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    Nature 29 (1883), S. 10-13 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a series of letters to Mr. Oscar Dickson, Baron -^ Nordenskjold has given a detailed report of the leading incidents and results of his recent expedition, though it will still be some time ere we can learn what are the full gains to science. The leading novelty of the expedition was, of course, ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 560-560 
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    Notes: [Auszug] CAMBRIDGE.-The following courses of lectures and practical work have been announced for the present term by the Special Board for Physics and Chemistry:- Chemistry.-Prof. Liveingf, General Principles; Prof. Dewar, Physical Chemistry, advanced; Mr. Main (St. John's), Organic, elementary; Mr. ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 560-560 
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    Notes: [Auszug] SYDNEY Royal Society of New South Wales, June 6.-Charles Moore, F.L.S., vice-president, in the chair.-Two new members were elected, and 156 donations received. The following paper by Mr. Peter Beveridge was read:-On the aborigines inhabiting the great lacustrine and riverine depression of the ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 540-541 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE been assured, by a gentleman to whose opinion all dabblers in science photography must bow, that the following method of photographing objects of still life was unknown to him, and that its publication might prove useful to others. Having some years ago to photograph a series of ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 514-515 
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    Notes: [Auszug] SINCE I wrote the account of M. Dollo's researches on Iguanodon, which appeared in NATURE of September 6 (p. 439), I have had the advantage of some conversation with Prof. Marsh on the subject, and am anxious to state one or two matters which I learned from him concerning questions raised in my ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 529-530 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE career of this indefatigable investigator, as we 1 announced last week, has just closed. Born in the second year of the present century, he has occu pied a notable position in the scientific world for more than fifty years. Before he reached middle age he met with the terrible misfortune of ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 515-515 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THOUGH a member of many years' standing of the British Association, I have not had the advantage of being present at the current meeting, and am altogether indebted to the report in NATURE for a knowledge of Prof. Henrici's opening address in Section A. It is much to our advantage to have ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 531-533 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. J. Y. BUCHANAN has been invited to accompany the expedition which sailed last week from the Thames to survey the route and lay the cahles connecting Cadiz and the Canary Islands, and these islands with Senegal, on the west coast of Africa. During the laying of the cable from Lisbon to Madeira, ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 461-461 
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    Notes: [Auszug] As an adherent of the school of thought which Mr. G. J. Romanes (NATURE, vol. xxviii. p. 387) has subjected to such a spirited criticism, I may perhaps be allowed to make a few comments upon his position. If all science, at least all that has outgrown the mere registration of facts, ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 542-544 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WITHIN the past few years the science offish culture ** has made rapid progress, and radical changes have been made both in the apparatus and methods em-ployed. Experience has enabled the fish-culturists to improve upon the old forms of hatching-boxes and troughs, while the propagation of ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 462-462 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE meteor described in your issue of August 23 (p. 389) was well seen here (lat. 1° west, long. 54° 15' north) and formed a splendid object. It bore a little east of south, and its apparent path was nearly horizontal from west to east, towards and at about the same declination as the full ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 463-464 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE fact that the note on this subject inserted in NATURE, June 14, p. 151, was copied in extenso by the Electrical Review, by the New York Electrical World, and I believe by some other papers, as well as the fragmentary way in which these observations must of necessity be obtained, encourages me ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 607-607 
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    Notes: [Auszug] OXFORD.-The commencement of the Michaelmas Term has been marked this year by an event of happy augury for the advancement of science in Oxford. Prof. Burdon-Sanderson opened the physiological depar.ment in the University Museum with an inaugural address, in which the aims and scope of physiology ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 608-608 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PARIS Academy of Sciences, October 8.-M. Blanchard, president, in the chair.-On the force of explosive substances, by M. Berthelot. In reference to the work in two volumes just published by him on this subject (" Sur la Force des Matieres explosives d'apres la Thermo-chimie, Gauthier-Villars, ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 607-608 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Bulletins de la Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris, tome 6, serie 3, 1883.