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    Loomis's “Contributions to Meteorology” (1885)
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    Nature 33 (1885), S. 49-51 
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is now fifty years since Prof. Loomis's attention was directed to the study of meteorology, his interest in the subject having been awakened by Redfield's investigations respecting the phenomena and laws of storms. During the first forty years his principal writings were elaborate discussions of ...
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    Universal Secular Weather Periods (1885)
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    Nature 33 (1885), S. 52-53 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I Do not want to pose as a statistical cycle-hunter, or to bolster up any mere apparent local periodicity of a certain meteorological element, but I wish to place before your readers the appended independent paragraphs from two journals, one on each side of the Atlantic, and to ask any ...
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    Geographical Notes (1885)
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    Nature 33 (1885), S. 63-64 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A CATALOGUE of the printed maps, plans, and charts in the British Museum has been prepared by Prof. Douglas, and will be issued in two large volumes. It represents the contents of the manuscript catalogue in 323 volumes, the catalogue of the maps and plans in the Royal Library in two printed ...
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    The International Sanitary Conference of Rome, 1885 (1885)
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    Nature 33 (1885), S. 25-25 
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    Notes: [Auszug] HE first volume of the Proceedings of the International Sanitary Conference of Rome has been issued just at the time when the question of the reassembling of the Conference is a matter of diplomatic discussion. The Roman Conference of this year was brought together by the Italian Government because ...
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    [Book Reviews] (1885)
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    Nature 33 (1885), S. 29-29 
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    Notes: [Auszug] As the title-pages indicate, these attack the subject from quite different sides: the former is eminently practical, and everything unpractical is carefully eschewed: the latter goes into the principles and considers all from the theoretic side, giving very little practice. Mr. Jackson aims at ...
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    Blackberry Blossoms in November (1885)
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    Nature 33 (1885), S. 31-31 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE this day seen blackberry blossoms in a hedge on this road, and yet the autumn has been rainy and ...
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    The Recent Total Eclipse of the Sun (1885)
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    Nature 33 (1885), S. 6-7 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT may be interesting to your readers to supplement the description given in NATURE, vol. xxxii. p. 631, with the following notes which I have just received from a friend who observed the eclipse at Nelson, N.Z.: “As the period of totality passed away, a bright point of light as from a diamond ...
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    The Resting Position of Oysters (1885)
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    Nature 33 (1885), S. 8-8 
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    Notes: [Auszug] As your correspondent, Mr. J. T. Cunningham, expresses a doubt as to the evidence on which the current belief of conchologists is founded that oysters rest on the convex valve, I beg to inclose a cluster of three, brought to me among others from Torbay this morning. They are all attached by ...
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    University and Educational Intelligence (1885)
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 90-91 
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    Notes: [Auszug] CAMBRIDGE.-Two studentships have been established at St* John's College on the foundation of the Rev. Mr. Hutchinson〉 late Senior Fellow. They are of the value of 6o/. a year for two years and are tenable with a Foundation Scholarship. Any student of the College who shall be bond fide engaged in ...
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    The Silver-Lead Deposits of Eureka, Nevada (1885)
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 50-51 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE remarkable mineral district which is dealt with in -t this memoir is situated in the eastern part of the State of Nevada, about the centre of the dreary region known as the Great Basin, between the Great Salt Lake of Utah and the Sierra Nevada range of California. The business centre of the ...
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    Den Norske Nordhavs-Expedition, 1876 to 1878 (1885)
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 51-51 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE thirteenth report on the zoological collections of the Norwegian North Sea Expedition treats of the sponges, and is by one who, though well known as a student of other branches of zoology, has not, we fancy, been hitherto known as a spongologist. We do not know whether we may not associate with ...
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    Notes on the Action of the Wimshurst Induction Machine (1885)
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 51-52 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AN interesting notice on the different influence-machines now in use occurs in NATURE, vol. xxviii. p. 12. Of these ingenious instruments, that lately devised by Mr. Wimshurst is likely to recommend itself beyond others, on account of the ease with which it may be excited, even in a damp ...
