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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 484-484 
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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    Notes: [Auszug] I VENTURE to suggest the following as possibly an explanation of the fact observed by Mr. Traherne Moggridge, that the flowers of Fumaria pallidiflora attain their brightest colouring when the time for their fertilisation has past. In plants with a racemose inflorescence the individual ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 485-485 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WILL you allow me to ask Mr. Hubert Airy, in reference to his interesting paper on the “Microscopic Examination of Air,” in NATURE, vol. ix. p. 439, on what ground he refers the “triangular pollen” captured on his slide to the birch and hazel? Observations of my own have led me to the ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 484-485 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ILLUSTRATIONS drawn from experiments or observations made upon animals lower than ourselves in the scale of life must always possess great interest. That impressions received by us in early life are more permanent than those made in after years, and that the memory of the old is less retentive ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 485-485 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I AM a little surprised to find, by the recent letters in your paper, that Science makes so wide a mouth over this phenomenon, though its exceptional character, and the general correctness of Colonel Greenwood's theory, must readily be recognised. My surprise is occasioned by the fact that ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 485-485 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WILL you permit me to correct a mistake as to a matter of fact in NATURE, vol. ix. p. 441. Loch-na-Davie, Arran, has two outlets, as is correctly represented in the Ordnance Map, and also in that in Bryce's “Geology of Arran.” In August 1872 I walked up the north stream from Loch Ranza to its ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 486-486 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON Saturday last the remains of David Livingstone, which left Central Africa now nearly a year ago, were interred in Westminster Abbey, in presence of a multitude such as was probably never collected therein on any similar occasion. The funeral procession, which started from the Geographical ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 487-489 
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    Notes: [Auszug] II. THERE is perhaps no problem which has been so constant a source of interest to the learned in all ages as the solving of the mystery of the solar system. The labours of Copernicus, Tycho Brane", Kepler, and Newton have given us a general knowledge of the nature of the planetary motions ; and ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 485-486 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IV. AMONGST the places in the Atlantic marked out by the Circumnavigation Committee as being of especial interest, the small island of Trinidad is noted with those whose vegetation is absolutely unknown, or all but so. From this fact Trinidad became a point of attraction which Mr. Moseley was most ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 489-490 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I. ON Tuesday, April 14, Mr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., gave the Introductory of the twelve lectures which are to be continued during the spring. His remarks on that occasion were chiefly confined to the subject of Zoological Gardens in general. After an interesting account of the most important ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 490-492 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE magnificent bequest of 10,000l. has been made by the late Mr. E. R. Langworthy to the Owens College, Manchester, for the purpose of developing the chair of Experimental Physics. A splendid opportunity is thus afforded to the Professor of Physics in Owens College not only to advance original ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 492-494 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Geographical Magazine, No. I, April.-Such is the title of the successor to Ocean Highways, which a " Notice " informs us, "has been discontinued," Mr. C.R.Markham, C.B., F.R.S., '' having taken the editorship of the Geographical Magazine, issued under new proprietorship." We certainly prefer ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 494-496 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Mathematical Society, April 9.-Prof. Cayley, vice-president, in the chair.-Mi. G. H. Darwin read a paper On Probable Error in Statistics. He stated that he had been at v,-ork at a statistical inquiry, and was desirous of forming some idea of what degree of accuracy he had a right to expect ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 457-458 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT has given us special pleasure during the last few years to record the efforts made in several of our British Universities and Colleges to adapt their teaching and their appliances for teaching to the present state of knowledge. We have seen what has been done by means of a fraction of the ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 458-460 
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    Notes: [Auszug] JUDGING from the rapidity with which text-books on Organic Chemistry have made their appearance of late, it might reasonably be inferred that a good treatise on that subject is much wanted. The student who turns eagerly to the present manual in the hope that the eminent author will help him out of ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 460-460 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I BEG permission to make a few remarks on Mr. J. Traherne Moggridge's statement (NATURE, vol. ix. p. 423) that the flowers of fumaria capreolata are at first pale or nearly white, and only attain their brightest colouring, becoming even crimson, after the ovaries are set. He then adds :—“If the ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 460-461 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the vegetable kingdom we meet very commonly with gaily-coloured chemical products, essentially connected with the normal processes of development (the chlorophyll of most non-parasitic plants, the splendid rose pigments of Florideæ, the many lively-coloured pigments of lichens and fungi), ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. SKERTCHLY left England in 1871 for the purpose of making zoological collections on the West Coast of Africa. On his arrival at Whydah he was induced to go up to Abomey, the capital of Dahomey, for the purpose of instructing the king, Gelele", in the use of some guns that had arrived, on the ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 461-461 
