The Journal Of The Quekett Microscopical Club V 01

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ISBN 13 : 9781332303274
Total Pages : 482 pages
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Download or read book The Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club, Vol. 1 The paper which I have now the honour to read before this audience is the outcome of a discovery, furnished by accident, which I was fortunate enough to make about two years ago, and to which I attach some importance, having strong reasons for believing it to be original. A series of observations and experiments, resulting from this discovery, have led to the accumulation of a number of facts which I consider to be of sufficient interest to justify the desire to make them more generally known. The discovery consists in the detection of fluid cavities in a fragment of material which is undoubtedly of meteoric origin; at least, it was obtained under conditions which admit of no other explanation, as I will immediately proceed to show. On the 19th of March, 1879, early in the morning, a shepherd, occupied with the erection of a pen in a field near Braunfels, a small town in the Rhine Province, Germany, was startled by a peculiar noise in the air above him, which he describes as a series of detonations, following each other in rapid succession; the whole being accompanied by a violent hissing. According to his narration, the whole phenomenon, which did not occupy more than about three seconds, bore a great resemblance to a clap of thunder, followed by a flash of lightning. There was, however, a clear, though not quite cloudless sky, and not the least indication of a thunderstorm observable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.