Library

X
feed icon rss

Your email was sent successfully. Check your inbox.

An error occurred while sending the email. Please try again.

Proceed reservation?

Export
Filter
  • Electronic Resource  (3,084)
  • Loose Leaf
  • 2010-2014
  • 1870-1879  (3,084)
  • 1878  (3,084)
Source
Material
  • Electronic Resource  (3,084)
  • Loose Leaf
Years
  • 2010-2014
  • 1870-1879  (3,084)
Year
Keywords
  • 101
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Geographical Notes (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 520-521 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] WE have received three new maps of Cyprus. The first, to which we have already briefly referred, is by the well-known German geographer, Dr. Kiepert, and is a valuable original compilation based upon the English Admiralty chart, but containing many more names of villages, & c., than any other ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018520b0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 102
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Brewing in Japan (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 521-523 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] AT the present time, when the history of the origin and development of the lower forms of life is occupying a great deal of attention, any facts which increase our knowledge of the growth of such bodies should be wel comed. In our breweries the growth of the yeast-ferment is tolerably well ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018521a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 103
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    The Origin and Distribution of Organic Colour (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 523-524 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] COLOUR, throughout the realms of organic nature, is a factor hitherto eld to be the most capricious in its distribution and the least amenable to any finite law. So uncertain and variable indeed are its manifestations that its claims for the purposes even of specific diagnosis have long since been ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018523a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 104
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Electric Discharge in Gases (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 525-528 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] I. IN a paper read some time since at the Royal Society, Drs. Warren De La Rue and Hugo W. Muller gave the first part of an account of their researches on the electric discharge in gases. This part, of which we shall at present give s'ome account, consists mainly of a discription of the apparatus ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018525a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 105
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Physics in Photography (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 528-531 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] II. WE have hitherto treated the question of a sensitive compound from what may be called a chemist's point of view, but it has also its physical aspect, and to enable us to understand what has recently been done in photography this lat';er must be briefly touched upon. To commence with, we are ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018528a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 106
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Notes (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 531-534 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] DR. O. FINSCH has resigned his appointment as Gustos of the Museum of Bremen, and, as soon as the publication of his work on the results of the German Siberian Expedition of 1877 is completed, will leave Europe on a scientific mission to the Pacific and Australia. Dr. Ludwig, late Assistant in the ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018531a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 107
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    University and Educational Intelligence (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 535-536 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] DR. MANSFIELD MERRIMAN, author of the " Elements of the'Method of Least Squares," and for several years past an instructor in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College, has accepted the Professorship of Civil and Mechanical Engineering in Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Penn., and enters upon ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018535a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 108
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Physical Science for Artists (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 116-116 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] MR. NORMAN LOCKYER, in NATURE, vol. xviii., pp. 59, 60, gives some valuable hints to artists, which, if carried out, will go a great way towards preventing our eyes being hurt by the lunar monstrosities we see at the Royal Academy and elsewhere. May I be permitted to add a hint which he ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018116b0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 109
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Hereditary Transmission (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 116-116 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THE letter of Mr. Watt reminds me of a similar instance of “Hereditary Transmission” mentioned in the ninth edition of the “Encyclopædia Britarnnica”. It is there stated that " George Bernhard Bilfinger was born on January 23, 1693, at Cannstadt, in Wtirtemberg. His father was a Lutheran ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018116f0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 110
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Transplantation of Shells (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 121-121 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] DEAR SIR.-The following case will, I think, prove of interest to you, as it corroborates your belief that freshwater shells are sometimes transplanted by the agency of aquatic birds. In the sketch I have endeavoured to give you a correct idea of the way in which the shell was attached to the ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018121a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 111
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Our Astronomical Column (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 130-131 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] TEMPEL'S COMET, 1873, II.-We continue the ephe-meris of this comet, for the latter half of June, as given by M. Schulhof in the Paris Bitlletin International of May 7. If the calculated epoch of perihelion passage be approximately correct, the intensity of light will be increasing, and the comet ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018130c0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 112
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Beitrag zur Fysik der Eruptionen und der Eruptiv-Gesteine (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 91-91 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] DR. Reyer, of Vienna, has already made his mark in geological literature by the admirable work entitled " Die Euganeen: Bau und Geschichte eines Vulcans," in which he has given a very clear and instructive interpretation of the phenomena presented by that grand tertiary volcano of Northern Italy, ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018091a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 113
