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    The Astronomical Theory of the Great Ice Age (1886)
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    Nature 35 (1886), S. 7-7 
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN Sir Robert Ball's paper on this subject, which appears in your last number (p. 607), that author states that the calculation given “has convinced him that Mr. Croll's theory affords an adequate explanation of the Ice age.” It is more in the hope of obtaining from Sir Robert a statement of ...
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    The High Temperature in October (1886)
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    Nature 35 (1886), S. 18-19 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE warm weather which occurred at the commencement of the month was so exceptional for the season, and extended over so large a part of Europe, that a few facts as to its general character may be of interest, and will afford opportunity of comparison with earlier records, as well as with records ...
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    Frederick Guthrie (1886)
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    Nature 35 (1886), S. 8-10 
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    Notes: [Auszug] FREDERICK GUTHRIE was born in Bayswater on October 15, 1833, an^ was the youngest of six children. His father, Alexander Guthrie, was a tailor, carrying on business in New Bond Street, and is said to have been a man of literary taste and ability; that he was a man of cultivation is shown by the ...
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    Autumnal Flowering (1886)
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    Nature 35 (1886), S. 11-12 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE "extraordinary gooseberry" season seems to have set in this year with more than usual severity. Country clergymen and amateur gardeners, who would see nothing unusual in the autumnal flowering of a hybrid perpetual rose (which reminds them, perhaps, of their old school-days, when- they read of ...
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    Notes on the Recent Swarming of Aphides (1886)
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    Nature 35 (1886), S. 15-15 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE immediate cause of the sudden appearance of clouds of insects in certain localities is not very apparent, but it may be surmised that the predominance or scarceness of their natural insect foes has much control over the phenomenon; added to which must be taken into account the effects of ...
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    Astronomical Phenomena for the Week 1886 November 7–13 (1886)
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    Nature 35 (1886), S. 18-18 
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    Notes: [Auszug] (FOR the reckoning of time the civil day, commencing at ^ Greenwich mean midnight, counting the hours on to 24, is here employed.) At Greenwich on November 7 Sunrises, 7I1. 6m.; souths, nh. 43m. 49-63.; sets, i6h. 22m.; decl. on meridian, 160 21' S.: Sidereal Time at Sunset, 19I1. 29m. Moon ...
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    Solution (1886)
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    Nature 35 (1886), S. 21-22 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Opening of the Discussion by Prof Tilden 17OR want of time, the consideration of various phenomena x connected with the subject was necessarily omitted. Thus no reference could be made to the various formulae relating to expansion or density of solutions, nor to their optical properties, magnetic ...
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    Notes (1886)
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    Nature 35 (1886), S. 15-17 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A MOST attractive group of birds has just been, placed by Prof. Flower in the great hall of the Natural History Museum at South Kensington. The case is intended to illustrate the hybridisation of species in a state of nature, and the species selected are the hooded and carrion crows {Corvus comix ...
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    Our Book Shelf (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 616-616 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THESE volumes are amongst the latest of that encyclopaedic work, " Das Wissen der Gegenwart," which has now passed its fiftieth volume. Although, so far as the publication has at present gone, there are more volumes devoted to popular descriptions of countries than to any other, yet general ...
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    Packard's “First Lessons in Zoology” (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 616-616 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ONE of the principal objects of the American Science Series, we are told, is to supply "authoritative books the principles of which are, so far as is practical, illustrated by familiar American facts." Another " lack " intended to be supplied by the series is that of text-books which " do not at ...
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    Lepidoptera and Migration (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 618-618 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE subject of migration in connection with Lepidoptera is beginning to receive some attention at the hands of our best lepidopterologists. I am decidedly of opinion that the abundance or scarcity of many species of Lepidoptera is largely regulated by migrations from abroad. Last year our ...
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    The New Optical Glass (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 622-623 
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    Notes: [Auszug] EVERYTHING that falls from the pen of Prof. Abbd -*-' of Jena relating to optical matters commands respect. His announcement therefore of the discovery of new kinds of glass specially adapted for the manufacture of lenses has been received with peculiar interest; and although details of information ...
