REPORT OF THE NINETEENTH MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE
Published by John Murray
in 1850
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REPORT OF THE NINETEENTH MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE
Stock no. 985352
1850.
Hardback.
Slightly better than good condition.
Includes: Luminous Meteors; Nebuli; Influence of Carbonic Acid Gas on the Health of Plants; The Heat of Combination; Vitality of Seeds; Railway Bar Corrosion; Electrical Observations. Pages: xlvi, 144, 11, 6, plates + 8. Original paper boards. Pages uncut. 10 plates, 5 folding. Boards marked and stained. Backstrip missing and thus front joint fragile. Text block browned. Top edge of pages uncut. Contents lightly browned but generally clean. Hinges pulled but binding holding.
Front cover
Contents
- A Catalogue of Observations of Luminous Meteors; continued from the Reports of the British Association for 1848.
- Notice of Nebulae lately observed in the Six-feet Reflector
- On the Influence of Carbonic Acid Gas on the health of Plants, especially of thos allied to the Fossil remains found in the Coal Formation.
- Report on the Heat of Combination
- Report of the Committee on the Registration of the Periodic Phenomena of Plants and Animals
- Ninth Report of a committee appointed to continue their Experiments on the Growth and Vitality of Seeds
- Report concerning the Observatory of the British Association at Kew, from Aug. 9, 1848 to Sept. 12, 1849
- Report on the Experimental Inquiry conducted at the request fo the British Association, on Railway Bar Corrosion
- Report on the Discussion of the Electrical Observations at Kew