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    Fossil Insects (1885)
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 53-54 
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    Notes: [Auszug] “THE Earliest Winged Insects of America; a Re-examination of the Devonian Insects of New Brunswick in the Light of Criticisms and of New Studies of other Palæozoic Types,” is the title of a brochure by Mr. S. H. Scudder, of Cambridge, Mass., recently published. These Devonian insects are ...
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    Aurora (1885)
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 54-54 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LAST night at about 10.30 to 10.35 p.m. there was a well-marked aurora visible from here. It did not last long, the bright bands fading rapidly into a general glow towards the north. The wind, which was easterly yesterday, has gone round to north-west to-day with tendency to rain and low ...
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    Red Hail (1885)
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 54-55 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. W. H. MITCHEL, of Newry, has sent me the accompanying note, which he thinks may be of interest to the readers of NATURE. On May 7, Mr. R. A. Mullan, solicitor, of Newry, was driving in a gig near Castlewellan, co. Down, when he was overtaken by a shower of hail. To his surprise he ...
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    Experiments with Coal-Dust at Neunkirchen, in Germany (1885)
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 55-56 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a former article on this subject which appeared in A NATURE of Nov. 6 last (p. 12), I described the apparatus employed by the Prussian Firedamp Commission in making their experiments, and at the same time I gave an account of four experiments that were seen by Mr. Wm. Thomas Lewis and myself. ...
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    The New Outburst of Lava from Vesuvius (1885)
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 55-55 
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    Notes: [Auszug] YESTERDAY, May 2, up to two o'clock, Vesuvius ^ appeared to be in its natural state of activity, such as persisted with slight variations for some considerable time. At that hour the lava, which was at some height within the cone of eruption, forced a way out at its base, traversing the plain of ...
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    Recent Explorations of the Pamir (1885)
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 59-61 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE third fasciculus of the Izvestia of the Russian, Geographical Society contains three very interesting, papers, by D. L. Ivanoff, on the Pamir, being the results; of the expedition of MM. Ivanoff, Putyata, and Ben-dersky, already mentioned in NATURE. The first of these papers deals with the ...
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    Geographical Notes (1885)
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 63-64 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE following message from Col. Prjevalsky, dated Lob Nor, March 15 (probably O. S.), is published in the Invalide Russe:- "During the last autumn and winter we visited Eastern Zaidam as far as Lob Nor. The middle range of the Kuen Lun, hitherto unknown, has been examined with sufficient care. The ...
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    Meteorological Instruments (1885)
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 67-67 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Royal Meteorological Society recently held its sixth x Annual Exhibition of Instruments at the Institution of Civil Engineers, 25, Great George Street, S.W. This Exhibition was devoted to sunshine recorders, and solar and terrestrial radiation instruments. The first attempt at obtaining an ...
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    Astronomical Phenomena for the Week, 1885, May 24–30 (1885)
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 65-65 
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    Notes: [Auszug] (FOR the reckoning of time the civil day, commencing at Greenwich mean midnight, counting the hours on to 24, is here employed.) At Greenwich on May 24 Sun rises, 3h. 58m.; souths, nh. 56m. 36*35.; sets, igh. 55m.; decl. on meridian, 20° 51' N.: Sidereal Time at Sunset, I2h. 5m. Moon (Full May ...
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    Societies and Academies (1885)
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 68-72 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Royal Society, January 22.-"Observations on the Chro-matology of Actiniae," by C. A. MacMunn, M.A., M.D. Communicated by Prof. M. Foster, Sec.R.S. The conclusions arrived at may in part be summed up as follows.- (l) Actinia mesembryanthemum contains a colouring matter which can be changed ...