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    Kew Gardens (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 596-597 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE well-known scientific traveller, Dr. Schweinfurth, has recently paid us a visit in England. The Berliner Tageblattsi September 12 reports his impressions of our botanical institutions as given in a lecture delivered the previous day before the " Versammlung deutscher Naturforscher und Aerzte." ...
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    Notes (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 601-603 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AN article in NATURE for May 6 (p. 7) drew attention to the fact that this present year is the tercentenary of the introduction of the potato into England, and discussed some of the points of its history. Apart from the purely historic aspects of the question, " Whence did our potato first come? " ...
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    Peculiar Growth of the Common Acorn-Shell (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 596-596 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A PECULIAR mode of growth of the common acorn-shell (Balanus) is met with at Hastings. These crustaceans are known to attach themselves sometimes by a shelly basis to rocks, &c. In this instance they seem to have worked together to form a common shelly tube, as seen in the accompanying ...
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    Lunar Rainbow—Halo round the Sun in Connection with the Storm of October 15 and 16 (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 596-596 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON the evening of the 9th there was a good lunar rainbow between 7 and 8 p.m. I have not seen one for some years, although about twenty years ago in one winter I saw seven or nine, I forget exactly which. On the I4th, while coming home between 3 and 4 p.m., I saw a remarkable halo round ...
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    Our Book Shelf (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 569-569 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is a collection of examination questions arranged progressively, and is intended for the use of science teachers and students. The idea is a good one, and we have no hesitation in saying that the book will be appreciated by those for whose benefit it has been compiled. Although we are far from ...
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    Algebraic Notation of Kinship (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 571-571 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. F. GALTON has described two systems of kinship notation: one in his work on “Hereditary Genius,” pp. 50–53; the other in a letter to NATURE, vol. xxviii. p. 435. I propose to indicate here the outline of another system, which, though slightly more cumbrous in form than Mr. Gallon's, seems ...
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    Ferdinand Stoliczka (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 574-575 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN an interesting memoir, published by order of the Government of India, Mr. V. Ball gives a sketch of the life and work of L〉r. F. Stoliczka, for many years Palaeontologist to the Geological Survey of India. This memoir appears in connection with the publication of the scientific results of the ...
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    Astronomical Phenomena for the Week 1886 October 17–23 (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 579-580 
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    Notes: [Auszug] (FOR the reckoning of time the civil day, commencing at *- Greenwich mean midnight, counting the hours on to 24, is here employed.) At Greenwich on October 17 Sun rises, 6h. 2gm.; souths, Iih. 45m. 24-23.; sets, I7h. 2m.; decl. on meridian, 9° 20' S.: Sidereal Time at Sunset, i8h. 46m. Moon (at ...
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    Photographs of Stellar Spectra (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 570-570 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE article upon this subject in NATURE, vol. xxxiv. p. 439, requires a correction which has been pointed out by Dr. Copeland. The spectrum of the star DM, + 37° 3821 was observed by him on September 22, 1884, and found to contain bright lines; the observation was published in the Monthly ...
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    The Hong Kong Observatory (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 572-573 
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. W. DOBERCK, Government Astronomer at the o*-' above Observatory, has recently published an official report on the astronomical instruments under his charge, and on the time service of Hong Kong in 1885, the determination of local time being the chief purpose of the astronomical branch of the ...
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    The Late American Earthquake and its Limits (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 570-571 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN your very flattering critique of my “Alphabetical Catalogue of European Earthquakes” the reviewer says:—“The tendency to alignment in volcanoes has often been noticed; Prof. O'Reilly indicates a similar peculiarity in earthquakes, adding that the lines along which they range approximate to ...
