Excerpt from The American Journal of Science and Arts, Vol. 33 The cause assigned for this direction of comets' trains, by Pingre, namely, the resistance of the ether, appears not to have found much favour in the minds of his successors; consequently we find, in gen eral, the expression employed, namely, impulsion of the sun's rays, to denote both the agent and the manner of that agent's ao tion, in producing this result. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The American Journal of Science and Arts, Vol. 28 The rock is gray puddingstone, and red sandstone in strata, rising a little towards the west. Then the country becomes Open on the north of the river, but mountains appear on the south, and probably continue on in that direction, till they join the Rocky Mountains at the place where they were seen by Major Long. Snow was seen in the higher parts of these mountains, at this time, being the middle of June. The river tending S. W. We soon crossed it, and continued our journey about west, most of the time along a branch of the Platte. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The American Journal of Science and Arts, Vol. 28: November 1859 II. Notice of New Localities, and interesting varieties of Mine rals, in the Lake Superior region; supplementary to the chapter on this subject, in Part II. Of the Report of Foster and Whitney; by J. D. Warmer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The American Journal of Science and Arts, Vol. 100: July, September and November, 1870 In the experiments °ust detailed the highest average sensitive ness of the eye is o y rim while as before shown in practical use the average difference from the mean is less than 35 3 of the whole. This higher degree of accuracy results naturally from the mode in which the com ensations are made, (alternately by approach and recession, ) an the fact that the compensations are t us interwoven, in such a manner as to eliminate errors intro duced by the slightly varying sensibility of the eye. Experiments on the amount of light transmitted by plates of glass at a perpendicular incidence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The American Journal of Science and Arts, Vol. 105: January to June, 1873 The two largest specimens, dredged in 28 fathoms, east of Grand Menan, by the writer, measured 5 inches across the disk and tentacles, but their bodies were mutilated. Entire ones of much smaller size were dredged by Dr. Packard and Ir. Cooke in 110 and 150 fathoms, soft mud, near St. George's Bank. The largest of these was 8 inches long, and like other species of the genus, inhabited a thick, tough, felt-like, muddy tube. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The American Journal of Science and Arts, Vol. 93: Nos. 127, 128, 129; January, March, May, 1867 XVIII. Remarks on the Cretaceous rocks of the West known as No. I, or the Dakota Group; by F. V. Hayden. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The American Journal of Science and Arts, Vol. 113: January to June, 1877 The accompanying Chart, Plate II, shows the isobaric curves for the same date as the temperature curves of Plate I. We perceive that throughout the entire United States, with the exception of the Pacific coast and the vicinity of the Gulf of Mexico, the pressure of the atmosphere was less than 30 inches; and in Minnesota the pressure was This barometric minimum would lead us to look for southerl winds through out the valley of the Mississippi. The actua direction of the winds observed is shown by arrows on Chart I. The following table shows the number of stations at which the wind blew from each of the eight principal points of the compass. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.