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    The Value of a Marine Laboratory to the Development and Regulation of our Sea Fisheries (1885)
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 65-67 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is a striking fact, to which attention has before now been drawn, that whilst the agriculturist, on whom we depend for a large part of our food supplies, has very largely availed himself of scientific knowledge in the treatment of crops and herds, the fisheries of our coasts, which provide an ...
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    Epping Forest (1885)
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 28-28 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE public generally, and especially the people of London, and those who take some interest in natural history, are to be congratulated on the acquisition of so charmingly complete a little itinerary of Epping Forest as that now issued in a cheaper form by one of the Committee of Conservators, who ...
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    Hut Circles (1885)
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 29-30 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE remains of the ancient British habitations on the downs on both sides of Dunstable are fairly well known to archæologists. I have often wished to expose the floor of one or more of these circles, as the task could be accomplished with a spade in an hour or two. It is, however, far better ...
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    Hoar Frost (1885)
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 30-30 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A COMMUNICATION in NATURE of January 8 (p. 216), in regard to frost-formations, leads me to send a word from Maine. I have seen frost-work so like the description there given, that it would answer very well for an account of frosts in this climate. These frost-formations occur when the wind is ...
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    The Fauna of the Sea-Shore (1885)
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 417-420 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE marine fauna of the globe may conveniently, in ooo the pursuit of certain lines of scientific study, be divided into three groups according to the regions inhabited by it. There is the littoral fauna comprising the animals inhabiting the sea-shore and the shallow waters in its immediate ...
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    Jupiter (1885)
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 31-34 
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING the present opposition of this planet, the details of the belts and spots have continued to furnish materials of great interest. Some very obvious modifications have occurred since the previous year, and several curious new features have become conspicuous. The great red spot has surprised ...
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    Notes (1885)
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 425-428 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON Monday Prof. Michel Eugene Chevreul entered upon his looth year. Apart from the fact that among men whose lives have been devoted to active scientific research no one has before attained such an age, M. Chevreul stands conspicuous for the vast amount of work he has done and for the great ...
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    Radiant Light and Heat (1885)
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 422-425 
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    Notes: [Auszug] III. Absorption-Terrestrial Applications. HAVING now established the Theory of Exchanges, let us inquire at greater length into the nature of the radiation from bodies of different kinds. For this purpose we shall adopt the well-known classification into solids, liquids, and gases, and shall ...
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    Astronomical Phenomena for the Week, 1885, September 6–12 (1885)
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 428-428 
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    Notes: [Auszug] (FOR the reckoning of time the civil day, commencing at Greenwich mean midnight, counting the hours on to 24, is here employed.) At Greenwich on September 6 Sun rises, 5h. 22m.; souths, nh. 58m. 8*33.; sets, i8h. 34m.; decl. on meridian, 6° 18' N.: Sidereal Time at Sunset, I7h. 38m. Moon (New on ...
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    Geographical Notes (1885)
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 428-429 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. GARDNER, British Consul at Newchwang, publishes with his annual trade report this year (China, No. 6, 1885) a most interesting account of his consular district, which embraces the whole of Manchuria. It contains an area of about 300,000 square miles and a population estimated by the Roman ...
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    The Iron and Steel Institute (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE autumn meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute is being -*o held in Glasgow this week, under the presidency of Dr. Percy, F.R.S. On Tuesday, after the President had acknowledged the welcome given to the Institute by the Corporation of Glasgow and referred to the depression of trade, due, in ...
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    The Forth Bridge (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] AS the members of the Iron and Steel Institute purpose paying a visit to the Forth Bridge works, I have been requested by the Secretary to prepare a short paper on the subject for the information of the members, and do'so with pleasure. The North British Railway Company for many years have striven ...
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    Societies and Academies (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] SYDNEY Royal Society of New South Wales, June 3.-Prof. Liversidge, F.R.S., President, in the chair.-A paper was read by Mr. G. H. Knibbs on a system of accurate measurement by means of long steel ribands. The chief feature of the method of measurement is the application of such tensions to the ...