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    Our Astronomical Column (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 579-579 
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    Notes: [Auszug] M. THOLLON'S MAP OF THE SOLAR SPECTRUM.-M. Thollon, in the Bulletin Astronomique for July, gives some interesting details concerning the great map of the solar spectrum which he presented to the Paris Academy of Sciences about a year ago. He had completed an earlier design in 1879, but the ...
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    On the Occurrence of Cellulose in Tuberculosis (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 581-581 
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    Notes: [Auszug] CELLULOSE, the principal constituent of the vegetable cell-wall, has been found to occur also in some animals; the mantle oiPhallusia mamillaris and of Cynthia, and the external coat of Salpa consist mainly of tunicin, or animal cellulose. Now a further very valuable contribution to our knowledge ...
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    Disinfection by Heat (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 581-584 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Annual Report for 1884 of the Medical Officer of the o Local Government Board contained a memoir, by Dr. H. F. Parsons, on the subject of disinfection by heat. Of this memoir the leading points are here given. In considering the applicability of heat as a means of disinfection, several ...
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    Societies and Academies (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 587-588 
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    Notes: [Auszug] SYDNEY Royal Society of New South Wales, August 4.-Ch.. Rolleston, President, in the chair.-The Society's Medal and; Prize of 257. was presented to Mr. S. Herbert Cox, F.C.S., F.G.S., for his prize essay on "The Tin Deposits of New South Wales." The principal deposits occur in New England as ...
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    Alchemy (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 544-544 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS work is in two parts; the first part treats of -I- alchemy up to the year 1775, and the second part subsequent to this date. It is not written purely for the chemist, and indeed the student who looks here for the minor details of alchemy will be disappointed. These have already received ample ...
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    Cooke's “Chemical Physics” (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 545-546 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN your issue of September 2 (p. 405) I find under the cover of a review of Cooke's “Chemical Physics” that Prof. Armstrong has been good enough to quote a passage from my “Lessons in Elementary Chemistry,” though without naming the source, concerning Avogadro's law, about which he asks the ...
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    Alligators in the Bahamas (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 546-546 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN Catesby's “Natural History of Florida, Carolina, and the Bahama Islands,” published in the latter half of the eighteenth century, the author, usually a most accurate observer, states that the mangrove-swamps on the Island of Andros presented a loathsome appearance owing to the remains of ...
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    Scientific Serials (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 539-540 
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    Notes: [Auszug] American Journal of Science, September.^A post-Tertiary elevation of the Sierra Nevada, shown by the river-beds, by Joseph Le Conte. In further elucidation of his already published speculations regarding an upheaval of the Sierra Nevada towards the close of the Tertiary epoch, the author here ...
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    Our Book Shelf (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 494-494 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is an atlas of forty plates, the representations in which are most natural and life-like, the characteristic habit of each species being effectively shown. About half the plates are accompanied by diagrams of the spikelets or florets. Of the 40 selected species, 7 belong to Andropogon, 7 to ...
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    Photographic Determinations of Stellar Positions (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 560-562 
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    Notes: [Auszug] T T has been suggested that a short account of my work upon stellar photographs for the attainment of accurate observations might be acceptable to the astronomical section. My intention had been to attend this meeting as a listener and learner only, but I comply with the suggestion the more ...
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    Roots (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is a fact which has become more and more evident to the practical cultivator that the results of his efforts manifest themselves on the whole in a sort of compromise between the plant and its environment: I mean that although he sees more or less distinctly what his plant should be-according to ...
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    A Glacial Period in Australia (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 522-524 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A GREAT many theories have been put forward to explain the extensive glaciation which repeatedly covered Europe and North America with enormous ice-streams. The ingenuity displayed by those who dealt with the subject was well worthy of the importance which attaches to the solution of the problem. ...
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    The British Association (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 536-539 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Section D—Biology Initiation of a Discussion lpon the Value of the " Type-system" in the Te-iching of Botany', by Prof. Bayley Balfour.- The speaker remarked that within the last fifteen years there had been a complete revolution in the method of teaching botany and zoology. The old method was ...
