Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Miss Lane and Mr. W. K. Murray deserve special mention for their good work...
...accounts of experiments mention is made of Crooke's tube. As the lecturer showed, it is nothing more than a large receiver of air from which the air can be exhausted. In order to get the rays, however, you must push the exhaustion only to a certain point. Now instead of using the 10,000 cells already mentioned to produce the pale blue flame, a Ruhmkoff coil is introduced, which makes it possible to get a high electro-motive force...
...thinks could wisely be given in the upper grades of good, secondary schools. He does not discuss this question at any length, but the recommendation in itself is of no little interest and will, we believe, carry considerable weight. The secondary schools are brought up again in the mention of a revision of entrance requirements now under consideration by the Faculty, and in the recommendation of a further lowering of the average age of admission...
...South America. The Dutch had settled to a considerable extent in Guiana, and, when the independence of Holland was acknowledged in the above treaty Holland was allowed to keep her possessions. Now the people of Venezuela point to this treaty with considerable confidence. But in reality no definite mention of what these possessions were is made in the treaty of Munster...
...final arrangements after the Napoleonic wars the King of the Netherlands agreed to give over the territory about the Essequibo River to the possession of England. No mention of the boundaries was made until in 1840 there arose a dispute. A few months later the British government sent out to have a boundary surveyed. Lord Aberdeen, who commissioned the survey, was anxious to have natural boundaries. Schomburgk, the explorer, followed the Barina River farther than it had seemed to extend before. By this survey considerable more territory was included as British possessions...