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    Nature 15 (1876), S. 117-117 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN an advertisement in NATURE (vol. xv., p. xxxviii.) Mr. Harris (Kuklos) challenges mathematicians “to examine and disprove if they can.” his published demonstration of the value of π. Presumably he reads this publication ; if so, we would direct his attention to an article on “Cyclometers and ...
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    Nature 15 (1876), S. 123-125 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE expedition, of whose plan, equipment, and composition -*- we have already given some account, left Tromso in the steamer Ymer, on July 25 this year, and on the 3Oth entered Matotschkin Scharr, where they obtained some specimens of Novaya Zemlya salmon. An easy passage was made to the east side, ...
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    Nature 15 (1876), S. 125-126 
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    Notes: [Auszug] TELESCOPIC METUORS.-In his {Histoire de G Astronomic pour 1'Annee VIIL," Lalande, referring to Schroter's observations, states, " il a vu plusieurs fois dans son telescope des petites etoiles qui filent comme un petit trait de lumiere tres-faible, qui dure 2 ou 3s," and by way of explanation goes ...
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    Nature 15 (1876), S. 96-96 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS little volume (which is intended for popular reading) is comprised of several short essays, by different writers, upon the separate subjects indicated. Each essay contains a fairly good account of the history and general trade position of its subjects, but so far as their mechanical ...
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    Nature 15 (1876), S. 97-97 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is no doubt to be regretted that Mr. Woodward, misled by insufficient authority, should have introduced, in his excellent work on the geology of England and Wales, still further confusion into the maltreated old rocks of Charnwood Forest, but I doubt whether their age is quite so certain as ...
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    Nature 15 (1876), S. 97-97 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THOUGH the discussion of the age of the rocks of Charnwood Forest is not likely in the present state of our knowledge to lead to any useful result, there are still a few points in Prof. Hull's letter on the subject which seem to call for remark. In the first place the late Prof. Jukes was by no ...
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    Nature 15 (1876), S. 98-98 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE paper of Prof. C. A. Young read at the last meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science describing his recent measures of the displacement of the D and other absorption lines at the receding and approaching limbs of the sun, has a double interest. By careful measures to ...
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    Nature 15 (1876), S. 101-104 
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    Notes: [Auszug] FOR some time after the introduction of submarine A telegraphy Sir William Thomson's mirror galvanometer was the only instrument delicate enough to receive the signals transmitted through a long cable. The spot of light reflected from the mirror moves over the scale and indicates every change of ...
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    Nature 15 (1876), S. 108-108 
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    Notes: [Auszug] NEW FRESH-WATER RHIZOPODS.-For many years the small group known as Actinophrys, first accurately described by Ehrenberg, remained somewhat isolated, distinguished among unicellular forms by its nearly constant spherical form, and the persistence of its straight radiating processes or "pseudopodia." ...
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    Nature 15 (1876), S. 73-74 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I. THIS is in many respects an important work. Full of experimental facts and theoretical suggestions, clearly and forcibly written, it is important as a contribution to our knowledge (and our ignorance) of the functions of the brain. The reader must not misunderstand my parenthesis as an epigram. ...
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    Nature 15 (1876), S. 76-77 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the report published in NATURE (vol. xiv., p. 492) of an address given at the Glasgow meeting of the British Association, September 11, by Sir C. Wyville Thomson, and revised by the author, the following passage occurs:— “We have come to the conclusion that this great mass of water is ...
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    Nature 15 (1876), S. 79-80 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT the meeting of the Mathematical Society on November 9, Prof. H. J. S. Smith gave an address on this subject, in which he excluded all reference to applied mathematics. "I shall regard it," he said, "as a fortunate circumstance if my successor when he, in his turn, is looking round for a subject ...
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    Nature 15 (1876), S. 81-84 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN addition to the points referred to in our article of last week, there are several others touched on in Lieut. Payer's work, which, in view of some of the results of our own expedition, it may not be unprofitable to dwell upon. Indeed a comparison between the observations and deductions of so ...