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    [Book Reviews] (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 494-494 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A WRITER who invariably mis-spells " hypotenuse " speaks of squaring two numbers and " subtracting the results," and treats of the area of a triangle before the area of a rectangle, does not deserve success. Yet so unsuited for non-technical schools is the scope of most of the existing bookson ...
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    [Book Reviews] (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS volume is a republication of a number of sketches on scientific subjects contributed weekly to the journal La Gironde, with a view to keeping the readers of that periodical au courant with the progress of science in its various branches. They are therefore popular, and are made as entertaining ...
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    Physiological Selection and the Origin of Species (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 468-468 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I SHOULD be glad to call Mr. Romanes' attention to a letter by Mr. Edmund Catchpool, published in NATURE, November 6, 1884 (vol. xxxi. p. 4), where he will find his theory of physiological selection very clearly put ...
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    Our Astronomical Column (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 502-502 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PHOTOGRAPHIC DETERMINATIONS OF STELLAR POSITIONS. -Dr. B. A. Gould, in a paper presented at the Buffalo meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on August 20, 1886, gives some interesting particulars with regard to his photographic work at Cordova. He states that no ...
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    Lunar Rainbow (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 469-469 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A BEAUTIFUL lunar rainbow was plainly visible here for a few moments last evening. The eastern sky being clear, the moon looked fully out from behind dark clouds in the west at a moment when rain was falling lightly. Turning quickly away from her light, in the hope of seeing a bow, I was not ...
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    Actinotrocha of the British Coasts (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 439-439 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE been reminded by Mr. T. Bolton, of Birmingham, that about three years ago I sent him living specimens of what Mr. A. G. Bourne afterwards identified as Phoronis. At the time I was under an impression, from hasty observation of the arrangement of the tentacular crown, and before I had ...
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    Peat Floods in the Falklands (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE accompanying narratives of a singular visitation * which has befallen the town of Stanley in the Falk-lands may be of some interest to the readers of NATURE. Though the causes are so different, the effects of the bursting of a peat-bog in some respects curiously simulate those of a lava-flow. ...
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    The Scottish Meteorological Society (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 460-462 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE following is an abstract of the Report of the Council o* read at the meeting of the Scottish Meteorological Society held on July 22:- Since the general meeting of the Society in March, the num ber of the Society's stations has remained the same. The membership of the Society now numbers 719, ...
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    Books and Pamphlets Received (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 464-464 
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    Notes: [Auszug] " Journal of Society of Telegraph Engineers," Nos. 62 and 63: List of Members (Spen).-" Pictorial Arts of Japan," part 3, by W Anderson (S. Low and Co.),-" The Mulberry Silkworm," by C. V. Riley (Washington).- '. Record of North American Invertebrate Palat. for 5885," by J. B. Marcou (Washingt n).- ...
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    Our Book Shelf (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS little work forms the fifty-seventh volume of " Das Wissen der Gegenwart," a scientific series which has already done so much for the spread of useful and accurate information amongst the Germanic populations. The author, himself personally acquainted with some of the localities here ...
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    Earth-Currents and Aurora (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 408-408 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE appears to have been a very remarkable and widespread earth-current storm on March 30 last, full particulars of which it would be extremely useful to have on record. My attention has been drawn to this storm through witnessing, on the evening of that day, one of the most vivid and ...
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    Astronomical Phenomena for the Week 1886 September 5–11 (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 435-435 
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    Notes: [Auszug] (FOR the reckoning of time the civil day, commencing at Greenwich mean midnight, counting the hours on to 24, is here employed.) At Greenwich on September 5 Sunrises, 5h. 2lm.; souths, nh. 58m. 34'8s.; sets, i8h. 36m.;- decl. on meridian, 6° 45' N.: Sidereal Time at Sunset, I7h. 35m. Moon (at ...
