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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 141-142 
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is a new and enlarged edition of Dien's "Atlas J- Celeste," which first appeared in 1864, with the co-operation of M. Babinet, and is brought out under the editorship of M. Camille Flammarion. That the formation of the atlas, both in its original and extended plan has involved a great amount ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 143-144 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I AM very anxious that this project1 should succeed, mainly because of the facilities it will afford to inland aquaria, in procuring living animals cheaper, better, more variedly, and more systematically, than at present. This, I believe, will form the most profitable part of the ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 124-124 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN his great work, “Insecta Maderensia,” Mr. Wollaston remarks upon the great affinity in the coleopterous fauna of Madeira with that of Sicily, and in his “Coleoptera H speridum,” on the northern character of that of the Cape Verde Isles. Mr. Andrew Murray also found that out of 275 Cape Verde ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 125-127 
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    Notes: [Auszug] II. WHETHER the telescope be of the first or last order of excellence, its light-grasping powers will be practically the same; there is therefore a. great distinction to be drawn between the illuminating and defining power. The former as we have seen depends upon size (and subsidiarily upon ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 129-131 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE necessity of a careful examination of the various geological formations in the field, and a review by a practical palaeontologist of the various districts that have from year to year been surveyed by the different geologists of this and other surveys, has been long felt. Such a work, indeed, ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 472-472 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PARIS Academy of Sciences, September 17.-M. Peligot in the chair.-The president requested the meeting to designate one of their fellows to represent the Academy in the annual public meeting of the five academies, which will take place on October 25.-M. Tresca then, in the name of M. Leverrier, ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 435-437 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE first part of the second volume of Conn's Beitrage contains five papers, two of them being illustrated with three plates each. The first paper is by Dr. Leopold Auerbach, " Cell and Nucleus," remarks on Strasburger's work,i{Ueber Zellbildung und Zelltheilung." It is a critical paper, and hardly ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 437-437 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. FISHER has aimed at writing a short work on algebra for students who have no intention of reading high mathematics. He has done his task well, and the result is a compact and carefully put together little book. The limit he has set himself is to enable a reader to understand all that is ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 433-435 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT cannot be denied that of late years the component parts of that great aggregation of the contributions of workers in a thousand different fields, and which is known by the name of Science, have arrived at their common destination as much through the paths opened up by the development of the ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 57-58 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE is a strange fascination about Greenland, A- which may be partly owing to the mystery that shrouds its early history,-partly to its being an almost Arctic country, the scanty population of which seems to furnish an example of a nation in the enjoyment of a very primitive culture; and partly ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 59-61 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS month's number of the Nineteenth Century contains an article on the connection of rainfall with the eleven years' cycle of sun-spots. It takes a carefully-selected area in which such a coincidence, if it existed, would be well marked. The great tract of water spreading southwards from Asia ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 438-439 
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    Notes: [Auszug] As Prof. Balfour Stewart says the true test of a physical cycle is its repetition, and since he evidently regards the tendency to repetition which he has shown to exist in the rainfall of Madras as a favourable indication of the presence of a physical cycle such as that claimed by Dr. Hunter, I ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 439-439 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is certainly news to me, and I believe to most other European naturalists, that Tachyglossus and Ornithorhynchus occur in Northern Queensland. Perhaps W. E. A. will kindly state, for our information, the exact spots where they have been discovered and their extreme northern limit, so far as ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 439-439 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WITH reference to the existence of Tachyglossus (olim Echidna) in North Australia, and the recent discovery of one (or possibly two) species in New Guinea, the following account, which I lighted on a few evenings ago, when looking over an old volume of the field, seems to be of sufficient ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 69-72 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE take the following from the Times :-The Royal Society medals for the present year have been awarded by the President and the Council as follows:-The Copley Medal to Prof. James Dwight Dana, for his biological, geological, and mineralogical investiga- tions, carried on through half a century, and ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 43-43 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS, though not a bulky book, is a sort of miniature Encyclopaedia of the subject. So far as we have read it it seems to have all the faults of the original (?) work to which Lardner's name was prefixed, with the important exception of the inaccuracies. These have been to a great extent removed, ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 43-44 
