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    Nature 31 (1884), S. 151-151 
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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    Notes: [Auszug] A PARAGRAPH in the report in NATURE (p. 119) of the meeting of the Linnean Society for November 20 last contained what is, to the best of my belief, the first publication of one of the most interesting botanical observations which has been made for some time. As it is quite possible that this brief ...
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    Nature 31 (1884), S. 151-152 
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    Notes: [Auszug] YOU will remember that two years ago it was announced * from this chair that the Council had settled the conditions under which the De Morgan Medal should be given, and that the first award would be made at the anniversary meeting of 1884. I have now to make the announcement that the Council has ...
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    Nature 31 (1884), S. 154-155 
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. FERRIER'S researches on the brain, to which we have often drawn attention in these columns, have lately received an application of the most startling character. What this application is cannot be better stated now than in the accompanying letter, signed " F.R.S.," which appeared in Tuesday's ...
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    Nature 31 (1884), S. 152-154 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AS some remarks of mine on the mountain system of the Malayan peninsula have already appeared in NATURE, perhaps the following summary of the results of ten months' explorations in the State of Perak will be interesting. The State of Perak is comprised between the sea (Straits of Malacca) and the ...
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    Nature 31 (1884), S. 155-158 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Council of the British Association for the Advancement of Science has requested the following to allow themselves to be nominated as Presidents of Sections for the meeting at Aberdeen, which begins on Wednesday, September 9, 1885:-Section A (Mathematics, &c.), Prof. J. C. Adams; Section B ...
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    Nature 31 (1884), S. 158-158 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE BINARY STAR a CENTAURI.-In the last number of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Mr. E. B. Powell, so favourably known for his excellent measures of double-stars, made during his residence in India, has a note in which he gives reasons for concluding that the period of ...
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    Nature 31 (1884), S. 158-159 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE correspondent of the Times with the Afghan Boundary Commission, writing from Khwaja Ali on October 16, describes the march of the expedition from Quetta to the Helmand. The geologist, Mr. Griesbach, describes the geological features of the country as much the same as those seen in the Pishin ...
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    Nature 31 (1884), S. 159-160 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN connection with our leading article this week we append o^ the following Plan for Promoting a Teaching University for London, which was discussed at the meeting:- A sub-committee was appointed on Monday, November 10, to draw up a plan, in accordance with the objects of the Association for ...
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    Nature 31 (1884), S. 160-162 
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    Notes: [Auszug] BEFORE explaining the objects aimed at in the new drawing "^ classes proposed to be formed in University College School, to be called Nature-Drawing Classes, let us look back and note briefly what we have achieved up to the present time, and gather if we can from it what kind of foundation we have ...
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    Nature 31 (1884), S. 162-162 
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    Notes: [Auszug] CAMBRIDGE.-The following have been elected to the General Board of Studies:-Mr. H. M. Taylor, by the Special Board for Mathematics; Prof. Liveing, by the Special Board for Physics and Chemistry; Dr. Vines, by the Special Board for Biology and Geology. The election to the Cavendish Professorship of ...
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    Nature 31 (1884), S. 162-162 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Journal de Physique, October 1884.--The constitution and origin of group B in the solar spectrum, by M, L. Thollon (one plate).-On the colour of water, by M. J. L. Soret.-The effect of the electrical state of the surface of a liquid on the maximum vapour-tension of the liquid in contact with the ...
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    Nature 31 (1884), S. 121-122 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MEN of science have thus far regarded the South Kensington Exhibitions of the last two years with very languid interest, if not with some suspicion. There has been throughout some show of scientific intent and much promise of serious result. Needless to say, however, that in regard to the Fisheries ...
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    Nature 31 (1884), S. 162-164 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Mathematical Society, December n.-J. W. L. Glaisher, F.R.S., President, in the chair.-The Rev. T. C. Simmons, Christ's College, Brecon, and Mr. W. J. Ibbetson, Clare College, were elected members.-Mr. Tucker read a paper on a group of circles connected with the nine-point circle considered ...
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    Nature 31 (1884), S. 122-123 
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    Notes: [Auszug] FOR some years past the writer of this notice has, almost annually, formed one of the members of that large class of Englishmen who, each year, spend a few weeks in the Alpine and sub-Alpine districts of Europe for " relaxation." The -writer prefers to leave it to the taste and fancy of the ...