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    Life of Frank Buckland (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] FEW Englishmen were unacquainted with the central J- figure of this admirably written memoir. His ubiquity as a lecturer and inspector, the happy self-forget-fulness and adaptability of manner which associated him with royal princes as readily as with seaside fishermen, and the strong personality ...
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    Practical Guide for Compensation of Compasses without Bearings (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS work appears in its English garb under the auspices of Sir W. Thomson. In the published instructions for the adjustrhent of his patent compass, Sir William Thomson gives short directions for the use of the deflector, an instrument to facilitate correcting that compass by magnets and soft iron ...
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    In Memoriam (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE death of Alfred Henry Garrod at the early age of thirty-three was a great misfortune to the cause of zoology in this country. But that his distinguished successor, William Alexander Forbes, a man full of vigour and in the best of health, should have suddenly succumbed to the influence of a ...
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    Elementary Algebra for Schools (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is, in our opinion, the best elementary Algebra for school use. It is the combined work of two teachers who have had considerable experience of actual school teaching, aided by the advice of such men. as the present Head of Clifton College, and so successfully grapples with difficulties which ...
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    Chinese Insect Wax (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE beetle alluded to in connection with this subject in the last number of NATURE (vol. xxxi. p. 615) is a probably undescribed species of Brachytarsus, a genus of the family Anthribidœ, allied to the Curculionidœ. Through the courtesy of the authorities at Kew I have had specimens before me. ...
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    The Essentials of Histology (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS will prove a useful book for students. It is arranged in forty-two lessons and appendix. Each lesson commences with a short statement of methods for the microscopic examination of the tissue described in the lesson. All simple tissues and organs are thus passed in review, and their most ...
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    The April Meteors (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN 1882 the Lyrid meteor shower (epoch, April 19–20) was noticed to be far more conspicuous than usual. The display had been quiescent for some years; it appeared to have degenerated into a third rate shower, scarcely deserving the trouble of observation. But in the year mentioned the stream ...
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    Wild Bees (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] A FEW words respecting a colony of wild bees (a species of Andrena) which I have just discovered in our garden, may interest your entomological readers. A day or two ago, on walking beside a low-turfed mound which supports two trees on one of our towns, I noticed that the grassy surface on the ...
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    On M. Wolf's Modification of Foucaults Apparatus for the Measurement of the Velocity of Light (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] NO one who has the true interests of scientific accuracy at heart can fail to welcome any innovation whereby the elements of a research may be varied, for thereby the ever lurking constant error is most readily eliminated. It seems, therefore, that this in itself is sufficient reason for the ...
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    Self-Induction in Relation to Certain Experiments of Mr. Willoughby Smith, and to the Determination of the Ohm (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a lecture delivered by Mr. Willoughby Smith before o* the Royal Institution in June last (see Proceedings] ne experiments are detailed, which are considered to afford an explanation of discrepancies in the results of various investigators relating to the ohm, or absolute unit;"f electrical ...
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    Standard Pitch (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] MSORET raises the question of musical pitch, and advocates A 432, long ago proposed by M. Meerens, of Belgium. It is rather curious that in Belgium itself M. Meerens7 s proposal was considered and rejected by a Commission appointed in 1877, upon whose report the French pitch A 435 was adopted by ...
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    Notes (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE take the following from the Times:-The following is the list of selected candidates recommended by the Council of the Royal Society for the election to the Fellowship:-A. W. Baird, Major R.E., P. Herbert Carpenter, D.Sc., Sir Andrew Clark, M.D., Mr. A. A. Common, F.R.A.S., E. W. Creak, ...
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    Kite-Wire Suspended Anemometer Readings (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] HAVING lately made some observations with my anemometers elevated, as above described, at heights above the ground considerably greater than those mentioned in my paper before the British Association last year, I venture to think that a word or two as to the main point at present under ...