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    Nature 15 (1876), S. 90-90 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Schriften der physikalisch-oekonomischen Gesettschafi zu Konigs-berg (1875, ? and 2).-These parts, amongst a number of smaller papers and notes, contain the following more important treatises: -On the determinations of temperature in the soil at different depths at the station at Konigsberg, by ...
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    Nature 15 (1876), S. 53-54 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN this little book Dr. Foster gives us the results of his experience in teaching physiology practically to students. As may be readily understood, such teaching is attended with much greater difficulties than those encountered in the experimental teaching of chemistry or of physics-difficulties ...
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    Nature 15 (1876), S. 54-55 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE preface states that in these volumes, of which the present is one, " the facts are gathered together and presented in as readable a form as is compatible with accu-racy and a freedom from superficiality; and though they do not lay claim to being a technical guide to each industry, the names of ...
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    Nature 15 (1876), S. 59-59 
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    Notes: [Auszug] As the localities of Antedon rosaceus seem to be exciting interest, I may notice that I dredged the adult state in June, 1875, in Bressay Sound, sheltered in about 10 fathoms water, and in June, 1876, abundantly between Mount St. Edgecumbe and Duke Island, Plymouth, in about the same depth of ...
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    Nature 15 (1876), S. 61-62 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE population of the parish of Morton, 1871, was 2,099-the chi'ef village, Thornhill, containing about one half of the population of the parish. The parish is situated ori rJbth batiks of the Nith in the North of Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Yet sparse as is the population, and remote from the great ...
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    Nature 15 (1876), S. 62-65 
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    Notes: [Auszug] NO doubt most of our readers have some acquaintance -l with the story of the memorable Austro-Hungarian Arctic Expedition in the Tgretthojp\maex the leadership of Lieutenants Payer and Weyprecht. We have at various times since the return of the expedition, upwards of two years ago; given details of ...
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    Nature 15 (1876), S. 72-72 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Chemical Society, Nov. 2.-Prof. Abel, F.R.S., president, in the chair.-The President announced that the Goldsmith's Company had contributed ?,???/. to the recently-instituted research fund of the Society.-Mr. Lupton then read a paper on the oxides of potassium, after which communications ...
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    Nature 15 (1876), S. 23-24 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. NEWTON has kindly sent me a copy of his address to the Biological Section of the British Association at their recent meeting at Glasgow. It contains much interesting matter, and like the addresses delivered by others to the same body informer years, was no doubt listened to with the ...
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    Nature 15 (1876), S. 50-52 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE publish this week the complete Report of Capt. Nares on the Arctic Expedition, along with a new map showing in detail the various geographical discoveries made by the expedition, our map of last week being necessarily very general. We congratulate the Admiralty on the rapidity of the ...
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    Nature 15 (1876), S. 52-52 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PARIS Academy of Sciences, October 30.-Vice-Admiral Paris in the chair.-The following papers were read:-Letter of Mr. Hind communicated by M. Leverrier, on the intra-Mercurial planet.-Study of the organs of reproduction in ephemera, by M. Joly.-On a new electric lamp devised by M. Sabloschkoff, by ...
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    Nature 15 (1876), S. 4-5 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON the western side of the Lago di Garda is situated a tract of Secondary rocks which has been comparatively little explored by geologists. Lying as it does exactly upon the Austro-Italian frontier, this area has neither been described by Stoppani and the Italian geologists, nor has it received ...
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    Nature 15 (1876), S. 6-7 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE, vol. xiv. p. 527, there is an article condensed from one by Prof. Whitney, with the alarming title “Are We Drying Up?” with a number of facts to prove that we are—that in the temperate zone at least, the supply of water in the rivers and lakes is failing at a more rapid rate than the ...
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    Nature 15 (1876), S. 7-8 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A SHORT time back an account appeared in a New castle paper of the occurrence of the Capercailzie at Lilburn, in the north of Northumberland. Oi course it was also stated that the bird had been shot. The account was *' descriptive,'7 and the writer evidently thought he was noting a fact worth ...
