Essays and addresses
By: by professors and lecturers of the Owens College, Manchester.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1874
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 560
Table of contents: title: Opening address. By the Duke of Devonshire.; title: I. On some relations of culture to practical life. By J. G. Greenwood.; title: II. Original research as a means of education. By H. E. Roscoe.; title: III. Solar physics. By B. Stewart.; title: IV. The distance of the sun from the earth. By T. H. Core.; title: V. The limits of our knowledge of the earth. By W. B. Dawkins.; title: VI. The use of steam. By O. Reynolds.; title: VII. Primeval vegetation in its relation to the doctrines of natural selection and evolution. By W. C. Williamson.; title: VIII. Science and medicine. By A. Gamgee.; title: IX. Some historical results of the science of language. By A. S. Wilkins.; title: X. The Talmud. By T. Theodores.; title: XI. Provençal poetry in old and modern times. By H. Breymann.; title: XII. The Judicature act of 1873 in its relation to the history of the judicial system in England. By J. Bryce.; title: XIII. The railways and the state. By W. S. Jevens.; title: XIV. The peace of Europe. By A. W. Ward.