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    Nature 23 (1880), S. 211-211 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Journal of the Franklin Institute, December.-Boiler experiments, by Mr. Isherwood.-New electric motor, by Mr. Griscom.-The Sawyer electric light.-Proceedings of Institute, & c. Bulletin de VAcademie Royals des Sciences de Belgique, Nos. 9 and 10.-Influence of liquids on the sound of sonorous ...
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    Nature 23 (1880), S. 165-166 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LAST week Mr. Scott Moncrieff described in our J-' columns a method of all but entirely eliminating smoke from the atmosphere of London, and thus abolishing that most venerable of our institutions-Fog. And in a recent number Dr. Siemens showed how our existing grates could be made to give out a ...
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    Nature 23 (1880), S. 169-169 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE is a good deal that is interesting in M. Burdo's lively story of his voyage up the Niger and Benueh, partly in the company of Bishop Crowther. He gives many details of the various towns and villages he visited on the banks of the two rivers, and of the appearance and habits of the people he ...
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    Nature 23 (1880), S. 169-170 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN relation to the discussion as to the importance to be ascribed to the distribution of certain trees and plants in the determination of geological climates, it may interest Prof. Haughton and Mr. Duncan to know that a specimen of the Australian Araucaria Cunninghami is now growing on one of ...
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    Nature 23 (1880), S. 150-151 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE was a time, now almost beyond the memory even of the oldest inhabitant, when the stillness of our learned halls was unbroken by the wrangle of contending geologists, when the science of geology could not be said yet to exist, when those who occupied themselves with stones found a congenial ...
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    Nature 23 (1880), S. 173-174 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE new number of the Izvestia of the Russian Geo. graphical Society contains the long-expected letters from Col. Prshevalsky on his adventurous journey on the frontier of Tibet. We have already referred to Col. Prshevalsky's work; the following further details will be of interest:-His last news ...
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    Nature 23 (1880), S. 186-186 
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    Notes: [Auszug] M. AMAGAT (Compt. rmd.1 [1879], Ixxxix. p. 437, corrected ' 'Bdblatter [1880], iv. p. 19) has submitted hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, air, carbon monoxide, methane, and ethylene at temperatures from 18° to 22° to pressures ranging between 28 and 431 atmospheres, and finds that, except for hydrogen, ...
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    Nature 23 (1880), S. 192-192 
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. FRITZ MULLER has for some years been engaged upon an investigation of the habits of the Caddis-flies of Santa Catharina, and has shown extraordinary skill in breeding these insects, a matter always difficult, and especially in the case of those that inhabit running water. The results of his ...
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    Nature 23 (1880), S. 166-167 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS interesting volume, as may be inferred from the J- title, embraces two cognate but at the same time somewhat diverse subjects-the one the survival, or possibly the reintroduction, of objects and customs, which are usually regarded as primitive, among the civilised nations of the present day; ...
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    Nature 23 (1880), S. 115-115 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Journal of the Franklin Institute, November.-The metric system: is it wise to introduce it into our machine-shops? by C. Sellers-The weakening of steam boilers by cutting holes in the shell for domes and necks, by W. B. Le Van.-Observations in Brazil, by W. M. Roberts. Rivista ...
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    Nature 23 (1880), S. 160-161 
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    Notes: [Auszug] CAMBRIDGE. - Prof. Stuart finds the progress of his School of Mechanism and Engineering again compels enlargement. Some pupils are now making small engines, and require more space for erecting them. A room for mechanical drawing is needed, and also an enlarged stove. The Museums and Lecture-rooms ...
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    Nature 23 (1880), S. 161-161 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, Normal and Pathological, vol. xv. part I, October, contains:-Dr. C. Creighton, on an infective form of tuberculosis in man, identical with bovine tuberculosis, plates I to 6.-Dr. W. Allen, on a third occipital condyle in the human subject, plate 7.-Dr. J. ...