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    Nature 31 (1884), S. 123-124 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE have not had the good fortune to meet with this VV work, but having now before us an elaborate notice of it by M. Hoiiel in the Bulletin des Sciences Mathernatiques et Astronomiques, December, 1882 (pp. 301-313), we have thought that a few passages from the notice would be acceptable to some of ...
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    Nature 31 (1884), S. 124-124 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE have received the second edition of this interesting, useful, and in some respects most amusing book. The primary object of the author is to call attention to the qualities and merits of many kinds of shell-fish which are as nutritious as others which are generally known, but which are rarely ...
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    Nature 31 (1884), S. 124-124 
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    Notes: [Auszug] STILL another book on forestry by Dr. Brown, uniform in size and binding with those that have preceded it. We have before alluded to the readable character of Dr. Brown's books, and the one before us is no exception to those 011 " The Forests of England" and the " French Forest Ordinance of 1669;'; ...
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    Nature 31 (1884), S. 124-125 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS forms one of a series of volumes on the countries of the world, and appears to be part of a German " Universal-Bibliothek " entitled " Das Wissen der Gegenwart" It is clearly printed, has numerous illustrations, and the information, which is excellently arranged, is brought down to the latest ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN La Nature of November 22 (p. 399) appears what is represented as information obtained at the meeting of the Academy of Sciences at Paris on November 17. It is stated that the proposal made by Prof. Janssen at the Meridian Congress at Washington, relative to the application of the decimal ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is to be regretted that the French delegates have declined to accept some of the resolutions of the Prime Meridian Conference, but it is to be hoped that their non-adherence is only temporary; at the same time it must be admitted that their contention that Greenwich is not a scientific ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the interesting discussion which has recently been carried on in your pages on the teaching of natural science in schools, not much has been said about the text-books which are, or should be, read. So long as the present system of teaching a single branch of natural science continues, and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE nature of the material from which the edible bird's-nest s formed has been long the subject of controversy. It is very gratifying to find from Mr. Layard's letter, published in last week's NATURE (p. 82), that a reconciliation of the various views is possible. Most writers support the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE application of the electric light to lighthouses and ships appears to me to be capable of considerable extension by a modification of the apparatus used. In lighthouses the practice is to have a fixed light in the lantern, with an apparatus either catoptric or dioptric, or a combination of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE identification of the original source of any conventionalised artistic form is always, I think, worth notice. It will probably interest many readers of NATURE to draw their attention to a short but instructive piece of work of this kind which Prof. Julius Lange has communicated to the Royal ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I SEE, in your issue of October 9 (vol. xxx. p. 570), an interesting communication entitled “A Gigantic Earthworm,” in which the writer refers to worms of large size being fairly common in parts of Cape Colony. I may mention that here in Ceylon it is not an infrequent sight to see two or three ...
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    Nature 31 (1884), S. 127-128 
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    Notes: [Auszug] YOUR correspondent, Mr. Mattieu Williams, says, on p. 54. that Tönsberg “is admitted by all as a high authority” on Nor way. May I be permitted to ask who these “all” are ? I knew this gentleman very well, and he never claimed the least geographical authority for a faulty and crude “Guide for ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is a remarkable fact that in all the publications relating to Africa we so seldom come across accounts of injuries caused by lightning. Some travellers—those of the German Loango Expedition of 1873–76 for example—even distinctly report that, notwithstanding the extreme frequency of lightning ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN connection with the indication of universal time by our future timepieces, I venture to suggest that the hours should be contained in one circle; but, instead of being numbered consecutively from 1 to 24, they might be arranged in Roman numerals, as at present, and if figured alternately ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON the night of November 28, at about six in the evening, I went to the window to look at the moon, and saw, as it were, a second moon behind the other. The effect was so like what one sometimes experiences from suddenly going out of a very light room, or other causes, that at the time I ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WITH the view of making the Norwegian catalogue of the aurora borealis, at which I am now working, as complete as possible, I take the liberty of asking meteorological societies which are in possession of journals supplied by those who have navigated Norwegian waters to be good enough to place ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the year 1871 the Congress of the United States had -*o its attention directed to the alarming decrease in the abundance of its east coast food fishes, and appointed a Commission to investigate the matter, with the idea of preventing the decrease. Prof. Spencer F. Baird, then Assistant Secretary ...