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Physical Science for Artists (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 87-89 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] III. LET me begin my third paper by an attempt to - - ' graphically illustrate the conclusions to which I drew attention at the end of my second. These conclusions were as follows: - (i) Very complex molecules when in vibration give us light that we call white, which light, when split up by a ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018087a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 114
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    The Telephone (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 94-94 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] WITH reference to the letter of Lieut. Savage which appeared in your last impression (p. 77) respecting the telephone, this gentleman has noticed that on removing the ferrotype disc of the sending instrument and tapping the magnet with a diamagnetic body, such as a piece of copper, the taps are ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018094a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 115
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    The Microphone (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 129-129 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] WE have received the following communications on * * this subject: AT a discussion upon Mr. William Preece's paper on the microphone, which took place before the Society of Telegraph Engineers on Thursday last, the Duke of Argyll called attention to the important part which that invention was ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018129a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 116
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Organisation of French Meteorology (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 96-96 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] ON May 7 the Academy of Sciences adopted in its ^-^ secret meeting the draft of a letter to M. Bardoux, the Minister for Public Instruction, asking him to state whether he was to establish a separate administration for meteorology or continue the existing system. The answer to this was considered ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018096b0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 117
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Our Astronomical Column (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 103-104 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THE UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY, OXFORD.-Prof. Pritchard has published No. I of Astronomical Observations made at the University Observatory, Oxford. It comprises observations made between the autumn of 1875, when the establishment was first organised, and the end of 1877. They relate to the satellites ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018103a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 118
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Elements of Dynamic Part I Kinematic (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 89-91 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THOUGH this preliminary volume contains only a small instalment of the subject, the mode of treatment to be adopted by Prof. Clifford is made quite obvious. It is a sign of these times of real advance, and will cause not only much fear and trembling among the crammers but also perhaps very ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018089a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 119
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Examination of the Phonograph Record Under the Microscope (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 101-102 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] MR. FRAZER referred to previous results obtained by '*-' him of some examinations of the tin foil which had been indented by the stylus, or needle point, of the phonograph. His object was to ascertain the shapes of the indentations made by different known sounds. The vowels and diphthongs were ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018101a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 120
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    The Artificial Transformation of the Alpine Salamander (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 108-108 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THE success of Madame von Chauvin in producing the de-velopment of Amblystoma from the Mexican axolotl by gradually accustoming it to live in air, induced her to attempt a very interesting interference with the life-history of the black or Alpine salamander, Salamandra atra. This is an ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018108a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 121
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    The American Storm Warnings (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 61-63 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] STORM movements from west to east over Europe are familiar to your readers, yet I wiW refer briefly,tp .them here. The chief storm routes-are as follows JFrpm the, regions immediately north of the British Islands to'the Norwegian coast and over the Scandinavian Mountains to: the Eastern Baltic and ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018061a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 122
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Science for Artists (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 66-66 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE, vol. xviii. p. 29, there is an article upon “Physical Science for Artists”, in which one of my pictures is thus described: “No. 309. The Sunrise Gun, Castle Cornet, Guernsey—Tristram Ellis. Sky colour good; impossible colour of water under sky conditions given”. It is not usual ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018066a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 123
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    The Sea-Serpent Explained (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 489-489 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] ON Monday, August 5, a number of geologists crossed in the Folkestone boat to Boulogne, to study the interesting formations of that neighbourhood, and, when about three or four miles from the French coast, one of these gentlemen suddenly exclaimed, “Look at that extraordinary object passing ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018489a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 124
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Parental Affection in Sparrows (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 489-489 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] I SAW a touching little incident showing the affection of sparrows for their young on the Kennington Oval cricket-ground last Thursday afternoon, a description of which you may, perhaps, think it worth while to record. The afternoon was fine and the ground was surrounded by a dense ring ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018489b0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 125
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Physics in Photography (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 489-491 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] IN taking a retrospective glance at the remarkable phenomena exhibited in photography, an endeavour will be made to explain them as far as possible by the light that may be thrown upon them by modern research, and at the same time to suggest extensions which probably may be given to this branch of ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018489c0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 126