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    Nature 23 (1880), S. 161-164 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Mathematical Society,"December 9.-Mr. Samuel Roberts, F.R.S, president, in the chair.-Mr. William Ralph Roberts and Mr. Ralph Augustus Roberts were elected Members.-The following communications were made:-Note surrla Derivation des Determinants, Prof. Teixeira (Coimbra, Portugal).-Solution ...
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    Nature 23 (1880), S. 93-94 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN course of the short excursion- to Loch Maree and its neighbourhood, Mr. Walter CarWth"g,''of fSJmtimesf Gouno^ happened, on June 13, to light upon an interesting portion of the Cambrian or Torridon Red Sandstone of the district, forming part of the bed of the burn, near Loch Maree Hotel, on ...
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    Nature 23 (1880), S. 134-134 
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    Notes: [Auszug] SOME time back it was publicly stated that Commander Cheyne and his friends intended to apply to the Geographical Society for countenance and support to their plans of Arctic exploration. A deputation accordingly waited on Lord Aber-dare, the president, on October 12, and, in pursuance of a ...
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    Nature 23 (1880), S. 53-53 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. HEWITT has probably had a better chance than any other teacher of knowing by experience the working of the meagre science-subjects of the new educational code. The defects of that code, and particularly of its directions as to the subject of mechanics, are very great; neverthe less the little ...
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    Nature 23 (1880), S. 55-56 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE interesting observation made by Dr. Dudgeon (NATURE, vol. xxii. p. 241, and vol. xxiii. p, 10) to the effect that breathing on the bulb of a thermometer through several folds of flannel or silk raises the temperature of the instrument several degrees above that of the mouth and body, is ...
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    Nature 23 (1880), S. 99-99 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. MINCHIN has been anticipated in his discovery of the theorem on uniplanar motion given in NATURE, vol. xxiii. p. 62. It was published some six years ago by Prof. W. Schell of the Polytechnikum, Carlsruhe, in the Zeitschrift für Mathematik und Physik, xix. 3. The paper containing it is ...
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    Nature 23 (1880), S. 99-99 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON September 28 last I was walking in my garden here at eight o'clock in the evening with a friend, when we were simultaneously attracted by a bright light about twenty paces in front of us. The light was so bright that in the distance it looked like moonlight through the trees; and had the ...
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    Nature 23 (1880), S. 99-99 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ALTHOUGH the conclusions at which Dr. Woeikof has arrived (NATURE, vol. xxiii, p. 9) with regard to my estimations of the discharge of water and sediment of the Yang-tse and Pei-ho may militate against their being accepted as generally typical of these two rivers, I would urge that another ...
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    Nature 23 (1880), S. 35-35 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE, vol. xxii. p. 608, there is a paper on “Recent Chemical Research,” in which under the head of work by Thomsen the following law is enunciated:— "The heat of formation of a compound substance is the difference between the sum of the heats of combustion of the constituent ...
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    Nature 23 (1880), S. 38-39 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AFRICA is overrun with explorers of all nationalities. Too often of late have we had to read of failures, of abortive attempts on the part of expensively-equipped expeditions to reach the field of their work, or of deaths by fever or assassination after the first difficulties were overcome. In ...
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    Nature 23 (1880), S. 43-44 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. LOREHZ has given in Wied. Ann., No. 9, a development of his theory of '' refraction-constants " (published before in Danish), and described experiments bearing on it. The problem contemplated was to find that function of the re-:ractive index, freed from dispersion, and of the density of a ...
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    Nature 23 (1880), S. 33-34 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Astronomer-Royal having lately received from the Observatory of Zi-ka-wei, in China (latitude 31° 12′ north, longitude, from Greenwich, 8h. 6m. east), lithographed copies of the photographic traces of the declination and horizontal force magnets, extending from August 11 to 14, and from ...
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    Nature 23 (1880), S. 34-35 
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    Notes: [Auszug] SOME years ago I made an investigation much simpler but somewhat similar to that referred to by Prof. Carnelley in NATURE, vol. xxii. p. 435. An account of the experiments then made was communicated to the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, 1874–75. One of the results of that investigation was ...
