{"title":"On the electrolytic estimation of cadmium","authors":"E. F. Smith","doi":"10.2475/ajs.s3-17.97.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2475/ajs.s3-17.97.60","url":null,"abstract":"IN a previous article (vol. xvi, p. 411, Nov., 1878), the writer gave a short account of the geological horizon and accompanying fossils of the J UJ'assic Dinosaurs recently found in the Rocky Mountains j alld also stated the more important characters of the gigantic ~'auropoda, as illustrated mainly by the genus j[01\"OSa'1J,r'1J,8. In the present communication, this group is further elucidated by a comparison of' the structure in some other American genera, especially Apatosaurus and Allantosa1.J.1'us, to whieh belong the largest reptiles hitherto discovered. The carnivorous enemies of' tbis group are also bl'iefly desrribed. The pelvis of Dinosaurians, hitberto so little known, is illustrated by new examples, and by the corresponding parts in some recent birds.","PeriodicalId":7651,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Science and Arts","volume":"18 1","pages":"60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1879-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89468052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the use of the tasimeter for measuring the heat of the stars and of the Sun's corona","authors":"T. Edison","doi":"10.2475/AJS.S3-17.97.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2475/AJS.S3-17.97.52","url":null,"abstract":"Dear Sir: The instrument which I used at Rawlins, Wyoming, during the solar eclipse of July 29,1878, for the purpose of measuring tile heat of the 8un's corona, was devised by me a short time only before that event; and the time was insufficient to allow me to give it as thorough a test as was desirable to ascertain its full capabilities and characteristics. This instrument I have named the tasimeter, from the Greek words ramr;, extemlion, and /lcrpo)), measure, because primarily the effect is to measnre extension of anv kind. The form of instrument which I Llsed is shown in the ;nnexed wood-cut (fig. 1.)","PeriodicalId":7651,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Science and Arts","volume":"26 1","pages":"52 - 54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1879-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74062999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brightness and stellar magnitude of the third Saturnian satellite, Tethys","authors":"E. S. Holden","doi":"10.2475/ajs.s3-17.97.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2475/ajs.s3-17.97.49","url":null,"abstract":"At about 8\" 30m as I had just completed the measure of the distance of Enceladu8, the sky became covered with fl'ying clouds, which continually passed ovel' Saturn, partially obscuring the planet and dimming the light of the Ratellites. The clouds were probably formiIlg and disappearing conswntly, as the air was full of moisture, the difference of the wet and drv bulb thermometers being less than 10 F. .\" I had noticed before beginning to observe that large portions of the sky were alternately obscured and clear, evideutly owing to thin clouds formed on the spot. The disappearance or dimming was gradual and it seemed suited to a photometric experiment similar to that tried by Bond on the nebula of Urion during twilight, when the order of the appearance of the details, with the times, were noted.* Accordingly, Mr. Anderson, assistant, watched Saturn with the naked eye, looking along the telescope as a guide at the planet, while I watched the appearance of the satellites throuO'h the eq uatorial. The interior of the dome was perfectly dark.'\" As a cloud grad nally (and as nearly as could be j udO'ed uniformly) darkened Saturn as seen in the telescope, tht appearances were carefull'y noted and when the planet disappeared to the naked e'ye Anderson called\" now.\" At this instant I endeavored to note the visibility of the satellites. Enceladus, which was faint at the best, always disappeared before this instant. In foul' (tolerabl'y satisfactory) experiments it was found that Tethys disappeared in the telescope at the same instant that Saturn did to the naked eye. In several reappearances I found that Dione reappeared in the telescope * Annals Harv. 0011. Obs., vol. v, p. 164, etc.","PeriodicalId":7651,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Science and Arts","volume":"109 1","pages":"49 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1879-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81221043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Description of a paper dome for the astronomical observatory","authors":"D. Greene","doi":"10.2475/AJS.S3-17.97.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2475/AJS.S3-17.97.55","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7651,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Science and Arts","volume":"1 1","pages":"55 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1879-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77267632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contributions to meteorology; being results derived from an examination of the observations of the United States Signal Service, and from other sources","authors":"E. Loomis","doi":"10.2475/ajs.s3-17.97.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2475/ajs.s3-17.97.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7651,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Science and Arts","volume":"2 1","pages":"1 - 25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1879-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85441036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discoveries of the United States Fish Commission; notices of fifty species of East Coast fishes, many of which are new to the fauna","authors":"G. B. Goode, T. H. Bean","doi":"10.2475/ajs.s3-17.97.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2475/ajs.s3-17.97.39","url":null,"abstract":"THE object of the present paper is to give a brief summary of the coast investigations of the United States Fish Oommission (Professor S. F. Baird, Oommissioner) since the publication of a similar paper in this Journal for December, 1877, pp. 470-478. Oertain species which should be mentioned here have not yet_been identified; these will be reserved for a future paper. Full descriptions of species and discussions of questions hinted at in these notices have appeared or will appear in the Proceedings of the United States National Museum.","PeriodicalId":7651,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Science and Arts","volume":"51 1","pages":"39 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1879-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78576307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Valley of the Minnesota River and of the Mississippi River to the junction of the Ohio; its origin considered","authors":"G. K. Warren","doi":"10.2475/AJS.S3-16.96.417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2475/AJS.S3-16.96.417","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7651,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Science and Arts","volume":"23 1","pages":"417 - 431"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1878-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78580558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the equilibrium of heterogeneous substances","authors":"J. Gibbs","doi":"10.2475/ajs.s3-16.96.441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2475/ajs.s3-16.96.441","url":null,"abstract":"Review of the article ''On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances'', which was published in ''Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences'', vol. 3 (1874-78), pp. 108-248 and 343-524.","PeriodicalId":7651,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Science and Arts","volume":"219 1","pages":"441 - 458"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1878-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76553112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Chinese official almanac","authors":"M. Harrington","doi":"10.2475/ajs.s3-16.96.472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2475/ajs.s3-16.96.472","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7651,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Science and Arts","volume":"6 1","pages":"472 - 476"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1878-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83561204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On some points in lithology","authors":"J. D. Dana","doi":"10.2475/ajs.s3-16.96.431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2475/ajs.s3-16.96.431","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7651,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Science and Arts","volume":"51 1","pages":"431 - 440"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1878-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74309862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}