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    Nature 33 (1885), S. 8-8 
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    Notes: [Auszug] As your correspondent, Mr. J. T. Cunningham, expresses a doubt as to the evidence on which the current belief of conchologists is founded that oysters rest on the convex valve, I beg to inclose a cluster of three, brought to me among others from Torbay this morning. They are all attached by ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 91-96 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Royal Society, April 23.-"The Essential Nature o the Colouring of Phytophagous Larvae (and their pupae); with an account of some Experiments upon the Relation between the Colour of such Larvae and that of their Food-plants," by Edward B. Poulton, M.A., of Jesus and Keble Colleges, Oxford. ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 460-463 
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    Notes: [Auszug] SINCE our last issue Dr. Harting, of the Dorpat Observatory, has announced an apparent variation in the great nebula of Andromeda, which has caused some excitement in the astronomical world. As represented in all our drawings, and, still better, in a photograph which Mr. Common was fortunate enough ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 464-464 
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    Notes: [Auszug] NEW COMET.-A new comet, discovered by Mr. Brooks, has been observed by Mr. Wendell, of Harvard College Observatory, and Mr. Ainslie Common, of Ealing. On Friday night its approximate position was R.A. I3h. 53m., and N.P.D. 52° 20'. Its R.A. is increasing and N.P.D. decreasing; diameter, 9 minutes ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 463-463 
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    Notes: [Auszug] (FOR the feckoning of time the civil day, commencing at Greenwich mean midnight, counting the hours on to 24, is here employed.) At Greenwich on Sept. 13 Sun rises, 5h. 34111.; souths, nh. 55m. 44*23.; sets, i8h. i8m.; decl. on meridian, 3° 38' N.: Sidereal Time at Sunset, I7h. 5om. Moon (at ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 458-460 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I. WHAT is an Electrolyte? The question has two distinct meanings: (a) Is a given substance an electrolyte at all; i.e. when alone. (b) Is it the electrolyte in any particular case; i.e. when mixed with other substances. In answering (a) remember that the fact of bad conductivity does not imply ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 464-464 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Caroline Islands, which are attracting so much political attention now, are described at some length in the Gazette Geographique. It is generally acknowledged that they were discovered by a Portuguese navigator in 1526, and during the rest of the sixteenth century they were frequently visited ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 409-410 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN considering the habits, customs, and physical A peculiarities of a savage race, it is important to acquire as much information as possible regarding the land they inhabit, and also to ascertain the nature and extent of the influences exercised by, or resulting from, their intercourse with other ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 410-411 
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    Notes: [Auszug] NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that enormous numbers of text-books on chemical subjects have been appearing during recent years, a few comprehensive works on the subject of commercial analysis have been long and greatly needed. When it is considered how every day commerce has been availing itself more ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE first of these works is outwardly a very handsome A- volume, and on examination we find that the authors have also done their part in the most painstaking and methodical way. The main part of the title, " Coordinatoria," is apt at first to mislead, and indeed after a cursory glance at the ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 54-54 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LAST night at about 10.30 to 10.35 p.m. there was a well-marked aurora visible from here. It did not last long, the bright bands fading rapidly into a general glow towards the north. The wind, which was easterly yesterday, has gone round to north-west to-day with tendency to rain and low ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 54-55 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. W. H. MITCHEL, of Newry, has sent me the accompanying note, which he thinks may be of interest to the readers of NATURE. On May 7, Mr. R. A. Mullan, solicitor, of Newry, was driving in a gig near Castlewellan, co. Down, when he was overtaken by a shower of hail. To his surprise he ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 413-413 
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    Notes: [Auszug] BEFORE the close of the season when there is easy, and indeed luxurious, access to the Island of Iona by steamers from Oban, I would call attention to the high interest which attaches to its geology in connection with the rocks now called “Archæan.” Although the rocks of lona are ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 54-54 
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    Notes: [Auszug] YOUR correspondent Mr. C. Croft (NATURE, No. 811, p. 30) has noticed phenomena which are perfectly familiar to students of physical optics. The internal bands of colour within the primary bow are the “supernumerary” bows due to diffraction. They were described by Langwith in the Philosophical ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 55-55 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. BIDWELL'S notice of spectral images (NATURE, vol. xxxii. p. 30) calls to mind certain phenomena I witnessed while riding in a railway train in Kentucky last October. The fence of the railway consisted of posts of about 6 inches in diameter, and twenty paces apart, connected by wires. The ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 58-59 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE above Report, forwarded to us,bears the name of no publisher, and is not priced. It therefore may be taken as a private issue, copies of which can only be had by application to Sir John Lawes at Rothamsted Park, St. Albans. The task of reviewing matter of so condensed a character as this is by ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 56-58 
