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    Deep Well-Borings in London (1877)
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 2-3 
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE constantly increasing wants of our English metropolis were very amply provided for during all the earlier stages of its history by the stores of water contained in the extensive beds of gravel lying within the Thames Valley. These stores of water could be reached by means of shallow wells, and ...
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    Yellow Crocuses (1877)
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 8-8 
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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    Notes: [Auszug] INCLOSED is a letter that I had from my friend. Dr. Grierson, Dumfriesshire, a month ago, complaining of a pair of ducks that had gobbled up almost every one of his yellow crocuses, and only the yellow ones. I am further informed by Mr. John Young, Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, that the habit of ...
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    Prof. Tyndall on the Spread of Disease (1877)
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 9-9 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. TYNDALL occupied the chair on Saturday night at the contluding lecture of Dr. Corfield's course on the laws of health. The subject of the lecture was " Infectious Diseases." In proposing a vote of thanks, Prof. Tyndall paid a high compliment to the lecturer for the thoroughly sound ...
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    The French Transit Medal (1877)
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 11-12 
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE recently announced that the Paris Academy of Sciences had presented an appropriate medal to those Frenchmen who were engaged in observing the recent transit of Venus, as well as to all the members of the Academy. By the kindness of the editor of La Nature we are able to give an illustration of ...
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    The Ship-Worm (1877)
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 8-9 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Teredo navalis certainly is able to endure a long continuance of fresh water. At the town of Brisbane (Queensland), piles, &c., are sheathed with “Muntz metal” to prevent its attacks. The river is subject to long-continued freshes. I remember one which lasted at least ten days, and during ...
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    Droughts and Famines in Southern India (1877)
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 14-14 
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE paper on this subject, noted below, a copy of which we have just received, will no doubt awaken much interest, not only on account of its scientific bearings but also from its bearings on so very practical a subject as the famines of India. It is most gratifying to see that the subject has been ...
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    The Geology of the Northern Part of the English Lake District Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales (1877)
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    Nature 15 (1877), S. 545-546 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHEN the staff of the Government Geological Survey first entered upon their labours, the Director, Sir H. de la Beche, saw very clearly that the work with which he was entrusted would be very imperfectly performed if he limited himself to the publication of geological maps and sections alone. He ...
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    Our Birds of Prey; or, The Eagles, Hawks, and Owls of Canada (1877)
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    Nature 15 (1877), S. 546-547 
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    Notes: [Auszug] SO little is really known respecting the ornithology Of Canada that one cannot but welcome with great satisfaction such a substantial addition to our knowledge as has been given by Mr. Vennorin the present work. As a geologist employed on the survey of Canada the author has enjoyed unrivalled ...
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    Evolution of Nerves and Nervo-Systems (1877)
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 289-293 
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    Notes: [Auszug] III. THE question, however, remains: Will this conductile function prove itself as tolerant towards section of the tissue as the contractile function has already proved itself to be for, if so, any objection to the view that the passage of the contractile waves is due to vicarious action of ...
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    The Rocks of Charnwood Forest (1877)
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    Nature 15 (1877), S. 548-548 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE announcement by Messrs. Bonney and Hill (NATURE, vol. xv. p. 470), of their discovery of the intrusive character of the ridge of rock, stretching from Groby on the south-east to Bardon Hill on the north-west, is a surprise to local geologists, they having recognised its intrusive character ...
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    Cumming's Electricity (1877)
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    Nature 15 (1877), S. 549-549 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a passage from my “Introduction to the Theory of Electricity” which you quote in a review of the work in NATURE, vol. xv. p. 526, occurs a very unfortunate misprint of the word of for the word on, which seems to have misled your reviewer, and I therefore beg a few lines to correct it. The ...
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    Societies and Academies (1877)
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 300-300 
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    Notes: [Auszug] VIENNA Imperial Academy of Sciences, March 15.-The secretary presented the concluding parts (on Lepidoptera) of the work on the Novara expedition.-On the significance of Newton's construction of the order of colours of thin plates for the spectral investigation of the interference colours, by M. ...
