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    Nature 48 (1893), S. 516-517 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN his recent letter (NATURE, August 17, p. 364), which is avowedly a reply to my paper (Proc. R.S.E., 1892–93) on “Recent Innovations in Vector Analysis,” Prof. Gibbs does not seem to me to discuss the real point at issue. At the end of that paper I summarised the arguments in favour of ...
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    Nature 48 (1893), S. 517-517 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE nature of chromatic correction adopted for visual telescopes is uniform enough to make it possible to state what kind of photographic plate is desired for use with such telescopes. A plaie which is sensitive to light between C and F in the solar spectrum, with a marked maximum between ...
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    Nature 48 (1893), S. 518-520 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AS in Egypt so in Babylonia, for the first references to the constellations we must study the religion and the mythology; Jensen shows that the first notions of the Babylonian constellations are to be gotby studying the sun-gods, and especially the mythic war between the later sun-god Marduk and ...
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    Nature 48 (1893), S. 517-517 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I AM very much surprised to see that Prof. Ebbinghaus, in the last number of the Zeitschrift für Psychologies announces as new a discovery which has a critical bearing upon Hering's theory of colour-vision—the fact, namely, that two grays composed the one of blue and yellow, and the pother of ...
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    Nature 48 (1893), S. 509-509 
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    Notes: [Auszug] As the peculiarities of this season are receiving attention in your pages, the following notes of things in this part of England may perhaps interest some of your readers. On March 25 the following flowers were in bloom:- Adoxa. Hazel (nearly over). Golden Saxifrage. Larch. Speedwell. ...
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    Nature 48 (1893), S. 512-512 
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    Notes: [Auszug] DOUBLE STAR MEASURES.- NOS. 3185-86 of the Astrono-mischen Nachrichten contains the micrometrical measures of double stars made by Mr. Tarrant during the years 1889-92. This series is a continuation of that published in a preceding number (2991) of the same journal. The same instrument has been ...
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    Nature 48 (1893), S. 463-481 
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    Notes: [Auszug] NOTTINGHAM, SEPTEMBER 13. THE meeting of the Association, which commences to-day, will take place mainly in the University College. In this building all the Sections, with the exception of the geographical, economical, and anthropological, will assemble. The Sections representing the oexperimental ...
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    Nature 48 (1893), S. 484-484 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PARIS. Academy of Sciences, September 4.-M. Loewy in the chair.-Report upon a memoir by M. Defforges, entitled, on the distribution of the intensity of gravity at the surface of the globe, by MM. Fizeau, Daubree, Cornu, Bassot, Tisserand. This memoir, submitted to the judgment of the Academy by ...
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    Nature 48 (1893), S. 435-435 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is a most interesting introduction to Maxwell's theories about electromagnetic actions. The whole question of generalised coordinates is introduced by means of models that enable the student to make a concrete picture to himself of a particular case of what he is studying. Some people may ...
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    Nature 47 (1893), S. 364-364 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS book consists of notes and sketches in the Valley of Wythburn, and is brightly and attractively written. Perhaps the best chapters are those on clouds, the various forms of which have been carefully studied by the author. He has also many interesting remarks on various aspects of Cumberland ...
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    Nature 47 (1893), S. 364-365 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. DE RANCE'S note relating to the above subject in. NATURE, p. 294, mentions that “Heer has determined a magnificent flora of more than 350 species from these northerrt tertiaries, and that he at once pointed out the absence of tropical and subtropical forms.” My contention, founded on an ...
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    Nature 47 (1893), S. 365-365 
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    Notes: [Auszug] TOWARDS the close of last month Prof. W. N. Parker reported in your columns an abnormality in the veins of the rabbit, and although the same interest does not attach to it, it may be worth while recording an unusual arrangement of the vessels arising from the aortic arch. In the case which has ...