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    Notes: [Auszug] SOME of your readers may have noticed in the Report of the Proceedings of the Meteorological Congress at Vienna that it was decided to be advisable to convene a fresh Conference for maritime meteorology, in Order to reconsider the decisions of the Brussels Conference in 1853. The matter ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 461-462 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ABSENCE from town has delayed what further remarks I have to make respecting the disputed origin of physical axioms. The particular physical axiom in connection with which the general question was raised, was the Second Law of Motion. It stands in the Principle as follows:- " The ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 462-462 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN reference to the controversy between Mr. Spencer and his reviewer about Sir I. Newton's calling his laws of motion “axioms,” it is to be observed that there is a certain ambiguity in the word. “Axiom” is from àξcóω (I demand), and would thus signify a first principle to be taken for granted. ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 463-463 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE word pierced makes the difference between an impossibility and a fact which is not uncommon in nature. The thorn mentioned in your last impression by Mr. Murphy has grown between two beech stems, which were so close that from their annual increase they grew together, and in so doing they ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 463-463 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I BEG to offer my thanks to Mr. Knobel for his obliging Correction (vol. ix. p. 396) with regard to the contrasted tint of the snow-poles of Mars. His observations had quite escaped my recollection. I have also to mention a correction with which I have been favoured by the Eirl of Rosse. ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 463-463 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A SHOOTING-STAR, equal in apparent brightness to the planet Jupiter, was seen hereby me this evening at 9h 18m· It traversed a path of 24° in two seconds, beginning at R.A. 242°, D + 47°, and ending at R.A. 278°, D + 50°. No perceptible train remained after the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] OUR readers are no doubt familiar through the daily press with all that has transpired during the past week in reference to the all-absorbing topic of the late Dr. Livingstone and the home-bringing of his remains. The coffin containing these arrived at Southampton yesterday morning, and was ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE working of the National Museums in Brazil seems to be conducted on similar principles to those recently advocated for the management of the Government Museums in this country. From a thick volume of 388 pp. explanatory of the topography, constitution, and resources of Brazil, issued in ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 464-466 
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    Notes: [Auszug] VII. AMONG the phenomena of-polarised light which may be observed either with a Nicol's prism or even with the naked eye, one of the most curious, and perhaps not yet fully explained, is that of Haidinger's brushes. If the eye receives a beam of polarised light a pale yellow patch in the form of ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 467-468 
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    Notes: [Auszug] II. IT is well known that the eggs of sharks and rays, when deposited, are enclosed in a strong horny capsule or " purse " formed as a secretion from the oviduct. In both groups these curious appendages have the form of a pillow-case, the corners being pointed in the rays, and produced into long ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 468-469 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE hurricane season; here reckoned from July 25 to October 25, went by without damage so far as the Windward and Virgin Islands are concerned, though not without disastrous examples of the phenomenon from which it derives its name elsewhere. Two cyclones of the ordinary kind have in fact visited ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 469-471 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE well-known German serial, PoggendorfFs Annakn dir Physik and Chcmie has nowbeenin existence fifty years, and we are glad to see that practical recognition has just been taken of the striking fact that it has, during this long period, been under the sole editorial direction of Prof. Poggendorff, ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 471-474 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE attempt to unravel geological history, as far as the stratified rocks are concerned, and all the igneous rocks connected with them, simply resolves itself into this:-an effort to realise the physical geography of different geological epochs, to make out the relations of the sea and of the land ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 474-475 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the Journal of Botany for March, the editor, Dr. Trimen, commences a series of useful articles (which is continued in the April number) on the Botanical Bibliography of the British Counties, being a list of country and district floras arranged topographically. The other paper of greatest ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 475-476 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Geological Society, March 25.-John Evans, F. U.S., president, in the chair.-The following communications were read: -On the Upper Coal-Formation of Eastern Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, in its relation to the Permian, by Principal Dawson, F.R.S. The author described the ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 437-438 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS excellent work having originally appeared in 1839, a second edition in 1874 deserves more than a passing notice. Ina country like our own, which has been well populated for so many centuries, and in which the people are increasing at a rate only possible in connection with vast strides in our ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE naturalists whose names are attached to the present work have been for some years working together on American ornithology. Besides numerous papers and articles of greater or less importance published in the " Ibis," the " Proceedings of the Zoological Society," and elsewhere, they completed in ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. COOPER is already well known as an enterprising traveller and delightlul story-teller through his " Travels of a Pioneer of Commerce in Pig-tail and Petticoats;" the present narrative is one of the most attractive published for a long time; it is one of the few books now published one feels ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS institution is one of the oldest of its kind in America, having been originally founded upwards of eighty years ago, just after the conclusion of the American War of Independence. At present it is one of the most comprehensive and active of the American societies, its sphere of work embracing ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN support of the conclusions arrived at by Mr. Douglas Cunningham, of Calcutta, in his “Microscopic Examinations of Air” (NATURE, vol. ix. p. 330), and in illustration of the method which he employed, perhaps I may be allowed to describe some observations of the same kind which I made three ...
