The Annual of Scientific Discovery, 1860: Or Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Annual of Scientific Discovery, 1860: Or Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art

One of the most interesting of recent contributions to Chemical Science, is a Memoir by the well-known Swiss Chemist, Schonbein, On the result of twenty years study of oxygen. The principal points which he desires to establish are as follows: He recognizes the existence of oxygen in three conditions. One, ordinary oxygen, that which we respire from the atmosphere; the two other kinds are two forms of ozone, which bear the same relation to each other that the two forms of electricity possess. In fact, says Schonbein, we form ordinary oxygen when we bring these two kinds of ozone together; and, on the other hand, ordinary oxygen is destroyed when, by any given chemical action, one of these two allotropic modifications that compose it is removed.

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The thirteenth meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science was held at Springfield, Mass., August 3 - 9, 1859 - Prof. Stephen Alexander, of Princeton, N. J., in the chair. The attendance of members was large, and the meetings harmonious and interesting. The whole number of papers registered for presentation was 108.

The following gentlemen were elected officers for the ensuing year: President, Isaac Lea, of Philadelphia; Vice President, Dr. B. A. Gould, jr., of Cambridge; Secretary, Prof. Joseph LeConte, of South Carolina; Treasurer, Dr. A. L. Elwyn, of Philadelphia.

The Standing Committee recommended that a Winter Session be held in some Southern city in the winter of 1860-1.

A new expedition, by Lieut. Gillies, to South America, for the more accurate determination of the Solar Parallax, was recommended, and a committee of seven appointed to confer with him, and further the enterprise.

The Association adjourned to meet in Newport, R. I., August 1st, 1860.

The twenty-ninth annual meeting of the British Association for the Promotion of Science, was held at Aberdeen, Scotland, September 1859 - Prince Albert in the chair. The attendance on the part of the members and the public was unusually large, and the communications numerous and important.

The meeting for 1860 was appointed to be held in Oxford, Lord Worthlesley being the President elect

From the report of the Council, we learn that the difficulties which have hitherto presented themselves in the way of a daily photographic record of the sun's disk, have been almost entirely surmounted.

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