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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 470-471 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE concluding meeting of the French Association at La Rochelle was rather stormy, although not more than 203 members were present. M. Bouquet de la Grye was nominated vice-president for 1883 and president for 1884. Although very few members took part in the work of the meeting, sixteen different ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 513-516 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT has now for some years been the custom at the meetings of o^ the British Association for the Advancement of Science, for one of its members to be deputed to deliver a lecture, not to his fellow-members, for whom in the ordinary programme an amply sufficient supply of mental food has been ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 473-474 
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    Notes: [Auszug] FROM the papers and discussions which have recently appeared in the Journal of the United Service Institution (Nos. cvi., cxv., 1880,1882), it would appear that a large number of our naval officers are becoming sensible of the many defects of the system under which their younger brethren are at ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 476-477 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I, IN the year 1881, made a considerable series of examinations of the division of the chlorophyll-granules of phanerogamous and cryptogamous plants, and upon the occurrence of Pringsheim's hypochlorin in the lower algæ, especially in the order Bacillariaceæ and Cyanophyceæ (Phycochromaceæ). ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 479-479 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE last number (August 26) of Der Naturforscher contains a first attempt to lay down the scientific results of this expedition, in a paper by Herr H. Wich-mann, based on the reports of Messrs. Melville and Danenhauer, and of the naturalist of the expedition, Mr. Newcomb. It is known that after ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 486-496 
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    Notes: [Auszug] REPORTS Third Report of the Committee appointed for the Purpose of Reporting on Fossil Polyzoa (Jurassic Species-British Area only}. Drawn up by Mr. Vine (Secretary).-A partial examination of the Jurassic Polyzoa was made by Goldfuss (Petrifacta Germania, 1826-33), but the author is not aware ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 452-452 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE authors of this work have earned for themselves so high a reputation by their numerous and successful experiments in the synthesis of minerals and of rocks, that we may almost take for granted the thoroughness of the work now issued. Till the appearance of this volume the results obtained since ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 454-454 
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    Notes: [Auszug] YOUR correspondent, Mr. Frank Rowbotham, in his letter on the “Habits of Spiders” (vol. xxvi. p. 386), gives it as his opinion that a spider shakes the web from a desire “to effect concealment when it feels danger is near.” I am inclined to think it does so from a feeling of anger. During a ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 390-414 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE fifty-second annual meeting of the British Association was opened yesterday at Southampton, when Sir John Lubbock resigned the presidency to Dr. C. W. Siemens, F.R.S., the president-elect. We have already given such full details concerning the arrangements, that at this stage little more ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 361-362 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a former number occasion was taken-in connection with a review of Prof. Max Miiller's translation of the " Kritik der reinen Vernunft "-to examine at some length the position of Kant's theory of experience in relation to scientific method. Dr. Stuckenberg's book is of an order different from ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 417-418 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE have here two books of unequal importance which nevertheless have so much in common that they may fitly be noticed together. Both are produced by the same author, and under the auspices of the same Society -a Society, by the way, which has not escaped severe criticism of the cut bono order, but ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 419-419 
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    Notes: [Auszug] The valuable paper of Col. Mallery (NATURE, vol. xxvi. p. 333) is deserving of much attention, but his de cription of the relations of gesture-language and speech-language is calculated to cause misconceptions, on account of the view he has taken of the origin and propagation of speech. ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 446-448 