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Military Ballooning (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 491-492 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THE matter of ballooning for military purposes appears to be once more attracting attention in this country. In France they have now a properly organised service under the command of a colonel of the National Engineers, who considers all novelties and proposals as they arise, and who sees, ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018491a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 127
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Hypnotism (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 492-494 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THE phenomena of "hypnotism," "mesmerism," or "electro-biology," have of late years excited so much popular interestnot to say popular superstition that their investigation by a competent man of science will appeal to the sympathies of a wider public than the purely scientific. My object, ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018492a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 128
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Hydrogeological Survey of England (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 494-495 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] FLOODS, or water in excess above ground, form one J- of two extreme conditions,, of which the other is drought, or water in defect below as well as above ground. The requirements of water-supply induce the necessity for storage. Out of these three simple facts arise several intricate public ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018494a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 129
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Rheostatic Machine (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 45-45 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] IT is known that Franklin made use of a series of Leyden jars or fulminating plates, arranged in the form of a cascade, to obtain strong discharges of static electricity; that, on the other hand, Volta, Ritter, Cruikshank, c., were able to charge condensers by means of the pile, and that these ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018045a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 130
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Notes (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 47-50 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] ONE of the most effective methods of acquiring a headache is a good round of sightseeing, especially in a museum, collection, or picture-gallery; it is quite a comfort to get among a collection of any kind, the sight or catalogue of which does not make one ill by anticipation. Happily the headachy ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018047a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 131
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    University and Educational Intelligence (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 53-53 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] OXFORD. At Queen's College, James Henry Hickens, Epsom College, has been elected to a Natural Science Scholarship. Cambridge.-The Rede Lecture will be delivered by Prof. Clerk-Maxwell, in the Senate House, on Friday, May 24, at half-past 2 o'clock, on the Telephone. Owens College.-Should this ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018053b0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 132
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    The American Storm Warnings (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 4-7 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THE interest excited in Europe, and particularly in England and France, by the weather predictions cabled by the New York Herald to its jLondon Office during the past year (commencing February 14, 1877) proves that these warning messages are regarded as important to the interests of commerce, ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018004a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 133
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    A Treatise on Slate and Slate Quarrying, Scientific, Practical, and Commercial (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 10-10 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] AMONGST the manufacturing industries which, during the last hundred years, have expanded into large proportions is the production of roofing slate. Nor is it difjicult to account for this expansion. Building operations have in this period progressed both over town and country, both in the Old and ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018010a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 134
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Westinghouse Brake (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 12-12 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THE experiment shown by the Westinghouse Brake Company was described by Sir W. Armstrong as long ago as 1843, in a. paper “On the Efficacy of Steam as a Means of Producing Electricity and on a Curious Action of a Jet of Steam upon a Ball” (Phil. Mag. xxii.). The explanation of the phenomenon as ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018012b0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 135
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Floating Magnets (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 13-14 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THE extract from the American Journal of Science describing experiments with floating magnets by Mr. Alfred M. Mayer to illustrate the equilibrium of mutually-repellent molecules each independently attracted towards a fixed centre, which appeared, in NATURE, vol. xvii. p. 487, must have interested ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018013b0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 136
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Dr. Thomas Thomson, F.R.S. (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 15-16 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] ASERIOUS and protracted illness had removed Dr. Thomson,-who departed this life on Thursday, April 18,-so long from any very steady participation in the progress of botanical research that, except to those old friends who cherish the memory of his more active days, his name has of late been little ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018015c0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 137
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    An Improved Method of Projecting Lissajous' Figures on the Screen (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 24-25 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] AS is well known, the vibrations of tuning-forks when used for the production of Lissajous' figures, are kept up either by the constant application of the violin bow, or by the aid of an electro-magnet; the former method requiring the presence of two assistants, and the latter adding materially to ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018024a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 138