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    Notes: [Auszug] UNTIL I read Dr. Carpenter's letter in your issue of the 8th inst.; it had never occurred to me that his “special purpose” was to bring out strongly my “thoroughly scientific and philosophical method!” This is an act of disinterested kindness which recalls to me the exquisite truth of Dean ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 45-45 
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    Notes: [Auszug] NUMBERS of moths, of many different species, are attracted into my room on summer evenings by the light; and they are fond of resting on the lamp shade. One night I was using some very strong ammonia solution—and by way of driving them off I held a 3-ounce bottle of it with the open mouth ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 46-46 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN my review of Fownes' “Manual of Chemistry” are two mistakes which I beg to correct. On page 25, line I, read improbable instead of improvable; and line 6, dimorphides instead of ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 47-48 
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING this last summer and autumn I have seized several opportunities of continuing my examination of the Bagshot Beds of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, some of the results of which I think may interest your readers. This series is, as is now well known, of great importance from the fact of its ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 55-56 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Linnean Society, November I.Prof. Altaian, F.R.S., president, in the chair.Messrs. S. M. Samuel and P, Wya't Squire were duly elected fellows of the Society.A communication was read by Dr. G. King on the source of the winged cardamom of Nepal. By Dr. Pereira it had been regarded as the ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 448-450 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE origin of life, and the order of succession in which its various forms have appeared upon the earth, offer to science its most inviting and most difficult field of research. Although the primal origin of life is unknown, and may perhaps never be known, yet no one has a right to say how much of ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 450-451 
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    Notes: [Auszug] TILL the year 1862, when my first experiments were made by the use of the balloon^ our knowledge of the.temperature of the air was almost entirely confined to within four or five feet of the earth's surface, and the theory that the temperature was always lower at high elevations, and that the ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 451-452 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE fact that in the living muscle heat always appears when the muscle does work (Heidenhain having shown that of two muscles equally weighted and undergoing equal contractions, one doing external work, while the other does none, the former gives out more heat than the latter}, is an exception to ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 452-452 
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    Notes: [Auszug] OXFORD.-It is stated that the Home Secretary has appointed as joint secretaries to the Oxford University Commission the Rev. Thomas Vere Bayne, Censor and Student of Christ Church, and Thomas Francis Dallin, late Fellow of Queen's College, and Public Orator of the University of Oxford. ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 452-452 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PARIS Academy of Sciences, September ??.-?. Peligot in the chair.-Experimental researches on the mechanism of the formation of sugar in the liver, by M. Cl. Bernard.-Referring to the preceding paper, M. A, Trecul then read a treatise on the formation of starch and of cellulose in plants.-M. Th. du ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 413-414 
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    Notes: [Auszug] FOLLOWING close upon the publication of Dr. Vogel's paper on the new star in Cygnus, Lord Lind-say has communicated an interesting letter to the Times announcing the fact that the new star has now put on the appearance presented ordinarily by the so-called planetary nebulae. Of all the lines ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 414-416 
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    Notes: [Auszug] NO one can claim to speak with more authority on matters Orcadian than Mr. Laing, and few men are better fitted to judge of evidence and probabilities. His interesting letter (see p. 418 of this number of NATURE) calls attention to certain points which he regards as affording a crucial test of the ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 39-39 
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    Notes: [Auszug] CAMBRIDGE.-The Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Atkinson, on resigning his office on November 3 (he has been re-elected) spoke of the progress of scientific teaching in the University. The efficiency of the University as a school of natural science has been greatly promoted, Dr. Atkinson stated, during the ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 4-5 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN weaving cotton cloth it is necessary that the warp, which has to withstand a considerable strain in the process of manufacture, should be artificially strengthened by " sizing," that is, by dressing the thread with some adhesive material so as to enable it to resist the pulling and wearing ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 3-4 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the minds of most of those who have paid no special attention to the subject the skull is regarded as a bony case formed to contain the brain, together with the face. There is also a constancy in the number and position of these bones which lead to the apparently necessary conclusion that ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 5-5 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT will be a matter of some interest to English mineralogists and chemists to know that certain blendes of Durham and, I believe, of Cumberland contain Indium in appreciable quantities. This fact has been made out by a very skilfully-conducted analysis by Dr. Flight in the laboratory attached ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 7-8 