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    Notes: [Auszug] M. JANSSEN delivered with great success a. long address as President of the French Association for the Progress of Science, which met at La Rochelle on the same day that the British Association met at Southampton. The address of Dr. Jans.-en was very well received, and is reported at length in the ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 386-386 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the new instructions to inspectors as to the application of the New Code to Elementary Schools, it is stated that a Museum will be required in a school in order to make a school “excellent” under the “merit” clause. I would suggest to your readers that here is an excellent opportunity ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 387-388 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AFTER the horrors ofthe Jeannette expedition, every **¦ one will be relieved to learn that on Sunday Mr. Leigh Smith and all his men were safely landed at Aberdeen in the Hope, under the care of Sir Allen Young. Sir Allen has not been long in attaining the object for which he set out, although the ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 368-370 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE article on the Brussels Chronograph (NATURE, vol. xxvi. p. 107) induces me to send a brief description of the chronograph of this observatory, which may be taken as representing the form usually adopted by the best American makers, Alvan Clark and Sons, Fauth and Co., Stackpole and Brothers, ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 365-365 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN an article on this subject (NATURE, vol. xxvi. p. 299) Mr. William Galloway states that this system “has been found by experiment to be incapable of breaking down a hard rock or shale roof,” and is, therefore, not likely to have anything but a limited application. Will you allow me, as ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 366-366 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN recently characterising the pupa of Sphinx catalpæ, Boisd., for my report as entomologist to the Department of Agriculture, I was struck with the occurrence on the anterior border of each of the larger movable abdominal joints (viz., abdominal joints 5, 6, and 7) of a peculiar elongate ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 341-341 
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. HYDE CLARKE has compared together the devices found on the coins and gems of various ancient cities and countries, in the hope of proving the connection of the populations to which they belonged. The list is a useful one, though defective, but it proves no more than that in a very late period ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 342-342 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN your issue of the 20th ult. there is a letter by Dr. Oliver Lodge on the recent experiments of Mr. Tribe and myself. While confirming our general results from his own experience, he asks a question about the lead sulphate into which we state the spongy lead is converted during the discharge ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 363-363 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE most prominent-we ought perhaps to say, the one redeeming-feature of Mr. Coles's work is the fact that he occupied himself by taking observations of heights, temperatures, distances," and magnetic variations while travelling in Iceland. This is rarely done because of the difficulty of carrying ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 363-364 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A USEFUL handbook to Madeira has just been published by Messrs. Stanford. It can hardly lay claim to be a scientific work, yet a fair knowledge of botany and kindred subjects is pre-supposed to exist by its author, Miss Ellen Taylor, and much of the interest in the excursions detailed is due to the ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 364-364 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN this part of Prof. Tschermak's text-book the discussion of the optical and physical characters of minerals is continued and concluded in a manner more scanty than was perhaps to be anticipated from the first part. The results of many of the most recent additions to our knowledge of the structure ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 364-365 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Now that we have embarked in a war in Egypt, it is to be hoped that steps will be taken to have a proper staff of scientific explorers attached to the army with facilities for conducting their investigations. There are periods of rest in a campaign during which soldiers and others may be ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 343-343 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHEN the subject of the phosphorescence of the Lampyridæ came under discussion at the meeting of ths Entomological Society of London on February 4, 1880 (Proc. Ent. Soc., 1880, p. iii.) Mr. Meldola stated that “Some years ago he had examined the spectrum of the glowworm, and found that it was ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 344-345 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT a recent interview with Mr. Charles Marvin, M. Semenoff, vice-president of the Russian Geographi cal Society, remarked that " every annexation in Central Asia is a source of satisfaction to our scientific men. Fresh fields are opened up for research, and all this must naturally be of interest to ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 353-356 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT will be in the recollection of many who are present this * evening that in February of last year I had the honour of delivering a Friday evening discourse on a subject which included that which has been announced for to-night. In that lecture I had hoped to present to you a comprehensive view of ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 356-359 
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    Notes: [Auszug] SPEAKING in this place on electric light, I can neither *-* forget nor forbear to mention, as inseparably associated with the subject and with the Royal Institution, the familiar, illustrious, names of Davy and Faraday. It was in connection with this institution that, eighty years ago, the first ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 314-317 