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    Nature 9 (1874), S. 440-440 
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    Notes: [Auszug] M R. WALLACE'S last letter seems to call for a word of explanation from me. I did not refer to the up stroke of the bird's wing because this was not the point in dispute. But in reply to Mr. Wallace's latest stricture—that I appear “to ignore the great downward reaction, added to gravitation, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a former communication (NATURE, vol. ix. p. 361) I promised to advance what seems to me a probable cause—additional to those already known—of the reduction of useless structures. As before stated, it was suggested to me by the penetrating theory proposed by Mr. Darwin (NATURE, vol. viii. pp. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON June 22, 1863, the late Captain Speke published his map, giving (on native authority)four outlets from Lake Victoria Nyanza, converging to one valley or water-flow—the Nile. On June 21 and on July 20 I wrote to the Athenaum:-" I think that this native information will prove to be ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON the road from this to Belfast there is a thorn hedge with beech trees at intervals, and thorn plants have grown right through the middle of the trunks of two of the beeches. I do not know whether this is sufficiently uncommon to be worth mentioning in ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN abstract dynamics an instantaneous reversal of the motion of every moving particle of a system causes the system to move backwards, each particle of it along its old path,-and at the same speed as before when again in the same position-that is to say, in mathematical language, any solution ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] RECENT explorations in the Pacific Ocean indicate that its bed is singularly level.' The soundings of the U.S. steamer Tuscarora, Capt. George T. Belknap, between Cape Flattery and Oonalaska, were described in NATURE, vol. viii. p. 150. Upon the conclusion of that cruise, which included also ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE daily papers have published some extracts from a letter written from Lake Bangweolo, of the late Dr. Livingstone to Mr. ?. ?. Stanley, which have been kindly furnished by the enterprising proprietor of the New Yotk Herald; we reproduce here so much of the letter as bears on the geographical ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE prognostications delivered by M. Charles Sainte-Claire Deville, in his communication of March 2, before the French Institute, were wonderfully fulfilled, at least for Paris, the cold period having had its beginning on the gth, and its end on the I3th, as was predicted. Public attention was all ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the two accompanying woodcuts Mr. T. W. Wood has very carefully and accurately mapped out for us the manner in which the peculiar skin-folds, so conspicuous in both the Indian one-horned rhinoceri, are arranged over the surfaces of their bodies, The sketches were both taken from the specimens ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] III. ST. VINCENT, CAPE DE VERDE ISLANDS ST. VINCENT, one of the Cape de Verde Islands, noted in the old gazeteers for its wood, water, wild goats, turtles, and saltpetre, was visited by the Challenger in July and August last. From a record of this visit we gather the following particulars about ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE are glad to hear that Government have consented, though tardily, to give effect to the wishes of the country, by offering to defray the expenses of the funeral of Dr. Livingstone in Westminster Abbey. The Times states that a merchant in the city of London, in view of the inability of Dr. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I. IN days of old it was supposed that the earth held the central position of the solar system, and that moon, sun, and planets moved round it, each in its own orbit. The moon was supposed to be nearest to us, then came Venus, then Mercury, after that the sun, then Mars, Jupiter, arid Saturn. We ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] American Journal of Science and Arts, March.-This number commences with an intere.-thig paper, by Prof. Leconte, On the Great Lava Flood of the West, and on the Structure and Age of the Cascade Mountains. The flood, commencing in Middle California in separate streams, became in Northern Oregon and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I. oTOWARDS the end of the last century, Van Marum, while J- experimenting with his powerful electrical machine, observed that oxygen gas through which electrical sparks had been passed acquired a peculiar odour and the property of attacking mercury. This subject attracted no further attention for ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT has become a trite remark, that while both the 1 progress and teaching of Science are fostered in most educated countries by the care of the State, they mainly depend in our own country on the exertions of private individuals; this fact is perhaps, however, more strikingly seen in the case of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] FROM time to time an idea is started that Zoology is breaking down under the weight of its synonymy. With