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    Notes: [Auszug] HAS Dr. Carpenter allowed himself to become possessed by a “dominant idea?” From his letter in NATURE (vol. xvi. p. 544), I infer that he might have taken the trouble to reply to my article in the July number of the Nineteenth Century, had he not thought that my assertions “were well known in ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 9-10 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE excellent review, exhibiting traces of a master's hand, of the above-named useful work, which appeared in NATURE (vol. xvi. p. 498) prompts me to offer some remarks on the ornithology of Madagascar and its neighbouring islands, and to take exception on two points therein laid down. ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 10-10 
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    Notes: [Auszug] HAVING read with great interest the article in your journal (Vol. xvi. p. 443) on the Eucalyptus I take the liberty of sending you a pamphlet on the same subject, in which I have endeavoured to unite all the arguments likely to persuade and convince the Italians of the immense utility of the ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 423-425 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHEN a wave encounters an obstacle such as a breakwater, the portion which strikes it is either entirely destroyed or reflected seawards, while the portion which is not so intercepted passes onwards, and spreading laterally under lee of the barrier, suffers a reduction of its height. In the second ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 425-425 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE have already noticed the meteorological journey of M. Wojeikoff round the world. The volume referred to below contains a series of letters written to Baron Osten-Sacken and M. Rykatcheff during his stay in India (December, 1875, to February, 1876)., He had great hopes of the development of ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 425-426 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE following letter appeared in the Tunes of Saturday last:— In a recent article on the Indian Famine you asked whether science could do nothing to foresee and provide for these appalling calamities. I think that, as regards Madras at any rate, science may safely accept your challenge. The ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 426-427 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS Association, one of the most active in the kingdom, and which has already done so much to bring the discoveries of science to bear on the iron and steel industries, commences its annual autumn meeting at Newcastle, on Monday, as we have already intimated. As usual, while several important ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 173-175 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE varied and cultured tastes of the Emperor of Brazil are unusual even among private individuals, and probably without a parallel among his own limited class; his activity and eagerness for knowledge are astonishing. While in Paris, as we stated at the time, he was present at almost every ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 175-176 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON .-Royal Society, May 31.-"The Physical Properties of Homologues and Isomers," by Frederick D. Brown, B.Sc. When we attempt to compare the physical properties of a series of compounds presenting very similar chemical properties, we find, that although our knowledge regarding one or two ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 137-138 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE two questions connected with museum reform more especially demanding attention relate to their resources and their organisation. Provincial museums are very generally either the property of societies the funds of which are expended mainly in publishing memoirs, or are carried on in connection ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON several previous occasions 1 we have alluded to the excellent work in science accomplished by Prof. Burmeister, or under his supervision, since that eminent German naturalist took up his residence in the Argentine Republic. A batch of books, which has now, we regret to say, been lying before us ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SINCE my last communication to you on the above subject I have had some correspondence with Mr. Hill, the meteorological reporter to the North-West Provinces, in the course of which he has given me a more definite account of the results of his investigations. The outcome of our joint researches ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] EVERY one who puts faith in museums as educational engines must be grateful to Prof. Boyd Dawkins for the article on this subject in the number of NATURE for May 31. That reform is pressingly needed in most of our provincial museums is a proposition almost beyond question; but how such reform ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HOPE ventilation of this subject in the columns of NATURE will direct attention to the necessity of more systematic arrangement, and that governors will seek to redeem these institutions from the mere curiosity shop style into which too many have developed, and to render them valuable ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I SEE with pleasure that Prof. Boyd Dawkins has again raised his voice urging the importance of museums as a means of education, but as there is one point regarding their management to which it may be useful to call attention, I shall be glad if you will allow me to do so through your ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] HAVING carefully perused the proceedings that took place at the recent “Conference” on the subject of the antiquity of man at the Anthropological Institute, I confess to a feeling of disappointment. I had looked, if not for new geological facts, at least for something novel in the treatment of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] RARE MINERALS IN THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND.- The accidental use of a mass of granite for building purposes near Tongue, in Sutherlandshire, has led to the detection of several rare minerals, and of quite a remarkable number of species and varieties associated in the same mass of rock. From among the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] M. HUGO continues to pour forth his pamphlets with their polyglot inscriptions. On this we have “Urbi et orbi. Hie tandem triumphaliter fulget REGULARI TAS !” “La pan-imaginarite Hugomathique: CONTINUITAS ! CONTINUITAS ! TRICONTINUITAS !“We have, in a former notice, glanced at the “GeOmetrie ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE United States Government has, with its accus-J- tomed liberality to science, published in a bulky volume of about 1,000 pages, under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences, the results of the various observations of meteorology, astronomy, and magnetism, made by the scientific staff ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE preliminary steps have been taken for the completion of the great work of the Challenger, and the vast collections made during the voyage are now being distributed among experienced workers for determination and description. The director of the scientific staff has been at great pains in ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE recent appearance of a swarm of elementary books on physics, some of which at least are written by well-known authors, leads to some very curious inquiries and speculations: for, though treating in the main of the same parts of the same subject as does the work we are specially dealing with, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE great difficulty, as it seems to me, in promoting and maintaining the efficiency of our local museums lies in providing them with suitable curators; and in this connection an idea which occurred to me last year may prove not unserviceable. I have seen a large number of our provincial ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LEEDS.-By the liberality of the Worshipful the Drapers' Company, the Council of the Yorkshire College are prepared to appoint an instructor in coal mining at the stipend of loo/, per annum and half the students' fees. A portion only of the instructor's time will be required. The fuller conditions ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Linnean Society, December 6.-Prof. Allman, president, in the chair. -Messrs. J. N. Fitch, J. S. Gamble, F. S. Piggott, A. B. Stewart, and Prof. Macoun were elected Fellows.-Mr. Thiselton Dyer exhibited portions of the " Nam-mu" tree, which grows in Yunnan, 2^-26° N. lat. The Chinese ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is one of the series of small handbooks on the British maufacturing industries, edited by Mr. G. Phillips Bevf.n, of which we have already noticed several volumes. A compact work on practical gardening, to serve as a guide to the amateur gardener and fruit-grower, was much wanted, and this ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the interesting “Voyage of the Challenger”, just published, Sir Wyville Thomson states (vol. i. p. 371) “that the Gulf Stream in its restricted sense was, early in May, 1873, at the point where we crossed it and made our observations, about sixty miles in width, 100 fathoms deep, and its ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] CAMBRIDGE.The Syndicate, appointed in May, 1875, to consider the requirements of the university in different departments of study, have just issued their fourth report on'the subject. After stating that in their opinion the inter-collegiate system should be further stimulated and supplemented by ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] FROM twenty meteors, mostly with streaks, I deduced the radiant point at R.A. 40°, Dec. 56° N., August 3-7. On August 10 I saw a large number (fifty-seven per hour) of Perseïds, many of them with short tracks near the focus, and almost invariably with streaks, from 43° + 58°. On August 12 I ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the numbers of NATURE for July 19 and 26 (pp. 227, 248) are communications respecting fish-sheltering Medusæ. The Trochurus in Europe appears to be a commensal of the Acaleph as well as the Pollochius. In the eastern waters of the United States, however, so far as I am aware, the Stromatoid ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AN account of the Swedish Overland Expedition to the Jenissei in the summer of 1876, the cost of which was defrayed by Mr. Oscar Dickson of Gothenburg, has appeared in the Goteborgs Handels Tidninn. The expedition was under the leadership of Dr. Hjalmar Theel of Upsala, who was accompanied by ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE METEORITE OF JULY 20,1860.-The occurrence of the splendid meteor of November 23, which has probably been observed with sufficient completeness to allow of the determination of its path, while it remained visible, recalls a similar object which passed over the northern parts of the United States ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] OXFORD.-The Brackenbury Scholarship in physical science has been awarded to Mr. Cunningham, Balliol College. LONDON.