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    Nature 47 (1893), S. 365-368 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE following translation of the critical account given by von Helmholtz of the colour-theory of E. Hering, in the new edition of his Handbucli der Physiologischen Ohtik, commencing at page 376, has been made by Prof. Everett for NATURE. The translator aims at clearness rather than literal ...
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    Nature 47 (1893), S. 371-372 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. THOMAS DAVIES, who died on December 21 last, was born on December 29, 1837, in the neighbourhood of London, and was the son of Mr. William Davies, F.G.S., of the Geological Department of the British Museum. His early education was of a very elementary character, and the period of his ...
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    Nature 47 (1893), S. 370-371 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE ground and polished surface of a Winnebago Co. meteorite showed to me some interesting markings. Subsequent examination revealed like markings in other meteorites. Perhaps these markings have been described. If so I have no recollection o the description, and therefore it seems worth while to ...
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    Nature 47 (1893), S. 376-377 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE OF APRIL 15-16, 1893.-The following particulars of the phenomena of the total solar eclipse ofApril 15-16, 1893, have been supplied to the Eclipse Corn. mittee by Mr. A. M. W. Downing, Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac office, for the use of the English observers at the ...
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    Nature 48 (1893), S. 258-259 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Bristol Medical School, which was established early in this century, ha?, since the establishment of University College, Bristol, about seventeen years ago, been affiliated to it, but remained under the direction o,f a separate governing body. Within the last few months the two institutions ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON February 11, 10h. to 10h. 35m., I re-observed this object with powers of 40 and 60 on my newly-silvered 10-inch reflector. The comet was in the same field as β Trianguli and south preceding that star. I found it fairly conspicuous. The nucleus, or brighter portion of the head, presented a ...
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    Nature 47 (1893), S. 372-376 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT the last meeting of the Council of the Mineralogical Society, it was resolved toinitiate a " Thomas Davies Memorial Fund " on behalf of the widow and children of the late Mr. Thomas Davies, F.G. S., of the British Museum. The following gentlemen have consented to act as an Executive ...
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    Nature 48 (1893), S. 260-264 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON. Royal Society, June 8. -" The Process of Secretion in the Skin of the Common Eel," by E. Waymouth Reid, Professor of Physiology in University College, Dundee. By special attention to the condition of the fish at the time of fixation of their skins for histological investigation, the ...
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    Nature 48 (1893), S. 217-219 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE first thought that strikes one in glancing through 1 this magnificently illustrated volume is the diligence and skill of the author in photography and the enterprise of the publisher. Never before has a semi-scientific work been illustrated with such a wealth of plates. The illustrations will ...
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    Nature 48 (1893), S. 219-220 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE number of bacteriological text-books is still comparatively so small, that each successive endeavour to expound the principles of this new science attracts more general attention than is occasioned by the appearance of similar treatises in sciences which have already an abundance of such works ...
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    Nature 48 (1893), S. 220-221 
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    Notes: [Auszug] TWENTY years ago the first application of the second law of thermodynamics to the study of chemical phenomena was published by Horstmann, and shortly afterwards the whole subject was investigated by Willard Gibbs, but in a manner so general that his work failed to gain the recognition of physical ...
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    Nature 47 (1893), S. 341-342 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN Mr. Croft's paper on “Breath Figures”, printed in NATURE for December 22 of last year (pp. 187, 188) he states:— "Two cases have been reported to me where blinds with embossed letters have left a latent image on the window nearwhich they lay." The statement is not quite clear as I do ...
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    Nature 47 (1893), S. 342-345 
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    Notes: [Auszug] KEENNESS of sight is measured by the angular distance apart of two dots when they can only just be distinguished as two, and do not become confused together. It is usually reckoned that the normal eye is just able or just unable to distinguish points that lie one minute of a degree asunder. Now, ...
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    Nature 47 (1893), S. 345-347 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. THOMSON'S work on British New Guinea has LVI. been looked for with some impatience. Now that it has come it falls short of our expectations. We had hoped for a comprehensive work marshalling into order and summarising the observations and investigations made in the British part of New Guinea, ...