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    Chlamydomyxa in the Engadine (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] YOUR readers will be interested to hear that I have found here in Pontresina the very interesting Protozoon described twelve years ago, in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, by Mr. Archer, of Dublin, under the name Chlamydomyxa. Mr. Archer obtained his specimens crawling upon, and ...
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    Our Astronomical Column (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] NOTES ON VARIABLE STARS.-Mr. T. E. Espin, Observer to the Liverpool Astronomical Society, announces in the Society's Circular, No. 6, that the starD.M. + 8°-3780, stated in Circular No. 2 (NATURE, vol. xxxiv. p. no) to be probably variable, passed its maximum about June 4, at which time its ...
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    Books and Pamphlets Received (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] "Report of the Entomologist C. V. Riley for 1885" (Washington).- "Bulletin of the U.S. National Museum, No. 30," by J. B. Marcou (Washington) -" Geologic de 1'Ancienne Colombie, Bplivarienne Venezuela, Nouvelle-Grenade et Ecuador," by H. ICarsten (Friedlander, Berlin).- "Jahrbuch der ...
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    Our Book Shelf (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] MESSRS. CASSELL, in issuing these volumes among their manuals for students of medicine, did wisely in invoking the aid of some thirty hospital surgeons, who have in these three handy volumes produced a very practical work of high excellence. In comparing such a work as the present with a book on ...
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    Mock Suns (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 361-362 
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    Notes: [Auszug] As I observe the omission from my letter on the parhelia or mock suns of last month (p. 313) of the diagram which was intended to describe the real phenomena, may I ask you to allow me a few lines of space for the following:— The real sun was surrounded at a short distance by a halo or ...
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    Capillary Attraction (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] III. IN these other diagrams, however (Figs. 13 to 28), we have certain portions of the curves taken to represent real capillary surfaces shown in section. In Fig. 13 a solid sphere is shown in four different positions in contact with a mercury surface; and again, in Fig. 14 we have a section of ...
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    The British Medical Association at Brighton (1886)
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    Nature 34 (1886), S. 374-375 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE annual meeting of the British Medical Association is anticipated not only as an occasion for the association and communion of medical men of all classes, but as an opportunity for, so to speak, taking stock of the progress of medical science and practice during the past year. Prom the choice of ...
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    Central American Entomology (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] TWO more instalments of the entomological portion I of this great work show how earnestly it is being pushed on; and if it can be completed on the same lavish scale of illustration, and with the same thoroughness of execution, it will afford materials for a true conception of the richness of insect ...
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    [Book Reviews] (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT was a happy thought of the compiler of this volume to collect and publish on the five hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the University of Heidelberg a selection of what has been written about the city and the University by eminent men of various nations at different periods of time. A ...
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    Permanent Polarity of Quartz (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE second note in NATURE (Feb. 4, p. 325) contains an account of an “important discovery” by Dr. O. Tumlirz, which is wrong in all essential particulars. The permanent polarity discovered by that gentleman is not diamagnetic, but paramagnetic. Nor is it correct that “Dr. Tumlirz appears to ...
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    Phylloxera at the Cape (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE have received from a correspondent in South Africa some details of the long-dreaded appearance of the Phylloxera in the vineyards of the Cape Colony. As long ago as i88o the importation of living plants in any form or shape was forbidden by the Cape Government. This measure was so strictly ...
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    The Story of Biela's Comet (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] I ASK you to listen to-night to the story of Biela's cornet. I will weave into the story enough of astronomy to justify its place in this course as a lecture. This story has none of the interest which human passions give to stories of human life, and yet if it shall not be to you as interesting as ...
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    Our Astronomical Column (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE NEW STAR IN THE GREAT NEBULA IN ANDROMEDA.- As the Nova in Andromeda was the first object of its kind to which accurate photometric methods of observation were ap. plied, Prof. Seeliger of Munich has taken the opportunity of investigating whether the observed variations of brightness throw any ...
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    The Naturalist's Diary (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS book may be described as a most excellent vade -*- mecum and guide to any person who not only wishes to keep a phenological diary, but who wishes to know whit to enter therein. The preface and introduc tion show forth the principles which have guided the author in making this compilation, and ...
