Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- POPULAR LECTURES AND ADDRESSES
- PROTECTION OF VEGETATION FROM COLD
- THE “DOCTRINE OF UNIFORMITY” IN GEOLOGY BRIEFLY REFUTED
- ON GEOLOGICAL TIME
- APPENDIX.–ON THE OBSERVATIONS AND CALCULATIONS REQUIRED TO FIND THE TIDAL RETARDATION OF THE EARTH'S ROTATION
- OF GEOLOGICAL DYNAMICS
- PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS TO THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION, EDINBURGH, 1871
- PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS TO THE SOCIETY OF TELEGRAPH ENGINEERS, 1874
- REVIEW OF EVIDENCE REGARDING THE PHYSICAL CONDITION OF THE EARTH
- GEOLOGICAL CLIMATE
- THE INTERNAL CONDITION OF THE EARTH; AS TO TEMPERATURE, FLUIDITY, AND RIGIDITY
- POLAR ICE-CAPS AND THEIR INFLUENCE IN CHANGING SEA LEVELS
- ON THE RATE OF A CLOCK OR CHRONOMETER AS INFLUENCED BY THE MODE OF SUSPENSION
- ON A NEW ASTRONOMICAL CLOCK
- ON BEATS OF IMPERFECT HARMONIES
- ON THE ORIGIN AND TRANSFORMATION OF MOTIVE POWER
- ON THE SOURCES OF ENERGY IN NATURE AVAILABLE TO MAN FOR THE PRODUCTION OF MECHANICAL EFFECT
- ON THE DISSIPATION OF ENERGY
- THE BANGOR LABORATORIES
- PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES
- ADDRESS
- ISOPERIMETRICAL PROBLEMS
- INDEX
- Plate section
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- POPULAR LECTURES AND ADDRESSES
- PROTECTION OF VEGETATION FROM COLD
- THE “DOCTRINE OF UNIFORMITY” IN GEOLOGY BRIEFLY REFUTED
- ON GEOLOGICAL TIME
- APPENDIX.–ON THE OBSERVATIONS AND CALCULATIONS REQUIRED TO FIND THE TIDAL RETARDATION OF THE EARTH'S ROTATION
- OF GEOLOGICAL DYNAMICS
- PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS TO THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION, EDINBURGH, 1871
- PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS TO THE SOCIETY OF TELEGRAPH ENGINEERS, 1874
- REVIEW OF EVIDENCE REGARDING THE PHYSICAL CONDITION OF THE EARTH
- GEOLOGICAL CLIMATE
- THE INTERNAL CONDITION OF THE EARTH; AS TO TEMPERATURE, FLUIDITY, AND RIGIDITY
- POLAR ICE-CAPS AND THEIR INFLUENCE IN CHANGING SEA LEVELS
- ON THE RATE OF A CLOCK OR CHRONOMETER AS INFLUENCED BY THE MODE OF SUSPENSION
- ON A NEW ASTRONOMICAL CLOCK
- ON BEATS OF IMPERFECT HARMONIES
- ON THE ORIGIN AND TRANSFORMATION OF MOTIVE POWER
- ON THE SOURCES OF ENERGY IN NATURE AVAILABLE TO MAN FOR THE PRODUCTION OF MECHANICAL EFFECT
- ON THE DISSIPATION OF ENERGY
- THE BANGOR LABORATORIES
- PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES
- ADDRESS
- ISOPERIMETRICAL PROBLEMS
- INDEX
- Plate section
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- Popular Lectures and Addresses , pp. 502 - 557Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011First published in: 1894