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    Notes: [Auszug] EXPERIMENTS at the Alleghany Observatory in 1879 and 1880, upon the selective absorption of the solar rays by the earth's atmosphere, having made it probable that the amount of heat the sun sends us (the solar constant) had been under-estimated by the methods of previous observers, and that ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 322-322 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE observations made last winter by Mr. Thorlacius, observer for the Scottish Meteorological Society at Stykkisholm, Iceland, have been received by the Society, and they are of the greatest interest in connection with the unexampled mild weather which prevailed in this country for the five months ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 320-320 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ABOUT 2 p.m. to-day a remarkable halo was visible here. The sky was partially covered with light cirrus clouds, and some small fleecy drift was rapidly moving from the north-west at a low altitude. I saw a bright bow at about 45° from the sun nearly due north, extending over a clear portion of ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 326-329 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AMONG the contributions of public and private munifi-^"*- cence to the advance of knowledge, none are more worthy of praise than those which have been devoted to astronomy. Among all the sciences, this is the one which is most completely dependent upon such contributions, because it has the least ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 293-293 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE appearance noted in NATURE this week (p. 268) by Prof. O'Reilly must surely have been a case of the rayons du crépuscule that are frequently visible near sundown in the eastern sky. East-south-east cannot at this season be very far from opposite the setting sun. Prof. O'Reilly does not ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] COUNT RUMFORD founded the Royal Institution of Great Britain nearly a hundred years ago, chiefly, I believe, to introduce improved grates, fireplaces, stoves, &c, as he then foresaw the necessity of economising coal and obtaining more complete combustion. In about the year i860 ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 297-298 
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    Notes: [Auszug] The Scottish Highlands THE Highlands of Scotland have been rapidly rising J- in importance during recent years, as affording during the summer and autumn months the most desirable health resorts to professional and business men, as well as to invalids: the most varied scenery, unique as it is ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 298-299 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE operation of "getting" or breaking down coal -*¦ from its original position in a seam cannot, in some cases, be effected with a sufficient degree cf economy without the aid of blasting. But a certain amount of risk always attends the use of explosive substances, when they are employed for this ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 304-304 
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    Notes: [Auszug] FREDERIC KASTNER, who is known to the scien--*-^ tific world as the inventor of the Pyrophone, has recently died, as we announced at the time, at the early age of thirty years. He was the son of an Alsacian composer of some merit, Georges Kastner, and was himself an accomplished musician. Educated ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 304-305 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is now understood to be quite settled that a new ¦*¦ African exploring expedition will start next year. The Royal Geographical Society have, as might have been expected, taken the opportunity of Mr. Joseph Thomson's return from the completion of his engagement to the Sultan of Zanzibar to obtain ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 268-268 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I TAKE the liberty of communicating an observation made on Saturday evening last between 8 o'clock p.m. and 8.15 p.m. of a sort of halo which appeared in the east-south-east, just over' Killiney Hill. Near the horizon was a bank of heavy, slategray clouds coming up from the south, and from ...
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    Nature 26 (1882), S. 311-311 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE ratio between the portion of electrical energy utilisable in the external circuit of a shunt dynamo and the portion wasted in heating the wire of the armature and field magnet is, easily calculated as soon as one knows the resistances of the armature and magnet wires, and the resistance ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Bulletin de I'Academic Royale dcs Sciences de Belgique, No. 5.- On the coralline origin of Devonian limestones of Belgium; reply to M. Dupont, by G. Dewalque.-Photography on the railway and in balloons, by R. Candeze.-On surfaces of involution, by E. Weyr.-On the integration of a class of equations ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is the most complete and exhaustive book on crystallography which has been so far published, and it is especially characterised by the importance assigned to the dualism observed in crystallographic problems considered as relations of a system of planes or lines connected together by the law ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is announced that " under the general title of 'Anecdota Oxoniensia,' it is proposed to publish materials, chiefly inedited, taken directly from MSS., those preserved in the Bodleian and other Oxford Libraries to have the first claim to publication." The materials will be issued in four ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SEVEN years after the publication of the first volume of Dalton's " New System of Chemical Philosophy," and therefore at a time when the data from which atomic weights could be deduced were few and inaccurate, Prout promulgated the