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Time and Longitude (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 40-41 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THERE is an old and instructive problem which I have lately propounded to several people, and have been struck by the great variety of answers given to it. Although we often lose sight of the fact, it is nevertheless true that any given day or year does not begin all over the world at the ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018040a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 139
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Prof. Nordenskjöld on the Composition and Common Origin of Certain Meteorites (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 510-511 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] pROF. NORDENSKJOLD on comparing the composition of the meteorites which fell at Stalldalenin Sweden on June 28, 1876 (NATURE, vol. xvi. p. 238), with that of a number of other meteorites, has found that a remarkable similarity, if not identity,, is disclosed by excluding the larger or smaller ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018510a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 140
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    University and Educational Intelligence (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 511-511 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] FROM the Twenty-fifth Report of the Science and Art Department, we learn mat me number ot schools examined in 1877 was 1,348, the number of pupils under instruction being 55,927. These numbers are smaller than in 1876. This decrease was entirely due to the withdrawal of physical geography from the ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018511a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 141
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Popular Astronomy (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 7-10 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] A WORK on popular astronomy by an author so distinguished in the higher branches of the science as Prof. Newcomb, will be welcomed with more than ordinary interest. The main object of the present volume is to present the general reader with a condensed view of the history, methods, and results of ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018007a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 142
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Heroes of South African Discovery The Countries of the World The Life of Sir Martin Frobisher (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 11-11 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THERE seems to be no end to the number of geographical works published nowadays. Mr. D'Anver's work is a companion volume to " Heroes of North African Discovery," by the same author, already noticed by us. Like its predecessor its numerous pictures and the many adventures of the "heroes" of its ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018011b0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 143
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    The Oxford Commissioners' Statement (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 12-12 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] MAY I be permitted to draw attention to the very marked discrepancy between the arrangements proposed by the University of Oxford Commissioners for the Animal and for the Vegetables side of Biology? Assuming, as we fairly may, that by “Physiology” the Commissioners mean Animal Physiology, and ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018012c0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 144
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Faustinus Jovita Marianus Malaguti (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 15-15 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] WE are called upon to chronicle a new loss to French science in the death, on April 24, of the well-known chemist Prof. Malaguti. He was born in Bologna February 15, 1802, his father being a pharmaceutical chemist. At the age of sixteen he completed the course in pharmacy at the Bologna University, ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018015b0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 145
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    A Meteorite? (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 464-464 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THIS day, at 12.15 P.M., I was considerably startled by what was to me a remarkable phenomenon. The weather had been very “thundery” all the morning, and heavy rain was falling in torrents. I sat at my desk by a window looking out upon a court inclosed by high walls. Chancing to look out of the ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018464b0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 146
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Our Astronomical Column (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 19-20 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] TRANSITS OF MERCURY.-After the transit of Mercury across the sun's disc on Monday next, May 6, which will be visible in this country through about half its duration, there remains only one transit of this planet at the descending node in the present century; it will take place on May 10,1891, with ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018019c0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 147
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    The University of Oxford Commission (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 23-24 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THE Vice-Chancellor has received from the University of -Oxford Commissioners a Statement with respect to the main purposes relative to the University, for which, in their opinion, provision should be made under the Act, the sources from which funds for those purposes should be obtained, and the ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018023a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 148
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    The Coming Total Solar Eclipse (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 501-503 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] II. IN my former article I referred to the possible employment of slitless spectroscopes during the coming eclipse, the prism being replaced by a grating in some cases. It will be convenient here to give the results arrired at by the Siam Expedition with an instrument of this description, which, ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017501a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 149
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Trajectories of Shot (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 506-506 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] MR. NIVEN was perfectly welcome to make use of my experiments and tables, as he has done, in trying to devise new methods of calculating trajectories of shot. And when he had satisfied himself that his methods possessed some advantages over others, he required no excuse whatever for their ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017506a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 150
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    The British Association (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 467-484 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] Reports. Report of the Committee for Commencing Secular Experiments an the Elasticity of Wires, by J. T. Bottomley.-The Committee have to report that the arrangements for suspending the wires for secular experiments on elasticity are now complete, and that within the last few days two wires, one ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018467a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 151