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    Volcanic Phenomena During 1875 (1877)
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    Nature 15 (1877), S. 557-558 
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. GUSTAV TSCHERMAK'S Mineralogische Mittheil ungen (1876, 2) contain a most interesting account of the volcanic occurrences during the year 1875, computed by Prof. C. W. C. Fuchs, In the short introduction Dr. Fuchs expresses his regret that the scientific academies and societies do not give more ...
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    The Physical Basis of Mind, with Illustrations, being the Second Series of Problems of Life and Mind (1877)
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 261-263 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHEN the first volume of "Problems of Life and Mind" appeared, I ventured to say that perhaps Mr. Lewes promised too much in undertaking to exhibit Ci how the sentient phenomena may be explained by neural phenomena," I also directed a criticism, as pointed as I could make it, against a proposition ...
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    Greenwich as a Meteorological Observatory (1877)
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    Nature 15 (1877), S. 528-529 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE facts of observation appealed to by Mr. Eaton with the view of proving that Greenwich is, from artificial causes, more than half a degree warmer than the south-east of England generally, and is therefore not a suitable place for a meteorological observatory of the first order, evidently ...
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    Tycho Brahe's Portrait (1877)
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    Nature 15 (1877), S. 530-530 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE (vol. xv., p. 406) is published a copy of a portrait of Tycho Brahe in the possession of Dr. Crompton of Manchester. Although it seems, from the inscription in the corner, that the portrait is a contemporary one, there does not appear to me to be sufficient reason for preferring this ...
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    Hog Wallows or Prairie Mounds (1877)
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    Nature 15 (1877), S. 530-531 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE (vol. xv., p. 274), Mr. Wallace quotes a letter from his brother in regard to the so-called Hog-wallows of California, in which their origin is ascribed to débris left at the broad foot of a retiring glacier modified by the erosion of innumerable issuing rills, and asks if this ...
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    Owens College (1877)
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    Nature 15 (1877), S. 509-509 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT seems probable that the claims of Owens College to be constituted into a university and degree-giving body for the north of England, will soon be brought before the public in a more definite shape than that of newspaper correspondence. There are one or two considerations affecting the ...
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    The Boomerang (1877)
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    Nature 15 (1877), S. 510-510 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WILL you allow me to add my experience of the use of this weapon to that furnished by your other correspondents? My experience is mainly confined to the natives about the Conda-mine and its affluents, where I was frequently in company with natives for about a year. They had two weapons-one ...
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    Remarkable Papuan Skull (1877)
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    Nature 15 (1877), S. 549-549 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I WISH to call your attention to a remarkable Papuan skull which Prof. Mantegazza showed at the last meeting of the Anthropological Society of Italy. The upper jaw contained very distinctly no less than four molars and two canine teeth on each side, all the molars being well developed. ...
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    The Races and Tribes of the Chad Basin (1877)
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    Nature 15 (1877), S. 550-552 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON this subject a most valuable paper has been contributed to the last number of the Zeitschrifl der 'esellschaft fur Erdkunde by Dr. G. Nachtigal, one of:he few living writers entitled to speak with authority on;he ethnography of Sudan. While the great problems now being rapidly solved in the ...
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    Remarks on the Investigation of Climates (1877)
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    Nature 15 (1877), S. 556-557 
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    Notes: [Auszug] TO Prof. Balfour Stewart we are indebted for the separation of meteorology into its two great divisions of physical and climatic. The latter I have proposed to separate into two sub-divisions, viz., normal and abnormal. The first of these subordinate branches includes the investigation of the usual ...
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    Is Meteorology a Science ? (1877)
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    Nature 15 (1877), S. 510-510 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE recent article in NATURE on the Treasury Blue Book relating to meteorology brings into unpleasant prominence the opinion of the eminent astronomer, Sir G. Airy, that meteorology is not a science; and the evidence of the eminent physicist, Sir William Thomson, to the same effect; while a ...