hypothesis that the atomic weights of all the elements are ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a preceding article it was recounted how Kcenig has -*- applied the principle of the wave-siren to prove by direct experiment the influence which phase has upon the quality of a sound. The view taken by Kcenig that this difference may be completely explained by observing the difference in the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] COREA has at last followed the example of China and Japan, and cautiously opened a door or two to the outside "barbarian." From time immemorial Corea has been hemmed in by exclusive-ness, and shares with Tibet the honour of being among the least-known countries in the world. Now, however, that both ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] NOW that so much time and thought are devoted to the study -^ of the green algae, Dr. Wittrock's elaborate Monograph of the genus Monostromal will be found a most desirable addition to our knowledge of these plants. The following abstract of this very interesting work may therefore not be ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE second volume of Baron Ferdinand von Richt-hofen's great work on China has just appeared. Five years have elapsed since the publication of the first volume, and two additional volumes are promised to complete the work, which when its maps and full index have been supplied, will be a great ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the July number of the Deutsche Rundschau, Prof. Haeckel gives a further account of his stay in Ceylon, a stay which hi£ ardent enthusiasm and unwearied industry cannot fail to have made fruitful in results to the scientific world. The present series of papers being intended for magazine readers ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Council of the Society of Arts have elected C. W. Siemens, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., as Chairman for the ensuing year. IT has now been definitely decided to build a permanent observatory on Ben Nevis. IT is announced that the Duke of Bedford ha^ given 5000/ for the endowment of a lectureship in ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE subject is so old and well-worn that it is impossible to add anything new to it, still it is so large that there is no fear of its being exhausted by the few following notes. It will be going back quite far enough if we begin with Hook (Phil. Trans, i., 218, 1666), who invented the wheel ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Anthropological-Institute, June 27.-General Pitt-Rivers, F.R.S., president, in the chair.-Mr. Villiers Stuart, M.P., exhibited and described a drawing of the funeral canopy or tent of an Egyptian queen, and some casts of bas-reliefs discovered by him within a short distance of the tent.-Mr. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. HERMANN SMITH, in a letter in NATURE last week, commenting upon my paper read before the Physical Society on June 10, of which you gave a short report, offers some very cogent experiments in support of the evidence I have endeavoured to give, that the tuning-fork does not communicate its ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE for July 12, 1877, there appeared a short communication from Messrs. Downes and Blunt summarising the conclusions at which they had arrived as the result of investigations on the influence of light on the development of lower organisms. The experiments were described in detail in the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE article published in NATURE, vol. xxv. p. 225, entitled “Recent Weather,” attracted attention from meteorologists in China from the fact that the extraordinary character of the season therein discussed was observable in China also In my Report on the Health of Wenchau, I referred to the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE wonderful photographs by Muybridge of the horse in motion and those by Maret of the bird on the wing induced me to attempt the construction of apparatus by which the otherwise unassisted eye could verify their results and catch other transient phases of rapid gesture. Its execution has proved ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE hear that Princeton College, New Jersey, is going to despatch a second scientific expedition this summer to the " bad lands " of Dakotah and Nebraska in search of fossils. It will be under the charge of Mr. W. B. Scott, of the "E. M." Geological Museum of Princeton, who is known to many readers ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] EDINBURGH.-Five Fellowships in connection with this University (the gift of an anonymous donor) of the value of 100/. each, for one year, but renewable for one or two further years at the pleasure of the Senatus Academicus, will be open to applicants in October next. There will be no examinations ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE places visited by the author are Australia, including Melbourne, Sydney, Queensland, and the Riverina, Tasmania, Algiers, Egypt, Cape of Good Hope, and Davos. He gives a short account of the places in the order in which he visited them, written in an easy readable style.: The author's object in ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE above is the somewhat long title of a large and J- important work issuing from the well-known Cambridge (U.S.) University Press. Long as is the title, the name of the principal contributor to the volume is left unrecorded there, though indeed even a cursory glance over its contents shows how ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE last week there is a short description of Mr. W. F. Stanley's well-devised experiments, by which the tuningfork “is shown not to depend upon a vibrating ventroid.” Few persons would readily obtain the experiment steel rod, or would care to attempt the feat of sawing through the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] FROM time to time we receive copies of the University Circular. From two now before us, we make a few extracts, which will serve to show what this young but promising University has done (or attempted to do) in the session 1881-82. The students have been thirty-two in number; of these, twenty ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MASKELYNE'S VALUE OF THE SOLAR PARALLAX.