-The Council of University College havej awarded the Sharpey Physiological Scholarship to Mr. Patrick Geddes and the Joseph Hume Scholarship in Political Economy of 2O/. per annum ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE French Association commenced its Session this year at Havre on August 23. M. Broca, the well-known anthropologist, is president this year, and after a few remarks on the rapid and steady progress of the Association, he announced as the sutject of his presidential address, “The Fossil Human ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS morning at about a quarter before ten the sky here presented a most unusual appearance. The air was calm and the sun shining, but not brightly, through, a slight veil of cirro-stratus. The sky was mostly covered with fibrous clouds of cirrus or cirro-stratus (I am not quite sure which I ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SO much interest is felt in the origin of the Japanese, that any information regarding earlier races in Japan will interest the readers of NATURE. The discovery and examination of a genuine kjockken-moedding, or shell heap, enables me to give positive evidences regarding a prehistoric race who ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THESE Reports give an interesting account of the J- progress of the Royal Alfred Observatory at Mauritius. The first division is devoted to the " Buildings, Grounds, and Water Supply;" this is a more important division than may be supposed at first sight. It appears in the Report for 1874, that in ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT important conference was held at the Society of Arts on Tuesday afternoon on the subject-of insects injurious to agriculture and methods of stamping them out. Its origin was a proposition by Mr. Andrew Murray (who has had the arrangement of the collection of economic entomology made by the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Report of the Astronomer-Royal at the annual visitation on Saturday contained nothing extraordinary with respect to the ordinary work of the Observatory. With reference to extraneous work, there are one or two points worthy of notice. First, as regards the operations for the transit of Venus, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is a popular belief that a fire will not burn if exposed to the sun, and, from all I have observed, it seems well founded. Can any of your readers favour me with an explanation of the phenomenon, if true; or is it a mere ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE OPPOSITION OF MARS, 1877.-The present opposition of the planet Mars offers conditions so nearly analogous to those of the opposition in 1862, that the many fine drawings made in that year, a number of which are contained in vol. xxxii. of the t(Memoirs " of the Royal Astronomical Society, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AS our readers are aware several schemes have recently been before the public for the creation of an inland sea in North Africa, one of the most ambitious and most impracticable of these being the flooding of a great part of the Sahara. Another scheme which has engaged the attention of the French ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SCIENCE AND ART DEPARTMENT.-The Committee of Council on Education have just issued an important circular on instruction in practical chemistry and in physics. My Lords direct that §§ XLV. and LXXI. of the Science Directory be cancelled and that the following rules be substituted:-I. Payments of ?/, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS small work will be found particularly serviceable to many working naturalists. It is a concise compilation of the sub-kingdoms, classes, and orders of the animal kingdom, with lists of the families and most important genera. Specialists will be able to find fault with some of the details in ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. WRIGHT is, or was until quite recently, Professor of Mathematics at Wilson College, Pennsylvania. His object is to make his countrymen acquainted with certain branches of modern mathematics, and we learn that his first venture (Tract No. i, Determinants) has met with considerable acceptance in ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. POST, who is known to chemists as an able Privat Docent at the University of Go ttingen, has, like many other teachers, felt the great necessity of a manual of chemical technology, suited to the requirements of students who desire a general training in that branch of applied chemistry. A ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE been lately watching, with great delight, two goldfinches building their nest. They placed it nearly at the end of an outside branch of a young sycamore tree, so that there was nothing but sky above it, and the gravel path below. The window from, which I observed them, being never ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] The high scientific position which Prof. Foster holds, as well as the decided manner in which his letter was written, must lead the otherwise unbiassed reader to the conclusion that not only has a satisfactory explanation of the action in question been found and generally adopted, but that this ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A LETTER in NATURE (vol. xvi. p. 43) calls attention to the destruction of the flowers of the yellow crocus by the sparrow. I have for many years been a cultivator of the crocus, both yellow, white, and purple; this spring they flowed abundantly, the white and purple blooming undisturbed, the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN connection with this subject, which was referred to in Mr. Terrill's letter in NATURE for May 17, perhaps the following homely way of illustrating the fact that the combination of two complementary colours produces white may interest your readers. If a tumbler of beer be held in front of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A CONTROVERSY was recently waged in your columns as to the course which is pursued by the hot water-laden air of the, equatorial regions in its journey to the poles. Both combatants seem to adopt what I may call the sheet-theory, which regards the winds as moving in sheets or strata, and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE is a slight inaccuracy in your report of my communi-caiicn of May 12th to the Physical Society, wherein I am made to affirm that a blue object and a red object cannot both be in focus at once unless the blue object be the more distant. The next sentence of your report, and indeed the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Perhaps the following account of a singing mouse may be of interest to your readers:— Last winter we occupied the rooms we now do at Men ton. Karly in February we heard as we thought the song of a canary, and fancied it was outside our balcony; however we soon discovered that the singing ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 84-84 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE regret to announce the death at Montreal, in his fifty-eighth year, of Dr. Philip P. Carpenter, formerly of Warrington, one of the most scientific con-chologists of our time. Taking up this pursuit, in the first instance, merely as a recreative occupation, he was led by his friend, Dr. J. E. ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 32-35 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE subject which I submit for your consideration this afternoon is the influence of numbers in music, as in the various combinations of consonances and dissonances which we hear every day, and to show how these are explained by the fundamental laws of the science. Although music has appeared to ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 35-36 