-In a discussion on polyandry in Cashmere and Thibet, M. Olivier Beauregard maintained that this practice prevailed among the early Aryan races of Hindostan 2Coo years before the Christian era, as shown in the first book of the ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 561-562 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE pages of NATURE are not the appropriate place JL for the review of works on general metaphysics. The genius and methods of science are so different from those of philosophy that, as their respective histories have amply shown, these branches of intellectual activity are as a rule best kept ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 488-488 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THAT there is a connection between sedimentation and subsidence on the one hand and between denudation and elevation on the other is a fact now admitted by most geologists. The real question to be answered, however, is:—Are these directly connected as cause and effect? or are they simply ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 489-489 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LETTERS have been published in NATURE of August 9 and 16 (pp. 334 and 366) by Mr. Bryce-Wright of Regent Street and Prof. Honeyman of Canada, calling in question the accuracy of statements made in an article in NATURE (vol. xxviii. p. 289) which were condemnatory of exhibits for which ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 489-490 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. D. MORRIS, in his account of this rainbow (p. 436) appears to have fallen into a mistake in stating that its inner diameter—taken by Capt. Winchester, R.N.R.—was 43° 08′. It should be, I think, “inner semidiameter”. The first circumsolar bow has a semidiameter of 41° 37′. That is almost ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 510-512 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I am required to address the so-called Physical Section of this o*o Association. Fain would I speak pleasant words to you on this subject; fain would I recount to you the progress made in this subject by my countrymen, and their noble efforts to understand the order of the universe. But I go out to ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 491-509 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Southport meeting promises to be one of the most successful since the Association met in Liverpool twelve years ago. According to the latest statistics it is expected that in attendance it may even rival the York meeting, when over 2500 people gathered to celebrate the jubilee of the ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 457-458 
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    Notes: [Auszug] CAUTION and scepticism, which are necessary to the student of every branch of natural science, ought to be the especial attributes of the vulcanologist and seismologist. No other natural phenomena so strikingly affect the imagination or so powerfully excite the fancy as do the volcanic outburst and ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 564-564 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT may interest some of your readers to know that I found last week a Palæolithic flake in some gravel at Gray's Inn Lane, where they are now making excavations for sewers. It is a somewhat large, flattish, subtriangular flake of implement-like form, exhibiting a large cone on the plain side ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 564-564 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A SPLENDID meteor was seen yesterday (Saturday) evening at about nine o'clock. It passed from the north-east, beneath the Pole star, to the west, where it vanished instantaneously without bursting. The nucleus measured, I should say, at least 5′ of arc in breadth, and was extremely ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 564-564 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I OBSERVE that it is asserted in a German technical journal that the golden microscopic dust on hops, which English growers call “condition”, and in which the finest properties of the hop are supposed to reside, does not increase in quantity, as generally it is supposed to do, with the growth ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 462-462 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A LARGE number of pillar stones marked with crosses, early Christian inscriptions and oghams, have been destroyed in Britain by farmers during the present century; a still greater number must have been destroyed before these objects began to attract special attention. A great number of the ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 435-435 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is a small guide-book to Vichy, pleasantly written. It contains, as usual in such books, a general account of the place, its springs bathing establishments and en virons, analyses of the waters, and an enumeration of the diseases in which they are said to be useful. We doubt whether the latter ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 435-436 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE is no reason to think that Stachys palustris, L., is anywhere used now for food in the British Isles. The cultivation of the potato must have long since put it out of court for any such purpose. But that it was once so employed there seems abundant evidence. The part eaten, however, was ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 436-436 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN your issue of July 26 (p. 306) there is a description of an apparatus lately devised by Messrs. Negretti and Zambra, by which a record of twelve temperatures in succession can be obtained by the somewhat elaborate arrangement of twelve thermometers, a clock, and a series of electromagnets ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 436-436 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A DISPLAY of aurora was seen here on the 30th ult., which may perhaps be of sufficient interest for insertion in NATURE. A thunderstorm passed from west to south during the afternoon. Thunder and lightning commenced between 3 and 4 p.m. and continued till about 9 o'clock. The storm centre ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 437-437 
