Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Том 17J. Hughes, Printer, 1885 The proceedings or notices of the member institutes of the society form part of the section "Proceedings" in each volume; lists of members are included in v. 1-41, 43-60, 64- |
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Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Том 38 New Zealand Institute Повний перегляд - 1906 |
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Сторінка 369 - Have kindled beacons in the skies; and th" old And crazy Earth has had her shaking fits More frequent, and foregone her usual rest. Is it a time to wrangle, when the props And pillars of our planet seem to fail, And Nature \ with a dim and sickly eye To wait the close of all...
Сторінка 369 - July 2Oth inclusive, during which period the wind varied to every quarter without making any alteration in the air. The sun, at noon, looked as blank as a clouded moon, and shed a rust-coloured ferruginous light on the ground, and floors of rooms ; but was particularly lurid and blood-coloured at rising and setting. All the time the heat was so intense that butchers...
Сторінка 448 - ... as twenty in number. The bird does not sit upon the eggs, but leaves them to be hatched by the heat of the sun. The young birds are fully fledged when they emerge from the egg, and take care of themselves without any assistance from the parent bird.
Сторінка 392 - Travellers found it on the summit of the Alps. Abundant rains in June and July and most violent winds did not dissipate it ; and in some places it was so dense that the sun could not be seen until it had attained an altitude of 12°, and throughout the daytime it was red, and so dull that it might be looked at with the naked eye. The fog diffused a disagreeable odour, and the humidity ranged from 57 to 68, while in ordinary fog it is 100. It had a phosphorescent appearance, and the light at midnight...
Сторінка xxv - Saigon, from San Francisco, or from some other quarter. Eluding our cruisers, and appearing suddenly before Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, or in Moreton Bay, it might capture the merchant vessels lying in the harbours, intercept any of the numerous vessels conveying valuable shipments of gold, or under threat of bombardment, or after actually firing into one of the large towns, demand and obtain a payment of many millions of money.
Сторінка 368 - THE summer of the year 1783 was an amazing and portentous one, and full of horrible phenomena ; for, besides the alarming meteors and tremendous thunder-storms that affrighted and distressed the different counties of this kingdom, the peculiar haze, or smoky fog, that prevailed for many weeks in this island, and in every part of Europe, and even beyond its limits, was a most extraordinary appearance, unlike anything known within the memory of man.
Сторінка 392 - ... dissipate it ; and in some places it was so dense that the sun could not be seen until it had attained an altitude of 12° ; and throughout the day-time it was red and so dull that it might be looked at with the naked eye. The fog diffused a disagreeable odour, and the humidity ranged from 57 to 68, while in an ordinary fog it is 100. It had a phosphorescent appearance, and the light at midnight was compared to that of full moon.
Сторінка 49 - ... apophysis from its extremity, on the outer side ; the digital joint is oval, convex and hairy externally...
Сторінка 369 - The country people began to look with a superstitious awe at the red, lowering aspect of the sun ; and indeed there was reason for the most enlightened person to be apprehensive, for all the while Calabria and part of the isle of Sicily were torn and convulsed with earthquakes, and about that juncture a volcano sprang out of the sea on the coast of Norway.
Сторінка 447 - To give to London a college for the higher technical education, in which advanced instruction shall be provided in those kinds of knowledge which bear upon the different branches of industry, whether manufactures or arts. The main purpose of the instruction given is to point out the application of the different branches of science to various manufacturing industries.