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    Nature 15 (1876), S. 14-15 
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    Notes: [Auszug] DORADUS. - This star, which was called a fifth magnitude by Lacaille at the end of 1751, and a sixth by Brisbane, was observed by Moesta from February, 1860, to January, 1861, of S'gm. or 901. only. Perhaps one of our southern readers will put upon record the actual magnitude of this star, the ...
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    Nature 15 (1876), S. 20-20 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Bulletin del' Academic Impfriale des Sciences de St. Pelers-lourg, t. xxil, No. i, contains the following papers of scientific interest:-On the absorption of carbonic acid by sulphuric acid and its mixtures with water, by J. Setschenow.-On tartronaniic acid, by N. Mensclmtkin.-On ethyl- and ...
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    Nature 14 (1876), S. 568-569 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the Times' report (Sept. 9, 1876) of Prof. Tait's lecture at Glasgow on Force, it is stated that “the lecturer showed how the incorrect physical ideas of Leibnitz, and some of his followers, had introduced the terms vis viva, vis mortua, and vis accelerairix,” and that these terms were found ...
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    Nature 14 (1876), S. 569-570 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE, vol. xiv. pp. 188, 189, in a review of Mr. Wallace's recent work on “The Geographical Distribution of Animals,” occurs the following paragraph: “Mr. Wallace admits the validity of Elasmognathus of Gill as a genus of Tapirs, and adopts Dr. Gray's multitudinous division of the ...
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    Nature 14 (1876), S. 570-570 
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    Notes: [Auszug] UNDER this title there is an article in NATURE, vol. xiv. p. 475, mentioning some observations on flowers, and concluding thus:—“In view of these examples .… it can hardly be that colour, fragrance and honeyed secretions in flowers have been developed solely to secure cross-fertilisation.” In ...
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    Nature 14 (1876), S. 568-568 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE able and indefatigable superintendent of the Botanic Garden at Adelaide was appointed, many years since, by the Prussian Government, naturalist to the Boundary-Expedition to British Guiana entrusted by the British Government to his late brother, Sir Robert Schomburgk · and in this small, but ...
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    Nature 14 (1876), S. 570-570 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. HARDMAN, in NATURE, vol. xiv. p. 506, gives an account of a number of experiments which he considers to bear out the old theory that the blue flame produced by throwing common salt on a coal fire is due to carbonic oxide. His letter induces me to give an account of a series of experiments ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE, vol. xiv. p. 535, there appears amongst the occasional Notes, a short report of a proposal of the Association of German Naturalists to found two new Zoological Stations at Kiel and Heligoland. The establishment of such stations could not fail to be of immense service to biology, but ...
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    Nature 14 (1876), S. 570-571 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE INTRA-MERCURIAL PLANET QUESTION.-M. Leverrier has made a further communication to the Paris Academy on this subject. With the view to testing the sufficiency of the method employed, to afford a guide for prediction of future transits of such a body over the suns disk, admitting that the ...
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    Nature 14 (1876), S. 571-572 
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    Notes: [Auszug] CEPHALISATION.-Such is the name given by Prof. Dana to what he terms a fundamental principle in the development of the system of animal life. Its meaning can be best explained by the employment of the instances used by its author. The lobster and the crab are closely allied decapod crustaceans. In ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the " Notes," NATURE, vol. xiv. p. 464,1 see reference is made to my results on this subject, and it is suggested that General Myer's International observations will be of the greatest value in connection with the question whether there may not be some other attractive force than gravitation ...
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    Nature 14 (1876), S. 573-575 
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    Notes: [Auszug] III. Clock Escapements. AN escapement in general is to be considered a good one just in proportion as it prevents variations of friction in the clock-train from reaching the pendulum. FIG. 14, The first form of escapement with which the pendulum was used is that early form mentioned in our ...