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    Notes: [Auszug] UNTIL within the last thirty yearsTurkistan has been unknown to science, and what is now ascertained concerning its fauna and flora is for the most part inaccessible to the scientific world because written in Russian. Not that autoptic writers of eminence upon the zoology of the country are ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 61-63 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A MEETING of the General Committee of the Darwin Memorial Fund was held last week at the rooms of the Royal Society, Prof. Huxley, President, in the chair, when it was stated by the treasurer, Dr. Evans, that, after payment for the statue and other expenses, a balance of about 22OO/. would remain. ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 65-65 
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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 May 24 Sun rises, 3h. 58m.; souths, nh. 56m. 36*35.; sets, igh. 55m.; decl. on meridian, 20° 51' N.: Sidereal Time at Sunset, I2h. 5m. Moon (Full May ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 415-415 
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    Notes: [Auszug] BETWEEN August 4 and 20, 174 shooting stars were recorded here in 1612 hours of observation. These included about 37 Perseids, chiefly seen on August 5, 8, and 13, but the shower was not well observed owing to cloudy weather. The following are ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 415-416 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the last number of the Lancet (August 15, 1885) I have read of the measures taken by the Metropolitan Board of Works for the deodorising and disinfecting of London sewers. Between 30,000 to 40,000 tons of sodium manganate and from 10,000 to 12,000 tons of sulphuric acid are daily poured in ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 416-416 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE presence of this element in the atmosphere is alleged to be indicative of its healthiness, and it has been investigated on land frequently by observers with varying and uncertain results. Records of its presence may be seen daily in the Times, furnished from the Observatory on Ben ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 416-417 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE International Botanical and Horticultural Con-gress met at Antwerp on Sunday, August 2, in the hall of the Artistic, Literary and Scientific Club, the opening meeting being honoured by the presence of a good many ladies. The gathering was a representative one, and included many well-known ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 417-420 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE marine fauna of the globe may conveniently, in ooo the pursuit of certain lines of scientific study, be divided into three groups according to the regions inhabited by it. There is the littoral fauna comprising the animals inhabiting the sea-shore and the shallow waters in its immediate ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 420-422 
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    Notes: [Auszug] RECENT experiments in photographic aerostation, carried out by M. Gaston Tissandier, with the assistance of M. Ducom, have been attended with very complete and satisfactory results. The photograph reproduced by heliogravure in Figs, i and 2 was taken at an altitude of 605 metres over Paris; others ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 425-428 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON Monday Prof. Michel Eugene Chevreul entered upon his looth year. Apart from the fact that among men whose lives have been devoted to active scientific research no one has before attained such an age, M. Chevreul stands conspicuous for the vast amount of work he has done and for the great ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 31-34 
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING the present opposition of this planet, the details of the belts and spots have continued to furnish materials of great interest. Some very obvious modifications have occurred since the previous year, and several curious new features have become conspicuous. The great red spot has surprised ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 37-38 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE HARVARD COLLEGE OBSERVATORY, U.S.-The thirty-ninth Annual Report of this Institution has been issued, and with it Prof. Pickering's summary of observations of variable stars in 1884, made agreeably to the plan suggested by him in a communication to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 38-40 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Iron and Steel Institute met on Wednesday, the 7th o*o inst., when Dr. Percy gave the presidential address. After inviting the co-operation of the members in supplying him with materials for the new edition of his work on '' Iron and Steel," and referring to Mr. Lowthian Bell's recent valuable ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 43-44 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Veitor Pisani is soon expected in our port, on her o*" return from a long voyage of no little scientific importance. We think we cannot better hail her arrival than by publishing that portion of Prof. Dohrn's report in which he speaks of the scientific mission fulfilled by this vessel-a mission ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 44-45 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Annalen der Physikund Chimie, No. 3, March, 1885.-Prof. R. W. Bunsen, on capillary absorption of gas. Shows a direct dependence between the capillary pressures and the volumes of gas absorbed. This discovery, doubtless, has important relations in physiological processes. Prof. G. Quincke, electric ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 1-2 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE are three classes of persons who, being o*o mathematical students, require to know something of the history of their pursuit. The first want only a general view of leading points, such as can be furnished by one writer in a few volumes. The second wish to be able to compare the accounts given ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 3-3 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS well-known manual has reached a fourth edition. It very thoroughly fulfils the aim which is set forth in the preface, viz. to place trustworthy and practical methods of qualitative analysis in the hands of the student. If the chemical student must still devote a large amount of his time to ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 44-44 