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    Atmospheric Currents (1877)
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    Nature 15 (1877), S. 510-511 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HOPE you will permit me to reply to Mr. Clement Ley's letter on atmospheric currents in NATURE, vol. xv. p. 450. It is certain that the earth's rotation cannot originate any current, but modifies them when originated. We are agreed as to the cause of the trade-winds. The con-.roversy ...
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    Typical Laws of Heredity (1877)
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    Nature 15 (1877), S. 512-514 
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    Notes: [Auszug] II. FIRST let me point out a fact which Quetelet and all writers who have followed in his paths have unaccountably overlooked, and which has an intimate bearing on our work to-night. It is that, although characteristics of plants and animals conform to the law, the reason of their doing so is as ...
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    Our Astronomical Column (1877)
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    Nature 15 (1877), S. 519-520 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE OPPOSITION OF MARS IN 1892.-Early in August, 1892, the planet Mars will come into opposition at a distance sensibly the same as in September of the present year, when it is proposed to make a serious attempt to determine the solar parallax by observations of this planet, a method which has not ...
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    Hibernation of Birds (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE (vol. xv., p. 465) there is a review of “Palmen on the Migration of Birds,” and in the course of it the reviewer takes occasion to refer to what he calls the “hibernation mania” as one that is now and again revived, in spite of the fact that the migration of birds is fully proved, and ...
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    Centralisation of Spectroscopy (1877)
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    Nature 15 (1877), S. 489-489 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN his letter (NATURE, vol. xv. p. 449) Prof. Smyth makes a statement respecting the new “half-prism” spectroscope which I cannot help thinking must be founded on a misapprehension of the principle involved. This will, I trust, be made clear when my paper is published in the forthcoming number ...
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    Coal Fields of Nova Scotia (1877)
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    Nature 15 (1877), S. 488-489 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN his address to the Iron and Steel Institute (NATURE, vol. xv., p. 462), Dr. Siemens stated that the area of the Coal Fields of Nova Scotia was 18,000 square miles, and the production in 1874 1,052,000 tons. If Dr. Siemens will refer to Dr. Dawson's “Acadian Geology,” the Reports of the ...
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    Alexander Braun (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE regret to announce the death of the well-known German botanist, Prof. Alexander Braun, which took place at Berlin, on March 29. He was born in Ratisbon, May 10, 1805, and after the completion of his university studies entered upon the duties of Professor of Botany in the University of Freiburg, ...
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    Mendeleef's Researches on Mariotte'a Law (1877)
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    Nature 15 (1877), S. 498-500 
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    Notes: [Auszug] FROM researches on the depression of the mercury results the possibility of introducing a precise correction relative to the volume of gas contained between the surface of the mercury and the horizontal plane which touches the summit of the meniscus, In all my researches I introduce each time a ...
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    Societies and Academies (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Royal Society.-March I.-"Note on the Electrolytic Conduction of some Organic Bodies," by J. H. Gladstone, Ph.D., F.R.S., Fullerian Professor of Chemistry in the Royal Institution, and Alfred Tribe, F. C.S., Lecturer on Chemistry in Dulwich College. Our results, preliminary as we considered ...
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    Evolution and the Vegetable Kingdom (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN an article in this month's Contemporary, entitled “Evolution and the Vegetable Kingdom,” Mr. Carruthers refers incidentally to a question that deserves the careful consideration of all who accept the doctrine of evolution; viz., whether the earliest type of flower was hermaphrodite or ...
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    The Commission of the French Academy and the Pasteur-Bastian Experiments (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN further reply to a communication of mine to the Academy of Sciences of Paris on July 10, 1876, and as his latest contribution to a controversy which grew out of it, M. Pasteur, at the seance of January 29, 1877, threw down a very definite challenge. The discussion was raised according to M. ...
