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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 54-55 
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE chief contents of this handsome volume are derived from the rough notes and sketches made by Capt. Oliver, some years ago, when a young subaltern of artillery. They show that, whether in Turania, Lemuria, or Columbia, he took notes of all the strange things he saw, and although many of his ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 56-56 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT 10.55 p.m. last night, I observed a very beautiful aurora borealis, consisting mainly of three beams, nearly vertical, and then parallel to the direction of the stars α and δ of the Great Bear. They moved slowly towards the east, and about 11.5 faded away. About 11 o'clock they were very ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 56-56 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE continuous spectrum of this comet, especially of the nucleus, is remarkably bright. I observed it on April 18 and May 6 and 15. There were at least three bright bands, and perhaps more. I believe the usual three were visible, but they were so indistinct that I did not observe their ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 57-59 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ALTHOUGH the existence of mankind in the dawn of civilisation at the Stone age, and using Palaeolithic tools is distinctly proved in Northern Africa and Algeria, the specimens discovered on the soil of Egypt are not so unequivocally Palaeolithic, although those published by Sir J. Lubbock approach ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 59-60 
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    Notes: [Auszug] TN NATURE (vol. xvi. p. 21) we drew attention to a "shaking" that was taking place among the "dry bones" of the mathematical text-books in common use in American colleges and schools, and upon the analysis we then furnished of a few works before us we ventured to predict a speedy awakening of ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 68-68 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE COMET.-On May 12 the comet was within naked-eye vision, and will nightly increase in brightness. Writing from Cuckfield on May 13 Mr. G. Knott says: "The sky was very clear here last night, and I found that I conld just see the comet with the naked eye, on knowing just where to look for it. I ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 29-29 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LIEUT. HOVGAARD, of the Danish Navy, was one of the most efficient members of Baron Nordenskjold's well-selected staff on board the Vega. When he returned from the remarkable voyage, he very naturally felt impelled to tell his countrymen how he had fared and what he had seen. This he has done in a ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 29-29 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A PAMPHLET of 16 pp., with a coloured diagram, the object of which is to show the fallacy of the measure of kinetic energy. It is an account of the old dispute originated by Leibnitz, and about seven pages are taken up with extracts from Whewell's " History of the Inductive Sciences" (vol. ii. pp. ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 29-30 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE letters on the existence of a voice in lizards, by M. Pascoe and S. P. Oliver, in NATURE, vol. xxv. pp. 32, 174, gave me much pleasure, being a confirmation of observations first made and published by myself in 1874, but doubted in different quarters. In my paper, “Zoologische Studien auf ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 31-31 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Dr. SIEMENS'S theory of the constitution of the sun implies that there is an absorption of solar rays constantly going on in space. If this is so, space cannot be perfectly transparent. An astronomer of the early part of the present century-I think it was Olbers-came to the fame ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 33-34 
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    Notes: [Auszug] FOR about eighteen months I "have been giving atten-*¦ tion to the nebula in Orion with two objects in view, first to ascertain whether any changes are taking place in that body by making a series of photographs to be compared in the future with a similar series; and second, to photograph the ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 44-44 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE formulse deduced by Guldberg and Waage in their general theory of action of mass have been recently applied, with satisfactory results, by R. Warder (Amer. Chem. Journ. iii. No. 5) to the case of sapomficatioii of ethylic acetate. W. Ostwald continues his work in the same field; he has recently ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 40-42 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE following telegram from the Special Correspondent of the Daily News with the Eclipse Expedition to Egypt, appears in Tuesday's issue:-" Sohag, Monday, 7.20 p.m.: Every facility has been granted to the Eclipse Expeditian by the Egyptian Government. The site chosen is close by the bank of the ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 46-48 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Zoological Society, May 2.-Prof. W. H. Flower, LL.D., F.R.S., president, in the chair.-Before commencing the usual proceedings, the president called attention to the fact that one of the communications made to the previous meeting was from the pen of Mr. Charles Darwin; and took the ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 8-8 
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    Notes: [Auszug] [MRS. KINGSFORD'S letter was forwarded to our correspondent in Geneva, who sends the following reply:—] In reply to Mrs. Kingsford's letter, I have the following remarks to offer:- 1. If Mrs. Kingsford is "perfectly acquainted" with the works of Prof. Schiff, she must know that there ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 8-8 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE above star, so called by Schmidt in the Astr. Nach., No. 2421, is now a striking object of 8 magnitude. On December 21, last year, it was certainly not over 12, and, probably, it was less. This appeared about its minimum, and its maximum seemed to have been attained on June 6, when it was 8 ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 13-13 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AN intended article, of which 4an announcement appeared in NATURE a few weeks back, on the topography of Mars as delineated for the second time by Prof. Schiaparelli at Milan during the opposition Sf 1879-80, ***""nas been anticipated and in "part superseded by information which has been received ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 16-18 
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    Notes: [Auszug] RARELY has so distinguished and representative an assembly been seen in Westminster Abbey as that which met to pay the last honours to Mr. Darwin, on Wednesday last week. The Abbey indeed was crowded. The character of the long line of distinguished men who followed the honoured remains to the ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 19-22 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE lecturer pointed out that the dangerous properties of dust with which he proposed to deal were altogether distinct from the subtle, invidious dangers of microscopic dust-motes which pervade the air-dangers the existence and nature of which had been fully revealed by the classical researches of ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 7-7 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is a neat little treatise on the conic sections, containing-what appears to be a novelty-a method of plane projection, to which the authors give the name of Focal Projection. The remarkable feature of the book is, that the authors, who are evidently well up in these curves, should not be ...