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    Nature 23 (1880), S. 10-11 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I BEG to send you some data on the above subject, as I live where the phenomenon is of daily occurrence. Most of the large birds out here soar, i.e. can circle round and round without flapping the wings, and also can rise thus from 100 or 200 feet to some 8,000 by same means. The pelican, the ...
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    Nature 22 (1880), S. 557-557 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A VERY practical and useful book by an experienced teacher: it is designed to meet the requirements of students at the Royal School of Mines, at the Royal Military Academy, at Cooper's Hill, and elsewhere, and embraces great part of the two higher stages of the Science and Art Department syllabus. ...
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    Nature 22 (1880), S. 557-558 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HOPE you will allow me to seek information, through your aid, on a subject which is perplexing me a good deal at present. I am engaged in studying a gravimeter designed by the late J. Allan Broun, in which gravity is balanced by the torsion of a single wire; or is intended to be so. As the ...
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    Nature 22 (1880), S. 594-595 
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    Notes: [Auszug] NEST-BUILDING AMPHIPODS.-Mr. S. J. Smith, in a memoir on some amphipods described by Thomas Say [Trans., Connecticut Acad., July, 1880), states that the tubes which certain species make to live in are to a great extent formed of pellets of their excreta. In 1874 he watched carefully the process of ...
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    Nature 22 (1880), S. 599-600 
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    Notes: [Auszug] OXFORD.-This year the term commences somewhat later than usual. The professorial lectures on natural science begin next week. At the University Museum Dr. Odling lectures on Typical Alcohols, Prof. Clifton on Experimental Electricity, Prof. Price on Hydro mechanics, Prof. Story-Maskelyne, M.P., on ...
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    Nature 22 (1880), S. 556-556 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE peat-mosses are a peculiarly interesting group of cryptogamic plants, which has attracted the attention of even ordinary observers from a very early period. No group of plants is more clearly defined in structure, in family likeness, and by the localities in which they are found. The wanderer ...
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    Nature 22 (1880), S. 558-558 
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    Notes: [Auszug] BY the mail just arrived from Australia I have received copies of the photographic traces produced by the declination magneto-graph at the Melbourne Observatory during the magnetic storm of August 12 to 14, kindly forwarded by Mr. Ellery, the Government astronomer there. A comparison of ...
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    Nature 22 (1880), S. 575-575 
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    Notes: [Auszug] CAMBRIDGE.-The Science Lectures at Cambridge this term include Prof. Liveing on the General Principles of Chemistry, and on Spectroscopic Analysis; and Prof. Dewar on Physical Chemistry. One of the demonstrators will give demonstrations in Volumetric Analysis; and Mr. Scott, assistant to Prof. ...
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    Nature 22 (1880), S. 530-531 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE study of the laws governing the combinations of molecules containing carbon is of the very first importance to chemical science, inasmuch as this study so well illustrates and extends the general laws of molecular combinations, that is to say, the general laws of the science of chemistry. An ...
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    Nature 22 (1880), S. 532-532 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is one of those excellent manuals emanating from the Colonial Museum and Geological Survey Department of New Zealand under the admirable direction of Dr. Hector. The work is a reproduction in a handy form of the folio work ordered by the New Zealand Government in 1876, to be prepared "with ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE, vol. xxii. p. 200 et seq., there occurs an important statement by Mr. J. Starkie Gardner, to the effect that fossil remains not distinguishable from Araucaria Cunninghami had been found among the Eocene plant beds of Bournemouth, in the south of England. After reading Mr. ...
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    Nature 22 (1880), S. 569-570 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE newly-published volume of; the Geographical Society's Journal contains some useful and'even valuable contributions to geography. The veteran traveller, Capt. R. - F. Burton, furnishes a memoir respecting the new map of Midian constructed by the officers of the Egyptian Generalj Staff. Capt. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] NEARLY five years have passed since we noticed a small pamphlet by the authors of (ii.), together with treatises on the calculus of Messrs. Buckingham (Chicago) and Clark (Cincinnati), and we then remarked upon the growing interest taken in mathematics by American students. A further outcome of the ...