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    Nature 47 (1893), S. 353-354 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE first general meeting for this year of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers was held on Thursday and Friday evenings of last week, the 2nd and 3rd inst., in the theatre of the Institution of Civil Engineers. There were two papers set down for reading, as follows:- C: Description ofthe ...
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    Nature 47 (1893), S. 356-357 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE first earthquake instrument ever invented, a drawing of which is shown on the wall, is in all probability that of Ch¶ki, dating from the year AD. 132. The first instrument used for keeping systematic records in Japan was Palmieri's modification of the contrivance sketched out by the late Robert ...
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    Nature 47 (1893), S. 358-360 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON. Royal Society, January 26.-" On the Three-Bar Motion of Watt. " By William Brennand. Communicated by C. B. Clarke, F. R. S. " Further Researches in Connection with the Metallurgy of Bismuth." By Edward Matthey, F.S.A., F C.S., Assoc. Roy. Sch. Mines. Communicated by Sir G. G. Stokes, ...
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    Nature 47 (1893), S. 315-315 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT a period when we are bound to recognize the influence exerted by the examinations of the various educational institutions and of those controlled by other more or less influential examining bodies, we may be excused, on the arrival of a new wOrk, for stating whether or not, and to what extent, ...
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    Nature 48 (1893), S. 223-223 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. LODGE (NATURE, p. 174) maintains, in opposition to my correction, that your report of his recent paper on dynamical axioms was accurate in making the following statement:—“Dr. MacGregor objects to the author's definition of energy as the name given to ‘work done,’ and contend that this ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN your Notes, p. 182, June 22, you say that “a correspondent desires to know where to find any celebrated and artistic hedgerows of elms within about thirty or forty miles of London.” If he will travel down to Sittingbourne, which is about forty-five miles by rail, and five miles less by ...
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    Nature 47 (1893), S. 321-322 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LAST year the American Museum of Natural History established a department of mammalian pakeontology for the purpose of securing and exhibiting collections from all the tertiary horizons of the west. Dr. J. L. Wortman, well known by his discoveries while associated with Prof. Cope, was put at the ...
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    Nature 47 (1893), S. 326-327 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE NAUTICAL ALMANAC FOR 1896-The new superintendent of the Naulical Almanac office has introduced a much- needed reform into the first almanac, that for 1896, issued under his direction. The state of the British Nautical Almanac has long been severely criticised as being far from the best possible ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] 0N Friday last Mr. W. H. Preece, F.R.S., delivered before the Institution of Electrical Engineers his inaugural address as President. He said he had completed his fortieth year of continuous service in developing the practical applications of electricity for the use and convenience of man, and it ...
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    Nature 47 (1893), S. 290-291 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE had hoped ere now to have received the second instalment of this work, and to have dealt with the two volumes in a single critical notice. Unforeseen causes, one of them deeply to be regretted, have presumably prevented the appearance of the discussion of Post-Darwinian questions so early as had ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A CHANGE has been made in the arrangements for the expedition to Lake Rudolf referred to on p. 235, vol. xlvii. The expedition is to travel by the Tana river instead of the Juba,. although its ultimate destination is the same, and Lieutenant Villiers, instead of accompanying it, has joined Sir ...
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    Nature 47 (1893), S. 265-266 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the substantial volume whose title stands at the head of this article Prof. Weismann has gathered together the results of the essays and researches which he has given to the world during the last eleven years, and he now presents us with a theory of heredity, for which his previous writings have ...