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    Nature 25 (1882), S. 601-602 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WITH your permission I should like to offer a few remarks upon the interesting paper of Dr. C. William Siemens on the “Conservation of Solar Energy,” published in NATURE (vol. xxv. p. 440). The main hypothesis upon which that paper is based, that of a fan-like action of the sun, is not ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 7-7 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is the complete record of the expedition sent out by private subscription, in 1878, under Lieut. Schwatka, to endeavour to find the records of the Franklin expedition, which were reported to be in possession of the Nechelli Eskimo. With the general results of the expedition, our readers have ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 7-7 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE of the 27th ult., in a note on a recent meeting of the Seismological Society of Japan, it is mentioned that the observations of Prof. Milne “as far as they have at present gone, show in a remarkable manner how a large mountain range absorbs earthquake energy.” It may be worth while to ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 8-9 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE very interesting lecture by Mr. Spottiswoode on the above subject incidentally throws light upon a phenomenon which probably has puzzled some other of your readers besides myself. When a somewhat weak current is passing between the knobs of a Becker-Voss electro-induction machine, its ...
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    Nature 25 (1882), S. 605-605 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the late Mr. Darwin's interesting contribution upon this subject (NATURE, vol. xxv. p. 529), mention is made of the fact that the newts in Mr. Norgate's aquarium “frequently have one foot caught by a small freshwater bivalve (Cyclas cornea?).” It is, perhaps, worth calling your readers' ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 18-18 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE PRESENT COMET.-The following orbit of the comet discovered by Mr. Wells on March 17 has been calculated by Mr. Hind from the Harvard College and Albany observations on March 17, and observations by Prof. Tacchini at the Collegio Romano in Rome on April 6 and 21; the small corrections were taken ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 22-22 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. HENRY ALLEYNE NICHOLSON has been appointed to the chair of Natural History in Aberdeen, vacant by the removal of Prof. Cossar Ewart to Edinburgh. DR. SORBY, F.R.S., has been elected president of Firth College, Sheffield. THE Nottingham University College Committee have appointed Mr. Wm, ...
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    Nature 25 (1882), S. 610-611 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ALL persons interested in the mystery that until quite recently hung over "the life-history of the eel, will find themselves under great obligations to W. Brown Goode for the very able and exhaustive account which he has quite recently published on this subject in the Bulletin of the United States ...
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    Nature 25 (1882), S. 597-601 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LIGHT as a Stimulus. - In l- The Power of Move ment " (p. 458) we observed the heliotropic curvature of a number of seedlings placed at 2, 4, 8,12, 16, and 20 feet from a lateral light, and we came to the conclusion from inspection that the difference in heliotropic effect was not proportional to ...
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    Nature 25 (1882), S. 603-603 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE two preceding letters by American men of science of well-known position, grant one of the three postulates upon which I grounded my solar plan, that of space filled with attenuated matter; they do not object to the second, and all-important one of the equatorial outflowing current; but they ...
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    Nature 25 (1882), S. 604-605 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHILE working at dry-plate photography in a ruby light, I noticed that when any light-coloured article, such as the hand, was rapidly moved, it appeared of a brilliant greenish-blue, in which blue predominated, while, when slowly moved, it appeared of the same colour as the other objects in the ...