entomologists I have frequently contended that so far from this being the case, there is, on the contrary, an almost marvellous agreement in the generic and specific names used, especially ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE condensation of liquid in the form of vapour into minute globules, and the production of a shower of rain, may be very well illustrated for class purposes in the following manner :— Place about an ounce of Canada balsam in a Florence flask, and let it boil. At the top of the flask ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHEN lately at Buitenrovg-the scarcely euphonious equivalent of the “Sans Souci” of a former English Governor of Java-we had the good fortune to make the acquaintance of the owner of a name, whose peculiarity, no less than fame, has rendered it familiar to every biologist. The friends-and we are ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Royal Society, Feb. 12.-“ On the Division of Sound by a layer of flame or heated gas, into a reflected and a transmitted portion,” by John Cottrell, Assistant in the Physical Laboratory of the' Royal Institution; communicated by Prof. Tyndall,-p -n c A vibrating bell contained in a padded box was ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE is no more difficult task than that of editing reissues of scientific works published some years since. The progress of science is so rapid, the number of new facts accumulated year by year so enormous, that the most satisfactory and exhaustive treatise on any subject written by a specialist ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is not my intention to go through the detailed proofs of the different statements in my review of his work to which Dr. Pettigrew objects, and which his letter of last week in no way falsifies, nor to show how he has quite missed the point of an observation of mine which he condemns as “ ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ALTHOUGH we published last week a letter from o^*- Mr. Baden Pritchard, Hon. Sec. of the Photographic Society, impugning the justice or accuracy of our strictures on that Society, our esteemed correspondent has not caused us to change our opinion. We have now before us the Journal of the Society ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE accompanying letter, just received from Fritz 1 Miiller, in Southern Brazil, is so interesting that it appears to me well worth publishing in NATURE. His discovery of the two sexually mature forms of Termites, and of their habits, is now published in Germany; nevertheless few Englishmen will ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Royal Society, Feb. 5,-“ On the Anatomy and Habits of the genus Phronima (Lattr.).” By Dr. John Denis Macdonald, F.R.S., Staff Surgeon R.N., Assistant Professor of Naval Hy. giene, Netley Medical School. Of all groups of Crustacea the Amphipoda would appear to exhibit the widest range, in the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE are two or three points in Dr. Pettigrew's new book as to which, perhaps, many of your readers in common with myself would be glad of a little light First, in speaking of the gannet, he says: “Each wing, when carefully measured and squared, gave an area of 19½ square inches.” But how is ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE phenomena exhibited by selenite are also produced by other crystals, but the facility with which plates of the former substance can be obtained, causes them to be generally used in preference to others. There is, however, a peculiar class of crystals, of which quartz, or rock crystal, is the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT the scientific meeting of the Zoological Society, on Tuesday, February 3, Mr. A, H. Garrod introduced a new Classification of Birds, based mainly on the disposition of their muscles and other soft parts. The following is an abstract of his paper:- The osteology of birds, judging from the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ZOOLOGISTS and botanists universally adopt what ·£-' is termed the binomial system of nomenclature invented by Linnaeus. The essential principle of this system is, that every species of animal or plant is to have a name made up of two words, the second word-which is called the specific or trivial ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ACCORDING to a notice in NATURE, vol.ix. p. 228, a distinguished continental naturalist finds an important discordance between Darwinism and certain facts connected with Trilobites and other fossil crustaceans. But his argument appears to be based on an assumption that we are acquainted with a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE metropolitan photographic journals contain evidence that the Photographic Society of London is menaced with revolution or dissolution. If both were to befall it, the interests of Science would hardly suffer, since a more singularly inefficient organisation, under the guise of a scientinc body, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. GOULD, the director of the new Observatory in the Argentine Confederacy, continues to send encouraging accounts of the progress of the great asiro-mical works that he has there undertaken. Having laboured to determine accurately the relative brightness of all the stars in the southern heavens ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE advisedly, not thoughtlessly, used the expression " terrestrial electricity." It is not an expression we are accustomed to. We are accustomed to '' terrestrial magnetism; " we are accustomed to atmospheric electricity. The electric telegraph forces us to combine our ideas with reference to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN his address to his Greenwich constituents Mr. Gladstone has undoubtedly attacked a weak point of human nature, by his announcement of a large balance, the promise of the removal of the income-tax, and other reductions in taxation; but those who really have the welfare of their country at heart ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is one of the best books of the kind we have met with. It is written for the young, but Mrs. Chisholm has wisely made no attempt to " write down " to the supposed mean capacity of the little folks; she tells her intensely interesting story in simple, unaffected, clear, forcible English. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I BEG to forward to you a letter from the principal light-keeper at Dhu Heartach Lighthouse, addressed to Mr. Cuningham, Secretary to the Board of Northern Lighthouses. The Dhu Heartach is a trap rock about fifteen miles to the W.S.W. of lona, in Argyllshire, which is the nearest land. It ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ASSUREDLY “the worthy and humane Huxley” stands in no pressing need of the testimonial of Mr. G. W. Cooke (NATURE, vol. ix. p. 202) to his worth and humanity. (By the way, I thought at first that the gratuity came from the generosity of Mr. E. W. Cooke, whose amusing vivisections, in his ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] RUHMKORFF'S induction coil is now a classical instrument found in every laboratory. It is constantly employed to obtain the sparks intended to combine gases in eudiometric analyses, but its use is not limited merely to effecting combinations, it 'effects also decompositions, another property ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE report which reached England a few days ago of the death of Livingstone, and which Dr. Kirk was able to characterise as possibly unfounded, as it closely resembled a'discredited one current in Zanzibar before he left, received important confirmation yesterday morning. We are enabled, however, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROGRESSION on land, in water, and in air, are J- phenomena so intimately connected with everyday life, that all of a thoughtful and observant turn of mind cannot help becoming acquainted, unassisted, with most of the details and much of the principle of their production. Many will therefore open a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] VERY nearly a year ago Prof. O. C. Marsh, of Yale * College, announced the discovery of a new order of Mammalia, the Dinocerata, huge elephantine forms, with three pairs of horns and large canine teeth, from the Eocene deposits of the country to the east of the Rocky Mountains, including the states ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ILLUSTRATED BY AN ALBERT-TYPE PLATE. THERE are, as is well known, two methods by which spectra may be obtained: (i) by the action of a prism; (2) by a system of closely-ruled lines. In the latter case it. ·〉 convenient to speak of the contrivance employed as a grating, and of the spectrum as ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE value of Natural History would be more fully ap-preciated if its higher aims were more perfectly understood. Too many fancied that the study of natural history consisted in mere collecting and naming, and looking at pretty objects. This was, however, mere scientific play; whereas the more ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE have received a somewhat bulky volume of Memoirs of the Royal Society of Science in Liege (1873), in which a considerable variety of subjects comes under notice; zoology and mathematics being, perhaps, the most largely represented. An tioge, by Prof. Morren, on Jean Theodore Lacordaire (who ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Rivers-pollution Commissioners (Prof. Frankland and Mr. J. C. Morton), having, during the last five years, made and published more than 2,000 analyses of river and other waters throughout England, Scotland, and Wales, before and after pollution, and no less than 1,200 examinations of impure ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is a useful Catalogue of Apparatus, which contains an account of the method of using the principal pieces of apparatus which are described. There are also suggestions for keeping instruments in good order. It will be found useful by those who select apparatus for purposes of school teaching or ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE just had the opportunity of examining the cobra mentioned in my letter dated 12th inst, together with a very handsome one belonging to another snake charmer. This latter cobra also devoured a frog in the space of a minute or two after it was placed in the basket, the frog croaking ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LECTURE I. IT is needless for me to say to the ladies and gentlemen who honour these lectures with their presence, that they are intended more especially for the instruction of boys and girls. As in all other cases where it has fallen to my lot to teach others, I shall endeavour, while avoiding ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] The Monthly Microscopical Journal, for this month, contains four papers, besides the notes, record of the progress of Microscopical Science and the Proceedings of the Royal Microscopical Society.