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    Notes: [Auszug] NEED we go to Sweden to test the theory that copper is a preservative against cholera? The year before the 1865 epidemic I travelled by train past Swansea, and my attention was called to the utter want of verdure in the surrounding country, due, I was told, to the copper fumes. Now, ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 437-439 
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    Notes: [Auszug] SINCE my last letter to NATURE most of my time has been occupied in visiting different parts of the island, and although there are still a number of objects to be carefully examined the general features of the catastrophe I hope to have cleared up. The actual moment of the earthquake is unknown, ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 446-446 
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    Notes: [Auszug] TEMPEL'S COMET, 1873 II.-M. Schulhof of Paris has published elements and an ephemeris of this comet for the approaching return to perihelion. The following is the predicted orbit:- Epoch, 1883 October 2O!o M. T. at Berlin Mean anomaly 354 5 43 -5 Longitude of perihelion 306 7 4'4) ivr p- ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 389-389 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I SAW a very brilliant meteor from the promenade here last night (Sunday, August 19), at 10.3 p.m. It passed along the eastern sky and vanished over the summit of the Little Orme. The meteor was, I think, more brilliant than Venus at her brightest, though the full moon was shining not far off ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN refererence to “H. M. C's.” letter in this week's NATURE (p. 366), it is interesting to recall how the traveller Jackson, speaking of the plague that occurred in West Barbary when he was there, says, “The birds of the air fled away from the abodes of men.” Thomas Moore, in “Paradise and the ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 398-398 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE following report by the Hon. W. Littleton, addressed to Sir John Pope Hennesy, Governor of Mauritius, has been forwarded by His Excellency in answer to a memorial presented by the late President of the Royal Society, and several other gentlemen, relative to the preservation of the gigantic ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 399-400 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Vienna Electrical Exhibition was opened to-day to the public. The patron of the Exhibition, the Crown Prince Rudolph, the Portuguese Crown Prince, the Princes of the Imperial family, the higher functionaries of the State, and the Foreign Commissioners were present at the opening ceremony. The ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 408-408 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PARIS Academy of Sciences, August 13.-M. Blanchard, presi-dent, in the chair.-On Kekule's 0-butylglycol CH3-CH . - OH-CH2-CH2. OH, obtained as an accessory product of the hydrogenation of aldehyde, by M. Ad. Wurtz.-On the laws of reflection as applied to the displacements of elastic bodies of ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 375-377 
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    Notes: [Auszug] TELEGRAMS from Drontheim to Vienna announce that the members of the Austrian expedition to Jan Mayen have arrived there safe and well, after an absence of six months. This v\ as one of the circumpolar observing parties, and during the year's residence on Jan Mayen neither officers nor men suffered ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 381-383 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE authors recall that at the conclusion of the third part of A their researches (Phil. Trans, for June 11, Part I. vol. clxxi.) they stated that they intended to make an investigation on the dark discharge, and the special conditions of the negative discharge; this paper contains a number of ...
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    Nature 28 (1883), S. 471-477 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE illustrious Argelander was accustomed to say in the -*o quaint form of speech which he often employed, "The attainable is often not attained if the range of inquiry is extended too far." In no undertaking is there greater need of a judicious application of this sound maxim than in the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING the past summer various accounts have been published of the discovery of human footprints in sandstone r.ear Carson, Nevada. The locality is in the yard of the State prison, and the tracks were uncovered in quarrying ^tone for building purposes. Many different kinds of tracks were found, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT was not until the beginning of December that our winter really set in, but when it did so there was no mistake about it, as the ist of the month began with the thermometer at -34°, and except for some mild weather at Christmas, the cold continued through that month. January was colder still, the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE short abstract given in NATURE (p. 336) of the Comptes rendus for July 23, contains a mistake in respect to M. Wolf's paper “Sur un appareil à l'étude des mouvements du sol.” It is stated that M. Wolf's apparatus involves the same principle as that by which my brother and I magnified the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ONE cloudless evening lately, while walking on a hillside near the southern shore of Loch Etive, Aygyllshire, facing the setting sun, I observed each member of our little company cast a double shadow on the upward slope of the hill; first, the usual complete, well defined shadow cast in clear ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SINCE the publication of a method for the determination of the value of the horizontal component of the earth's magnetism by Mr. A. Gray in NATURE, vol. xxvii. p. 32, I have worked out the value of “H” for my laboratory here, and from six sets of experiments carried out during the month of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Gilchrist Engineering Entrance Scholarship at University College, Londo i, will be open to competition at the end of September. The conditions of examination are this year somewhat altered in a direction which places the scholarship better within the reach of those for whose benefit it was ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE SATELLITES OF SATURN.