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    Nature 25 (1882), S. 584-585 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THESE are days of rapid scientific progress, and the ¦*¦ great interest so recently excited by the application of electricity, in a new and startling way, to transmit information, has been almost eclipsed by the attention which its use for lighting and the transmission of power has attracted. ...
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    Nature 25 (1882), S. 589-590 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE International Fisheries Exhibition, which opened at Edinburgh on the 12th ult., and to which reference has been already made in the columns of NATURE, is likely to prove a complete success-not only commer* daily, but also as an exhibition of much that is interesting in the natural history of ...
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    Nature 25 (1882), S. 594-596 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Royal Society, March 30.-" On the Movement of Gas in ' Vacuum Discharges.3 " By William Spottiswoode, F.R.S., and J. Fletcher Moulton, F.R.S. In the preparation of tubes for our experiments, it was often noticed, that after the exhaustion had been carried to a certain degree, the passage ...
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    Nature 25 (1882), S. 551-552 
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    Notes: [Auszug] There has been a tendency of late among some of our mathematical writers to specialise their labours; thus, Dr. C. Taylor has confined his work chiefly, if not mainly, to the geometry of conies; and our present author, to the subject of determinants. This is, we think, a good practice. Mr. Muir is ...
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    Nature 25 (1882), S. 552-554 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE relation of temperature to the earliness of the season is too obvious to be overlooked, but methods of representing it numerically are of considerable interest. Since 1878 this has been done for about thirty stations in the United Kingdom by observations on the first appearance of a ...
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    Nature 25 (1882), S. 557-559 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE have received the following communication from a correspondent:- There are few Blue Books that better repay careful study than the admirable reports of the Science and Art Department. The Twenty-eighth Report has recently been issued, and is of exceptional interest. Its bulky appendices ...
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    Nature 25 (1882), S. 585-587 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ONE of the most interesting papers discussed at the recent meeting of the Institution of Naval Architects was on the Revision of the Tonnage Laws. The author, Mr. W. H. White, is, from his position as Chief Constructor at the Admiralty, as well as from his well-known attainments, a singularly ...
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    Nature 25 (1882), S. 590-593 
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    Notes: [Auszug] SIR H. COLE, K.C.B., late director of the South Kensington Museum and Inspector-General of the Science and Art Department, died on Tuesday night at his residence, Phil beach Gardens, Earl's Court. Sir Plenry was in his usual health until Monday last, v.hen he visited a photographer's and sat for ...
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    Nature 25 (1882), S. 527-528 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE succeeded, after many fruitless attempts, in discovering an indestructible material which can be substituted for lead, as the negative or oxygen-bearing plate of the Faure accumulators, without sacrificing any of the extraordinary good qnalities which that excellent form of secondary ...
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    Nature 25 (1882), S. 299-302 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. MACLEOD (Assistant Secretary, Education Department, Whitehall) having resigned, will be succeeded by Col. Donnelly, R.E., now Director of the Science Division, who, while retaining his present post, will, as Assistant Secretary of the Education Department, be the chief officer of the Science ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] COLONEL DONNELLY has-put into my hands information from which the following results have been obtained:- The information regarding the Nile has been derived from General Stone (Pacha), who has forwarded to the Science and Art Department a graphical representation exhibiting the height of the River ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I WAS much interested in reading Prof. Ball's lecture in NATURE, vol. xxv. p. 79, but failed to understand the following passage on p. 81:—“ The reaction of the earth tends to increase that distance, and to force the moon to revolve in an orbit which is continually getting larger and larger.” ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE lecturer pointed out, that as long as the chief practical use A of electricity was in telegraphy it was the quickness of action, rather than the ability to transmit large amounts of power to a distance, that formed the chief feature in the employment of electricity; but that in this exhibition ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE heartily congratulate the editor on his praiseworthy success in publishing-this important Record" of Zoological Literature f0jr:i88p before the termination of 1881. It is the first time, as the editor himself reminds us, that this;-event has taken place since 1870, and now we trust it will be ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN Centaurea Facea, the flower-heads of the same stem, as far as I have seen, are always of the same form, but different stems of the same locality often present astonishing difference in their flower-heads. In the most common and apparently original form the flower-heads consist of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS morning I noticed the first blossoms of the Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara), ordinarily considered an indication of the near approach of spring. For many years a generous rivalry has existed between myself and a friend (both travellers on the North Kent Railway, on the banks of which the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE two schemes for a tunnel beneath the Channel, J- on the comparative merits of which a Parliamentary Committee will probably take evidence in the course of the year, are based, like those which have preceded them, chiefly on geological considerations. The Weald of Kent and the Bas-Boulonnais, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PART II.