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    Quinquefoliate Strawberry (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT may interest botanical readers to know that we have here a variety of strawberry many petioles of which bear five leaflets. This kind of leaf is also transmitted to its offspring when propagated by runners, and I think it may be possible to raise from seed progeny the whole of whose petioles ...
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    Some of the Meteorological Results of the Total Solar Eclipse of May 6, 1883 (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the expedition sent by the United States Govern ment to Caroline Island (9° 59' 45" S. lat. and 150° 14' 24" W. long.) to observe the total eclipse of May 6, 1883, provision was made for taking a series of meteorological observations on the occasion. The ob servations, which were of an elaborate ...
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    The Semaphore and Electric Light at Shanghai (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE European and American community occupying the so-called foreign concessions in Shanghai has ately adopted the electric light. The illustration given below is the reproduction of a Chinese drawing repre senting the light and a semaphore with a time-ball in the French concession. It is taken from ...
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    Variable Stars (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN his stirring " Call to Friends of Astronomy " (Schu-x macher's Jahrbuch, 1844) to aid the advance of the science by taking up some definite department of work, Prof. Argelan der, among other points for investigation, drew attention to the observation of variable stars as presenting a fascinating ...
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    Astronomical Phenomena for the Week, 1885, August 30 to September 5 (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] (FOR the reckoning of time the civil day, commencing at Greenwich mean midnight, counting the hours on to 24, is here employed.) At Greenwich on August 30 Sun rises, 5h. nm.; souths, I2h. om. 23'os.; sets, i8h. 49111.; decl. on meridian, 8° 52' N.: Sidereal Time at Sunset, i;h. 26m. Moon (at ...
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    Geographical Notes (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] SAD news has been received from the Dutch African Expedition; its leader, Mr. D. D. Veth, died from disease on May 19, in the camp on the banks of the Kala-Kanga River, between Benguella and Humpata. This is a real loss for science as well as to his venerable father, Prof. P. J. Veth, who has given ...
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    Mineral Products of the United States (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE second Report on "The Mineral Resources of the 1 United States," by Albert Williams, jun., Chief of the Division of Mining Statistics and Technology, United States Geological Survey, is now in press and will be issued shortly. This Report is for the calendar years 1883 and 1884, and contains ...
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    Tardy Justice (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] You well advocate the establishment of a well-endowed scientific University in London. Perhaps, however, London is like a mass of dough which needs leaven. Why should not the Corporation of the City of London be that leaven? Perhaps, however, the Corporation needs that some one should employ a ...
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    Far-Sightedness (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] A PANORAMA of the Alps, as seen from the Piz Langard in the Engadine, used to be sold, upon which Mont Blanc wras figured, though some 3° distant. On a remarkably clear day this was pointed out to me, and I have no reason to doubt that I actually saw Mont Blanc at that distance. One morning I ...
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    University and Educational Intelligence (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE following list has been issued by the Science and Art Department of successful candidates for Royal Exhibitions, National Scholarships, and Free Studentships, May, 1885:- William Burton, aged 22, science teacher, Manchester, National Scholarship; Philip L. Gray, 19, assistant master, ...
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    Societies and Academies (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] PARIS Academy of Sciences, August 17.-M. Bouley, President, in the chair.-Observations of the minor planets made at the Observatory of Paris (large meridian instrument) during the second quarter of the year 1885, communicated by M. Mouchez. -Note on typhoons and the so-called " grains arques " of ...
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    Burnett Lectures, Second Course On Light as a Means of Investigation (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE interest raised by the first series of these lectures is fully sustained by this second instalment, though the subject-matter is of a very different order. Then, the main question was the nature of light itself; now, we are led to deal chiefly with the uses of light as an instrument for ...
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    Review of Agricultural Experiments by the Right Hon Sir Thomas Dyke Acland (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS purports to be a critical review with suggestions, and is actually an attack upon the objects, aims, and results of the Sussex Association for the Improvement of Agriculture. The writer brings a long experience and a good business faculty to bear upon the working of a scientific organisation, ...