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    Nature 14 (1876), S. 576-579 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE following is the substance of a paper on Cave-Huntinp, by Dr. Haast, read at the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, New Zealand, some time since, and which ^has been recently forwarded to us. In the spring of the year 1872, Mr. E. JoHi having suggested to Dr. J. Haast, president of the ...
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    Nature 14 (1876), S. 575-576 
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    Notes: [Auszug] M CHARLES SAINTE-CLAIRE DEVILLE, the o distinguished geologist and meteorologist, and brother of M. Henri Sainte-Claire Deville, the well-known chemist, was born of French parents in 1814, at St. Thomas, in the West Indies. At the age of 19 he was enrolled a pupil of the School of Mines, in Paris, ...
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    Nature 14 (1876), S. 579-580 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE travellers 1 eft Saissan on May 31, and arrived in Maiterek on June 4, in the company of his excellency the governor-general of West Siberia, General Pottaratzki, whom they met two nights previous to their arrival. Three tarantassas drawn by artillery horses conveyed them from Saissan on to the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON the 25th ult. there was unveiled at Copenhagen a bronze statue to H. C. Oersted, the discoverer of electro-magnetism, who died twenty-five years ago. The monument, erected on a terrace of the old fortification, consists of a hexagonal pedestal surmounted by a statue of Oersted, and on which are ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Bulletin de lAcadmie Impriale des Sciences de St. Pterslourg, t. xx. Nos. 3 and 4.-From these parts we note the following papers :-On an artificial way of producing snow crystals, by J. Dogiel.-On the appearance of Encke's comet in 1875, with remarks on the existence of a resisting medium in the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MAN very long ago, probably about the time he became man, reflected that he felt and thought; since then no one has ever had the least doubt, as to whether a given object of thought was a fact of mind or of body; and every attempt to resolve the one into the other has been but the vain enterprise ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PARIS Academy of Sciences, October 16.-Vice-Admiral Paris in the chair.-The President referred to the sad loss sustained by the Academy in the death of M. Sainte-Claire Deville, and M. Dumas spoke on his life-work. The following papers were read :-Intra-Mercurial planets (continued), by M, Le ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ALLOW me to point out in NATURE a few errors which occur in Mr. Wallace's “Distribution of Animals,” regarding the extinct mammalian fauna of India. In the first place, there is a mistake regarding the locality of the Perim Island (vol. i., p, 362, vol. ii., pp. 157 and 221), from which ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SOME years ago my suspicions were strongly aroused by certain observations, against the importance of intercrossing ; and since then other conclusions, such as the following, have been steadily forcing themselves upon me, and which will probably agree with Mr. T. Meehan's: (l) that ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] FOR this admirable record we have again to thank our American friends. The volume now extends to some 900 pages, and each year brings improvement as well as enlargement of its contents. Unfortunately so many subjects are now embraced within the scope of this annual record, that the space devoted to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] FOR the purpose of determining theoretically the best arrangement of cells for the production of the electric light, it was necessary to know the resistance of the electric arc. Not being acquainted with any source from which this information could be derived, we determined this resistance ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] BREEDING many horses yearly on my station, I notice, as a matter of course, some of their peculiar habits. In a semi-wild state on a run horses graze together in large or small companies, which “station hands” call “mobs;” these mobs wander at will over a large area of country, finding ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE is a popular belief that it is dangerous to sleep in full moonshine, as it is supposed to produce some injurious effect called moon-stroke. I have little doubt that the popular belief is well founded as far as the injury to some of those who have slept out at night is concerned, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] CHACORNACS VARIABLE NEBULA NEAR TAuRI. On October 19, i855, Chacornac remarked that a star of the eleventh magnitude, 0thpreceding C Tauri, was en- veloped in nebulosity, which was sufficiently bright up to the end of January following to occasion surprlSe that it had not been previously detected. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I DESIRE through the medium of your columns to call attention to the fact that most of the admirable memoirs of the Geological Survey appear to be out of print. A week or two ago I ordered a number of these publications and was informed that at least half of them are out of print. Prof. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE actual work of the University founded in this city by the well-considered munificence of Johns Hopkins commences to-morrow, and among the many marks of confidence and good-will which have been bestowed upon me in the United States, there is none which I value more highly than that conferred by ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ONE of the most valuable addresses at the Social Science Congress at Liverpool was that by the Rev, Mark Pattison, last Friday, on the subject of Education. He confined his remarks mainly to Lord Sandon's Bill and the Oxford and Cambridge Bills. In passing, however, he spoke in the strongest terms ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] II. The Pendulum, IN that early apparatus I recently described, you will remember that the balance, after being set swinging in one direction, had its motion completely destroyed, and was then set swinging in the other, all by the direct agency of the clock-train. If it had possessed no other ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE fifth meeting of Russian Naturalists was opened September 12 at Warsaw. The Russian Naturalists are not yet organised into a permanent association, although it is their wish, repeatedly expressed, to found an association on the same principles as the British. A special imperial permission must ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE recently made a few experiments with this ~ instrument which may not be uninteresting to the readers of NATURE. The radiometer used had discs of aluniiMum polished on one side and blackened on the other; it was more than usually sensitive, and would sometimes continue its rotation for ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE well-known volume of Conybeare and Phillips, entitled " Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales," which was published in 1822, and was based on an earlier and slighter work of the second-named author, has long held an honourable place among geological classics. It has served, indeed, to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE hear with sincere regret of the death of the eminent French meteorologist, M. Charles Sainte-Claire Deville. We hope next week to give some details of his life and work. WE publish on another page an abstract of the Rev. Mark Pattison's forcible and outspoken address at the Social Science ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Journal of the Chemical Society, July, 1876,--Mr, Trionias Carnelley, B.Sa, communicates the results of investigations recently made by him, on the action of water and of various saline solutions on copper. Mr. Carnelley has found that dis-tilled water dissolves an appreciable amount of copper, on ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN reference to our review of Sir William Thomson's work on this subject (vol. xiv. p. 346), our attention has been called by Sir G. B. Airy to the following paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol. xix. p. 448 :- "Remarks on the Determination of a Ship's Place at Sea." In a Letter to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Entomological Society, October 4,-Sir Sidney Smith Saunders, C.M.G., vice-president, in the chair.-M. Alfred Preudhomme de Borre, secretary of the Belgian Entomological Society, was elected a foreign member.-Mr. Bond exhibited varieties of Hepialut humuh and Epunda lunulenta, and also ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS work is more than usually interesting, as the -L author was an American officer in the Egyptian army attached to the expedition of Col, Gordon^ the successor of Sir Samuel Baker. The descriptions of the country and the various tribes who are the "Naked People" of the title, lead us for the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHY Mr. Beechy should wish to depart from ordinary usage and call his book electro-telegraphy rather than electric telegraphy, we have no idea. The assumption of an eccentric title for a scientific book naturally gives rise to a feeling of prejudice against it. Nevertheless, we find in this little ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is well known to electricians that the insulating power of ebonite gradually diminishes in consequence of the formation of a conducting layer of sulphuric acid on the surface (produced by the oxidation of the sulphur used in vulcanising). It is perhaps not so well known that exposure to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Those who pass along Cromwell Road, South Ken-J- sington, will not fail to observe on the site of the former International