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    Nature 22 (1880), S. 510-511 
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    Notes: [Auszug] FROM Mr. Hannay's letter (NATURE, vol. xxii. p. 483) and from private communications I have received it appears there has been a little misconception as to the manner in which I judged of the temperature of the ice in the experiment referred to in NATURE, ibid., 435. Mr. Hannay's theory, that ...
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    Nature 22 (1880), S. 511-514 
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    Notes: [Auszug] II. OUTRIGGERS are very varied in their structure. In some canoes there are two opposite one another, one of which does not touch the water; it is merely a balance platform; in some both outriggers only occasionally touch the water. It is not improbable that the side-galleries of some junks are ...
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    Nature 22 (1880), S. 517-520 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. W. CHANDLER ROBERTS, F.R.S., will deliver the introductory lecture to his course of Metallurgy, on Monday next, October 4, at three o'clock, at the Science Schools, South Kensington Museum. MR. A. C. HADDON, Demonstrator of Comparative Anatomy in the University of Cambridge, with the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING the night of September 30 I succeeded in photographing the bright part of the nebula in Orion in the vicinity of the trapezium. The photographs show the mottled appearance of this region distinctly. I intend shortly to publish a detailed description of the negatives. They were taken by ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN reply to C. A. M.'s letter of last week I would make the following remarks:—Ice is not an exceptional substance, for mercuric chloride has also given experimentally the same results, and though I have not yet had the opportunity of submitting other substances to the same conditions, yet I ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE reviewer of Ober's “Camps in the Caribbees” (NATURE, vol. xxii. p. 216) appears to doubt the story of the habits of the large Hercules beetle, Dynastes hercules, given by Ober on the authority of his guide. It is nevertheless perfectly true, and I have myself witnessed the occurrence twice ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AS we intimated last week, another brilliant synthesis has recently been accomplished in the domain of organic chemistry. Messrs. Grimaux and Adam have succeeded in building up the characteristic acid of lemons from glycerin. Glycerin may be regarded as trihydroxy-propane, C3H6(OH)3, and citric ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the second of a series of articles in the Pall Mall Gazette " On Vain Discourse," in the quaint and ^leisurely style of our remote forefathers, the writer speaks of " the talker who thinketh he hath a vocation to popularise science, not as some of our masters come forth to stir up interest in ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE BINARY STAR 5 EQUULEI.-Mr. Burnham publishes a new epoch for this star, which there is now good reason to conclude will prove to be the most rapid revolver amongst the binary systems; on this account it well deserves the attention which Mr. Burnham claims for it at the hands of those observers ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] TRANSVERSE COMMISSURE IN ARTHROPODS. - From a recent memoir laid before the Belgian Academy by M. Lienard {Archives de Biologie, torn. i. fasc. 2), it would appear that an arrangement of the cephalic nerve-centres, hitherto thought to have been peculiar to Crustacea, is really to be found in nearly ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A FRESH measurement has been made by Mr. T. C. Menden-hall of the acceleration of gravity at Tokio, an account of which appears in the American yournal of Science. The experiments were made after the accepted methods with Kater's and Borda's pendulums, the only novelty introduced being that of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT the Sheffield meeting of the British Association a committee was appointed to report on the present state of spectrum analysis. The committee has this year presented its first report. The report is divided into four parts:- 1. On the spectra of metalloids, drawn up by Dr. A. Schuster. 2. On ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PARIS Academy of Sciences, September 20.-M. Wurtz in the chair.-The following papers were read:-On the odours of Paris, by M. Sainte-Claire Deville. He analysed some of the moist black earth exposed in a trench in the Rue St. Jacques. The amount of salts in the impregnating liquid indicates ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SINCE the appearance of the second edition of this most useful little work, some valuable additions have been made to our knowledge of the rocks which underlie the London Basin. The deep borings at Turnford, near Cheshunt, and at Ware, which were executed by the New River Company in 1879, have ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I EXPECTED some of your readers to refute the explanation of Mr. Stebbing on “Fascination.” I see in NATURE, vol. xxii. p. 383 another paragraph which is not more to the purpose. Want of presence