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    Nature 31 (1884), S. 130-132 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A GREAT amount of valuable scientific work, of a special character, is done by the various engineering institutions of the country; and much of the progress latterly made in the practical applications of science to mechanical operations, and also in the advancement of those sciences which bear most ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SPEAKING at the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society in November 1883, Prof. Huxley said:- o" It certainly was high time that British science should deal with a problem of the profoundest zoological interest, the materials for the solution of which abound in, and are at the same time confined ...
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    Nature 31 (1884), S. 135-137 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LAST * Thursday (December 4) the Chemical and Physical Society of University College, London, gave a scientific soiree in connection with the University College Society. Prof. T. G. Bonney delivered the annual address, and took as his subject " Serpentine Rock and its Origin." The lecture was ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WOLF'S COMET. ~Herr Lehmann-Filhes of Berlin has made a first approximation to the amount of perturbation experienced by this comet at its near approach to the planet Jupiter in 1875, i to which attention was directed in NATURE (vol. xxx. p. 615). iHe adopts the orbit determined by Prof. Krueger ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] REPORTS have been received from M. Alfred Marche, who is travelling through the Philippine Archipelago on a scientific mission for the French Ministry of Public Instruction. During June and July last he explored the archipelago of Calamienes, situated to the south-west of Mindoro and to the north ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Physical Society, November 22.-Prof. Guthrie, President, in the chair.-Mr. James Bewsher was elected a member of the Society.-The following notes were read by Mr. R. T. Glaze-brook, M.A., F.R.S.:-On the permanence of some standards of electrical resistance. The author has had occasion to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] CAMBRIDGE.-Prof. Roy was on Thursday last admitted to the degree of M.A. honoris causa. The Public Orator in presenting him spoke as follows:- Dignissime Domine, domine Procancellarie, et tota Academia, -Quis nescit Athenas illas Caledonicas, cum aliarum artium, turn praesertim studiorum medicorum ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] [THE first Wednesday lecture at the Society of Arts was devoted to an address on this subject-in accordance with precedents-the Duke of Buckingham, Chairman of the Exhibition Council, taking the chair. The following are the parts of the address relating to the scientific departments of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN view of the investigations which are going on at the present time, it will be of interest to our readers to summarise the reasons which Koch gives for his conclu sion that the comma-bacilli described by him are the cause of cholera. No doubt can remain in the minds of those who have read his ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHATEVER theory may be adopted regarding the V V fundamental equality or disparity of the human races, a truthful and unbiased account of the present social condition of the Haytians, by a competent observer, must necessarily prove a valuable contribution to the study of psychological anthropology. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS handsome volume belongs to the class of publica- i tions known as " pocket-books," of which there are many examples, in English, adapted to the use of various branches of engineering. It is essentially a compilation of facts, formulas, and methods likely to prove useful to ship-builders in the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] OUR notices of the former sections will be found in vol. xxii. (p. 582) and vol. xxvi. (p. 197). These sections are occupied with the Calculus of Variations (pp. 441 to 459), Differential Equations (pp. 460 to 545), and the Calculus of Finite Differences (pp. 546 to 560). In the first section we ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I WAS glad to see that “Science Master” had pointed out some of the difficulties in the way of applying the principles laid down in Prof. Armstrong's valuable paper in your number for November 6 (p. 19). The difficulties to which he has adverted relate mainly to those gratuitously thrown in the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I CANNOT pretend to the great experience of Mr. R. W. S. Mitchell in observations on aërial movements of the flying-fish when for a brief space he leaves his native element; but during one voyage from the Isthmus of Panama to England viâ the West Indies I lost no opportunity (of many) of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE of November 20 (p. 66) you give an account of the finding of some relics of the Jeannette, which have been picked up on an ice-floe at Julianhaab, in lat. 61° N., long. 46° W., near the south point of Greenland, and which must have drifted from the New Siberian Islands in lat. 75° N., ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHILE waiting at the telescope shortly before noon this date to note place of sun-spots at meridian passage, masses of cloud formed suddenly in a clear sky overhead, and drifting slowly due south, obscured a peculiarly brilliant sun. No sooner had direct light been intercepted than the upper ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT Waterpark, just below Waterford City, about 4 p.m. on October 15, my attention was attracted by a flash of increased light. Looking up, I saw in the south-south-west, about half Way between the