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    Nature 47 (1893), S. 293-293 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I AM glad to see that in the introduction to his severely difficult memoir, published in the Philosophical Transactions for 1892, “On the Forces, Stresses, and Fluxes of Energy in the Electromagnetic Field” (p. 427), Mr. Oliver Heaviside notices and criticizes some ideas of mine, published in ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN consequence of evidence that I had obtained as to the existence of a dwarf race in Spain, I wrote to Mr. McPherson, our Consul at Barcelona, and enclose his reply. There have long been rumours of survivals of a dwarf or a prehistoric race existing in parts of Spain, but careful inquiries at ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MOROCCO has a paradoxical place in the history of exploration; although the only part of Africa fully in sight from the shores of Europe, and dotted with one or two half European coast towns, its interior is more firmly closed to the traveller, sportsman, and missionary than the dense forests of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] COMET HOLMES.-EdlflbUrgh Circular, No. 37, announces that Palisa, telegraphing from Vienna, states that Comet Holmes now resembles an 8 m star with a nebulous envelope 20" of arc in diameter. A further observation made by Prof. Schur in G¶ttingen on January 19 showed that the nucleus was of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LIKE its parent volume, this well-known appendix has grown in bulk considerably, so that it now constitutes a treatise (separately paged and indexed) on the chemical substances occurring in the body. It contains numerous references to the text of Foster's" Physiology," and so the two may be most ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A FEW weeks since M. Delabecque, Ingánieur des Ponts et Chaussáes at Thonon, kindly presented me with a copy of a work issued under his superintendence and to a great extent executed by himself,1 to which I should be glad to call the attention of students of physiography. M. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON. Royal Meteorological Society, December 21.- C. Theodore Williams, President, in the chair.-The following papers were read -Moving anticyclones in the Southern Hemisphere, by Mr. H. C. Russell, F.R.S., Government Astronomer, New South Wales. Theauthor describes the results of his practical ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE are glad to note the addition of three volumes to this admirable series. No. 38 is the second part of the original account of the photochernical researches of R. Bunsen and H. E. Roscoe (1855-59). The other volumes are translations of a paper by Pasteur on the minute organic bodies in the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MY attention has only now been called to the letter of Dr. Klein, which appearedin NATURE, ante, p. 149. To the remarks referring to "Aminol"(with Periodate I am in no way concerned) I desire, with your kind permission, to make the following reply, as they contain inaccuracies which, if ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE volume with this title treats of large animals. It is clearly and simply written, without any pretence at being scientific, and is anexcellent book for boys and unlearned people who are curious to be informed upon the subject of fossil animals. It would have escaped criticism altogether but for ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE MOTION OF NovA AURIGIE.-Prof. W. W. Campbell, of the Lick Observatory, has communicated further results relating to Nova Aurigre to the December number of Asiron my and Asiro,z5hysics. He is now perfectly convinced that the variation in the velocity previously suspected is real, and probably ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A SECOND edition of an excellent pamphlet on the " Physical Geography and Climate of New South Wales," by Mr. H. C. Russell, F.R.S., astronomerroyalforNew South Wales, has just been issued at Sydney. It is published by authority of the New South Wales Government. The following extracts may be of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] FRIDAY, JANUARY 13. PcYSICAL SOCIETY, at s.- Upon Science Teaching: F. W. Sanderson. SocIETY OF ARTS, at 8.-1 he Devel)pment and Transmission of Power from Central Stations: Prof. W. Cawthorne Unwin, F. R. S. INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEeRS. at 7.3o.-Descriptionof the Design and Construction of a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS handsomely got-up and lavishly illustrated volume is, the author informs us, a largely expanded transcript of a course of lectures delivered by him, in 1891 "in the Catholic University of America, at Washington, DC" Its "main purpose is to give musicians and general readers an exact knowledge, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A BOOK summing up in a popular style all that is now known with regard to prehistoric man would probably be welcomed by a tolerably large class of readers. The present work does not quite supply the kind of summary that is wanted. The author does not distinguish with sufficient clearness between ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN this country the prevailing opinion is that the works