of mind and stupefaction are not fascination, In 1859 (twenty-one years ago) I followed in the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE collection which General Pitt Rivers, F.R.S., commenced to form in the year 1851 became well known to all immediately interested in the science of anthropology during the series of years in which it was exhibited at the Bethnal Green branch of the South Kensington Museum as Col. Lane Fox's ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] II. IT has been shown that the plant may receive abundance of x nitrogen, may produce abundance of chlorophyll, and may be subject to the influence of sufficient light, and yet not assimilate a due amount of carbon. On the other hand, it has been seen that the mineral constituents may be liberally ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Entomological Society, September I.-- H. T. Stainton, F.R.S., vice-president, in the chair.-Miss Emily A. Smith, Assistant State Entomologist of Illinois, was elected a Foreign Member.-Mr. J. Jenner Weir exhibited specimens of Odonestis potatoria and Smerinthus populi, which possessed the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] HERR THEODOR FUCHS of Vienna has pointed out some important mistakes in the abstracts of his memoir in NATURE, vol. xxi. p. 528. In view of remedying these regrettable errors some revised extracts are here given. At p. 528, line 32, the passage should read thus:—“ The genus Neritina at present ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROBABLY none of our colonies have done so much for the promotion of the higher interests of their people as New Zealand; in this respect, indeed, it will compare favourably with almost any other country in the world. Its university is wonderfully complete and well organised; all the faculties are ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE sixth issue of Behm and Wagner's " Population of the Earth " has just been issued. Since the last issue several censuses have been taken, and the results of these, combined with the natural increase of the population, have added something like seventeen millions to the inhabitants of the globe. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE International Meteorological Committee appointed by the Congress of Rome held its first meeting at the Observatory, Berne, from the 9th to the 12th ultimo. All the members of the Committee, nine in number, were present. Their names are as follows:- Prof. H. Wild (president), Mr. R. H. Scott ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AN extremely valuable system of rainfall observation has been established in the East Indian Archipelago under the superintendence of Dr. Bergsma, the well-known director of the Batavia Observatory, and the results of the first year's observations for 1879 are now before us in this octavo volume of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. WATTS' edition of Taylor's "Bee-Keeper's Manual" has been so copiously revised and added to that it is really a new work, embodying all the most recent discoveries and improvements in apiarian practice. For the amateur bee-keeper-as distinguished from the scientific student of bees on the one ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE have here lately discovered a bed of peat intercalated with beds of undisturbed “glacial drift.” I believe this phenomenon, if not unique, is very rare in England, and may, therefore, be interesting to your readers. In the depth of a section of 14 feet there are two thick beds of drift with ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE, vol. xxii. p. 220, Mr. H. T. Johnston-Laris supposes the absorption of hydrogen to be necessary for steel to get hard. The following facts seem to prove that this absorption can be very well dispensed with in hardening:- 1. Small pieces of steel wire can be hardened by moving ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE August meteors were observed under peculiarly favourable circumstances this year. Not only was the moon entirely absent during the display, but the weather, which so frequently interrupts such observations, remained fine night after night, thus allowing an unbroken series of watches to be ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS book shows many signs of carelessness on the part of the author. At the very outset, in the Introduction, we meet with strange statements. Mr. Attwood divides the elements into those which are of commercial value and those which are of no commercial value. In the latter class we find Uranium ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] VARIABLE STARS.-Amongst the stars which, from a comparison of the various catalogues, exhibit more or less strongly signs of variability, may be mentioned the following, which we take in order of right ascension; the positions are for the year 1880:- 1. Lalande 2037-8. R.A. ih. 3m. 245., N.P.D. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MONS. A. ANGOT proposes a new formula for calculating altitudes from barometric observations, based upon that given originally by Laplace. The existing method of calculation from observed monthly or annual means is found, as Plantataour has shown, to be defective, since its results exhibit an ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ALFRED C. HADDON, B.A., Scholar of Christ's College, Demonstrator of Comparative Anatomy, and Curator of Zoology in the University of Cambridge, has been appointed Professor of Zoology at the Royal College of Science, Dublin. THE movement to found a college at Dundee has been revived, and at a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Chemical Society, December 16.