-The Charging of the Cell IN NATURE (vol. xxv. p. 221) we directed attention principally to the local action that takes place on the negative plate of a Plante or Faure battery. We pointed out the close analogy between zinc coated with spongy copper, and lead coated with spongy peroxide, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THOMAS ROMNEY ROBINSON, D.D., F.R.S., ooo whose death we recorded in our last issue, was botn in Dublin on April 23, 1793. His abilities and genius seem to have been manifested at a very early age, and his first appearance as an author dates so far back as 1806. On that occasion his venture was ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE news of the death of Sir Wyville Thomson, on the loth instant, from the effects of paralysis, will be received with general1 regret. Sir Wyville was only in the 53rd year of his age. On the return of the Challenger, we gave so full an account of Sir Wyville's life and work (vol. xiv. p. 85) ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE learn that Dr. Huggins obtained a photograph of the spectrum of the great nebula in Orion on the yth inst., and that in addition to known lines, it shows a strong line in the ultra-violet. THE death is announced, at the early age of forty-six years, of Prof. A. Freire Marreco, who filled the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE French Ministry of Public Instruction has issued the Proces-verbaux of the International Conference on the approaching Transit of Venus, held at Paris from the 5th to the I3th of October last. Representatives of fourteen nationalities were present at the Conference, but regret was expressed ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE last work of the late Mr. H. C. Watson on the distribution of British plants was his "TopographicalBotany,"published in 1873-4, in which he traced the dispersion of each species through the 112 vice-counties of Britain which he adopted. Of this book only 100 copies were printed for private ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE immediate object of this research was to examine o*o various conditions connected with the transmission of electric currents through solutions of salts of copper, and to ascertain the influence of those conditions on the electro-chemical equivalent of copper, also to observe for any signs of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is a very much enlarged edition of a very excellent and pleasant book, the first edition of which appeared not quite eight years ago. The author asserts that there is as good fishing, in the angler's sense, of course, of this word, to be had in India as in England; and to prove it we have this ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE eloquent and exceedingly interesting lecture by Prof. Ball, F.R.S., under the above title, reported in your journal, has brought to my mind a short, far too much forgotten paper by Immanuel Kant. With your permission I will give a few extracts from this paper, which cannot but be ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] UNDER the above heading a paragraph appeared in NATURE, vol. xxv. p. 101, in which Mr. C. A. White, of Washington, states that certain species described by me in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 1881, pp. 558–560, from the great African Lake Tanganyika, “are without doubt, generically ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING the present winter months Jupiter will doubtless attract a large amount of attention from" the possessors of telescopes. Displaying a large and varied extent of detail clearly indicating that atmospheric phenomena of stupendous character are in progress on his surface, this planet at once ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ANXIOUS that popular scientific literature, especially that which deals with the Evolution-doctrine, should be strictly accurate in its facts, I would ask—in no unfriendly spirit—whether Mr. Grant Allen and Mr. Wallace have fully informed themselves upon each of the several positions taken in ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE no desire to constitute myself a champion of Mr. Ball's high tides, but I do not think that the testimony of the Coal-Measures, to which Mr. S. V. Wood calls attention, will decide much. These deposits are mainly of non-marine origin, the plants being terrestrial, and the prevailing ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR, DENNING'S interesting communications in NATURE (vol. xxv. pp. 223, 265) led me to consult my notes of observations of Jupiter made in the summer of 1878. I used a telescope of only 3⅜ inches aperture, but of exquisite definition, made by John Byrne, of New York. Under date of July 7, 1878, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] 1. THE Freshwater Medusa-Limnocodium Soiverbii o^ -reappeared in the lily-house tank in the Botanical Gardens, Regent's Park, during the summer of 1881, as the readers of NATURE were duly informed. In spite of the renewed opportunities for study thus afforded, the life-history of this interesting ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] II.-Edisoti' s Electric Light THE centre of attraction at the exhibition of electricity -oo in the Crystal Palace, formally opened on Saturday by the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, will unquestionably be the show of Mr. Edison. His electric light in the Entertainment Court and the Concert Room is ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] OXFORD.