 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1809 - 738 páginas
...more frequent examples, of persons of like rank and ability with lord Macelesfield, equally desirous of promoting this, as well as every other branch of...that tends to the honour and benefit of our country. Of Certain 'Shell-Fish,* Lodged in a large Stone brought from Motion Harbour. By James Parsons, MD,... | |
 | 1837 - 608 páginas
...with more frequent examples of persons of like rank and ability with your Lordship, equally desirous of promoting this, as well as every other branch of...country. ' But were the patrons of arts and sciences ever so numerous, the subject of my present letter is of such a nature, as must direct me to beg leave to... | |
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... there taken, as a most valuable criterion, whereby I may judge of the accuracy of those that are made at the Royal Observatory; and, as a lover of science, I cannot but wish that our nation abounded with more frequent examples of persons of like rank... 