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    Fertilisation of Flowers by Insects (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] XVI. Alpine Species of Gentiana adapted to Lepidoptera. GENTIANA BAVARICA (Fig. 106-108), G. verna (Fig. 109-111), G. nivalis (Fig. 112-114), of which I have examined living specimens in the Alps, and G. imbri-caia, cestiva, pumila, and utriculosa, of which I have examined only dried specimens,2 ...
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    Notes (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE understand that the Fullerian Professorship of Chemistry in the Royal Institution is likely soon to be vacant by the resignation of Dr. Gladstone. THE Council of the Yorkshire College of Science, Leeds, have arranged to purchase for 13,0007., the Beech Grove Hall Estate, comprising about three ...
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    A Manual of Cinchona Cultivation in India (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS manual is another contribution to the numerous books, papers, and articles that have appeared of late years on the subject of cinchona. Varied as these contributions have been, and valuable each one in itself, this manual brings together much that is useful, not only on the scientific aspect ...
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    Spectra of Metalloids (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a recent number of NATURE (vol. xv., p. 401) I gave a short abstract of a paper by Messrs. Angström and Thalen, on which I should like to make a few remarks. It is known that Plücker first drew attention to the fact that one body may have different spectra, and he seemed inclined to ...
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    Atmospheric Currents (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] I AM glad to have obtained from such exponents as Capt. Digby Murray and Mr. Murphy a clear statement of the old orthodox creed respecting the movements of the atmosphere. The former, it is true, finds a difficulty in accepting Maury's belief that the currents cut one another in "curdles" ...
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    Report on the Progress and Condition of the Royal Gardens at Kew duriur the Year 1876 (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] SIR JOSEPH HOOKER's annual report on the Royal Gardens, Kew, for 1876, has just been issued. It is a pamphlet of some thirty-three pages, and is a considerable improvement on the reports of former year?. It deals most fully with new plants of economic interest, whether such have been actually ...
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    Natural History Transactions of Northumberland and Durham vol v, part 3 (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS part is bytno means the least valuable of these transactions; on the contrary, it will rank high, owing to the contributions of Dr. Embleton and Mr. Atthey on the structure of the Labyrinthodonts, and the eight excellent plates by which their papers are illustrated. The illustrations of ...
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    Facts with regard to Teachers and Students in the University of Oxford, derived from the “University Calendar” of 1875 (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] There are about 2,400 undergraduates, or persons in 〉tatu pupillari, on the College and University books; 400 of these graduate in each year, the average time spent in .he University being over four years. Of these 75 per cent, read for honours in the various schools or Faculties, whence it ...
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    The Two Americas; an Account of Sport and Travel (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE took up this book with little expectation of finding much in it either edifying or interesting, and have been most agreeably disappointed. The author, in one of Her Majesty's ships, touched at various places on the east and west coasts of South America, and although most of the ground has ...
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    Tints and Polarisation of Moonlight in Eclipse (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE gradation of the coloured tints on the moon's surface during total eclipse was seen here most clearly last Tuesday. At the middle of the eclipse the surface seemed to be obscured by a dusky disc surrounded by a broad bright copper-coloured rim, of uniform width, following the outline of the ...
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    Lowest Temperature (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE temperature experienced during the night between February 28 and March 1 was so exceptional, that it may be thought worthy of a passing remark. The minimum reading at this observatory was 9.1° F., which is the lowest recorded during the last sixteen years; that of December 24, 1860, was, ...
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    The Visit of the British Association to Plymouth (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE are very good reasons for anticipating that the Plymouth meeting of the British Association will be at least up to the average in interest and success. Indeed, in some respects it is anticipated that it will be unusually attractive; and the attendance is likely to be much larger than from the ...
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    The Patenas or Grass Lands of the Mountain Region of Ceylon (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] EVERYONE who has travelled through the Central Province of Ceylon must have been struck by the occurrence, apparently without sufficient cause, of tracts of grass-land varying from a few perches to hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of acres in extent, in the midst of otherwise interminable ...