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Geological Time (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 509-510 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] IF a rigid body be in rotation about an axis of symmetry it will continue to rotate about that axis, but if it be set spinning about an axis inclined to that of symmetry the axis about which it spins will be continuously displaced relatively to the body; in other words, it will wabble.2 This ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017509a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 152
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    The Deterioration of Oil Paintings (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 515-517 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] II. IF we compare the pictures of the Italian and Dutch schools of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, with those of the French and English schools of the last hundred years, we are struck by the great difference in the nature of their diseases. We may divide those diseases into ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017515a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 153
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    The Phonograph (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 485-486 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] IN reference to Prof. Mayer's account and Prof. Fleeming Jenkins's letters, I may say that I had an opportunity of an hour's observation of a phonograph constructed by Mr. Stroh, 42A, Hampstead Road, on April 3, at the invitation of Prof. Graham Bell. The difference between words produced from ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017485a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 154
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    British Barrows A Record of the Examination of Sepulchral Mounds in various Parts of England (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 429-430 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THE pre-historic inhabitants of Europe are now exciting an interest in the minds of thoughtful men which, twenty years ago, would have seemed impossible, and which can no longer be ignored by the historian. The story of man in Great Britain is rapidly being unfolded, principally by the careful and ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018429a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 155
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    The Eclipse of the Sun (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 430-433 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THE following letter appears in the Daily News of Tuesday, from its Special Correspondent, dated Manitou, Foot of Pike's Peak, Colorado, August 2:- Since the eclipse I have had no easy time of it. To gain accurate information concerning the work done along the long north and south line, on which, ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018430a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 156
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Our Astronomical Column (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 433-434 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] WATSON'S SUSPECTED PLANET. At the instance of M. Mouchez, the director of the Bureau des Calculs of the Observatory at Paris, M. Gaillot, who so long assisted Leverrier in the formation of his planetary tables, has examined how far the ^position of the object seen by Prof. Watson will accord with ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018433a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 157
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Geographical Notes (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 434-434 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THE Arctic exploring ship Alert is being again fitted out for active duty, under the command of her old captain, Sir George Nares. She is intended for a voyage of surveying service principally in the South Pacific. Her first work will be an examination of the inner water leading from the Straits of ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018434a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 158
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Notes (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 434-436 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. MENDKLEEFF is to be absent from his post in the St. Petersburg University for a year for the purpose of visiting Western Europe, where he will devote his time to the preparation of a large work on aeronautics. The work will contain a historical sketch of the subject, and expound its present ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018434b0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 159
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    The British Association (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 436-454 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] DUBLIN, Tuesday. SCINCE we last wrote the British Association week has V-J come and gone with even more than its wonted rush and whirl of incessant engagements. That the meeting has been a successful one in every respect is unquestionable. Though no very original papers have been read or any great ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018436a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 160
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    The Age of the Earth (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 465-465 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] WITH reference to the ingenious suggestion by Mr. Preston, on the earth's orbit having been practically diminished by ethereal retardation, there are a few other points to be considered. 1. That the minor planets could never have passed the major planets, as they would be certainly caught by ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017465a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 161
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    The Daylight Meteor of March 25 (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 467-467 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] A CORRESPONDENT in NATURE described the falling of a daylight meteor on Monday, March 25. I have received information respecting this meteor from five persons who witnessed its fall. Mr. Mclntyre, who saw it from near Dnnston-on-Tyne; Mr. Wood, banker, who saw it whilst leaving his ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017467a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 162
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Societies and Academies (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 456-456 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] PARIS Academy of Sciences, August 12.M. Fizeau, president. On the composition of the milk of the cow-tree (Bros-mium galactodendron], by M. Boussingault. He finds that while the general constitution of the juice of the cow-tree approaches that of milk, the proportions of the various substances ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018456b0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 163