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    Our Book Shelf (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE have already on several occasions noticed the memoirs published by the Government of India on the collections made during this expedition to Yarkand. The spiders were placed in the very capable hands of the Rev. O. P. Cambridge for description. The collection cannot be considered as fairly ...
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    The Thomson Effect (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] I AM indebted to Dr. Everett for calling my attention to the confusion which has crept into § 193 of my book on “Heat.” I had not noticed it; but, happily, it can easily be removed. Take to the end of the section the statement quoted by Dr. Everett; and delete the word “Thus” in the sentence ...
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    Power in Laboratories (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN connection with the admirable devices for the distribution of driving-power in laboratories, illustrated in NATURE, vol. xxxiii. p. 248, the description of a novel and very effective form of water-engine, with which I have been experimenting for several months, will be of interest. One ...
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    Scientific Nomenclature (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a letter published in NATURE for May 27 (p. 76) Prof. Minchin proposes to replace the expression “potential energy” by “static energy.” It seems to have escaped his notice that a similar expression, proposed many years ago by Sir William Thomson, was used until it was replaced by the very ...
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    Neæra (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] I WISH to request any of your readers who may dredge, or have opportunity this summer, to observe living or fresh specimens of the genus Neæra, Gray, and see whether branchiæ exist in that group. A Lamellibranch without branchiæ is anomalous, to say the least. I find in a new species of Neæra ...
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    “Plants and their Defences” (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] WITH regard to the interesting article in your issue for May 6 (p. 5) on “Plants and their Defences,” I should like to offer two remarks, and in return would be very glad to receive from you information upon a certain point, (1) The author enumerates different species of plants protected by the ...
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    A Remarkable Hailstorm (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON April 17, at 4 o'clock p.m. (local time), a very remarkable hailstorm visited the neighbourhood of a small hamlet, called El Totumo1, not far from the town of Tinaco, section Cojedes, State of Zamora, Venezuela. The place is approximately in 9° 25′ N. lat., and 68° 5′ long. W. ...
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    [Book Reviews] (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. LYDEKKER published in January 1885 the first part of the Catalogue of Fossil Mammals in the British Museum, and in it he recorded the specimens belonging to the Orders Primates, Chiroptera, Insectivora, Carnivora, and Rodentia. He has rapidly followed this up by the preparation of the second ...
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    Visitation of the Royal Observatory (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE visitation to the Royal Observatory by the Board o*o of Visitors took place last Saturday, when there was a very numerous attendance. The report of the Astronomer-Royal to the Board gives, as usual, an account of the work done during the past year, and references to any points of interest or ...
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    The Astronomical Day (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE recently published report of the Science and Art o*o Department contains some most important informa tion showing what the recent Government action has been in relation to the resolutions passed at the Washington Conference. The first letter that we need refer to is one from the ...
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    On “Seter,” or Parallel Roads (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] I SEE to my great vexation that in my former letter on parallel roads (NATURE, January 21, p. 268) I have made a rather hideous blunder in my English to the great disadvantage of the clearness of my theory. I have used the French-German- Norwegian term “rest” as signifying le reste. My theory ...
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    Movement of Telegraph-Wires (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE can be no doubt that Mr. Mountford Deeley correctly attributes the rotatory oscillation of the wires during frost to the air-current acting upon a “wing” of ice-spicules. I described this phenomenon in Science Gossip, 1874, p. 254, and explained the cause of it in NATURE, vol. xxiii. p. ...
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    On the Sound-Producing Apparatus of the Cicadas (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] HAPPENING to refer to Prof. Jeffrey Bell's "Comparative Anatomy and Physiology" on the question of the sounds produced by insects, I read, with reference to the Cicadas:-" The sound seems to be produced by the vibration of membranes, placed on either side of the stigmata of the metathorax, and set ...