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    Meteor (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] I SAW the meteor described by Mr. Ingleby on February 26, about 6.20 P.M., Greenwich, from the railway platform at Gloucester. It was moving very slowly from right to left parallel with the horizon to the right of the moon, and a good deal below her; I should think two or three degrees ...
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    The Norwegian North-Sea Expedition of I876 (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] Zoological Researches AMONG the various scientific objects of our expedition the examination of the biology of those parts of the ocean which we traversed was one of the most important. We had with this view equipped ourselves in the best way with all the apparatus required for the purpose ...
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    Rainfall and Sun-Spots (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE have received the following communications having reference to Gen. Strachey's paper on the above subject, which we printed some little time back. The conclusions of Mr, Meldram as to a relation* between the amount of rainfall and the frequency of sun-spots have become a subject of much ...
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    Geological Notes (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] GERMAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS-(i) AUSTRIA.-The programme of the Austrian Geological Survey for this year shows that the work is advancing, as it has been doing for some time past, mainly in two directions, one lying on the extreme cast, the other on the far west of the empire. In the Tyrol two sections ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] NEW CHROMIUM AND MANGANESE COMPOUNDS.- Some new compounds of chromium and manganese have lately been prepared and examined by Mr.. J. B. Hannay, who has communicated a paper en the subject to the Glasgow Philosophical Society, On examining any general list of carbon compounds it is to be remarked ...
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    Our Astronomical Column (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE OF ioo$s OCTOBER 12,- It is known that Clavius attributed the ring of light which he observed round the moon during the eclipse of April 9, 1 567, about the time of greatest obscuration at Rome, to the circumstance of the sun's disc not being entirely covered by our ...
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    Notes (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE annual meeting of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers opened on Tuesday at Bristol. Mr. T. Hawksley, C.E., in his opening address, said it was the duty of the government to adopt such timely measures as would secure to us the paths Of the ocean for our food inwards and our manufactures ...
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    Astronomical Symbolism of East (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE two stars which in the book of Job are connected with Orion, and to which the Indian Orion-legend referred, are connected with the two red stars or Rohini of Indian traditions. It is shown that these two fixed stars, observed as contemporaneously rising and setting 011 the horizon, formed the ...
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    Just Intonation (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THAT Mr. Chappell misunderstands me is due partly to his confounding vibration numbers with their ratios. Thus 2716 is the vibration number of the supertonic, where 32 is that of the tonic; while ...
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    “The Movement of the Soil-cap” (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] UNDER the above heading Sir C. W. Thomson gives an interesting account of the “stone-rivers” of the Falkland Islands in a recent number of NATURE (vol. xv. p. 359), and attributes their origin to a general movement of the “soil-cap.” Nothing can be clearer than his explanation of the mode in ...
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    The Estimation of Urea by means of Hypobromite (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] ALLOW me to correct a slight mistake into which your reporter has fallen, no doubt inadvertently. Knop was the first to propose (in 1870) the use of a strongly alkaline solution of hypobromite for the estimation of urea in place of the hypochlorite previously employed by Davy. Every ...
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    The “Inflexible” (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN our last number we sketched in outline the scientific principles and considerations which lie at the foundation of the important question now at issu'e regarding the Inflexible. We now proceed to consider the case as set forth in the papers which have since been presented. The fact of a ...
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    The New Meteorological Council (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE final stage of the labours of the Treasury Committee, to which we have made frequent reference? has now been reached. The Royal Society has been appealed to to nominate the new council; they have done so, and the Government has accepted the nominations, which are as follows:-Prof. H. J. S. ...
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    A Treatise on the Law Relating to the Pollution ana Obstruction of Watercourses, together with a Brief Summary of the Various Sources of Rivers Pollution (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE pollution and obstruction of rivers by sewage and the refuse of manufacturing processes is, in a country like this3 densely populated and depending mainly on its manufactures, a matter of the gravest importance, justifying indeed, a saying of Earl Beaconsfteld?s, which has met with a good deal ...