-There will be an election in next June at Magdalen College to at least one Scholarship in Natural Science, the conditions of election being subject to any new Statutes which may be made by the University Commissioners. The examination in Natural Science will be held in com.non with Jesus ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT the annual meeting of the Geological Society the medals were presented as follows:-The Wollaston Gold Medal to Dr. Franz Ritter von Hauer, Director of the Austrian Geological Survey; the Murchison Medal to Prof. Jules Gosselet, of Lille; the Lyell Medal to Dr. John Lycett, of Scarborough; the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE VARIABLE STAR U GEMINORUM.-The following interesting note upon a recent maximum of this apparently capricious variable, is by Mr. G. Knott, who writes from Cuckfield on March 6:-"On February 20 I noted it 13'7m. At intervals it seemed to flash out brighter, and there was every indication of a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Geological Society, February 8.-R. Etheridge, F.R.S., president,'in the chair.-Ridley Henderson, William John, and James Robert Millar Robertson, M. D., were elected Fellows, and Prof. S. Loven, of Stockholm, a Foreign Member of the Society.-The following communications were read:- ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] As it appears to me that in the correspondence to NATURE on this subject no instance has been given of reasoning power in birds, more notable than that afforded by Miss Bird in “Unbeaten Tracks in Japan,” I venture to submit the following quotation. "I have not said anything about the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] II. IN considering the effect of depth on the gaseous contents of sea water, Dr. Tornoe arranges his results in groups, giving the mean percentage of oxygen in different intervals of depth. From the consideration of this table he concludes that " the proportion of oxygen, which at the surface is ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN an instructive article in Macmillan's Magazine for o*o this month, Prof. Geikie shows what important influences the geological development of our country has had upon its history. Prof. Geikie begins in long past prehistoric times, when England formed part of the European continent, and rapidly ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Royal Society, January 26.-"An attempt at a Complete Osteology of Hypsilophodon Foxii" by J. W. Hulke, F.R.S. Abstract. After a reference to papers descriptive of parts of the skeleton of this dinosaur, by Professors Owen, Huxley, and himself, the author gives a detailed description of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] CERTAINLY Mr. Grant Allen stands at the head of living writers as a popular exponent of the evolution theory. Although the subject is one which he has taken up a comparatively short time ago, he appears to have thoroughly mastered its principles, to have read and assimilated all the best works on ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS new treatise on the compass contains an admirable account of the most recent work done on the subject, and a very full and practical explanation of the objects of compass compensation and the methods adopted to secure.it. It is founded on the author's translation, now twelve years old, of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE were favoured here on the 16th inst. with a view of a rather unusual phenomenon. Shortly after 8 a.m., the sky being for the most part clear with detached masses of fleecy clouds towards the south, two mock suns appeared, one to the west very brilliant, the other rather fainter, and of a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AN auroral display was observed here last evening between 7h. and 8h. The sky was partially overcast during a portion of the time, but it cleared about 7h. 10m., when the northern quarter was lighted up by a bright glow of an aqua-marine line. Only three faint streamers were remarked. They were ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WILL you open your columns to a short but earnest plea for poor Jumbo, of the Zoological Gardens? No one can read the description of the attempts made to remove him without feeling that it would be a disgrace to English lovers of animals to let him be transported. To outsiders it is a mystery ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I. IN this work are collected and discussed the results of the chemical investigations on the nature of the water of the North Atlantic, made during the Norwegian expeditions of the summers 1876, 1877, and 1878. The contents of the volume are divided into three chapters-I. On the Air in Sea Water; ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE idea that a certain type of face indicates a ten-1 dency to certain diseases is not only widely diffused in the medical profession, but among the public at large, as is shown by the frequent occurrence of such phrases as " consumptive-looking," and " apoplectic-looking." With a view to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] BY the somewhat unexpected death of Prof. Decaisne, one of the most familiar names disappears from the scientific world of France. Although so inseparably associated with Paris Decaisne was by birth a Belgian, haying been born in Brussels in 1809. His brother, still living, rose to the position of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] VI. 14. THE GORAL (Nemorhcedus £0ra/).-The " Goral," o*o or " Gooral" of the Himalayan sportsmen is one of the groups of Goat-like or " Mountain " Antelopes, of which we have previously had an example in the Japanese Goat-Antelope (Capricornis crispa) figured in a previous article (NATURE, vol. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I SHOULD like to invite the attention of readers of this paper to the above subject when they have the opportunity of making personal observations, believing myself to have noticed a curious distinction. The number of my own cases, though sufficient to warrant me in broaching the topic, is not ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE parhelia of January 27, which Mr. Ch. H. Allen in Mentone describes, has also been observed at several places in Switzerland: for instance, at Glaris and at Basle. The phenomenon has here been more completely developed; the sun appeared surrounded by two lightly-coloured halos of 46° and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a recent article in NATURE we referred to the proposal to establish an observatory at Hongkong under the superintendence of Major Palmer, R.E., and expressed a hope that Mr. Hart, of the Chinese Maritime Customs, would be successful in his efforts for the establishment of a number of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE second ascent of Ben Nevis for the winter was made on Saturday last by Mr. Livingstone, Fort William, to read the thermometer at the station of the Scottish Meteorological Society on the top of the mountain. The depth of snow was found to be much greater at the top than on the occasion of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, PARIS.-At the annual public fitting of this body on February 6, recommendations of a committee consisting of MM. Faye, Lcewy, Mouchez, Janssen, and Tisserand, with respect to the award of the astronomical prizes of 1881, were adopted by the Academy. The Lalande Prize was ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE papers in this volume, as usual, *re mostly purely analytical in their character. Prof. Qay ley's contribu tions are very short: the binomial equation xf - I = o; quinquisection; on the flexure and equilibrium of a skew surface; on the geodesic curvature of a curve on a surface, and on the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. PATRICK GEDDES appears to have been anticipated in most of the points set forth in his paper on Further Researches on Animals containing Chlorophyll, published in NATURE of January 26 last, by Dr. Brandt, of Berlin, who, in a paper read before the Physiological Society of Berlin son ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE, vol. xxv. p. 213, Mr. Darwin describes the bands on Jupiter as “due to the trades and anti-trades” set in motion by the action of solar radiation on the solid body of the planet as are the trade-winds of the earth. Many other eminent astronomers still appear to accept this ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. F. MOORE in no way betters the case against him by his letter printed in NATURE, vol. xxv. p. 79. The name of George de Alwis, who was merely employed to make accurate copies of his brother's drawings, need not be brought forward; Mr. Moore was perfectly aware who made the original drawings ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the Report of the Committee on Meteoric Dust, given in your report of the last meeting of the British Association (NATURE, vol. xxiv. p. 462), Prot. Schuster refers to the difficulty “found in the determination of the locality in which the observations should be conducted,” as there are but ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SOME weeks ago there appeared an account of a series of experiments connecting colour and sound; the following passage from Prof. Max Müller's Chips, ii. 104, may interest some of your readers:—“That Purûravas is an appropriate name of a solar hero requires hardly any proof. Purûravas meant the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ALTHOUGH it is well known that the Ainos of Yeso worship the bear, and have a festival known as the "bear-festival," at which that animal is killed, no foreign writer, except the one whom we are about to mention, has ever actually beheld this cereMony. Dr. Scheube, of Kioto, in a paper recently ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. WILLIAM BOWMAN, LL.D., F.R.S., has been elected Honorary Secretary of the Royal Institution, and Dr. Warren De La Rue, F.R.S., Manager. ON Monday the Royal Commissioners on Technical Educa tion-Mr. B. Samuelson, M.P., Mr. Woodall, M.P., Prof. Roscoe, Mr. P. Magnus, Mr. Swire Smith, and Mr. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE French African traveller, M. de Sanderval, has re turned to Paris from his expedition to Timbo. His principal object was to find the route which European travellers have searched for for more than a century, and which is destined even tually to become the main route by which civilisation will ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a letter to you last week Mr. W. H. Preece called attention to a sudden appearance of earth-currents on the 19th between 10.15 and 10.20 p.m. G.M.T., traces remaining until 10.50. A magnetic storm was in progress at the time, and had commenced shortly after 4 p.m. The declination magnet ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE magnetographs at this observatory registered a small magnetic disturbance during the evening and night of January 19, which lasted over an interval of time considerably greater than the earth-currents observed by Mr. Preece. The magnets were tolerably quiescent until about 4.35 p.m. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ALL lovers of science, and more especially those devoted to the study of atmospheric physics, must rejoice to learn that the Government of India has sanctioned Mr. Blanford's proposal to send a properly qualified observer with good instruments to Leh, for the purpose of directly measuring the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MY conclusions as to the Pleiades having been believed to be in early ages the centre of the universe, were not in any way based upon the singular name Alcyone for the principal star in that group. I can hardly account for my having so long forgotten the meaning of that name, and its connection ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE regret to have to announce the death of the well-* * known geologist and archaeologist, Mr. Samuel Sharp. He was the son of Mr. Stephen Sharp of Romsey, Hants, and was born in the year 1815. During his long residence at Stamford, and subsequently in the neighbourhood of Northampton, he made very ...
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