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    University and Educational Intellignce (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 478-478 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] PROPOSED NEW UNIVERSITY. A movement has for some time been on foot for the establishment of a new university in the north of England, and on Tuesday last week a deputation, which included the Rev. Dr. Gott (Vicar of Leeds), Mr. Edward Baines, Prof. 'Thorpe, Prof. Riicker, and Mr. R, Reynolds, ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017478a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 164
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Sun-Spots and Rainfall (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 443-445 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THE paper which we print from Mr. Meldrum this week, appearing as it does within a few days of the debate in the House of Commons on the Indian Famine expenditure, is one which should be interesting to many besides professed meteorologists. It will, for one thing, enable even the most unscientific ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017443a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 165
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Meteor (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 425-425 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] As meteors are rarely seen by day, I write to inform you that I observed one this morning, at exactly 10.20 A.M., not only in broad daylight, but in bright sunshine. I only caught a hasty glance of it as it was disappearing. It was in the eastern side of the sky, descending towards a point in ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017425a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 166
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Sound Colour-Figures (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 426-427 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THE great interest excited by Prof. Bell's telephone and Mr. Eddison's phonograph, in which an elastic disc or membrane faithfully takes up the highly complex vibrations due to sounds of the human voice, has directed renewed attention to the optical methods hitherto employed in studying the motion ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017426a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 167
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Biological Notes (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 433-434 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THE AGRICULTURAL ANTS OP TEXAS.-Mr. H. C. McCopk has presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia a memoir on the habits of these most curious and interesting ants (Myrmicamokfaciens, Buckley = M. barbata, Smith). An abstract of the memoir will be found in Sheet 20 of the ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017433a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 168
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    American Science (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 438-439 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THE comparison of the intensities of light of different colours has long been considered one of the most difficult of photometric problems. In the February number of the American. Journal of Science and Arts Mr. Rood describes a simple method of making this comparison. The luminosity of cardboard ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017438b0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 169
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Our Astronomical Column (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 426-426 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THE SATURNIAN SATELLITE HYPERION.The following ephemeris of Hyperion is deduced from the elements which were calculated by Prof. Asaph Hall, upon his observations in 1875 with the Washington 26-inch refractor. AT GREENWICH MIDNIGHT. Position. Distance. 268 .. 147 Se pt. 4 263 .. 93 ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018426a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 170
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    A Dictionary of Music (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 422-423 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] NO better proof of the spreading interest in musical subjects which is now taking place in England could be found than the publication of this important work. Although similar " Lexicons," some of them extending to the portentous dimensions which German monographs are apt to assume, are not ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017422a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 171
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    English Lake-dwellings and Pile-structures (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 424-424 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] GENERAL LANE Fox has described the old, and, in some cases, successive pile-works in the peat of Finsbury and Southwark, outside Roman London (Anthropological Review, vol. iv. No. 17, April, 1867, pp. lxxi. et siq.). Another very interesting case was evidently under Sir C. Bunbury's observation ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017424a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 172
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    The Limbs (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 427-427 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] IN his interesting papers on “The Genesis of the Limbs”, which have recently appeared in NATURE, Mr. Mivart mentions that I have represented the limbs as modified portions of a primitively continuous inferior azygos fin. That view was stated by me at length in a paper in the Journal of ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018427a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 173
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Reflection of Light 1 (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 427-431 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] PLACE the heliostat in position, and bring a slender beam of light into the darkened room. Then get a small looking-glass, or hand-mirror, and a carpenter's steel square, or a sheet of stiff paper, having perfectly square corners. Hold the mirror in the beam of light. At once you see there are two ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017427a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 174
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Geographical Notes (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 434-435 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] CHINA.-Mr. E. C. Baber's long-deferred Report on the journey of the Grosvenor Mission through Western Yunnan, from Tali-fu to Teng-yiieh, contains much matter which is of interest from more than one point of view. The most important of his surveys is that of the route from Tali-fu to Teng-yiieh, as ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017434a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 175
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Societies and Academies (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 439-440 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] London Linnean Society, March 7.-Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S., vice-president, in the chair.-Mr. Thos. Christy exhibited a series of fruits, among which were Chinese quinces, chayottes, and a remarkable citron known in China as the "claw of Buddha."-Prof. Ray Lankester also brought forward and made ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017439a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 176
