to dryness on the water bath, and the crystalline residue treated with small quantities of cold water. Mucochloric acid was then left behind, which...
Pagina 332 - Through a great series of generations the germinal protoplasm retains its specific properties, dividing in every reproduction into an ontogenetic portion, out of which the individual is built up, and a phylogenetic portion which is reserved to form the reproductive material of the mature offspring. This reservation of the phylogenetic material I described as the continuity of the germ protoplasm." " Encapsuled in the ontogenetic material, the phylogenetic protoplasm is sheltered from external influences,...
Pagina 436 - Before the end of the sophomore year my various schemes had crystallized into a plan of writing the story of what was then known as the "Old French War...
Pagina 334 - And here the assumption to which we seem driven by the ensemble of the evidence, is, that sperm-cells and germ-cells are essentially nothing more than vehicles in which are contained small groups of the physiological units in a fit state for obeying their proclivity towards the structural arrangement of the species they belong to.
Pagina 333 - somatogenic ' characters cannot be transmitted, or, rather, that those who assert that they can be transmitted must furnish the requisite proofs. The somatogenic characters •not only include the effects of mutilation, but the changes which follow • Science, New York, VIII.

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