Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Containing papers of a Biological character, Volume 79Royal Society and sold, 1907 - Biology Publishes refereed research papers in all aspects of the biological sciences. As a fast track journal, it specialises in the rapid delivery of the latest research to the scientific community. |
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Page 91 - Rowland and other experimentalists on the specific heat of water, and the mechanical equivalent of heat, had shown that grave uncertainties affected the value of this most fundamental physical constant, which could not be removed satisfactorily without a complete investigation of the variation of the specific heat of water between 0° and 100° C. Professor Callendar devised a continuous electrical method of attacking this problem, possessing many important advantages as compared with older methods....
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Page 200 - ... and little or no attempt has been made at determining the differences ; this is mainly due to the fact that most of the works on tropical fresh-water Algse are the outcome of casual, and on the whole, probably very unrepresentative collections by botanical travellers whose main interest lay in other directions. No one, as far as I am aware, has * A large part of the expenses of the present investigation were covered by a grant from the Government Grant Committee of the Royal Society, to whom...
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