horizon and the zenith, a bright meteor slowly sailing nearly clue west, its apparent size about ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AFTER watching for some time this evening a lovely twilight in the west, which though bright and luminous was not remarkable for strong colour, I turned toward the south-east, when the moon, now well up, was shining through detached fleecy clouds, and was surprised to see about her a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MAY I ask if any of your readers who are interested in wildfowl decoys will send me the names and positions of any past and present ones they may happen to know or have heard of. I am endeavouring to save the history of decoys from oblivion, and though I have many hundred letters, maps, and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING October last, the sanitary authorities of Gloucester City had occasion to make some excavations in the timber-yard of Messrs. Booth and Co., and in the Bristol Road adjoining this yard, for the purpose of laying down a new sewer. In the course of this operation the workmen disinterred, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AFTER Mr. McLachlan's remarks in NATURE for November 20 (p. 54), on Dr. Bonavia's note upon the above subject, it is hardly necessary to say that your correspondent, F. N. Pierce (November 27, p. 82) is undoubtedly mistaken in saying that he has bred the house-fly, Musca domestica, from ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] YOUR correspondent, Mr. F. N. Pierce, in NATURE for November 27 (p. 82) merely continues the error suggested by Dr. Bonavia's note on this subject. It is not the larvæ of the house fly (Musca domestica) that he has found as parasites on his butterfly and moth caterpillars, but the larvae of a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MAY I make use of your widely circulated pages to say that I purpose in a few days to send to press a list of the subscribers to the Forbes Memorial, to be bound up with the issue of the zoological memoirs of our lamented friend; the Memorial Volume is now nearly ready, and I shall be glad to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is perhaps hardly sufficiently recognised how much o*o the progress of science has been helped by the leisure-hour occupations of busy professional men. No branch of science has profited more from this source than geology, and no calling has furnished so many helpful labourers as medicine. The ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN many respects Mr. Godwin-Austen stood out apart o*o from his fellow-geologists in this country. He wrote comparatively little, but what he did write was always weighty and full of suggestiveness. Instead of loading the literature of science with a pile of little papers, each containing some ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Rev. Chas. Clouston, LL.D., of Sandwick Manse, near Stromness, who died on the roth ult. at the very advanced age of eighty-four years, was a man who deserves more than a passing notice in our columns. To name one only of his many claims to scientific recognition, he commenced meteorological ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A FTER the fine display of autumnal tints which we ** have lately seen it may, I trust, be of interest to some of the readers of NATURE if I give an account of the chief conclusions to which I have been led by care fully studying the subject for many years. As a general rule the colour of leaves ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I SEND you to-day a photograph of a genuine Dakotah -^ cyclone, or, rather, tornado, which was taken by F. N. Robinson, Howard, Miner County, D.T., August 28,1884. The storm passed twenty-two miles west of the city. It was first noticed at 4 o'clock p.m., moving in a south easterly direction, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Lords of the Committee of Council on Education have received information, through Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that Her Majesty's Consul at Antwerp has been appointed British Commissioner for the International Exhibition which is to be held at Antwerp next ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is now four years and a half since Mr. Sowerby first discovered the fresh-water jelly-fish in the tank at Regent's Park, and since that time no definite advance has been made towards clearing up the mystery of their life-history. Prof. Lankester has continued to make observations and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE second report, just published, of the Meteoro logical Observatory of Magdeburg presents some special features of interest. The observations with the instruments in more general use are given in very con venient forms in detail and abstract. Magdeburg was one of the first observatories to adopt ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS meeting took place on Monday last, the time-honoured x date-St. Andrew's Day-falling on Sunday. In the regretted absence of the President, Prof. Huxley, who, the Fellows were rejoiced to learn, is rapidly recovering his health from his sojourn in Italy, the Treasurer, Mr. John Evans, occupied ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] II. TO continue our study of visible light, that is, undulations ex tending from red to violet in the spectrum (which I am going to show you presently), I would first point out on this chart that in the section from letter "A" to letter "D" we have visual effect and heating effect only; but no ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE has lately arisen a warm controversy about over-pressure in schools, and its alleged results. The points in dispute are unquestionably important, and deserve the careful thought of all those who are interested in the intellectual and physical development of the rising generation. The cry of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Linnean Society, November 20.