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Page xxx - The History of Modern Music, a Course of Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. By John Hullah.
Page ix - Payment), or Sixty Guineas in lieu of all payments. Members are admitted to ALL Lectures delivered in the Institution, to the Libraries, aud to the weekly evening meetings.
Page vi - Condcn.'ibility of many Gases, — the science of Magneto-Electricity, — the twofold Magnetism of Matter, comprehending all known substances, — the Magnetism of Gases, and the transmission of Heat through...
Page xxxiii - Descriptive Catalogue of the Portraits in the possession of the Royal Society.
Page viii - Meetings is to bring together men of science and literature, and to afford opportunities of communicating, by Discourses in the Theatre, either new views or new applications of known truths, and of demonstrating by experiment, and familiarizing by description, new results which have been recently recorded in the Scientific Memoirs of Philosophical Societies.
Page xxxi - HENRY FA PRATT, MD, MRCP THE GENEALOGY OF CREATION, newly Translated from the Unpointed Hebrew Text of the Book of Genesis, showing the General Scientific Accuracy of the Cosmogony of Moses and the Philosophy of Creation. 8vo. cloth, 14s.
Page viii - Languages, are regularly provided. A CIRCULATING LIBRARY is subscribed to, in order to afford the Members an opportunity of seeing the Newest Books as soon as published.
Page ix - Meetings ; they may also introduce by tickets two Friends to each of the Weekly Evening Meetings; and their Families have the privilege of attending the Lectures at a Reduced Charge : And for every additional Subscription of Twenty Guineas at one time, or Three Guineas per Annum, each Member is entitled to introduce, personally, or by a written Order, one Visitor to each of the Public Lectures.
Page vi - To promote scientific and literary research. 2. To teach the principles of inductive and experimental science. 3. To exhibit the application of these principles to the various arts of life ; and 4. To afford opportunities for study.