The Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Volumes 13 à 14Royal Astronomical Society of Canada., 1919 List of officers and members for 1909, 1914, 1919, 1931, separately paged are included in v. 2, 8, 13, 25, respectively. |
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... Dominion Astronomical Observatory , Ottawa SIR FREDERIC STUPART Director of the Meteorological Service of Canada , Toronto J. S. PLASKETT Director of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory Victoria , B.C. PUBLISHED MONTHLY January ...
... Dominion Astronomical Observatory , Ottawa SIR FREDERIC STUPART Director of the Meteorological Service of Canada , Toronto J. S. PLASKETT Director of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory Victoria , B.C. PUBLISHED MONTHLY January ...
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... Dominion of Canada , on July 20 , 1871 . One of the conditions upon which British Columbia entered the Dominion was the speedy construction of a trans - continental railway , and in this connection , by the Imperial Order in Council of ...
... Dominion of Canada , on July 20 , 1871 . One of the conditions upon which British Columbia entered the Dominion was the speedy construction of a trans - continental railway , and in this connection , by the Imperial Order in Council of ...
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... Dominion Lands in the Northwest , but also in other parts of Canada for cartograph- ical and other purposes . It was essential that the longitude of Winnipeg be well estab- lished by connection with the east ( Harvard ) , as it was to ...
... Dominion Lands in the Northwest , but also in other parts of Canada for cartograph- ical and other purposes . It was essential that the longitude of Winnipeg be well estab- lished by connection with the east ( Harvard ) , as it was to ...
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... combined the two with an angle of 150 ° between the two wings . to which we agreed , and this form the Observatory has . To Warner & Swasey , of Cleveland , was awarded The Dominion Astronomical Observatory at Ottawa 11.
... combined the two with an angle of 150 ° between the two wings . to which we agreed , and this form the Observatory has . To Warner & Swasey , of Cleveland , was awarded The Dominion Astronomical Observatory at Ottawa 11.
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... Dominion Observatory , and as the sole justification for public expendi ture is resulting public benefit , the following remarks upon the object of the observatory , with special reference to its utility , are submitted . 1. Primarily ...
... Dominion Observatory , and as the sole justification for public expendi ture is resulting public benefit , the following remarks upon the object of the observatory , with special reference to its utility , are submitted . 1. Primarily ...
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Page 361 - Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food; but God has given us wit, and flavour, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to " charm his pained steps over the burning marie.
Page 345 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business.* he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
Page 362 - No competent thinker, with the whole of the available evidence before him, can now, it is safe to say, maintain any single nebula to be a star system of co-ordinate rank with the Milky Way.
Page 65 - they do, according to their manner, worship the hosts of heaven, and believe particular constellations rule natural causes. For such they have names, and sing and dance to gain the favour of the Pleiades (MormodellicK), the constellation worshipped by one body as the giver of rain; but if it should be deferred, instead of blessings curses are apt to be bestowed upon it.
Page 362 - Regions, in which tho' visibly luminous spaces, no one star or particular constituent body can possibly be distinguished; those in all likelihood may be external creation, bordering upon the known one, too remote for even our telescopes to reach.
Page 67 - ... than in the ripening of the year, which was regarded as a kind of annual acknowledgment to the gods. When the prayers were finished at the marae, and the banquet ended, a usage prevailed much resembling the popish custom of mass for souls in purgatory. Each individual returned to his home, or to his family marae, there to offer special prayers for the spirits of departed relatives...
Page 59 - This startling fact at once drew my attention to the question, How was this uniformity in the time of observance preserved, not only in far distant quarters of the globe, but also through that vast lapse of time since the Peruvian and the Indo-European first inherited this primeval festival from a common source?
Page 83 - FOR all we have and are, For all our children's fate, Stand up and take the war, The Hun is at the gate! Our world has passed away, In wantonness o'erthrown. There is nothing left to-day But steel and fire and stone! Though all we knew depart, The old Commandments stand: — ' In courage keep your heart, In strength lift up your hand.
Page 103 - A Solemnity was kept, says he, on the Eve of " the first of November as a Thanksgiving for the " safe -Ingathering of the Produce of the Fields. " This I am told, but have not seen it, is observed . '* in Buchan, and other Countries, by having Hal" low-Eve-Fires kindled on some rising Ground.
Page 466 - What has nature to do with the coordinate systems that we propose and with their motions? Although it may be necessary for our descriptions of nature to employ systems of coordinates that we have selected arbitrarily, the choice should not be limited in any way so far as their state of motion is concerned. (General theory of relativity.) The application of this general theory of relativity was found to be in conflict with a well-known experiment, according to which it appeared that the weight and...