of a man of science furnish the best monument to his memory. Though something can be said in favour of that principle, the restriction of its application to students and interpreters of nature is by no means justifiable. But a " look around" ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is not often that a great and industrious investigator lives to see his chief work so far completed as Prof. Brefeld has done; and still more rarely to find an enthusiastic exponent of all his views so willing and so capable of putting them before the public as Dr. von Tavel here proves himself ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A SERIES of experimental researches which promise to lead to important results, and which have already been applied by their author to the explanation of some difficult geological problems, have during the last few years been carried on by M. Daubree. These experiments are concerned with the action ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE professors of the University of Melbourne have interviewed the Premier on the subject of the decrease in the grant to that institution. They said that there was no possibility of reducing the present staff, as it was not overmanned. Many of their number had come to the colony uoder special ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] COMET FINLAY (1886 VII.).-M. Schulhof, in the current number of the Astr. Nach. (3171) gives the new elements and ephemeris of Comet Finlay. They are as follows:- ?=6 58 5-33 7?=7 41 34-i) a=52 27 427 \ 1893? t - 322-1) ?=46 0 49-4 ?=535-8046 log. a=?-5473335 12/1. M.T. ? arts. 1893 R.A. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, held on June 26, Captain F. R. Maunsell gave an account of his journeys in Kurdistan during the summer of 1892. Kurdistan is not an accurately-defined province, but may be described as the extensive district inhabited by the Kurds, embracing the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE report of the Marine Biological Association of Great Britain was read at the annual meeting of the Association held in the rooms of the Royal Society on June 28. From it we learn that the buildings, fittings, and machinery of the Plymouth laboratory are in a satisfactory condition, and have not ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON. Royal Society, December 8, 1892." On the Photographic Spectra of some of the Brighter Stars." By J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S. The present communication consists of a discussion of 443 photographs of thespectra of 171 stars, which have been obtained at Kensington and Westgate-on-Sea during ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I WRITE to suggest—in connection with the recent. letters in NATURE upon this subject—that some one give a thoroughly trustworthy list of British earthworms, with the memoirs in which the species were originally described, and the chief characteristics of each. Dr. Benham would be doing very ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] "BEAVER" was once the most important fur in the world. In former days the pelt of this Rodent was the standard by which all barter in the Dominion of Canada was regulated, and "beaver" passed as current coin throughout the whole of North America. Even now the quantity of beaver skins brought to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Governors of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College have appointed Mr. W. H. Watkinson, lecturerer on engineering, Central Higher Grade School, Sheffield, to the Chair of steam, steam engines, and other prime movers, recently instituted in the college. By several important changes, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON. Royal Society, June 8.-"The Experimental Proof that the Colours of certain Lepidopterous Larvae are largely due to modified Plant Pigments, derived from Food." By ?. ?. Poulton, F.R.S. The object of this investigation was to afford a conclusive test as to the theory, previously submitted ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] American Meteorological Journal, June.-The principal articles are: Note on the relation of solar spots to terrestrial anticyclones, by A. Searle. The relation considered is not one of cause and effect, but simply an analogy recently suggested in the Astronomische Nachrichten, by E. von Oppolzer, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] BOOKS.-Elements of Psychology: Prof. J. M. Baldwin (Macmillan).- Everybody's Guide to Music: J. Booth (Saxon).-A Handbook on the Steam-Engine: H. Haeder, translated by H. H. P. Powles (C. Lockwood). -Murray's Handbook-Switzerland, Savoy, Piedmont, 18th edition (Murray).