he tossed a paper toward every front door, and housewives came down to their steps to pick them up and read what their neighbors had been doing.

The following week, I read in the Sunday paper that the students of Russia begin European and Asian languages in the seventh grade.

When directions read `` sl a marker on needle '', put a small safety pin, paper clip, or commercial ring marker on needle.

Beat writer William Burroughs read a paper by Richard Evans Schultes on the subject and sought out yagé in the early 1950s while traveling through South America in the hopes that it could relieve or cure opiate addiction ( see The Yage Letters ).

The growth in the number of published literature makes it virtually impossible to read every paper, resulting in disjointed subfields of research.

It was introduced by Massee because, as a female, Potter could not attend proceedings or read her paper.

In Sweden, Codd's paper was also read and Mimer SQL was developed from the mid-70s at Uppsala University.

* 1684 – Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.

( Davy's invention had been preceded by that of William Reid Clanny, an Irish doctor at Bishopwearmouth, who had also read a paper to the Royal Society in May 1813.

Unlike conventional backlit flat panel displays which emit light, electronic paper displays reflect light like ordinary paper, making it more comfortable to read, and the surface has a wider viewing angle than conventional displays.

Maynard Smith mathematically formalised a verbal argument made by Price, which he read while peer-reviewing Price's paper.

Ken Thompson's versions of qed were the first to implement regular expressions, an idea that had previously been formalized in a mathematical paper, which Ken Thompson had read.

They soon became good at being able to hold the paper tape up to the light and read back the codes.

The Phenomenon of Ethnophyletism in Recent Years, a paper read at the International Congress of Canon Law, 2001, ( Ecumenical Patriarchate website )

This paper was sold much more cheaply than most others, and was intended for ordinary people to read.

) Since the paper had been read in front of his daughters and colleagues, Cantor perceived himself as having been publicly humiliated.

The design was exhibited at the Exhibition of Decorative Arts in the autumn of 1884, and on 30 March 1885 Eiffel read a paper on the project to the Société des Ingiénieurs Civils.

This was the first paper to be read to the new Physical Society of London ( now the Institute of Physics ) and appears on page one of volume one of their Proceedings.

Others have seen this both as real and as one of the society's main strengths: a paper read at the Science Museum in London in 1963 claimed that " of all the provincial philosophical societies it was the most important, perhaps because it was not merely provincial.

The participants drew slips of paper to determine their roles, but unknown to the subject, both slips said " teacher ", and the actor claimed to have the slip that read " learner ", thus guaranteeing that the participant would always be the " teacher ".

He described these principles in a two-part paper, Experiments on Plant Hybridization, that he read to the Natural History Society of Brno on February 8 and March 8, 1865, and which was published in 1866.

The exact nature of the " re-discovery " has been somewhat debated: De Vries published first on the subject, mentioning Mendel in a footnote, while Correns pointed out Mendel's priority after having read De Vries's paper and realizing that he himself did not have priority.

It is not unusual for paper cards to become bent quickly, as players often read their " hole " cards by peeking at the corner rather than lifting the card.

PAL-8 assembly language source code was often stored on paper tape, read into memory, and saved to paper tape.

Rebuffed by William Thiselton-Dyer, the Director at Kew, because of her gender and her amateur status, Beatrix wrote up her conclusions and submitted a paper On the Germination of the Spores of the Agaricineae to the Linnean Society in 1897.

His penultimate enthusiasm was with the genitalia of butterflies about which he published a paper in the Transactions of the Linnean Society But before his death he returned to rotifera, much of his research appearing in a two-volume study with another zoologist, C. T.

Lyell and Hooker agreed that a joint paper should be presented at the Linnean Society, and on 1 July 1858, the papers entitled On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties ; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection, by Wallace and Darwin respectively, were read out but drew little reaction.

In a largely overlooked passage from his famous 1858 paper to the Linnean Society ( which led Darwin to publish On the Origin of Species ) Alfred Russel Wallace says of the evolutionary principle:

In early 1809 he read his paper called On the natural order of plants called Proteaceae to the Linnean Society of London.

* 1857 – Philip Sclater presents his paper ( published in 1858 ) On the General Geographical Distribution of the Members of the Class Aves to the Linnean Society setting up six zoological regions which he called the Palaearctic, Aethiopian, Indian, Australasian, Nearctic and Neotropical.

When Darwin received Alfred Russel Wallace's paper which described natural selection, Hooker and Charles Lyell arranged for a joint reading of papers by Darwin and Wallace to the Linnean Society.

In 1858, Sclater published a paper in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, setting up six zoological regions which he called the Palaearctic, Aethiopian, Indian, Australasian, Nearctic and Neotropical.

Lyell and Hooker had decided on a joint publication at the Linnean Society of London of Wallace's paper together with an extract from Darwin's essay and his letter to Asa Gray, The last meeting of the society before the summer recess had been postponed following the death of former president the botanist Robert Brown on 10 June 1858, and was to be held on 1 July.

At first they stayed in the King's Hotel, Shanklin, and on 30 July Darwin began writing an " abstract " of his book on Natural Selection, planning a short paper in response to Hooker's urging to publish a scientific paper in the Linnean journal.

The paper, consisting of the letter and papers, was published in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London.

Shortly after his return to England he read a paper on his theory of mimicry at a meeting of the Linnean Society of London on the 21st of November 1861, which was then published in 1862 as ' Contributions to an Insect Fauna of the Amazon Valley ' in the Transactions of the Linnaean Society.

He had contributed a few papers on botanical subjects to German periodicals, and in 1852 sent a paper to the Linnean Society of London on " The Flora of South Australia ", so he would have been well known in botanical circles.

Howard had an earlier interest in botany, presenting a paper ' Account of a Microscopical Investigation of several Species of Pollen, ...' that was published in the Linnean Society's Transactions for 1802, but wrote to Goethe that his passion was for meteorology.

Lyell and Hooker agreed on a joint paper to be presented at the Linnean Society – Lyell, Hooker and Darwin were all fellows of the society and council members, and Hooker had been closely involved in reviving the fortunes of the society and running its journal.

Alfred Newton, who held the chair in Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge from 1866 to 1907, wrote this: " I sat up late that night to read it Linnean Society paper ; and never shall I forget the impression it made upon me.

By 13 September his paper had grown to a 118 page monograph, published by the Linnean Society.