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    Societies and Academies (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Royal Society, January 7.-" Experimental Researches on the Propagation of Heat by Conduction in Muscle, Liver, Kidney, Bone, and Brain." By J. S. Lombard, M. D., formerly Assistant Professor of Physiology in Harvard University. Communicated by Charles E. Brown-S&iuarcl, M.D., LL.D., ...
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    Geographical Notes (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] LIEUT. WIssMA1N, who was on his way back to Europe- from his last great journey in the Congo district, stopped at Madeira for the benefit of his health, and has now returned to Africa for further explorations. Lieut. von Fran§ois, who took part in Lieut. Wissmann's expedition on the Kassai River, ...
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    University and Educational Intelligence (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] CAMBRIDGE-Mr. S. F. Harmer, B.A., has been appointed Demonstrator of Animal Morphology, in the place of Mr. Walter Heape, resigned. Mr. Harmer was previously Demon- strator of Comparative Anatomy. The subject for the Sedgwick Prize Essay in 1889 is the Petrology of the Igneous Rocks associated ...
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    Precautions Against Hydrophobia (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE frequency of the terrible and incurable disease known as hydrophobia has led to precautions being adopted in London, which, if universally carried out, would probably rid us of the plague. The recent progress of scientific pathology, i.e. of medical knowledge which advances by the methods of ...
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    Halsted's “Elements of Geometry” (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. HALSTED is already favourably known to English mathematicians by an excellent "Elementary Treatise on Mensuration" (published in the summer of r88i), and by one or two carefully compiled bibliographies in the American 7ournal of Mathematics. The faithful chronicler records of Tom Tulliver that ...
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    [Book Reviews] (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is an attempt, and a very successful one, to present to the student an elementary treatise, which shall be at once brief but well up to date; a difficult task in the case of a subject of which our stock of knowledge is being continually increased by results scattered through, or buried in, ...
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    A Medical Index-Catalogue (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] A MONGST the vast and rapidly-increasing mass of scientific literature it is a singular satisfaction to meet with a first-rate work such as this " Index Catalogue," which holds out good promise of being a clue to some parts at least of what is far too large for any single grasp. And if in any ...
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    [Book Reviews] (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIs little volume must prove of practical value to a con-siderable class of people, that class which every year furnishes a large contingent of visitors to Italy and winter residents in Rome. Dr. Young has himself long resided in Italy, and has had ample opportunity of observing its climatal and ...
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    University and Educational Intelligence (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] CAMBRIDGE.-The Special Board for Medicine have presented to the Vice-Chancellor the following Report with a view to its communication to the Senate: -" The Board have con- sidered the requirements of the Previous Examination from the point of view of its suitability as a preliminary examination for ...
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    Flora of South Africa (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] No one, who ever spent much of the impressionable period of his youth at the Cape, that land of lowly plants with exquisite flowers,—but will be vividly interested in the masterly description of those plants' geographical regions of habitat, as given by Mr. Bolus, per your reviewer, “J. D. H.,” ...
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    Notes (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Council of the Royal Meteorological Society have arranged to hold at 25, Great George Street, SW., on the evenings of March 16 and 17 next, an exhibition of barometers. The Exhibition Committee invite co-operation, as they are anxious to obtain as large a collection as possible of such ...
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    Chemical Notes (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE have already mentioned M. Konovaloff's researches into contact actions, published in the 7ournal of the Russian Chemical Society (1885, vii. and viii.) The following conclusions of his inquiry are worthy of being noticed: -The capacity of solid bodies for condensing gases on their surfaces is ...
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    The Rainfall of the British Islands (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] CLIMATE may be defined as that peculiar state of the atmosphere in regard to heat, moisture, and rainfall which prevails in any particular place, together with its meteorological conditions generally, in so far as these influence animal and vegetable life. The diversified characters which climate ...