Exhibition, a stately building rising from the ground under the superintending genius of Mr. Waterhouse. The contractors have labelled it " The Museum of Natural History," but ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IF Mr. T. W. Backhouse (NATURE, vol. xiv., p. 474) is right in interpreting the phenomenon of radiance described by Mr. A. Mallock, as due (in Mr. Mallock's case) to under-refraction of rays (as in my case it certainly is due to over-refraction), his own experience furnishes a good ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE following quotation was written, and a stereo-slide to which it was appended was sketched by myself in January last, and shown at the soireé of the Manchester Mechanical and Scientific Society then held:— "In looking through comparative darkness at any bright light, the writer, who is ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IF the phenomenon seen by the Hon. F. A. R. Russell was really a transit of this planet, Hofrath Schwabe must have very narrowly escaped witnessing it, for on turning to his MSS. I found the following observation for the date in question:— "1860, Jan. 29, 9m. (8.11 A.M., G.M.T.). " Nur ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WILL you oblige me by publishing the following corrections of certain of the formulæ in my paper on the Inequality of the Semi-Diurnal Oscillations of Barometric Pressure, in NATURE, vol. xiv. p. 316? I regret that the distance of my place of residence has prevented my sending you an earlier ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE, vol. viii., p. 469, is a report of an excursion by the Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society to Teignmouth, and of the results of its dredging operations in that neighbourhood, in which the following passage occurs:—“By far the most noteworthy capture was Comatula ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE occurrence of miniature earth-pillars (vol. xiv. p. 423) is by no means unusual even in our own country. I noticed some excellent examples some years ago in the neighbourhood of Halifax. From a steep exposure of alternating strata of sandstone and shales, the sandstone stood out in ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE analyses of these remarkable bodies by Dr. J. Lawrence Smith, as given in the American Journal of Science for September, 1876, suggest a new and interesting inquiry in astro-meteorology. These analyses gave the following results:— " In regarding the above comparative statement of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE September number of Blackwooo's Magazine contains a narrative by Mrs. Frances Wordsworth and her son, Mr. C. F. Wordsworth, of six months and twenty-two days spent by the survivors of the unfortunate Strathmore upon one of the rocks of the Twelve Apostles, an island in the Crozet ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SUCH is the title of a paper in the September number of the American Naturalist^ by Prof. J. D. Whitney, the object of which is to bring together some of the more striking facts in regard to the desiccation of the earth's surface-or at least of a considerable portion of it -which has taken place in ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I. WE cannot measure time in that sense in which we measure other things. Time has been very happily denned as the great independent variable of all change ; and it is by watching matter in motion, which is the simplest form of change with which we are acquainted, that we estimate its progress. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE VARIABLE STAR 34 CYGNT, NOVA 1600.-This star, although an object of pretty frequent meridian observation, has probably received less attention than most others from those observers who especially occupy themselves with the variable stars, owing to the circumstance of the estimates of magnitude ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AS a sketch of the present state of Central and Northern Asia, it may perhaps not be uninteresting to our readers to have laid before them the following extract from a letter written by Dr. Finsch, who, together with Dr. Brehm and Count Waldburg-Zeil, is at present engaged in the scientific ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] VIENNA Imperial Academy of Sciences, Feb. 3.-Contributions to a knowledge of interstitial inflammation of the liver, by M. Miiller.-On the ending of nerves in the epidermis of mammals, by M. Mojsisovics. He examined (after Eimer) the snout of the mole, and of some foreign related species; and he ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Vol. xiv. p. 338, col, i, line 9 from bottom, for "Umbelli-ferse" read ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. J, W, JUDD has been appointed Professor of Geology in the Royal School of Mines in succession to Prof, Ramsay, who resigned some time since. Mr. Judd has been a frequent contributor to our pages and has already taken a very high place in the field of original geological research. His ...