-Prof. H. E. Roscoe, president, in the chair.-The following communications, & c., were made:-On the estimation of nitrogen by combustion, including the nitro-compounds, by J. Ruffle. The author recom mends the use of the following mixture instead of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS catalogue of the anthropological section *pf the Museum Godeffroy in Hamburg is a model of its kind, and from the exhaustive manner in which it is treated the publishers are quite justified in calling the publication as they do in their prospectus a " Handbook of Ethnography and Ethnology of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE centipedes, millipeds, and their allies have hitherto not only been neglected by English naturalists, but practically by Continental workers, until the present generation. Our countryman, Newport, indeed (of whom it may be said with justice, that he touched nothing that he did not elucidate and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE read with great interest Mr. Scott Moncrieff's scheme for “Smokeless London” propounded in your last issue. I would ask however—Is he satisfied that the coke would be smokeless when only 3333 feet of gas per ton has been extracted from the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MAY I ask leave to offer a few remarks on the leading article on British Earthquakes which appeared in NATURE, vol. xxiii. p. 117. The author brings out very strongly the apparent connection between great lines of jointing or faulting and earthquake movements, and points out the great fault ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] CHEMISTS who wish to study the " Calculus of Chemical Operations " will value this reprint of the lecture delivered by Sir Benjamin Brodie shortly after presenting his first memoir on the subject to the Royal Society, as it is in the main devoted to the description and explanation of the special ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT will probably be granted that there is developed in most people a fondness for certain of what we are pleased to call the lower forms of animals. Such are made pets of for various reasons: the sweetness of their song, the brightness of their plumage, the splendour of their scales -these ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS book is the itinerary of a competent and enthusiastic botanist, whose main object was "the collection and introduction of beautiful new plants to the Veitchian collection at Chelsea," in which he so far succeeded as to add about fifty ferns to the list of those already collected in Borneo, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. TAIT'S explanation itself shows that the word commonly applied to products, of imagination, was applicable to his statements; for the only justification he assigns is that he “assumed,” that is to say, imagined, that his substitution of “definition” for “formula” must have been the ground ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE just read Mr. A. R. Wallace's letter in NATURE, vol. xxiii. p. 124, but as I have not yet seen his book, “Island Life,” although my bookseller had promised it, I shall defer my reply in NATURE until I shall have made myself master of his ideas. For the present I shall only say:-I. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SOME weeks since the Rev. Prof. Haughton took exception to a brief letter of mine, in which I suggested that as a bamboo flourishes in Cooper's Hill College garden, in a northern aspect winter after winter, it could be used effectually in an argument relating to geological climates. The bamboo ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT about 1.30 on the 25th of last November, with a strong wind from the south-west, this place was visited by a hailstorm which lasted about live minutes, accompanied by rain and violent gusts of wind, and by a single vivid flash of lightning which was followed with scarcely more than an ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I FIND in NATURE, vol. xxiii. p. 70, a short report on my paper, “Revision von Sargassum,” with several objections, which I believe to be erroneous. It is said that the fragments occurring sometimes on the open sea, the so called Sargassum bacciferum, should have a bright yellow colour. Not ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE number of vibrations executed in a second by a stretched string is generally represented in the text-books by a formula expressing the method of its variation with the determining circumstances, such as— where d is the diameter, l the length, s the specific gravity of the string, and T ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I SHOULD be much obliged if you would inform me whether the United States Monthly Charts of Meteorological Data, in continuation of the series published in NATURE, can be procured in London, and if so ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. ALFRED R. WALLACE asserts in his letter published in NATURE, vol. xxiii. p. 124, that the climate of