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    Notes: [Auszug] CAMBRIDGE.-There will be an examination in certain branches of natural science for minor scholarships at Downing College, on Tuesday, June 2 next, and following days. Persons who have not entered at any college in the University are eligible to the minor scholarships, which will be of the value of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Royal Society, April 23.-"On the Changes produced by Magnetisation in the Length of Rods of Iron, Steel, and Nickel." By Shelford Bidwell, M.A., LL.B. The earliest systematic experiments on the effects produced by magnetisation upon the length of iron and steel bars are those of Joule, an ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ALTHOUGH bearing on its title-page the date 1884, it was not until the end of January in this year that the " Zoological Record for 1883 " was, in its entire form, laid before the public. It comes to us with a melancholy interest, as being the last under the editorship of the late Mr. Ryer whose ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a recent number (vol. xxxi. p. 220) we gave a statement of the life and work of the late Prof. J. Lawrence Smith condensed from a memoir prepared at the request of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, by Prof. B. Sillirnan, who was so soon to follow his friend to his long rest. The ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the “Mathematical Papers” (pp. 628–37) I was able to print the syllabuses of a series of ten lectures delivered by Prof. Clifford to a class of ladies at South Kensington in the spring and summer of 1869. Whilst turning over a collection of miscellaneous papers, in a box, Mrs. Clifford and I ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN 1882 the Lyrid meteor shower (epoch, April 19–20) was noticed to be far more conspicuous than usual. The display had been quiescent for some years; it appeared to have degenerated into a third rate shower, scarcely deserving the trouble of observation. But in the year mentioned the stream ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 389-390 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE writer of a very long and exhaustive article on “The Heart,” occupying forty-one pages in Rees's “Cyclopædia,” quotes, among other authorities, Bichat, who says “that the blood, when it has arrived at the veins, is no longer influenced by the heart's action; consequently these vessels have ...
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    Nature 32 (1885), S. 14-14 
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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 May 10 Sun rises, 4h. l8m.; souths, iih. 56m. 12*is.; sets, iph. 35m.; decl. on meridian, 17° 44' N.: Sidereal Time at Sunset, roh. 5om. Moon (New on ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN reference to Prof. S. P. Thompson's letter dated August 17 (NATURE, vol. xxxii. p. 366), may I be allowed to say that I too have observed the secondary currents which are produced by cells containing sulphides of silver and copper after being disconnected from a battery? I mentioned the fact ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE recently had occasion to examine a number of Comatulœ from Milford Haven which were kindly given to me by Mr. W. Percy Sladen, F.L.S., and appear to belong to the type that was figured by Miller under the name of Comatula fimbriata; and I was surprised to find many of the pinnules ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE cylindrical form of the stems of grasses is so universal a feature in the family that the report of the existence in China and Japan of a bamboo with manifestly four-angled stems, has generally been considered a myth, or, at any rate, as founded on some diseased or abnormal condition of a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a letter (NATURE, vol. xxxii. p. 76) Mr. W. J. Ibbetson invites suggestions for a convenient abbreviation for “total or resultant pressure”; at the same time he suggests the adoption of “traction” for “intensity of tensile stress.” As it seems a pity to employ two totally distinct words to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Meteorological Office has issued a work on the " Principles of Forecasting by Means of Weather Charts," which has been prepared at the request of the Council by the Hon. Ralph Abercromby.1 The object of the author has been to give an account of the modern method of forecasting weather by means ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] II. The Theory of Exchanges IT was known at a comparatively early period that if a body be placed in an enclosure of constant and uniform temperature, it will ultimately attain the temperature of this enclosure. To fix our ideas, let us suppose that we have a chamber surrounded on all sides by ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE magnificent expeditions of the Talisman and the Travailleur have called the attention of naturalists and physicists to the conditions of life at the bottom of the sea. A learned physiologist, Dr. Regnard, has conceived the happy idea of studying experimentally these Hitherto the operator simply ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE understand that Mr. Francis Galton has already obtained valuable results from the Family Records sent him last year in response to his offer of prizes, and that he purposes to make much use of them in his Presidential address to the Anthropological Section of the British Association at ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE BINARY-STAR 70 OPHIUCHI.-Notwithstanding the care with which the orbit of this double-star has been discussed, the companion appears to be again deviating from its predicted position to a considerable extent. It will be remembered that from the anomalous motion of the smaller star Madler was ...