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    Remarkable Plants (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] II.- SOME CURIOUS ORCHIDS. 1. GENERAL Structure of the Flower of Orchids.-The exotic representatives of the natural order Ofchideae have long been favourite objects of cultivation in our hot-houses, from the beautiful and often bizarre form assumed by their curious flowers. Great as is the variety ...
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    The New Star in Cygnus (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON January 9 the sky was unusually clear and the spectrum of Dr. Schmidt's Nova came out with amazing sharpness and brilliancy. In addition to the five bright lines seen on the 2nd, two others were detected viz.:- Mill.mm. No. ? a W. L. 594 Very narrow line. 7 4M-i Excessively faint, but still ...
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    Bulletin des Sciences Mathématiques et Astronomiques (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE have no mathematical publication in this country covering quite the same ground as this admirable Bulletin. Indeed we hardly think such a journal could survive the issue of half-a-dozen numbers here. The late Mr. ?. ?. Wilkinson, in an interesting series of notices of " Mathematical ...
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    The Effects of Cross- and Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] FEW as are the students of vegetable physiology in this country, it is very far from a mere boast to say that, with Mr. Darwin's aid, we have no reason to shrink from comparing English work in this subject with that done abroad. Mr. Darwin has sometimes lamented that he is not a botanist, yet it ...
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    Chemistry and Telegraphy (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] DISCLAIMING at the outset any pretensions which could be advanced in his behalf for the honour conferred upon him, Prof. Abel assumed that his advancement to the position of president was intended more as a recognition of the special importance of chemical science in its application to telegraphy. ...
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    Notes (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE city of Brunswick is making preparations to celebrate the looth birthday of Carl Friedrich Gauss, the mathematician and astronomer, who was born there April 30, 1777. A statue is to be erected to Gauss, and it is hoped that the foundation, stone will be laid on the celebration day. ...
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    On a Fish-sheltering Medusa (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHILE collecting some three weeks since on the south shore of Killary bay in Connemara, I observed that out of a number of the common Atirelia aurita moving about in a rocky inlet below me, one was invariably accompanied by a small fish, of about an inch or an inch and a quarter in length, ...
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    Koenig's Tuning-Forks (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE letter of Herr Koenig inserted in NATURE (vol. xvi, p. 162) did not come under my notice till July 8. On October 27 last year I counted all the 64 sets of beats in Herr Appunn's tonometer, one through 15, the rest through 20 seconds with a pocket chronometer which was gaining less than 4 ...
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    The Earth and Moon (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE only now (July 12) noticed Prof.Tait's remark respecting a sentence, or rather half a sentence, which he quotes from an article of mine in the Cornhill Magazine for June. It runs thus: “What mathematicians call the moving force exerted by the earth on the moon is eighty-one times greater ...
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    Blue and Yellow Crocuses (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] REFERRING to Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier's letter in NATURE, vol. xvi. p. 163, I can say that I once had a pony born and bred on Dartmoor, which had never seen oats until it came into my father's stable in the fourth year of its age, and it refused them. We induced it to eat oats by mixing them with ...
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    Japanese Mirrors (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] MORE than eleven years ago, in February, 1866, I published in The Reader (since extinct), a4etter giving, I venture to think, a complete explanation of the phenomena exhibited by certain Japanese mirrors (through a mistake as to their nationality I called them Chinese); and as your readers ...
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    Printing and Calico Printing (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] YOUR correspondent, Mr. Henry Cecil, is under a singular misapprehension as to the inventor of cylinder machine calico printing, and the date of its first practical application. Mr. Isaac Taylor was certainly not the originator of cylinder printing; and that art was developed long before he, ...