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    A History of British Birds (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE students of British birds have at last received the oA- two final numbers of the new edition of Yarrell's celebrated work on their favourite subject, which was commenced as long ago as 1871. Fourteen years, it must be acknowledged, is a long time to wait, but on the other hand the subscribers ...
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    Melting and Boiling-Point Data (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is a very large and important work, and one which cannot fail to be useful to the scientific chemist. It is divided into several parts, and contains, or rather consists of, tables of the elements, inorganic and organic compounds, their constitutional and empiric formulae, melting- and ...
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    American Journal of Mathematics, Pure and Applied (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE first sixty-seven pages of Part 2 carry on Prof. Cayley's lectures on the abelian and theta functions, before the Johns Hopkins University (see NATURE, vol. xxxi. p. 189) to '* the end of Chapter VII." Other papers in this part are " Solution of Solvable Irreducible Quintic Equations, without ...
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    The Pupil of the Eyes during Emotion (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN connection with the above subject the following experiment may be of interest to your readers. It is one I made many years ago when studying the border-land between physiology and psychology. At that time I showed and explained it to a number of my friends. In this experiment it ...
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    Notes on the Geology of the Pescadores (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING a stay of two days in Makung Harbour in 1877, I collected a few notes on the geology of this small group, which has, from its recent occupation by the French, been brought before the notice of the public. These islands, which were briefly described in the last number of NATURE (p. 540), ...
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    The New University of Strasburg (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE following account of the new university buildings of Strasburg is taken, with a few abbreviations, from an article contributed to our contemporary La Nature, by M. Charles Grad, who is himself a deputy to the Imperial Reichsrath from Alsace. On Monday, October 27th, 1884, the new buildings of ...
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    On a Remarkable Phenomenon of Crystalline Reflection (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] Introduction. IN a letter to me, dated March 29, 1854, the late Dr. W. Bird Herepath enclosed for me some iridescent crystals of chlorate .of potash, which he thought were worth my examination. He noticed the intense brilliancy of the colour of the reflected light, the change of tint with the ...
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    Geographical Notes (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. WADA, of the Japanese Legation in Berlin, recently laid before the Geographical Society there certain maps produced by the Geological Survey of Japan, which represent the work up to the present of that establishment. It was founded in 1879, and was organised by Dr. Naumann, a German geologist. ...
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    Differential Calculus for Beginners, with a Selection of Easy Examples (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS little book deserves hearty welcome from those who are engaged in leading forward students to the higher mathematics; not so much as a substitute for any other work at present in use, but as presenting a carefully-selected set of illustrations of infinitesimals, limits, and differential ...
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    Rock-Pictures in New Guinea (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] A FEW years ago I mentioned in a paper in Globus (lxiii. 94) that Mr. Th. B. Leon had reported the existence of pictures on rocks he had seen in the Ogar and Arguni groups of islands (south part of McCluer inlet), and that the officer in command of H.N.M.S. Batavia, who had been charged to make ...
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    The Samsams (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] FROM a note in last week's NATURE it appears that during his recent explorations in the Malay peninsula M. Delouell claims to have discovered the “hitherto unknown” Samsam people. Allow me to state in reply that I have long been aware of the existence of these half-caste Malay and Siamese ...
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    On the Formation of Snow Crystals from Fog on Ben Nevis (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN addition to the actual fall of snow, hail, &c., there is *o on Ben Nevis a form of solid precipitation scarcely known on lower ground, but of almost daily occurrence here. In ordinary weather the top of the hill is enveloped in drifting fog, and when the temperature of the air and ground is ...
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    A Correction (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE very stupidly made it appear in my note on pitcher plants, printed in last week's NATURE (p. 341), that Dr.McBride was President of the Linnean Society in 1815. I ought to have written, “In 1815 the then President of the Linnean Society read a communication from Dr. James McBricle,” ...