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    The Telephone (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 379-380 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] IN hiS interesting paper (NATURE, vol. xvii. p. 283) Mr. F. J. M. Page communicated as the result of his experiment to obtain indication of currents from a telephone by means of a mercury capillary tube, that the motion of the mercury was “always towards the end of the capillary”. In the ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017379b0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 177
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Societies and Academies (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 428-428 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] MANCHESTER Literary and Philosophical Society, April 2.E. W. Binney, F.R.S., F.G.S.r president, in the chair.On aurin, by R. S. Dale, B.A., and C. Schorlemmer, F R.S The origin of some ores of copper. Part II., by Charles A. Burghardt, April 16. Note on the occurrence of dioptase ron ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018428b0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 178
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel, based on Hellwald's “Die Erde und ihre völker” (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 378-380 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] HELLWALD'S "Die Erde und ihre Volker" is well known in Germany, and has achieved a great popularity. We doubt, however, if a simple translation of Helhvald's work would have been either fair or wise; for though it is written more brilliantly than German works usually are, and although Hellwald ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018378a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 179
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Journal of Physiology (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 377-378 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THERE is perhaps no science which is making more J- rapid advances than that of physiology, and which is at the same time so interesting to general readers, as well as to those engaged in its special prosecution. A knowledge of the processes of life has such a close relation to individual health ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018377a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 180
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Biological Notes (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 382-383 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] INLAND FISHERIES, AMERICA.-We are indebted to Mr. Theodore Lyman? one of the United States Commissioners on Inland Fisheries, for an early copy of the Twelfth Annual Report to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Among other interesting facts we gather from it that there is still a mystery about the ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017382a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 181
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Notes (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 391-393 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THE subscription for M. Leverrier's statue is progressing favourably. A sum of 4,200 francs has been already collected. The "subscribers up to the present moment number thirty-five, almost all of them belonging to the French Institute. M. Cohen, of Antwerp, sent 1,000 francs, Oilier large sums are ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017391a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 182
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Representation of Science at the Paris Exhibition (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 357-357 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] WE are glad to know that the interest shown in the Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus at South Kensington and the benefit to the nation at large to be derived from such displays have not been lost upon the organisers of the French part of the forthcoming Exhibition. Among the most energetic ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017357a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 183
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    [Book Reviews] (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 360-360 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] CAPTAIN GILLMORE'S work is disappointing. The title suggests Major Butler's " Great Lone Land," but the result of a comparison of the two works would not be very favourable to Capt. Gillmore's. He has nothing new to tell the geographer, and many of the hunting stories are comparatively tame. The ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017360b0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 184
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Several New Applications of Science Introduced into War (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 361-362 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] ON Saturday last, the Speaker of the House of Commons and a large following of members, visited the Portsmouth Dockyards, mainly for the purpose of witnessing some torpedo warfare; the Inflexible was also inspected. Near the starboard side of the ship, one of the sheds had been converted into a ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017361d0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 185
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Popular Natural History (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 365-367 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] WE have to congratulate the publishers of this fine volume on its appearance, for, on a careful perusal, it strikes us as very eminently fitted to supply a known public want. On one or two previous occasions the same firm have published large and well-illustrated works on natural history, the ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017365a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 186
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    [Letters to Editor] (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 383-383 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] OF the many ingenious forms the microphone has taken—and I believe I am acquainted with most of them—none is, I think, more efficacious than the one I offer for your inspection. The jarring sound in the principal instruments in use, which, by vibration, may emanate from passing vehicles, ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018383c0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 187
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    A Simpler Form of the Phoneidoscope (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 383-384 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] MOST of your readers will be familiar with Messrs. Tisley and Spiller's beautiful instrument, known as the phoneidoscope. In using it, however, I have found certain defects, which my improvement on it is intended to obviate. These are:- 1. That it is sometimes difficult to adjust the ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018383d0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 188
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Fossil Hunting at Bournemouth (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 369-370 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE recently deposited in the South Kensington Museum some unusually large specimens of fossil plant remains from Bournemouth and Studland. The matrix in which these are imbedded is friable, and the remains, in most cases, are extremely difficult to extract, so that a brief account of the ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017369a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 189