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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 August 30 Sun rises, 5h. nm.; souths, I2h. om. 23'os.; sets, i8h. 49111.; decl. on meridian, 8° 52' N.: Sidereal Time at Sunset, i;h. 26m. Moon (at ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SAD news has been received from the Dutch African Expedition; its leader, Mr. D. D. Veth, died from disease on May 19, in the camp on the banks of the Kala-Kanga River, between Benguella and Humpata. This is a real loss for science as well as to his venerable father, Prof. P. J. Veth, who has given ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN his stirring " Call to Friends of Astronomy " (Schu-x macher's Jahrbuch, 1844) to aid the advance of the science by taking up some definite department of work, Prof. Argelan der, among other points for investigation, drew attention to the observation of variable stars as presenting a fascinating ...
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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 May 3 Sun rises, 4h. 3om.; souths, nh. 56m. 42-05.; sets, igh. 24m.; decl, on meridian, 15" 48' N.: Sidereal Time at Sunset, loh. Iim. Decl on meridian ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE found the temperature of the body of Echidna hystrix to be (average of three observations) 28°.0 C., and that of Qrnithorhynchus paradoxus (two observations) 24°.8 C.1 These temperatures present a special interest, comparing them with the mean temperature of the body ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] III. BEFORE proceeding with new parts of this subject, I wish to say a few words about " fiddling while Rome is burning." Sir William Thomson writes to me that the expression was used while discussing some mathematical triviality, and he wishes to be relieved of the imputation of speaking ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHEN one opens a new book on Chemistry written by men who are generally recognised to be masters of their subject, one expects to find some light thrown on the great and confused heap of details with which one is accustomed to be confronted in the pages of the ordinary chemical text-book. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] You well advocate the establishment of a well-endowed scientific University in London. Perhaps, however, London is like a mass of dough which needs leaven. Why should not the Corporation of the City of London be that leaven? Perhaps, however, the Corporation needs that some one should employ a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A PANORAMA of the Alps, as seen from the Piz Langard in the Engadine, used to be sold, upon which Mont Blanc wras figured, though some 3° distant. On a remarkably clear day this was pointed out to me, and I have no reason to doubt that I actually saw Mont Blanc at that distance. One morning I ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE recent examination by the joint commission of General Hazen and other witnesses, as to the efficiency and economy of the present administration of the Signal Office, is said to have brought out several statements as to the character of the work done by the Weather Bureau, and the progress made ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE students of British birds have at last received the oA- two final numbers of the new edition of Yarrell's celebrated work on their favourite subject, which was commenced as long ago as 1871. Fourteen years, it must be acknowledged, is a long time to wait, but on the other hand the subscribers ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is a very large and important work, and one which cannot fail to be useful to the scientific chemist. It is divided into several parts, and contains, or rather consists of, tables of the elements, inorganic and organic compounds, their constitutional and empiric formulae, melting- and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE first sixty-seven pages of Part 2 carry on Prof. Cayley's lectures on the abelian and theta functions, before the Johns Hopkins University (see NATURE, vol. xxxi. p. 189) to '* the end of Chapter VII." Other papers in this part are " Solution of Solvable Irreducible Quintic Equations, without ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS excellent little guidebook is worthy of the highest praise. It is a good deal more than a book which tells you the primary facts respecting the objects in the cases, inasmuch as it contains a simple and elementary introduction to the study of minerals. For such a purpose the principal ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS, the third edition, differs in no essential respect from its predecessors. Zopf still adheres to the original proposition of Von Nageli, that the various forms of schyzomycetes are not permanent species (Cohn), but various stages in the development of the same organism. This proposition is ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MUCH as I dislike controversy occasions arise when it must be faced; and Mr. Starkie Gardner's notice of the two new volumes by MM. Marion and Saporta (p. 289) calls for a reply. Personally I am obliged by Mr. Gardner's obvious desire to do justice to my views; but he must excuse me if I say ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Journal of the Franklin Institute, No. 711, March, 1885.- E. A. Gieseler, on tidal theory and tidal predictions.--Prof. E. J. Houston, glimpses of the International Electrical Exhibition, No. VI. McDonough's telephonic inventions. This gives an. interesting account of the instruments invented by ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] CAMBRIDGE.