-Dr. W. Meyer has published corrected, or what he calls definitive, elements of the satellites Enceladu^ Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, and Japetus, chiefly founded upon his observations at the Observatory of Geneva in 1881, the mean motions however being determined from a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Bulletin of the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences, June.- On the action of amygdaline during the germination of bitter almonds, by M. A. Jorissen.-Determination of the specific heat of some organic bodies; variations experienced by this quantity through change of temperature, by M. de Heen. Of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE contents of the present volume, embracing details of the work done by the United States Fishery Commissioner for the year 1879, are quite as varied and even of greater interest, if that be possible, than the preceding reports. The specific objects of the methodical inquiry which has now been ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] You ask in one of your “Notes” (p. 329), what can be the cause of birds leaving a locality before the approach of cholera? The following anecdote may be of interest, but I of course cannot vouch for its having any real connection with the subject. It must have been in the summer of 1848 that I ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ACCOUNTS are not rare of female cats having adopted the young of other creatures when deprived of their own, or while nursing their own young, but I have never met with a case like the following:— My torn cat, Smut, whose eighteenth birthday was lately celebrated, has always been kind to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SOUTHPORT has been selected for the meeting of this body in 1883, and the fifty-third annual session will commence on the iQth and end on the 27th of September. It is not necessary to dilate upon the various reasons which led up to this arrangement. Suffice it to say, that there was strong ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A LETTER appears yesterday, again criticising Mr. Starkie Gardner's general views about pressure, in the same sense as was done by myself a fortnight ago. But, referring to that gentleman's opinion that pressure can render rocks molten or fluid, Mr. Young goes on to remark: “Is not the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I FULLY agree with the remarks on this important subject made in your leading article of last week; and the necessity for local scientific societies being in some way placed in direct communication with each other and with the central metropolitan societies has long been present in my mind. It ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE observation of your correspondent in NATURE, vol. xxviii. p. 329, regarding the effect of lime in strengthening the bones of children, induces me to communicate certain facts which I observed daring a recent tour of two months in Norway. We travelled by land from Christiania to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] REFERRING to the paper read before the French Academy (as reported in your last issue) on copper as a preservative against cholera, it may be worth while to stale that when visiting the great copper mines at Fahlun in Sweden (probably the oldest and largest in the world) I was informed that ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A CONNECTION between these phenomena has been repeatedly suggested. J. W. Ritter has articles on the subject in Gilbert's Annalen (1803 and 1804), and Kupffer has a long one in 1827. Other writers who have dealt with it or with the connection, between auroræ and atmospheric electricity ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT may be of interest to some of your readers to know that the meteor mentioned in NATURE as seen on Sunday evening, August 19, was also seen here, timed by me at 10.1 p.m. The compass bearings were from south-east past east to east-east-north, about 35° from horizon; colour, yellow orange; ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] II. THE title of Paper IV.-"Storms in Bengal, accompanied by increased Atmospheric Pressure and the Apparent Reversal of the Normal Diurnal Oscillation of the Barometer," by Prof. J. Eliot,-must necessarily appear somewhat strange to those accustomed in our latitudes to the frequent masking, if ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the current number of Wiedemann's Annalen, Prof. C. Christiansen of Copenhagen resumes his researches on the indices of refraction of coloured liquids. The methods adopted consisted in the examination of the liquid in hollow prisms of very small refracting angle; a few drops of the liquid being ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Geological Society, June 20.-J. W. Hulke, F.R.S., president, in the chair.-Henry Yorke Lyell Brown, Edward St. F. Moore, John Henry Nichols, and Henry Parker, were elected Fellows, and Baron F. von Richthofen, of Berlin, a foreign correspondent of the Society.