 I chanced at that period to meet him for the first time on board a steamboat on the way from New York to New Haven. A stranger accosted me, and modestly asked leave to make a few inquiries respecting some observations I had recently published in the American...  Proceedings - Page 25by American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1858Full view - About this book
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1858 - 972 pages
...in the papers of that iliiy :i scries of articles to show that tho roiid eonld not he supported nt a less rate than two cents per mile. These views met...his theory of the laws of our Atlantic gales, at the name time stating the leading facts on which his conclusions were founded. This doctrine was quite... | |
 | 1857 - 956 pages
...first'time on board a steamboat on the way from New York to New Haven. A stranger accosted me, ami modestly asked leave to make a few inquiries respecting...that the humble inquirer was himself a proficient ¡a meteorology. In the course of the conversation, he incidentally brought out hi« theory of the... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1857 - 86 pages
...meet him for the first time on board a steamboat on the way from New York to New Haven. A stranger accosted me, and modestly asked leave to make a few...of Science on the subject of Hailstorms. I was soon made sensible that the humble inquirer was himself a proficient in meteorology. In the course of the... | |
 | 1857 - 536 pages
...meet him for the first time on board a steamboat on the way from New York to New Haven. A stranger accosted me, and modestly asked leave to make a few...of Science on the subject of Hailstorms. I was soon made sensible that the humble inquirer was himself a proficient in meteorology. la the course of the... | |
 | 1857 - 532 pages
...meet him for the first time on board a steamboat on the way from New York to New Haven. A stranger accosted me, and modestly asked leave to make a few...Journal of Science on the subject of Hailstorms. I was sooi> made sensible that the humble inquirer was himself a proficient in meteorology. In the course... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1857 - 880 pages
...meet him for tbo first time on board a steamboat on the way from New York to New Haven. A stranger accosted me, and modestly asked leave to make a few...the American Journal of Science on the subject of haili-torms. I was soon sensible that the humble inquirer was himself a proficient iu meteorology.... | |
 | 1858 - 894 pages
...the first time on board a steamboat on the way from New York to New liaren. A stranger accosted nie, and modestly asked leave to make a few inquiries respecting...the American Journal of Science on the subject of hailvtorms. I was soon sensible that the humble inquirer was himself a proficient in meteorology. In... | |
 | William Jay Youmans - 1897 - 902 pages
...recently published in the American Journal of Science on the subject of hailstorms. I was soon made sensible that the humble inquirer was himself a proficient...theory of the laws of our Atlantic gales, at the same timo stating the facts on which his conclusions were founded. This doctrine was quite new to me, but... | |
 | 1897 - 896 pages
...meet him for the first time on board a steamboat on the way from New York to New Haven. A stranger accosted me, and modestly asked leave to make a few...of Science on the subject of hailstorms. I was soon made sensible that the humble inquirer was himself a proficient in meteorology. In the course of the... | |
 | William Jay Youmans - 1897 - 900 pages
...meet him for the first time on board a steamboat on the way from New York to New Haven. A stranger accosted me, and modestly asked leave to make a few...of Science on the subject of hailstorms. I was soon made sensible that the humble inquirer was himself a proficient in meteorology. In the course of the... | |
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