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    The Harvard Photometry (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE have waited for the second part of this very * * remarkable volume completing the Harvard Photometry, rather than examine the separate portions piecemeal. There can be no doubt that its appearance is associated with an epoch in the general progress of astronomical science, coincident nearly with ...
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    U.S. Industrial Statistics (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] TO all who study anxiously social science, this is a very promising publication; its indirect testimony to the advantages of Republican institutions will be weightier to any reflective man than the eloquent tirades that are so usually bestowed upon them. -It defines its object to be the stimulation ...
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    Piercing the Isthmus of Panama (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THREE years ago the work of cutting through the -*o Panama isthmus had barely commenced. The equatorial forests on the neck of land, 73 kilometres long, which marked the axis of the future interoceanic canal, had hardly been laid bare. The traveller who followed the primitive road met here and ...
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    Mr. Lowne on the Morphology of Insects' Eyes (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. LANKESTER appears to me to be fighting too much under cover. First he sends his lieutenant into the field, and then he appears himself, in the guise of an independent ally. But inasmuch as he has virtually accused the officers of the Linnean Society of having published a paper unworthy of ...
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    Examples in Heat and Electricity (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is a Cambridge collection of problems and riders extracted mainly from the Smith's Prize, Tripos, and College papers of the last dozen years. The compiling (for there is nothing to be called authorship) has been, on the whole, judiciously done; and the printing is unusually clear and accurate, ...
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    Magnetic Disturbance (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE was a considerable disturbance of the magnetograph recorded here on March 15, and had the photographic curves been developed on that day, we should probably have predicted the occurrence of the aurora seen during the evening. The earth-currents, which are necessary concomitants of ...
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    The Motor Centres of the Brain and the Mechanism of the Will (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] FEELING deeply as I do the responsibility I have incurred o*" in undertaking to address you to-night, I desire to express my regret that I cannot instead share with you the pleasure of listening to the distinguished man who has been prevented by a most painful bereavement from addressing you ...
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    The French Association (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE fourteenth meeting of this Association has been held this year in Grenoble, one of the most intelligent and active French provincial cities, although it has not quite 25,000 inhabitants. It is situated on the banks of the Isere, one of the principal affluents of the Rhone, and is the head city ...
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    A New Arrangement of the Apparatus of the Rotating Mirror for Measuring the Velocity of Light (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] HAVING now been engaged for a number of years in measuring the velocity of light by means of the rotating mirror, I have succeeded in rearranging the apparatus in such a manner as, by means simply of two mirrors, one fixed, the other movable, placed at a distance of a few metres from each other, to ...
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    Societies and Academies (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] EDINBURGH Royal Society, July 20.-Mr. David Milne-Home, LL.D., Vice-President, in the chair.-Dr. Harvey Gibson read the second part of his paper on Patella.-Prof. Tait read a paper by the Rev. T. P. Kirkmanon the unifilar knots with ten crossings; and also a paper of his own on the census of ...
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    Civilisation and Eyesight (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] HAVING read with much interest the recent correspondence in NATURE on this subject, I am forwarding the results of some observations which I recently made to determine the degree of acuteness of vision possessed by the natives of the islands of Bougainville Straits, in the Solomon Group. ...
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    Mr. Lowne on the Morphology of Insects' Eyes (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN reference to the discussion between Dr. Sydney Hickson and Mr. Benjamin Lowne, I beg to state that I have been favoured by both of those gentlemen with opportunities of carefully studying their preparations, and I feel it to be my duty to state that in my judgment Mr. Lowne's preparations do ...
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    Krakatoa (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] SUPPOSING that the underground noises heard at Caïman-Brae on Sunday, August 26, 1883, were not only synchronous with, but actually the same as, those caused by the great eruption in the Straits of Sunda, it does not seem to follow that the sound waves were propagated through the whole diameter ...