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    Stone Implements and Changes of Level in the Nile Basin (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] Wady Halfa, January 2, 1886 SIR,—When serving in the Soudan last winter, in the occasional walks I was able to take in the Desert I kept a look out for stone implements, but failed to find any until I reached Abri, where I picked up on the beach a well-worked flake, but much worn, of Egyptian ...
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    On Some Interesting Cases of Migrations of Marine Fishes on the Coast of Venezuela at Carupano (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] CARUPANO is a thriving seaport on the northern coast of \renezuela, midway between the peninsulas of Araya and Paria, in lat. 100 14' 15" N., and long. 63° i8' W. from Greenwich, and therefore in close vicinity to the channel which leads from the Atlantic into the Caribbean Sea between Tobago and ...
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    The History of Fossil Crocodiles (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN this communication the author endeavoured to summarise the main facts already known regarding the palontological history of the Crocodilia, with full references to the principal literature of the subject. After some preliminary remarks upon the structure and distribution of the living members of ...
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    Parallel Roads in Norway (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] PARALLEL roads in Norway, such as those described by Mr. Hansen in your last number (p. 268), have already attracted the attention of several British geologists. Robert Chambers, a careful observer, saw and described them as long ago as 1849. His description, however (Ebinburgh Philosophical ...
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    Kilima-Njaro (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE rapid progress of African exploration during the last quarter of a century is strikingly exemplified in the brief history of the monarch of African Mountains. Doubtfully alluded to as the " Ethiopian Mount Olympus" by Enciso in the sixteenth century, and absolutely unknown to science before its ...
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    Clouds and Upper Wind-Currents over the Atlantic Doldrums (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE first of the two following weather sections across the Atlantic doldrums was taken in June and July last on board the s.s. Tongariro, during her voyage from Rio Janeiro to Teneriffe. Practically clouds in these latitudes may be taken as belonging to three levels: a small cumulus, low ...
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    Hereditary Stature (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT will perhaps be recollected that, at the meeting last autumn of the British Association in Aberdeen, I chose for my Presidential Address to the Anthropological Section a portion of the wide subject of " Hereditary Stature." My inquiries were at that time advanced only to a certain stage, but ...
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    Our Astronomical Column (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE DENSITY OF SATURN'S RING.-M. Poincard supplies a short note on the stability of Saturn's ring in the November number of the Bulletin Astronomique. Laplace had shown that the ring could only be stable if it were divided into several concentric rings revolving at different speeds. M. Tisserand ...
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    A New Island in the South Seas (1886)
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    Notes: [Auszug] ACCORDING to the Melbourne Argus of December so, further news respecting the volcanic outbreak which recently occurred in the Friendly Group has been received from Fiji, via Auckland. Intelligence concerning it first arrived there by the schooner Midge, from Tonga. Before the vessel arrived, ...
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    Astronomical Phenomena for the Week 1886 January 31—February 6 (1886)
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    Nature 33 (1886), S. 304-304 
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] (FOR the reckoning of time the civil day, commencing at Greenwich mean midnight, counting the hours on to 24, is here employed.) At Greenwich onjanuary 31 Sun rises, 7h. 42m.; souths, 12h. 13m. 425s.; sets, t6h. 46m.; decl. on meridian, 17e 19' S.: Sidereal Time at Sunset, 1h. 29m Moon (New on ...
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    The New Star near χ′ Orionis (1886)
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    Nature 33 (1886), S. 269-269 
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THIS star, since December 20, 1885, has been very slowly decreasing in brightness. No trace of nebulosity was observed around it. Its colour on December 19 was red-orange, now it is yellow-orange. Its spectrum is of the 3rd order of Secchi. On December 19 it was very brilliant from the red to ...
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    Vibration of Telegraph-Wires (1886)
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    Nature 33 (1886), S. 295-295 
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    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] I NOTICED to-day a curious vibration of telegraph-wires near here, and perhaps some reader of NATURE may be able to explain it. Each wire was vibrating rapidly, hut instead of the nodes being only at each post, there were several in each span (of about 88 yards). The number of nodes varied in ...
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