-The following communications ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ONE of the "Fathers," the great Austin we believe of Hippo, when asked which was the first Christian virtue, replied, Humility ! And the second? Humility ! And the third? Still Humility! So Dr. Wills would seem consciously or unconsciously to think that of travellers the first, second, and third ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN regard to the meteor seen by your correspondent P. F. D. at Hendon on the 6th inst., at 8.53 p.m., in a clear sky and broad daylight, I have the following entry in my diary under the same date: “Meteor going south-east through Cassiopeia at seven minutes to nine; daylight.” It was indeed a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THESE two little books, published almost simultaneously but in the order in which their titles are given above, have been written, as Dr. Brown tells us, "as a small contribution to the literature of Britain on subjects pertaining to forest science." The author has shown in previous writings on ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A METEOR was seen at Hendon on the 6th hist., at 8.53 p.m., in a clear sky, and broad daylight. The course by compass was from north-east to east, at an altitude of about 27° above the horizon when first seen, and 22° when it disappeared, after being visible six or seven seconds. I drew the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE just read in the columns of your journal the very interesting communication (Part II.) from Mr. A. N. Pearson regarding the transmission eastwards of barometric movements, and in which he likewise alludes to simultaneous affections of the barometer. Speaking of these latter he says: “As ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE understand that Her Majesty's Government having through the Foreign Office been invited to appoint delegates to the International Geodetic Congress to be held at Rome in October next, at which the adoption of an international common meridian and common time for railway and telegraph purposes is ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] VARIABLE STARS.-The following are Greenwich mean times of geocentric minima of Algol to the end of the present year, which fall between about 6h. and I5h.; advantage has been taken of the recent observations of Dr. Julius Schmidt, at Athens, in their calculation:- h. m. i883, Sept. 3 .. . ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. ALPHONSE MILNE-EDWARDS, chief of the French deep-sea expedition in the Talisman, writes from St. Vincent, Cape Verde Islands, under date July 28, that the expedition had met with complete success. After having investigated the deep-sea faura of the African coast to a distance of some leagues ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE following abstract of the report by Mr. Frank S. Sprague o*o on the Edison-Hopkinson dynamo-electric machine will be found of interest to electrical engineers:- Characteristic features of the dynamo are: General arrangements-those of a shortened and differently proportioned Edison dynamo. The ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I. EXPERIENCE only confirms what a cursory glance would have led us to anticipate from theoretical and a priori considerations-that meteorology, the most modern as well as one of the most ancient of all the sciences, requires to be studied on the largest possible scale. The synoptic charts of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] FOR many years philosophers have speculated as to whether the surface of the earth is really so stable as it usually appears. With the sudden and violent motions of our soil which we call earthquakes man has been familiar since the earliest times, and the origin of these disturbances has always ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE received from one of the Baptist missionaries in the front of the Congo mission a basket of specimens of rocks and a letter giving some particulars of the geological structure of the localities. The letter may be interesting as the first news of this kind from the centre of Africa, on ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS book is based on a " First Book of Chemistry/' by Dr. Worthington Hooker, and is intended, we are told in the preface, u to convey information in respect to changes which are likely to attract the attention of young persons who observe and inquire." It is questionable whether " young persons ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I AM happy to find that my experience of “ducks and railways” is confirmed by so high an authority as Mr. Goodsir from observations made on the other side of the world. Agreeing so far, we differ as to the cause by which the birds are influenced, Mr. Goodsir attributing it to “quick and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE accompanying experience may be of interest to some of your readers; and that it may be the more genuine in the recounting of it, I copy the little entry I made in my notebook some few hours only after the occurrence, as it was so distinctly impressed on my mind that I could not but be ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] UNFORTUNATELY not having been present when Mr. W. R. Browne read his paper on glacier motion at the Royal Society on June 15, 1882, it only came under my notice when published in NATURE, vol. xxviii. p. 235. It is doubtless of little importance, but there is one sentence which does not seem to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] NOT having had the pleasure of perusing Mr. Waller's paper on sand, I gather from Mr. Gardner's notice of it that it is an attempt to distinguish by the aid of the microscope whether sand has been formed by the action of wind or of surf. Having a number of years ago become possessed with the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WITH reference to Mr. Archer's note in NATURE last week (p. 226), may I remark that the beak of the garfish of southern waters (Hemiramphus, A.) is of rather too fragile a nature to be capable of making a slit of four inches in length in a hard felt hat? May not the fish in question have been ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHILE watching, last evening, some glowworms in a mossy stone wall, my attention was attracted to a firefly flying to and fro in the field beyond and approaching the wall where I stood. Arriving within two or three feet of the glowworm I was watching, he made several sharp zigzag flights, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HEARD what I fancy was rather a curious instance of mimicry last Wednesday evening (June 28) about 10 o'clock. I was walking with a friend across a field adjoining a meadow, in which was a landrail (Rallus Crex); we both noticed that the animal's cry, or crake as it is called here, was ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN your review (p. 