-Mr. S. J. Mclntire, in Notes on so-called Acanllus, discusses the point whether the specimens described ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN this volume, which forms one of the international scientific series, the thoughtful reader is once more called on to consider those leading positions in psychology for which Prof. Bain has so long and so ably contended. He has here succeeded in presenting his views in language as concise, clear, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the first of these numbers, perhaps the most interesting paper to an English geologist is one by von Theodor Fuchs, " On Peculiar disturbances in the Tertiary Formations of the Vienna Basin, and on a self-evident Movement of Unconsolidated Earth-masses,” which is accompanied by a number of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE, vol. viii. p. 488, under the heading “New Marine Animal from Washington Territory,” Mr. P. L. Sclater announces the description by Mr. Stearns of the Verrillia blakei, the long-sought-for owner of the wand-like rod named by Gray, Osteocella septentrionale. I write to say that ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SINCE the discovery of an eleven years'period in thephenomena of solar spots, several corresponding periods (it is now well known) have been demonstrated in terrestrial phenomena, more 'especially in those of magnetism, auroras, cyclones, and rainfall. With regard to weather changes, it has been ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE following official report of General Morin, the JL director of the Conservatoire des Arts-et-Metiers, Paris, to the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, which we take from the Journal of ike Society of Arts, furnishes some interesting details as to the present condition of this magnificent ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Royal Society, Dec. 18, 1873.-" On the Nervous System of Actinia,” Part I., by Prof. P. Martin Duncan, F.R.S. After noticing the investigations of previous anatomists in the histology of the chromatophores, the work of Schneider and Rotteken on these supposed organs of special sense is ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MESSRS. T. H. WALLER and H. R. Procter have furnished vis with a translation of the second edition of Dr. Ko'alrausch's " Physical Measurements," to which they have added several useful Appendices and Tables. Their work is intended to serve as a text-book for students in experimental physics, and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE is an agency in the denudation of the limestone rocks of Saràwak which I do not think has been noted, but which is very efficient locally in its operation. The limestone in question is a dark-blue compact rock (probably the oldest stratified formation in this part of Borneo) full of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE thermo-electric theory of nerve-force propounded by Mr. Garrod (NATURE, vol. viii. p. 265) seems capable of extension. If a pole of metal, cased in a non-conducting sheath, were sunk in an artesian boring so as to reach from the level of constant temperature to the greatest depth ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] V. More conspicuous flowers adapted to cross-fertilisation, ana less conspicuous ones adapted to self-fertilisation, occurring in different species of the same genus. WHAT has been described in the two last articles as occurring in varieties of the same species (using the term " species " in its ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON Monday lasi the French Academy of Sciences named Mr. J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., one of its Correspondents, to fill the place rendered vacant in the Astronomical Section by the death of Encke. We believe that the following is a complete list of the English scientific members of the French ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] -Vol. ix. p. 124. ist col. I. 6, for " South Villa," read " Campden Hill, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Royal Society, March 26.-On the Motions of some of ilu Nebulas towards or from the Earth, by William Huggins, D.C.L.,LL.D.,F.R.S. The observations on the motions of some of the stars towards and from the earth, which I had the honour to present to the Royal Society in 1872, appeared to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] TEACHERS of chemistry will be glad to welcome the third edition of Prof. Church's " Guide," to which much new matter has been added. Being specially adapted for students of agricultural chemistry, the book is necessarily somewhat limited in its scope, but the amount of information conveyed within ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] As is shown by the passage from his Thermodynamics which he re-quotes, Prof. Tait holds that “Natural philosophy is an experimental, and not an intuitive science. No à priori reasoning can conduct us demonstratively to a single physical truth.” I hold, on the contrary, that as there are d ...
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