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    Notes: [Auszug] OUR readers,'must be familiar with this name as that of an occasional contributor to NATURE of thoughtful and acute articles in the department of mental science; they will be sorry to hearbut those who knew him will not be surprisedthat Mr. Spalding died on October 31, at Dunkirk, just as he was ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 39-40 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Morphologisches Jahrlmch, vol. iii. Part 3.-R. Bonnet, on th e structure of, and circulation in, the gills of Acephala, pp. 45, three plates.-C. Hasse, fossil vertebrae (the Squatinae), two plates.-R. Wiedersheim, the skull of Urodeles, pp. 97, five plates; a most valuable memoir on Menobranchus, ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 94-95 
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    Notes: [Auszug] OXFORD.-In a Convocation held May 23 a decree was carried, without opposition, to the effect that the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors be authorised to nominate a delegate to represent the University at the 4OOtK anniversary celebration of the University of Upsala, in September next. In a Convocation ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 58-59 
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    Notes: [Auszug] INDIAN forest reports have of late years become as plentiful as the proverbial blackberries. The frequent appearance of them is a consequence that might be expected when we consider the wi'de range of country which comes under the supervision of the Forest Department of India. So far as bulk or ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 10-10 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THESE trees are now attracting so much attention that even the small amount of experience I may be able to offer may not be unacceptable to your readers. Considerable stress is laid upon their influence in dissipating malaria; but I have not found this to be the case in Queensland, one of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] YOUR correspondent, “G. A. M”. (vol. xvi. p. 551), may be interested to know that the “ball of fire” he saw descend on the evening of the 14th inst. was seen here by me, and by those who accompanied me, at precisely the same time (6.50 P.M.) that he mentions. We were walking in a south-easterly ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE read with much interest the brief abstract given in NATURE (vol. xvi. p. 567) of Mr. Wood Mason's announcement to the Entomological Society of the discovery of stridulating organs in association with scorpions; reference being made at the same time to his recognition of similar ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 169-170 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE number of the permanent gases is rapidly o*o" diminishing. We have had occasion recently to refer to M. Cailletet's successful attempts to compress nitric oxide, N2O2, methyl hydride, CH4, and acetylene, C2H2, to the liquid form. The list of non-compressible gases was thus reduced to three, ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 148-149 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE spent the greater part of last winter and the beginning of this in an investigation of the spectra of oxygen. My experiments will be published, I hope, in another place; but there are one or two points of more immediate interest, and, I venture to think, of some importance, which I trust you ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 151-154 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT the meeting of the Royal Society, on Thursday last, the Times states, the following were elected foreign members: Marcellin Berthelot, of Paris; Joseph Decaisne, of Paris j Emil Dubois Reymond, of Berlin; Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, of Leipsic; Rudolph Leuckart, of Leipsic; Simon Newcomb, of ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 119-120 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge has been doing a very useful work in acquainting the public with the historical results of recent Oriental research in a cheap and handy shape. The work has been wisely placed in the hands of those who have themselves been pioneers in the task of ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 461-462 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE following letter from Dr. Balfour Stewart appeared in the Times of Saturday last:- I have read with much interest your various articles on Dr. Hunter's researches into the Madras rainfall and the possible connection of famines with sun-spots, and I perceive from, the letter in your columns of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE following admirable statement concerning Le verrier's more recent work was made on the occasion of the presentation of the gold medal of the Astronomical Society, in February, last year, to him by Prof. J. C. Adams, the president. It will be read with a mournful interest at the present time:- ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 464-467 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE record with sincere regret the death of Prof. Alphcnse Oppenheim, at Hastings, on the 17th inst.; lie died by his own hand through grief at the death of his wife. Prof. Oppenheim is well known for his numerous researches in organic chemistry. Foimerly one of the professors of chemistry at the ...
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