-Mr. Dunkin has consulted the first edition of Vince's " System of Astronomy," published in 1797, and finds therein Maskelyne's article on a new method, of determining the solar parallax, the same as in the second edition which appeared in 1814. Mr. W. J. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] CAMBRIDGE.-The following awards have been made at St. John's College for proficiency in natural science:-Foundation Scholarships to Bateson, Goodman; Exhibitions to Edmunds, Love, T. Roberts (already scholars), and to Acton, Andrews, Clementson. T. Roberts also received a Wright's Prize, with ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE, vol. xxv. p. 269, we gave an account of the mode of manufacture of " butterine," a compound containing about 90 per cent, of a mixture of animal fats known as "oleomargarine." "Butterine," as the name would imply, is an imitation butter which is largely imported into this country from ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Council of the Society of Arts have awarded the Albert Medal of the Society of the present year to Louis Pasteur, Member of the Institute of France, For, Memb. R.S., for "his researches in connection with fermentation, the preservation of wines, and the propagation of zymotic diseases in silk ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] V. THE effects upon Psychology of Mr. Darwin's writings have been so immense, that we shall not overstate them by saying that they are fully comparable with those which we have previously considered as having been exerted by the same writings on geology, botany, and zoology. This fact at first ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Astronomer Royal having received from Mr. Charles Carpmael, superintendent of the Meteorological Office at Toronto, Canada, copies of the Toronto records of the double magnetic storm of April last, has had them compared generally with the Greenwich records. Some results of this comparison I ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] UNFORTUNATELY, through the bungling of my late agents, I am unable to refer to NATURE, vol. xxiv. p. 499, as quoted by Mr. S. E. Peal, I may, therefore, be communicating stale infor mation; but as it is the result of personal experience, what I have to relate may be of some use as confirmatory ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT intervals since the introduction of accumulators or secondary batteries by M. Gaston Plante, various modifications have been made with a view to constructing cells on a commercial scale. The most renowned of these modifications was that of Faure, who applied red lead to the surface of the lead ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE following communication appeared in the Daily ¦*o News of Tuesday from its special correspondent with the English Eclipse Expedition:- In my last letter,1 written as it seems, an age ago, for the incidents since the eclipse have been more or less emotional, I promised in a final one to give ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE take the following from the Times:-At the meeting of the Royal Society last week, the fifteen undernamed candidates were elected Fellows:-Prof. Valentine Ball, M.A., George Stewardson Brady, M.D., F.L.S., George Buchanan, M.D., Charles Baron Clarke, M.A., F.L.S., Francis Darwin, M.A.; F.L.S., ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SIR JOHN LUBBOCK has done well to gather all the results of his serially published observations on the social hymenoptera in one treatise, and to bring out the treatise in the International Scientific Series. On the one hand the extensive and important research on which he has for so many years ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] M. LESSAR'S paper on his excursion from Askabad to Saraks (Izvestia, vol. xviii. fasc. 2) will be read with pleasure by those who are interested in the topography, inhabitants, and social conditions of this country. With regard to natural science, we notice the result of the levelling which was ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON May 16, about II p.m., I saw a meteor that was, I think, the most terrific, as well as the grandest, I have ever happened to see. I reached my house about ten minutes afterwards, and at once wrote down, substantially, the following unvarnished account of the phenomenon. It may have been ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] As the account given of my cuprous chloride cell in your report (NATURE, vol. xxvi, p. 96) of the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh is rather misleading, I hope I may be excused if I make a few remarks on the subject. It is there stated that my cells suffered greatly from loss. This ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A CENTRE of attraction at the recent Paris Electrical ¦**¦ Exhibition was the Norwegian section, in which Prof. Bjerknes of Christiania exhibited .his remarkable experiments with little drums or tambours vibrating under water, and attracting or repelling each other according as the phase of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A NEW method of comparing the brightness of different coloured lights has been proposed by Herr Briicke (Wien. Ber., 84). He finds that objects cease to be visible at a greater visual angle, the more they differ from the background on which they are seen, only in colour and not in brightness. ' If ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Royal Society, May 25.