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Biological Notes (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 344-345 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THE ORIGIN OF THE CARBON OF PLANTS.-Mr. J. W. Moll has made in Prof. Sach's laboratory at Wiirzburg, some researches on this subject during the summer of 1876. A detailed account of these, with the conclusions at which he has arrived, is promised in the Landwirth-schaftlichc Jahrbiicher -non ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017344a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 190
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    The Rain-Tree of Moyobamba (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 349-350 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] SOME little while since a paragraph went the round of the papers, describing, on the authority of the United States Consul in the province of Loreto, a tree existing in the forests near Moyobamba, in Northern Peru. According to the Madras Times and Overland Mail of December 15, 1877, "The tree is ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017349a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 191
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Origin of Tracheæ in Arthropoda (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 340-340 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE (vol. xvii. p. 284) is a notice of a work by Dr. Palmen, of Helsingfors, on the morphology of the tracheal system. From the wording of the notice it appears as if the views of Dr. Palmen as to the origin of tracheæ from skin-glands, and as to the importance of Peripatus as an ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017340b0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 192
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Singing in the Ears (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 342-342 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THIS consists of two or more continuous or alternating tones originating within the ear, very faint and sounding like a teakettle just beginning to boil, or a distant orchestra tuning. It is heard when there is undue pressure of the circulation in the head, as after long mental application, or ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017342b0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 193
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Elias Magnus Fries (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 343-343 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] BY the death of Fries, Sweden has lost one more of the line of eminent botanists whose labours have thrown a lustre so great upon Scandinavian science. Well versed in all domains of phanerogamic botany, and especially skilled in his native plants, it was amongst the cryptogams he spent the more ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017343a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 194
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    The Telephone, an Instrument of Precision (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 343-343 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THE applications to which the telephone may in future be put cannot yet be all foreseen. I have to-day had its value shown to me in a remarkable way. 1. I used a thermo-electric intermittent current by drawing a hot end of copper wire along a rasp completing the circuit. A telephone was put into ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017343b0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 195
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    University and Educational Intelligence (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 334-335 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] OXFORD.An examination for the Burdett-Coutts Scholarship will be held in the University Museum, on Monday, March 11, and three following days, at 10 A.M., for the purpose of electing a scholar on that foundation. Candidates are requested to call on the Professor of Geology at 34, Broad Street, ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017334a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 196
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Societies and Academies (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 335-336 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Royal Society, January 17."New Determination of the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat/' by J. P. Joule, LL.D., F.R.S. An account is given by the author, of the experiments he has recently made, with a view to increase the accuracy of the results given in his former paper, published in the ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017335a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 197
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    The Agricultural Society (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 301-302 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THE current number of the Royal Agricultural Society's Journal is chiefly occupied with reports of the agricultural exhibitions held during the present summer at Liverpool and at Hamburg, and with reports on farms in Lancashire, Cheshire, and North Wales, which obtained the Society's prizes for ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017301a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 198
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Faraday's “Experimental Researches” (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 17 (1878), S. 304-304 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] DOUBTLESS many of your readers will have observed an advertisement of a well-known antiquarian bookseller professing to be able to supply “a perfect copy” of Faraday's “Experimental Researches” at a price not too exorbitant for a complete original copy of that priceless work. Any who may ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/017304a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 199
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    The Physical Geology and Geography of Ireland (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 354-355 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THE great map of the veteran Sir Richard Griffith, followed by the detailed labours of other geologists, especially of the Geological Survey, and of its lamented director, the late J. B. Jukes, has explained the general geological structure of Ireland, and sketched, partly in outline, partly in ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018354a0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
  • 200
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    The Microphone (1878)
    [s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
    Nature 18 (1878), S. 355-356 
    Details
    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THE pleasure with which those beautiful discoveries and inventions, the telephone, the phonograph, and the microphone, have been appreciated by the world, has been unhappily, and I must say I think unnecessarily, marred by one of the most disagreeable things that can be thrust on the public—a ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/018355b0
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Paper (German National Licenses)
    Fulltext
Close ⊗
This website uses cookies and the analysis tool Matomo. More information can be found here...