Vancouver Island is not so mild as that of London. For three years I commanded a gunboat on those shores; speaking from recollection, and not from recorded observations, and with great ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON the evening of November 20 at about 8 p.m. my attention was attracted by a number of meteors appearing as often as once per minute in different quarters of the heavens, but pursuing courses apparently radiating from a point near the constellation ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE must regard it as a noteworthy sign that science has begun to percolate so through society generally that it has reached the pages of Punch. Almost every week we find a bit of more or less telling waggery, and last week the first of a series of " Songs of the Sciences" appeared, which we ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE not yet met with any reference to the capabilities of the photophone for giving musical harmonies. Might not some curious effects be got in some such way as this:—Suppose a disk perforated with holes in four concentric circles corresponding to the notes of a chord; a beam of light to be ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHEN watching the albatross one is struck with the fact that the bird gets up to windward without appearing to use his wings to a degree sufficient to account for the same. The sailors are satisfied with the explanation that he beats to windward. The conditions are of course not analogous to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] YOUR correspondent “P. C.” (NATURE, vol. xxii. p. 607) asks information concerning a work, in English or French, on geometrical optics, thoroughly explaining the optical construction of telescopes and microscopes. I am not aware of any such publication these last forty years, but deem it ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON Wednesday, November 24 last, died Benjamin Collins Brodie the younger, a worthy son of a distinguished sire. Born to affluence, but early imbued with the liberal and high-minded views of the great surgeon, he determined to devote his life and energies to the prosecution of science for its own ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE following are the arrangements for the Friday evening meetings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain before Easter, 1881:-January 21, Warren De La Rue, D.C.L., F.R.S., Sec. R.I., The Phenomena of the Electric Discharge with 14,400 Chloride of Silver Cells; January 28, Dr. Andrew Wilson, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. J. E. H. GORDON has lately patented a method of producing light from electricity based upon Mr. Spottiswoode's suggestion to apply the alternating-current magnetoelectric machine of De Meritens to the induction-coil. Mr. Gordon arranges small balls of platinum or iridium, or of an alloy of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON Friday last the Textile and Dyeing Departments of the V^ Yorkshire College, Leeds, were formally opened, and at the dinner which followed the Right Hon. A. J. Mundella, M.P., Vice-President of the Council, proposed the toast of the occasion:-"Success to Yorkshire College." His remarks in ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT the conclusion of his anniversary address on Tuesday last week, the President, Mr. Spottiswoode, delivered the medals which, have been awarded this year, and in doing so spoke as follows:- The Copley Medal has been awarded to Prof. James Joseph Sylvester, F.R.S. His extensive and profound ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] OXFORD.-The statutes made by the new Commissioners for the different colleges are appearing in their final shape. The statutes of six colleges are already printed and in the hands of Members of Convocation. They resemble each other closely in several respects. Ordinary Fellows are to be elected by ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. SPOTTISWOODE began by referring to the losses -^ which the Society has sustained by death during the past year: - Prof. Miller, Dr. Sharpey, Mr. Lassell, Prof. Ansted, Lord Helper, Mr. E. W. Cooke, and Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie. The Society's finances generally are, as the balance-sheet will ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Linnean Society, NovemberiS.-Robt.McLachlan, F.R.S., in the chair.-Dr. Geo. E. Dobson exhibited a remarkable parasitic worm from the intestine of Megadermafrons, from the Gold Coast. It appears allied to Pterygodermatites plagiostoma, Wedl, from the Long-eared Hedgehog, though on first ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE, vol. xxii. pp. 606, 607, appears a letter to which my attention has only to-day been, called—signed E. L. Layard—on the subject of the fertilisation of yuccas successfully introduced and cultivated in New Caledonia. The writer shows himself to be under some misapprehension as ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE council for the improvement of the course of study at the Polytechnic School has for some time had under consideration a revision of the Programme ^'Instruction of the two years' course, and at different times, for instance in 1865, steps have been taken with a view to their improvement, but, ...
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