-"On the Cause of the Light Border frequently noticed in Photographs just outside the Outline of a Dark Body seen against the Sky; with some Introductory Remarks on Phosphorescence." By Prof. G. G. Stokes, Sec. k.S. An observation I made the other day with solar ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] OXFORD.-The honorary degree of D.C.L. will be conferrei at the approaching Encaenia upon the following among other distinguished persons:-Baron Nordenskjold, Dr. Allen Thomson, and M. Pasteur. CAMBRIDGE.-The election of a Professor of Animal Morphology took place on May 31, when Mr. Francis ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Art Master at Marlborough College has gathered together in this book 300 problems, chiefly from papers set at the examinations for entrance to the military colleges. He gives fully worked out solutions to two-thirds of the questions, leaving the student to exercise himself unaided with the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE following observations of Comet (a) 1882 have been made with the Transit-Circle of the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, when passing sub-polo:— G.M.T. Observed R. A. (uncorrected for parallax). o Observer, 1882. h. m. s. h. m. s. o 11 [a) May 12, 8 57 20-13 ... O 14 22 90 ... 15 32 ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] J'APPRENDS seulement aujourd'hui par M. Graham Bell que La Nature à bien voulu mentionner mes communications à l'Académie des Sciences sur l'accent des sourds muets. Je regrette que les Comptes Rendus n'aient pas reproduit mes communications in extenso et que M. le Secrétaire perpétuel se soit ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE ABIETINE^E THE most- recent classification of the Abietinece, and ¦I the one that will probably be chiefly adhered to, at least in England, is published in the " Genera Plantarum " of Bentham and Hooker, 1880. In it Pinus, Cedrus, Picea, Tsuga, Pseudotsnga, Abies, and Larix, are recog-' nised ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE COMET.-The following orbit of the present comet has been calculated by Mr. Hind, from observations at Harvard College, U.S., on March 19, Josephstadt (Vienna) on April 19, and one by Prof. Millosevich, at the Collegio Romano, Rome, on May 21; parallax and aberration were taken into account:- ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Special Correspondent of the Daily News with the English Eclipse Expedition telegraphs as follows under date, Sohag, May 17:- This eventful morning was the finest we have yet had, cool and without a cloud. A great crowd of natives in picturesque costumes lined the road and the hill between the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A SHORT while ago we gave an account of the origin of the zodiacal signs so far as recent Assyrian researches enable us to determine it. Mr. Robert Brown has now publibhed a little book on almost the same subject, the object of which is to trace the mythological concep ions to which the names given ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A MOST valuable and interesting addition has recently been made to the Zoological Society's collection in Regent's Park, of four—a male and three females—Pigmy Hogs (Porculia salvania, of Hodgson) from the Doars of Bhotan. The extreme rarity and difficulty of procuring this animal makes its ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN my article on “Different Modes of Self-fertilisation where Visits of Insects are wanting” (NATURE, vol. x. p. 129), I gave a short account of the number of sepals, petals, and anthers in a hundred flowers of Myosurus minimus examined by myself. Some error must, however, have slipped into ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I BEG to call the attention of geologists to the following facts:—On the north-east coast of Australia, at the end of Trinity Bay, about lat. 17° S., there are steep ranges of granite abutting on the sea-margin. Every rainy season (December, January, and February) immense quantities of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] 1882, May 16, 11h. om. G.M.T. Meteor many times brighter than Venus; green, then white; began of second magnitude, 5° above main cluster of Coma; passed 1½° above Iota Urs. Maj., where it changed colour suddenly; ended, of second magnitude, 5° left of Beta Aurigæ. Duration 8 seconds, may have ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. E. J. MAREY has lately published in the pages ¦*o of our contemporary, La Nature, an article on a "photographic gun," the illustrations to which, with a somewhat shortened account of the process, we are enabled, through the courtesy of the editor of La Nature, to present to our readers. M. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE TRAPEZIUM OF ORION.-Prof. Holden, in an appendix to the Washington observations for 1877, has discussed a long series of measures of the multiple-sfar 2 748, made with the 26-inch refractor by Prof. Asaph Hall in 1877 and 1878. It is now known that the nebula in Orion was discovered by Cysat in ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Royal Society, May 4.-"On the Specific Resistance of Mercury." By Lord Rayleigb, F.R.S., Professor of Experimental l'hysics in the University of Cambridge, and Mrs. H. Sidgwick. The observations detailed in the paper were made with the view of re-determining the relation between the B.A. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE present issue completes the excellent translation of Dr. Weismann's valuable and suggestive work. The first two essays of which it consists is devoted to a careful discussion of the real meaning of the transformation of the Axolotl into Amblystoma. Experiments are detailed showing that the ...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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