-The Report of the Examiners at the last Cambridge Local Examinations speaks very favourably of the Euclid and Algebra papers. Trigonometry and Mechanics were done badly at some centres, but very well at others; the seniors did well in Statics, but the majority of candidates answered ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Two fixed points, A, B, called the origin of co-ordinates, are taken, and through them are drawn two parallel straight lmes,.z/, Bv; these are called axes of co-ordinates (or co-ordinate axes). Lengths, AM, £〉N, measured on these lines, upwards positive, downwards negative, are the co-ordinates ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON September 3, 1874, from the Piz Muraun, near Dissentis, I saw the white dome of Mont Blanc, distant about 110 English miles. As the Piz Muraun is only about 9500 feet I was sceptical, till a reference to maps showed a line of intervening depressions. I feel sure that some Alpine tourists ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS little book deserves hearty welcome from those who are engaged in leading forward students to the higher mathematics; not so much as a substitute for any other work at present in use, but as presenting a carefully-selected set of illustrations of infinitesimals, limits, and differential ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A FEW years ago I mentioned in a paper in Globus (lxiii. 94) that Mr. Th. B. Leon had reported the existence of pictures on rocks he had seen in the Ogar and Arguni groups of islands (south part of McCluer inlet), and that the officer in command of H.N.M.S. Batavia, who had been charged to make ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] FROM a note in last week's NATURE it appears that during his recent explorations in the Malay peninsula M. Delouell claims to have discovered the “hitherto unknown” Samsam people. Allow me to state in reply that I have long been aware of the existence of these half-caste Malay and Siamese ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN addition to the actual fall of snow, hail, &c., there is *o on Ben Nevis a form of solid precipitation scarcely known on lower ground, but of almost daily occurrence here. In ordinary weather the top of the hill is enveloped in drifting fog, and when the temperature of the air and ground is ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Annual Meetings of the Institution of Naval ooo Architects were held during the week preceding Easter at the rooms of the Society of Arts. There were five sittings, at which the necessary routine business was transacted, the presidential address of Lord Ravensworth was delivered, and seventeen ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is a Cambridge collection of problems and riders extracted mainly from the Smith's Prize, Tripos, and College papers of the last dozen years. The compiling (for there is nothing to be called authorship) has been, on the whole, judiciously done; and the printing is unusually clear and accurate, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE was a considerable disturbance of the magnetograph recorded here on March 15, and had the photographic curves been developed on that day, we should probably have predicted the occurrence of the aurora seen during the evening. The earth-currents, which are necessary concomitants of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE whole of this part of the Proceedings of the Naval Institute is occupied by detailed accounts of the steps taken to prepare the way for the establishment of Steel Gun Factories for the United States. We are informed that, while the rest of the world has advanced with the progress of the age, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] CONSIDERABLE advances within comparatively re- cent times having been made in regard to our knowledge of the spawning of fishes, and the treatment of their eggs after deposition, I have selected this subject for the introductory lecture, since some opportunities have lately been afforded for its ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ANCIENT OCCULTATIONS OF ALDEBARAN.--In NATURE, vol. xxxi. p. 182, reference was made to an occupation of Alde-baran which Bullialdus found recorded in a Greek manuscript, and which it had been supposed was observed at Athens on March 11, A. D. 509. The extract from the manuscript is given at p. 172 ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THOUGH I have already published a note on the subject in a Dutch paper (Tijdschrift van het Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, February, 1885), perhaps you will kindly allow the following lines to have a place in NATURE, because those who are occupied in the trigonometrical survey of British India ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Atlas of the Atlantic which was published by the "Deutsche Seewarte" in 1882, has at length, after a term of three years, been joined by the text, which was intended, in the first instance, to have accompanied it5 and of which it was described as an appendix. But though separated in their ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] HAVING read with much interest the recent correspondence in NATURE on this subject, I am forwarding the results of some observations which I recently made to determine the degree of acuteness of vision possessed by the natives of the islands of Bougainville Straits, in the Solomon Group. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] HAVING now been engaged for a number of years in measuring the velocity of light by means of the rotating mirror, I have succeeded in rearranging the apparatus in such a manner as, by means simply of two mirrors, one fixed, the other movable, placed at a distance of a few metres from each other, to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] American Journal of Science, March.-Prof. Marsh's monograph on the Dinocerata, by L. P. B. This valuable contribution to American palaeontology forms a sequel to the author's work on the Odontornithes, or birds with teeth, and contains a of this region, where alone the remains of Dinocerata have ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Royal Society, March 19.- "On 'Transfer-resistance' in Electrolytic and Voltaic Cells." By G. Gore, LL.D., F.R.S. The existence of this phenomenon has been a matter of doubt ever since the year 1831, and the question has been examined by many investigators. In the present paper are ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WITH the multitude of elementary text-books on mag netism and electricity already existing the production of a fresh one might well have seemed an unnecessary task. Nor is there anything in the little book now before us in the least degree new, either in matter or in arrangement. So far as it goes, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is in many respects an unsatisfactory book. It is divided into seven parts. Of these the preliminaries and the first four parts comprise anatomical and histological notes, the biological study of micro-organisms generally, and the study of the bacillus tuberculosis especially, and all kinds of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS book consists of a series of essays, of various de grees of importance, on the mining and metallurgic industries of the United States. The work has been mainly carried out by entrusting each subject, or a special branch of each subject, to a gentleman intimately acquainted with that, branch. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE authors have done a real service to all whose J- business it is to conduct classes in a physical laboratory by supplying them with a most excellent guide. Not only teachers, but students, will find this book invaluable. The authors have for some time prepared manuscript notes for use in the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE present sumptuous volume forms the fourth of the series being issued under the enlightened management of the Curator of the Dresden Zoological and Anthropological Museum. These costly publications, which -could scarcely be undertaken without the active co-operation of the general administration ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] POSSIBLY the question, What is the fourth dimension? may admit of an indefinite number of answers. I prefer, therefore, in proposing to consider Time as a fourth dimension of our existence, to speak of it as a fourth dimension rather than the fourth dimension. Since this fourth dimension cannot ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MY letter on the Hibernation of the Siberian mammoth has been followed by two others, extremely interesting, but dealing, I may say exclusively, with the question of human hibernation, and the evidence offered in support of it; this raises a very important consideration, concerning which I ask ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] BETWEEN July 8 and 14, 111 shooting stars were recorded herein 1134 hours of observation. The paths of these, reproduced upon an 18-inch celestial globe, enabled me to fix the radiant points of 12 showers with considerable distinctness:— ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Mathematical Society, March 12.-J. W, L. Glaisher, F.R.S., President, in the chair.-Messrs, Philip Magnus and R. Lachlan were elected Members -Mr. J. J. Walker, F.R.S., made a second communication on a method in the analysis of plane curves.-Mrs. Bryant, D.Sc., read a paper on the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE number of “Our Ancestors” since “the time of the Norman Conquest,” mentioned in your last issue by (12)n and the consequences to be deduced therefrom, have been very interestingly discussed already by Mr. Grove in his ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AFTER a long and remarkable absence of aurora, which, from a letter in your columns of February 19 (p. 360) does not appear to have been confined to these more southerly latitudes, we were favoured last evening with a beautiful, though somewhat transient display. It was about 9.25 p.m. when I ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN answer to Mr. von Danckelman's inquiry as to the use of lightning-rods and the frequency of accidents from lightning in the tropics (NATURE, December 11, 1884, p. 127), I beg leave to offer the following information referring to Venezuela, where I have been residing ever since 1862:— ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Anniversary Meeting of the Chemical Society will be held on Monday, March 30, THE Mercers' Company have made a contribution of 52. ic\r. to the fund on behalf of the family of the late Henry Watts* F.R.S. WE are glad to see from the recent -letter of Sir Spencer Robinson, in the Times, that ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] II. THE disaster on board the Triumph, combined with the fact that this xerotine siccative had been issued to H.M.'s ships generally, the authorities and officers of the navy having been in ignorance as to its dangerous nature, re-directed official attention adoption of arrangements in H.M.'s ...
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