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    Local Museums (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE importance of local museums is gradually but J_ unmistakably forcing itself upon tbe country. It may take much time to foster any united action, without which any definite progress is very improbable, but year by year is adding to the ranks of those who are wise enough to see and have influence ...
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    The Velocity of Light (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE correct determination of the velpcity of light is a result on which so much in physical science clepends that there is good reason for us to give a description of the details of the apparatus used for the purpose of obtaining the exact value. Until the time that M. Cornu undertook experiments ...
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    Evolution of Nerves and Nervo-Systems (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] NERVE-TISSUE universally consists of two elementary structures, viz, very minute nerve-cells and very minute nerve-fibres. The nerve-fibres proceed to and from the nerve-cells, thus serving to unite the cells with one another, and also with distant parts of the animal body. Moreover, nerve-cells ...
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    On Elementary Instruction in Physiology (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE chief ground upon which I venture to recommend that the teaching of elementary physiology should form an essential part of any organised course of instruction in matters pertaining to domestic economy, is that a knowledge of even the elements of this subject supplies those conceptions of the ...
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    Geological Notes (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.- The gradual progress of the English and Scottish Geological Surveys has brought the members of the two corps almost within sight of each other. The line of demarcation between the two kingdoms being nearer the base of operations from Scotland, has been ...
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    South Polar Depression of the Barometer (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] I THINK it probable that on this subject Mr. Murphy's views and my own might have appeared more in harmony if we had neither of us expressed them with so much brevity. In my letter on Ocean Currents in NATURE, vol. xv. p. 157, I was incidentally led to speak of the barometric depression round ...
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    On the Tropical Forests of Hampshire, II. (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT has been mentioned that in some of the clays remains of leaves, fruits, and flowers are met with, and I will now proceed to tell you something about them. There are some enlarged drawings here on the wall which I should tell you are not all enlarged to equal scale, and there are trays of ...
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    Our Astronomical Column (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] AN OBSERVATORY ON ETNA.-Prof. Tacchini sends us a note read before the Accademia Gioenia on September 22, 1876, entitled, ** Delia convenienza ed utilita di erigere sulF Etna una Stazione Astronomico-Meteorologica/' in which after describing his experiences during a brief ascent on September 15-16, ...
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    Scientific Serials (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE American Journal of Science and Arts, December, 1876. -Experiments on the nature of the force involved in Crookes's radiometer, by ?. ?. Rood.-Experiments on the sympathetic resonance of tuning-forks, by Robert Spice.-Types of orogra-phic structure, by J. W. Powell.-On the ethers of uric acid, ...
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    Elementary Treatise on Elliptic Functions (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is a book thoroughly worthy of the great name JL of its author. It is difficult to know which to admire most, the grasp of the subject, the extreme simplicity of its exposition, or the neatness of its notation. It will, we think, at once take its proper place as the leading text-book on the ...
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    Towering of Birds (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] SNIPE frequently tower—also pigeons. I saw a mallard that flew nearly half a mile, towered, and, fell dead. Teal also tower, but their towering is different to the ordinary, as they are as often alive as dead when they tall. I have also remarked this in widgeons, and once in a partridge. In the ...
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    Alexander Bain (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is with much regret that we announce the death of -*- Mr. Alexander Bain, which took place at Glasgow on January 2. To many of our readers his name is perhaps unknown, and yet the inventions of Mr. Bain, made when telegraphy was in its infancy, were of the very highest importance. They were ...
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    On a New Astronomical Clock (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE object of this communication was to explain to ·*· members of the Association and give them an opportunity of seeing in my house in the University a clock which had been described in a communication to the Royal Society, in 1869, entitled " On a New Astronomical Clock and a Pendulum Governor ...
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    On the Means of Protection in Flowers against Unwelcome Visitors (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE phenomena relating to this subject, which have important bearings on the doctrine of selection, have recently been discussed by M. Kerner in an interesting monograph communicated to the Festschrift published on occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Zoologico-Botanical Society|in ...