-University Correspondence ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A COMPARISON of the size of the fourth edition ofthis book with that of the first, which appeared in 1884, supplies a good illustration of the rate at which the use of dynamo electric machinery, and our knowledge of its laws, have advanced during the past eight years. The 408 pages in 1884 have ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE attractive title of this little book speaks for itself, indicating that it is one of those numerous endeavours which are' being made at the present day to supply just such an amount of information in several different sciences as will satisfy the requirements of men engaged in some particular ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] CAPTAIN WHARTON has rendered excellent service to naval and colonial history, and to geographical science, by editing a transcript of Captain Cook's journal of the voyage of the Endeavour, which was undertaken chiefly for the purpose of observing the transit of Venus across the sun's disk, and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN this book the authors have brought together all those astronomical problems which are required for field work, limiting themselves simply to these, and dealing with them at sufficient length for practical work. The volume is intended especially for the use of cadets of the U.S. Military Academy, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE is little doubt that there is much to be done towards improving the machinery connected with the publication of papers on physical science. By publication of a paper I do not mean printing and binding and sending it to libraries in inconvenient places, which are open at inconvenient ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] III. I? Part II of this paper (NATURE, Sept. 24, 1891) the following statements were made:- " The only way ... of reconciling the results of calculation with the observed data is to assume that, for some reason, the effects of gravity are at least partially counteracted. This, in still air, can ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] XXVIIL-SIR ARCHIBALD GEIKIE. SOMEMONTHS ago the British Association for the Advancement of Science was holding its annual meeting at Edinburgh under the presidency of Sir Archibald Geikie, F.R.S., Director-General of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom. It may well be said that a more ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A NTHROPOLOGY owes much to Prof. Gerland, whose Fl. completion of the two last volumes of the late Prof. Waitz's "Anthropologie der Naturv¶lker "is a monument of that co-ordinated knowledge of fact which is the source of sound principle. His new "Atlas of Ethnology," while forming part of thegreat ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I FANCIED that, in reply to the voluminous letters of Prof. Willard Gibbs (NATURE, xliii. 511; xliv. 79), 1 had said in a few words all that is requisite (if, indeed anything be requisite) to show the necessary impotence, as well a the inevitable unwieldiness, of every system of(so-called) ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] As Dr. Wallace (NATURE, p. 175) trusts “that on further consideration” I shall “admit that” my “objection is invalid,” it is evident that I have failed to make clear to him my argument showing that his data do not warrant his conclusion. He overlooks the fact that a thickness of 177,200 ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE use of the solidus in printing fractious has been advocated by authorities of such weight that it seems almost a heresy to call it into question. Yet I venture to think that there is a good deal to he said against it. In such matters the course preferred by mathematical writers and their ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE admirable monographs issued under the auspices of the Ray Society, and in Van Voorst's series, by such well-known authorities as Forbes and Hanley, Alder and Hancock, M'Intosh, Ailman, Hincks, Brady, Norman, and others, are amongst the most creditable and useful productions of British Zoology, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE formation of the interference bands, known as Newton's rings, when two slightly curved glass plates are pressed into contact, was illustrated by an acoustical analogue. A high-pressure flame ? (Fig. i) is sensitive to sounds which reach it in the direction EB, but is insensitive to similar ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is a difficult matter to say much that is readable about text-books which are produced by teachers with a view to the limited requirements of their own pupils. Some text-books are, so to speak, obviously addressed to the world-are intended by their authors to be consulted both by the advanced ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE treatment of the material contained in this book is based on the idea that the elements have been produced from hydrogen, or ether, or primordial matter, by a process of condensation. The fourteen horizontal rows of the periodic table are regarded as representing fourteen different degrees of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE opening chapters of this little book are devoted to the solution of the questions, " Will wheat-raising pay in Great Britain ? " and "Is wheat to be no longer king ? " After indicating the reasons which led to the enormous reduction of land under wheat-a decrease of something like 42 per cent, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A VERY brief reply to such of your correspondents as have favoured my paper with direct or indirect criticisms will at the present stage of the discussion be sufficient. Referring first to Prof. Riicker's letter on p. 126, I acquiesce in the greater part of it-especially in its concluding ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I VISITED Tyne Dock yesterday, in order to attempt to solve the question put by Mr. A. W. Bennett in your issue of the 