-Prof. P. Martin Duncan, F.R. S., Vice-President, in the chair.-Mr. A. Roope Hunt was elected a Fellow.-Mr. F. B. Forbes drew attention to specimens of pods and seeds used by the Chinese in place of soap. He stated that for ordinary detergent purposes an impure ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Bulletin de la Socilte de Geographic, Paris^ 3 Trimestre, -The principal portion of this number is occupied by papers of M. Huber, who spent the years 1878 to 1882 in Arabia on a scientific mission on behalf of the Department of Public Instruc tion. In the first he introduces 145 inscriptions which ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WIHE the publication of the first synoptic weather-* " maps in Europe and America about the middle of the present century, the scientific study of the great movements of the atmosphere and other phenomena of weather may be considered as having commenced. This method of inquiry soon taught us that ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE live in an age of adventure. Men are ready to join in expeditions to the North Pole or to the interior of the African continent, yet we will venture to say that the work before us describes a vast plain as yet untrodden by any Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and teeming with a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is a little difficult to see what useful purpose is served by this work, or why a second edition should be called for, seeing that it is neither of the popular nor yet of the properly scientific order of text-book. Its modes of regarding and describing the facts of dynamics are antiquated and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is the concluding volume of a series of elementary class-books on pure and applied mathematics issued by Plnstitut des Freres Ecolcs chretiennes, a French Society which showed in the Technical Schools at the recent Health Exhibition a noteworthy collection of specimens of work done in their ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT the anniversary meeting of the Chemical Society held March 31, 1884, the President read an address to the Fellows, which contains a series of remarks upon the prosecution of original research in England requiring some notice, particularly as a separate issue of the address has been ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN reference to the note on this subject in NATURE (p. 36), it appears to me that to any radical change in dial-division there exist many objections, of more or less weight, over and above those already enumerated. In regard to— (A) Striking the hours.-(i) It is said that l public clocks ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the Edinburgh Review of last July many of your readers will probably have noticed an article on “Lightning-Conductors,” written somewhat strongly from the point of view of an advocate of the apparatus thus popularly designated. Perhaps a few words of comment on this paper from a rather ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] As regards the practical question how clocks are to be made to strike if the dial is to show twenty-four hours, I have a suggestion to make. But firstly, the convenience of beginning the day at midnight is evident, as the early morning hours are those which it is most useful to have ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SHORTLY after the commencement of the publication of the “Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger” by the Government, the late Mr. T. C. Cobbold, M.P. for Ipswich, inquired in the House of Commons whether, inasmuch as this expedition was undertaken with the nation's money for ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ABSENCE from town prevented me from seeing NATURE of November 6, in which there is a letter (p. 5) signed B. Woodd Smith with the above heading. I'ossibly Mr. Smith's very ingenious explanation of the cause of the columnar form of the shallow stratum of ice he so well describes may be the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN reply to Dr. Bonavia's note on the above subject in NATURE for November 13 (p. 29), I beg to inform him that the larvæ of the house-fly are often internally parasitic on the larvæ of Lepidoptera. I have bred them in large numbers from Vanessa io and Salurnia carpini, also from other species ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE of July 17 last (vol. xxx. p. 271), just received, appears an article on “Birds'-Nest Soup,” which contains the statement that “the nests of the bats1 and swifts were seen hanging in clusters from the sides and roof.” That the addition of the “bats” to the contributors ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE believe that the protocols of this Conference have not yet reached this country. In the meantime we are permitted to give the official statement of the resolutions. FINAL ACT The President of the United States of America, in pursuance of a special provision of Congress, having extended to the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PERHAPS I may be allowed to recall the attention of ±- physicists to the above "strange and interesting phenomena," as they are rightly called by their discoverer, Prof. G. S. Ohm (see Pogg. Annalen for 1853, vol. xc. p. 327); partly for the purpose of indicating a simple method of observing them. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE returns of the Railway Department of the Board A of Trade serve as an excellent index to the defects in the management and working of the railway system in | this country, the defects being brought to light during ! the investigations of the trivial casualties and disastrous accidents which ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] GALVANOMETERS of innumerable kinds abound, ^* and each form has some special merit which renders it useful for certain restricted services. The old astatic instrument of Nobili is still preferred by many to the more modern mirror galvanometer of Sir W. Thomson because it requires no lamp, and can ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] GEOLOGISTS interested in the history of the younger ^J" lava-floods, by which such vast areas both in the Old World and in the New have been deluged, will be glad to know that Capt. Dutton, of the United States Geological Survey, after a careful study of the modern volcanic phenomena of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A MEETING of members of the University and others, to promote the objects of the Marine Biological Association, will be held at Cambridge on Saturday next, the 29th inst., in the Lecture-Room of Comparative Anatomy, the use of which fcr this purpose was granted to Prof. Newton by grace of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE ECLIPSE OF THUCYDIDES, B.C. 431, AUGUSTS.-There has been much discussion from time to time with reference to the solar eclipse recorded by Thucydides in the first year of the Peloponnesian war, and long identified as that which occurred on August 3, B c. 431. We are told, "the sun was eclipsed ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] CAMBRIDGE.-The Professorship of Political Economy will be filled up on Dec. 13. The Higher Local Examinations were held last June at 21 centres, and attended by 960 candidates (chiefly women), a decrease of 27. In Arithmetic the work of most of the candidates was by no means good. Euclid's ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] The subject upon which I am to speak to you this evening s o*o happily for me not new in Philadelphia. The beautiful lectures on light which were given several years ago by President Morton, of the Stevens' Institute, and the succession of lectures on the same subject so admirably illustrated by ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain an I Ireland, November 1884.-The ethnology of Egyptian Soudan, a timely and important paper, by Prof. A. H. Keane.-Additional observations on the osteology of the natives of the Andaman Islands, by Prof. Flower. -The Kubus, a small tribe in ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Anthropological Institute, November n.-Prof. Flower, F.R. S., President, in the chair.-The election of Horatio Hale, D. H. Talbot, Dr. F. A. Colby, and Mrs. E. A. Smith was announced.-Mr. Francis Galton described the object, method, and appliances of the late Anthropometric Laboratory at ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A MONG the most striking of the recent rapid advances o^^ of science is the development of what we may term bacteriology. For more than one hundred years a debate had been going on as to the origin of the minute forms of life which were present in decomposing organic materials, but till the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS little book, which aims chiefly at supplying the wants of medical and pharmaceutical students, represents fairly what was the state of systematic botany in England twenty years ago. The bulk of the book is occupied with a detailed description of the natural orders of Phanerogams, while the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN this volume short histories are given of the following inventors:-Watt, George Stephenson, Richard Ark-wright, Crompton, Maudsley, Joseph Clement, James Nasmyth, Whitworth, and Babbage. The facts told of the lives of these men have been gathered from reliable sources and are accurate. It is ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] M. HOSPITALIER'S " Formulaire Pratique de 1'Electricien," of which the work before us is a translation, has become well known in this country as a useful compendium of data and rules for electrical work, and Mr. Wigan has done good service in putting an English version within the reach of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE constitutive elements of Euclidean geometry are the straight line and the circle-two continuous curves, which stand to one another in a certain relation of reciprocity, and the actual production of which, as Newton has already remarked, demands certain mechanical appliances-the ruler and the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS little book of 75 pages is designed to give to amateurs practical information as to the construction of a small working dynamo-machine. What is aimed at is the building up of a machine capable of being worked by hand and suitable for experimental purposes. The dynamo-electric machine is one ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] As one who has been engaged in teaching science in schools for the last ten years, I should like to make some remarks on Prof. H. E. Armstrong's interesting lecture, published in NATURE of November 6 (p. 19). (i) In the first place I would like to express my agreement with his weighty ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE crossed the Atlantic and Indian Oceans many times and at different seasons of the year, but until my last voyage to Calcutta I was unable to answer this question positively. For days together, aided at times by a powerful field-glass, I have endeavoured to establish satisfactorily ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Kazan Society of Naturalists continues its useful work of exploration. The last volume of its Memoirs (Trudy ObscheslvaEsteslvoispytatdeypri Kazanskom Univerntete, vol. xii.} contains two papers by the late M, Shell, on the botanical geography of the provinces of Ufa and Orenburg, being a list ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE former, known as the “law of Avogadro,” implies that any given volume at the same temperature and pressure must contain the same number of molecules. It includes the law of Chasles, viz. equal expansibility for equal increments of heat; and the law of Boyle or Marriotte, that the volume of ...
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