195) of “Field and Garden Crops of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh” you speak of the peculiar system of numeration used by the author, as in the instance 6,79,06,496, expressing sixty-seven millions, &c. Perhaps I may be allowed to point out that this marking is ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE funeral of the late President of the Royal Society on Thursday last was impressive and solemn, ana was a fitting end to the life that had passed away. We take from the Times the following account of the general arrangements of the funeral:- A large number of those who were present assembled ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE no wish to quarrel with the review you have printed of my book, “The Student's Mechanics;” and I have to thank the reviewer for drawing attention to one omission, namely, the failure to explain fully the second law of motion, as related to the two methods of measuring force. But I should ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] As explained in my note on p. 245, I had not the advantage of perusing Mr. Waller's paper on “Sand.” Mr. Gardner, in his notice of it gave the first place to “distinguishing with certainty by the aid of the microscope sand that has been worn by the action of wind from sand that has been for ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON Sunday, July 15, as a heavy thunderstorm was passing away from over this place, a brilliant rainbow appeared a little to the south of east about 5.45 p.m. There was a complete primary arch and a nearly perfect secondary one, and on being led to examine the former in consequence of its ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE report from the Central Observatory, by Prof, de Rossi of Rome, shows that signs of the coming catastrophe were not wanting at the different meteorological stations. What follows is, according to the Daily News correspondent, the most interesting part of Prof, de Rossi's report. " Several days ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WITH the general work of the expedition sent out by the Norwegian Government in 1876-8 for the investigation of the physical and biological conditions of the North Atlantic, our readers have already been made familiar by communications from Dr. Mohn during the progress of the expedition. We have, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] The second annual meeting of the Royal Society of Canada was held at Ottawa during May 22-25. The officers who had been elected at the close of the last meeting were all present, viz.:-President, Principal Dawson, C.M.G., F. R.S.; Vice-President, Hon. P.]. O. Chauveau, LL.D.; Hon. Secretary, J.G. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN most simple Ascidians the single nerve ganglion is situated near the anterior end of the body, and between the branchial and atrial apertures. In species where the atrial aperture is near or at the posterior end of the body, the ganglion may also be placed far back, but it still lies between the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] CAMBRIDGE.-Mr. W. H. Caldwell, B.A., Fellow of Caius College, has been selected to proceed to Australia to endeavour to solve the important questions connected with the reproduction and the embryology of the Monotremata, which have so long baffled inquiry. Mr. S. F. Harmer, B.A., of King's ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR LIEBSCHER.'S little work is the result, the author o*-' tells us, of his investigations during an eight months' sojourn in Japan in 1880. A cursory glance at the contents shows that it bears the physiognomy of a, strictly scientific work. The work is divided into five parts:-(i) The condition of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT the annual general meeting of the Society of Arts, which was held on the 27th ult., Sir William Siemens being in the chair, the following resolution relative to the death of Mr. Spottiswoode, who was a vice-president of the Society, was passed:-" That this meeting of the Society of Arts desires ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS well-known text-book having reached its fourth J- edition, it is unnecessary to review it as a new work. The changes from the third edition are very great; the chief is the omission of the whole of the " Hydraulic and Meteorological Statistics" (about 224 pp. of tables); these relate chiefly ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE question of the causes which produce the movement of glaciers, which was at one time so eagerly discussed, would appear to have slumbered for the last ten years. This cannot be said to arise from the fact that a perfectly satisfactory theory has been developed, and recognised as such by all ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT has occurred to me that the following notes of a rough determination of the value of the horizontal component of the earth's magnetism, according to the method described by Mr. Andrew Gray (NATURE, vol. xxvii. p. 32), might not be without interest to some readers, as showing the amount of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Linnean Society, June 21.-Prof. P. M. Duncan, F.R.S., vice-president, in the chair.-The following gentlemen were balloted for and elected Fellows of the Society, viz. Messrs. E. J. Baillie, J. Borland, K. McKean, E. C. Malan, and H. A. A. Nicholls.-A specimen of Polyporus sulfureus was ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE account I extract below was given in a local paper dated May 30 last:— "Strange Attachment.-A curious instance of the above was brought to our knowledge by Mr. Hibbs, of the ' White House,' Swanage. A hen sitting on thirteen eggs hatched out twelve chickens on the i$th inst., but ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] OF all the writers in this country who seek to render the facts and the theories of modern science attractive to the general public, Mr. Grant Allen is in our opinion among the most successful. We know that he does not profess to be in any serious manner an original investigator of these facts, and ...
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