1st inst. The plants which caused the fatality grow in a small hollow close to a newly-opened road. The surviving child is but five years old, and therefore much too ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is well known to all Anglo-Indians, even the least scientific, that the summer monsoon is ushered in by two periods of rain-burst, called respectively the chota and burra barsat. The former occurs sometimes in April or May, and the latter in June or July, the precise dates varying not only ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WITH the writer's permission I send you herewith a letter which I have received concerning the subject of my letter which appeared in your issue of June 1. Daring the week following the date of my letter I repeatedly saw swarms of similar kind; but smaller and less marked, seldom visible ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] GERMANY, not unmindful that America is her best customer, will be worthily represented at Chicago. An elaborate catalogue, in the German language, has already appeared, and an English translation will shortly be published. We have been favoured with an advance copy of the latter, which is by no ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] FROM the Tunes we learn that a volcanic outbreak has occurred at Fukushima, in Northern Japan. Large volumes of dust and vapour have been emitted, and the country for miles around has been covered with volcanic ash. Landslips of great extent have occurred in the same neighbourhood, and are supposed ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A NEW VARIABLE it CYGNUS.-In photographing the region of ? Cygni, Dr. Max Wolf {Astronomischen Nachrichten, No. 3168), on examining the plates, has found a new variable, its position for 1893? being R.A. 2oh. 47.2111., Decl. + 450 49'. The star, he says, is very easy to find, lying as it does" in ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I. THIS elaborate and important monograph monopolizes the first two parts of the sixth volume of the Journal of Morphology. It is the second of a projected series on "Vertebrate Cephalogenesis." Its predecessor was published in the same journal two years ago, and the instalment now under ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN Brain, Parts LXI. and LXII., which have just been published, occurs an interesting article by Prof. Einthoven (of Leyden) on the production of shadow and perspective effects by difference of colour. The following is an account of the phenomena:- Difference of colour may, under certain ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN 1891 Dr. William H. Burk accompanied, as botanist, the party which escorted Lieut. Peary to his winter quarters in McCormick Bay. A number of plants were collected and taken to America, but they had barely been determined before an expedition was organised to search for Lieut. Peary, and Mr. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Rev. Bartholomew Price, Master of Pembroke College, has been added to the electors to the Savillian Chair of Astronomy on the present occasion. SIR HENRY HOWORTH, F.R. S., has had the honorary degree of D.C.L. conferred upon him by Durham University. OXFORD has conferred the degree of M. A. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] American "Journal of Science, June.-Electro-chemical effects due to magnetisation, by George Owen Squier.-Nikitin on the quaternary deposits of Russia and their relations to prehistoric man, by A. A. Wright. A summary of the views laid before the International Congress of Archaeology in Moscow, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] BOOKS.-Semi-azimuths; a New Method of Navigation, Part 1: E. W. Buller (Norie and Wilson).-A Dictionary of Birds. Part 1: A. Newton (Black).-Lehrbuch der Petrographie, Erster Band: Dr. F. Zirkel (Leipzig, Engelmann).-Grundzu?e der Physiologischen Psychologie, Erster Band: W. Wundt (Leipzig. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE completion of Dr. Thorpe's Dictionary, upon which both men of science and of practice may with truth congratulate him and his contributors, opens out the question how far such a work, however well done, can or cannot supply the needs at once of the layman, of the scientific man, and of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS Atlas, published in a strong cloth binding at net, is certainly unique in the British Market, and in its serial form it has already obtained a deservedly wide circulation. There is no kind of publication of which the British public is so ignorant as a map, and the fact that few purchasers can ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is the Catalogue of the Exhibition that was to have been held last year in the picturesque old town of Niirnberg; but in consequence of the state of health in Germany, the meeting of the German Mathematical Association and the exhibition were postponed; and they are now to be carried out this ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT the meetieg of the Royal Geographical Societ y on Monday Mr. W. W oodville Rc ckhill gave an interesting account ofa journey in Mongolia and Central Tibet. Leaving Peking on December i, iS9i, Mr. Rockhill travelled to the frontier town of Kaigan, then, entering Mongolia, he passed through the ...
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