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    Meteorological Notes (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] NEW DAILY WEATHER MAP.-We hail with the greatest satisfaction the appearance, on New Year's Day, of the first number of a daily international weather-map issued by the Austrian Meteorological Institute. It embraces nearly the whole of Europe, and supplies a want not met by any existing ...
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    [Letters to Editor] (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] WITH reference to the names Antedon and Comatula, will you allow me to say that the former has been applied to a genus of lamellicorn beetles since the year 1832? Comatula has been in use from nearly the beginning of the present century, and it is not only found in the works of Fleming, Forbes, ...
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    Radiant Points of Shooting Stars (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN December, from observations of 163 shooting stars seen in 20½ hours' watching, chiefly in the evenings, I amply confirmed several of the positions of radiant points as given in my note (NATUKE, vol. xv., p. 158), and observed that several of the showers there mentioned were actively ...
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    Phyllotaxis (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE theory which regards the alternate arrangement of leaves as the normal mode receives some support from the arrangement of the inflorescence of opposite leaved plants. In Lysimachia nemorum the leaves are opposite, inflorescence indefinite, solitary, and axillary, but it will be observed ...
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    Geographical Work in Russia During 1876 (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE most important journeys by Russian geographers during 1876 were those of MM. Prshevalsky and i Potanin in Central Asia, of Dr. Mikluho-Maclay in Poly- i nesia, and the meteorological journey of M. Wojeikoff round the world. We have from time to time given ! notes of the progress made by M, ...
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    A Pocket Hammock (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN these days, when exploring tours and extended scientific excursions are so universal, it is a great advantage to be able to take up one's bed and walk, to be in short entirely independent of sleeping accommodation. Even in our own country it is often an advantage to the working geologist, or ...
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    The Sanitary Institute (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE lecture by Dr. Richardson, published in our issue of last week, has called public attention to the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, before which the lecture was delivered. The Institute was founded in July, 1876, at a public meeting held at St. James's Hall, and presided over by his Grace ...
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    On the Source of the Carbon of Plants (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] NEARLY half the dry substance of plants is carbon; and it is conclusively established that they derive, at any rate, the greater part of it, directly from the carbon-dioxide of the atmosphere, which the chlorophyll cells have the power of decomposing in sunlight, at the same time evolving oxygen. ...
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    Our Astronomical Column (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] DE Vico's COMET OF SHORT PERIOD,-It has been already remarked in this column that, according to Prof. Briinnow's last investigations relative to this comet, it appears necessary to admit a very material degree of uncertainty in the value of the mean motion determined from the observations of the ...
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    University and Educational Intelligence (1877)
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON.-The following is the list of the new associates of the Royal School of Mines:-Associates in Mining and Metallurgy- C. W. Folkard, A. K. Huntington, E. W. Voelcker; Associates in Mining-E. H. Liveing, W. H. Merritt; Associates in Metallurgy-A. C. Copeland, J. F. Hogan, C. H. Lemann, W. ...
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    Scientific Serials (1877)
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 218-219 
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] Journal de Physiqtie, June.-On the theory of electrometers, by M. Mascart-On the dynamical theory of gases (continued), by M. Violle.-Process for measuring the index of refraction of liquids, by M. De Waha.-Application of the electric current to the study of the spheroidal state of liquids, by M. ...
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/016218c0
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    Societies and Academies (1877)
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 219-220 
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Zoological Society, June 19.-E. W. H. Holdsworth, F.Z.S., vice-president, in the chair.-The secretary read a letter addressed to him by Mr. J. M. Comely, announcing that his female Hydropetts inermis had just produced three young ones.- Mr. J. E. Harting, F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks ...
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    The Caxton Exhibition (1877)
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 177-178 
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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] THE exhibition just opened at South Kensington to commemorate the 4Ooth anniversary of the first authentic publication issued from an English press, is one that must appeal to all who can read, and possesses an interest for the man of science from various points of view. We need not repeat the many ...
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