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    Nature 14 (1876), S. 362-363 
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    Notes: [Auszug] American Journal of Science and Arts, July.-Prof. Loomis here gives some interesting results obtained from observations of the United States Signal Service. Whenever an area of low barometer is formed in the United States, there seems to be always an area of high barometer about 1,200 miles to the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE have received from the Registrar of the University of London a copy of the Report of a Committee, and the new regulations which have been introduced in harmony with that Report, in the examinations for the science degrees. From a perusal of the Report, which we subjoin, all will feel how much is ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE volcano of the Island of Reunion, surrounded and defended as it were by great circular walls perpendicular for more than 100 metres, forming what is known as the inclosure, is hardly accessible except on two sides, by the high plain of the interior or by the Grand-Brule'; that is, setting out ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE DOUBLE-STAR B.A.C. 1972.-Capt. Jacob, reviewing the measures of this object, first registered double by Dunlop with his 9-feet reflector at Paramatta (No. 23 of the Catalogue of 253 stars), remarked of it in 1858: "the angle is, on the whole, evidently advancing, and the distance decreasing, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A GOOD deal of speculation has been rife as to the above expedition of Mr. Stone (Cf. Ibis 1876, p. .363) into south-eastern New Guinea, as the collections sent by the Italian traveller, D'Albertis, had by no means answered the expectations of naturalists as regards novelties, and as Mr, Stone was ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON Friday last, in the House of Commons, Mr. Reed asked whether the memorial, already printed in our columns, signed by many of the most eminent men of science in the kingdom in favour of the establishment of a permanent Museum of Science had he en presented to the Lord President of the Council j ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN speaking lately of the Science of Language we alluded to the question that is still being debated among its students as to whether it ought to be classed with the physical or with the historical sciences. Its method is that of the physical sciences, while phonology, which forms so integral and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I. Fold a sheet of writing-paper into a tube whose diameter is about 3 cm. Keeping both eyes open, look through2 the tube with one eye, and look at the hand with the other, the hand being placed close by the tube. An extraordinary phenomenon will be observed. A hole the size of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I AM going to undertake the calculation of elements of λ Ophiuchi, which you proposed to calculators in NATURE, vol. xiv. p. 29. I shall also within a short time give orbits of γ Coronæ, which has not been separated as far as I know since spring, 1867, when it was observed in Harvard College, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] REISSIG'S COMET (?) OF 1803.-The following particulars of a stellar-looking object, with considerable retrograde motion, were communicated to Bode-at the time the centre of general astronomical correspondence-by Reissig, of Cassel, son of a well-known optician at that place. He stated to Bode that ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE are, perhaps, few phenomena in the domain of terrestrial physics which have received more attention than the diurnal variation of barometric pressure, and on the causts and explanation of which, nevertheless, there is more diversity of opinion even at the present day. Dove, Sabine, HerscheJ, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AS regards the publication of results achieved by the naturalists accompanying the recent Transit expedition, our American friends appear to be getting the start of us. While we are engaged in issuing " preliminary reports," they have already arranged and classified their collections, and are ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Royal Society, May 18-££ The Calculus of Chemical Operations.-Part II. On the Analysis of Chemical Events," by Sir B. C. Brodie, Bart, F.R.S., late Professor of Chemistry in the University of Oxford. Introduction,-An account is here given of the origin of our views of the constitution of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE have already given some information concerning this important meteorological observatory, and today we present three illustrations showing its site and construction. The site of this observatory is 1,465 metres above the level of the sea and about 1,000 metres above the level of Rabanesse, the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. GRAHAM will probably be best remembered as a chemist, although the most important of his researches where either purely'physical, or were devoted to .the elucidation of questions which occupy an intermediate position between physics and chemistry. It is specially interesting, therefore, to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] We stayed in Lepsa until May 17. We obtained soma varieties of lizards, one kind of frog, and a toad, a kind of fish like the barbel, and all sorts of varieties of cobitis, but no salmon. We obtained only a few beetles and butterflies, but we had a rich collection of the flora. On May 13 and 14 we ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE publish with pleasure the following additional testimony to the value of the Challenger Expedition ;- To the Editor of "Nature." 20, Palmerston Place, Edinburgh, October 2, 1876. DEAR SIR,-Perhaps you will kindly allow me through your pages to make known to my colleagues of the Challenger ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE fifth Exposition des Insectes utiles et des Insectes nuisibles," arranged under the auspices of the Societe Centrale d'Apiculture et d'lnsectologie, has been held during the last four weeks in the Orangery of the Tuileries, and closed on Sunday. The first exhibition of the kind was held at the ...
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