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    The Action of Very Minute Particles on Light (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE action upon transmitted light of very minute particles suspended in a transparent medium is very well known, thanks to the investigations of Brücke, Tyndall, and others, up to a certain point. That is to say, that white light, passing through varying depths of a medium with such particles ...
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    Bos Primigenius (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE, March 12 (p. 451), a specimen of the jaw of this animal is referred to as having been exhibited at a meeting of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, followed by the remark: “It is apparently the only specimen that had been seen in Britain. Its size is given as 18¼ inches in ...
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    Geographical Notes (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] A COMMITTEE of the Geographical Society of Vienna has been appointed to carry out the business arrangements of Prof. Lenz's proposed expedition to Central Africa. It is reckoned that 25,ooofl. will be wanted for the expedition. At first it was thought that Herr Lenz might go out as the ...
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    Dr. Klein on Cholera (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT a recent meeting of the Abernethian Society of St. Bar- tholomew's Hospital, Dr. Klein briefly reviewed the accepted theories as to the aetiology of cholera, and stated the views concerning it which he had been led to adopt since his visit to India. His address is of importance as embodying the ...
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    Practical Physics (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE authors have done a real service to all whose J- business it is to conduct classes in a physical laboratory by supplying them with a most excellent guide. Not only teachers, but students, will find this book invaluable. The authors have for some time prepared manuscript notes for use in the ...
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    Colourless Chlorophyll (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN his elaborate “Contributions to the Chemistry of Chlorophyll” (NATURE, vol. xxxii. p. 117), Mr. E. Schunck rightly observes that the explanation given by Mr. Tschirch for the curious fact discovered by Mr. Church is not based on sufficient proof. Indeed it could hardly be admitted that the ...
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    A Possible Windfall for Science (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] Is not the better course for immediate action that the departments in England and the United States should first combine? Let each apportion a part of the calculation, and then print it in an agreed form. The sterotype plates would be interchanged, and what a private firm does the Government ...
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    The August Meteors (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] LAST night at 9.32 a brilliant meteor crossed Cassiopeia's Chair from W. to E. parallel to the horizon. Its trail was visible for twenty-six seconds after the bursting of the meteor. During a five mile walk, lighted by many meteors, the summer lightning incessantly flashed from the northern ...
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    July Meteors (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] BETWEEN July 8 and 14, 111 shooting stars were recorded herein 1134 hours of observation. The paths of these, reproduced upon an 18-inch celestial globe, enabled me to fix the radiant points of 12 showers with considerable distinctness:— ...
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    Electrical Phenomenon in Mid-Lothian (1885)
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE observed in a daily contemporary a communication quoted from your journal with reference to this occurrence on the 23rd ult. For the information of those of your readers who are interested in such matters perhaps you will kindly allow me to observe that I also witnessed a similar, ...
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    Time in the United States (1885)
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    Nature 31 (1885), S. 459-459 
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN your issue of January 23 the statement (p. 277) that “local time throughout the United States, as opposed to railway time, has been abolished,” is not quite accurate. At the introduction of the “standard” time an attempt was made in many places to do this, but it has proved impracticable, ...
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    Astronomical Phenomena for the Week, 1885, March 22–28 (1885)
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    Nature 31 (1885), S. 468-469 
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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    Notes: [Auszug] (FOR the reckoning of time the civil day, commencing at Greenwich mean midnight, counting the hours on to 24, is here employed.) At Greenwich on March 22 Sun rises, 6h. om.; souths, I2n. 6m. 53'8s.; sets, i8h. I5m. -, decl. on meridian, o° 49' N.: Sidereal Time at Sunset, 6h. l6m. Moon (at First ...
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    Accidental Explosions Produced by Non-Explosive Liquids (1885)
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    Nature 31 (1885), S. 469-472 
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] TEN years ago the lecturer discussed in some detail the various causes of the continually recurring casualties which are classed under the head of accidental explosions, and he then had occasion to compare the causes of coal-gas explosions, the occurrence of which is as deplorably frequent now as ...
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