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Notes: [Auszug] THE well-known writer on vegetable palaeontology, Prof. E. Weiss, of Berlin, died on July 5 last. THE Swedish residents of Chicago have subscribed for a statue of Linnaeus, which will shortly be erected in the Lincoln Park in that city. DR. A. MOLLER, of Berlin, has established, at Blumenau in ...

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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 528-530

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Notes: [Auszug] THE thirty-ninth annual meeting of this body was held on August 20-26 at Indianapolis, which is the capital and largest city of the State of Indiana, and is the largest inland city of the United States, being a railroad centre without navigable water of any kind, and having, with its suburbs, a ...

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The Aborigines of Tasmania (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 489-491

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Notes: [Auszug] MR. H. L. ROTH has written an honest, unpretentious, and therefore most useful book on "The Aborigines of Tasmania." He gives us on pp. 2-8 a very complete bibliography of all works treating of his subject, and he then proceeds to place before us the quintessence distilled from that little library. ...

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Our Astronomical Column (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 511-512

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Notes: [Auszug] OBJECTS FOR THE SPECTROSCOPE. Sidereal Time at Greenwich at io p.m. on September 18 : 2ih. 51m. 4s. Name. Mag. Colour. R.A. 1890. Decl. 1890. (0 G.C. 469s ... h. m. s.21 40 a - 9 20 (2) G.C. 4734 - - 21 55 =7 + 17 12 (3) 75 Cygni 5 Yellowish-red. 21 35 5a +42 47 (4) a ...

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The British Association (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 491-510

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Notes: [Auszug] Some Aspects of Competition. I UNDERSTAND that the function of an opening address to a section of this Association is to give an account of the advances made in some part of the field of study with which that section is specially concerned. The part of our field to which I would drect your ...

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British Association Procedure (1890)

SHENSTONE, W. A.

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 456-456

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Notes: [Auszug] WHILST I entirely agree with Prof. Armstrong as to the desirability of reform in regard to most of the matters to which he has called attention, I would like to point out that in one respect the large Sectional Committees have perhaps served a useful purpose. Nowhere are the older and younger ...

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On the Soaring of Birds (1890)

BARTRUM, C. O.

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 457-457

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Notes: [Auszug] IN your issue of August 21 (p. 397) Mr. Magnus Blix gives a very ingenious explanation of the soaring of birds. It appears, however, to me that this explanation rests upon a false basis. In his illustration, Mr. Blix supposes a bird to be moving in a direction, relative to the wind, at ...

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Helix nemoralis and hortensis (1890)

WILLIAMS, J. W.

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 457-457

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Notes: [Auszug] I SHOULD be very pleased if some of the various conchological readers of NATURE would kindly furnish me with their records of these two shells. The questions I specially want to ask concerning them are as follows:—What varieties (with band-formulæ) have they found? What number of each variety ...

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A Remarkable Rainbow (1890)

MACGILLIVRAY, D.

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 457-457

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Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE just seen a very remarkable rainbow. It was plus 60° in height, and thin. The sunset was lurid, with a mock sun to the south of the real ...

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 460-460

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Notes: [Auszug] Principia; or, the Three Octaves of Creation: Rev. A. Kennion (E. Stock).-Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 1889, vol. xxii. : Sir J. Hector (Triibner).-Paul Nugent, Materialist, 2 vols., 3rd edition : H. F. Hetherington and Rev. H. D. Burton (Griffith and Farran). -Annual ...

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Occurrence of a Crocodile on Cocos Islands (1890)

RIDLEY, H. N.

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 457-457

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Notes: [Auszug] DURING a recent visit to Cocos Islands Mr. Ross showed me the skull of a crocodile of small size which had appeared about a year previously on the islands. It was first seen by a native Cocosian, who reported that he had seen something between a lizard and a log of wood in the sea. It then ...

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Societies and Academies (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 460-460

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Notes: [Auszug] PARIS. Academy of Sciences, August 25.-On a jawbone of a Greenland seal, found by M. Michel Hardy in the grotto of Raymonden.-Observations of the Denning (July 23, 1890) Comet, made at the Paris Observatory, by M. G. Bigourdan.- Observations of the new planet Palisa (Vienna, August 17, 1890), made ...

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 413-413

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Notes: [Auszug] IT is curious that the mathematical paradoxer should confine himself principally to the problem of " squaring the circle"-that is, to the attempt to prove that v is the root of a quadratic equation with rational coefficients, in algebraical language; while other simpler questions are at hand in ...

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British Association Procedure (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 414-414

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Notes: [Auszug] IT has been to me a matter of surprise that a letter by Prof. O. Lodge published in these columns on October 17, 1889, did not elicit other similar communications, as the views he enunciated are undoubtedly those of a not inconsiderable number of active members of the British Association. Prof. ...

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British Fossils (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 412-413

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Notes: [Auszug] AT the close of the introduction to this little volume, the author informs us that his object has been to convey to the young collector of British fossils the experience and knowledge acquired by others, whereby his own toil and labour may be lightened. The purport of this is admirable, but ...

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Notes: [Auszug] THE writers of these two books have very much the same object in view. Their aim is to show that the mental life of animals differs only in degree, not in kind, from that of man. If anyone still thinks that animals are merely machines, or that they have no higher faculties than instinct, it would ...

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On a Problem in Practical Geometry (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 415-415

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Notes: [Auszug] IN treatises on practical geometry rules are given by which an arc and its chord or an arc and its tangent may be divided proportionally, but they leave an error which is often too great. By the following method the points of division move step by step towards their required positions ...

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On Stellar Variability (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 415-419

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Notes: [Auszug] ON the hypothesis of the" meteoritic origin of the various orders of cosmical bodies there is a grand and orderly variation, both in light and colour, in the case of every undisturbed swarm during its condensation from its most nebulous condition to that of a cool dark globe. As by virtue of the ...

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The “Barking Sands” of the Hawaiian Islands (1890)

BOLTON, H. CARRINGTON

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 389-390

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Notes: [Auszug] ABOUT a year ago NATURE printed my letter from Cairo giving a condensed account of an examination of the Mountain of the Bell (Jebel Nagous) on the Gulf of Suez, and of the acoustic phenomenon from which it is named. In continuation of my researches on sonorous sand, which are conducted jointly ...

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Wet and Dry Bulb Thermometers (1890)

TIZARD, T. H.

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 391-391

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Notes: [Auszug] IT may, perhaps, interest you to know that on Friday last the difference between the wet and dry bulb thermometers, on board this ship in Grimsby roads, amounted to 12½°; the dry bulb showing 66°, and the wet bulb 53°.5. Wind west; force, 7 to 8 by Beaufort's scale. This is the greatest ...

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Experiment in Subjective Colours (1890)

CROFT, W. B.

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 391-391

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Notes: [Auszug] THE following experiment does not seem to be widely known: it is not easy to make a clear explanation of the lenses. Take a number of the Graphic and a piece of thin paper, which, if put upon the ordinary print, allows it to be seen through, as black. Now put the paper over some of the ...

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Notes: [Auszug] THE annual excursion of the Belgian. Royal Malacological Society took place under the guidance of MM. X. Stainier and J. S. Gardner. The Eocenes from the Thanets to the Lower Bagshots were examined at Herne Bay and Sheppey, where Mr. Shrubsole assisted, and the Gault and Chalk at Dover and ...

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The Terminology of Hydrolysis, Especially as Effected by “Ferments.” (1890)

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Notes: [Auszug] ALL who consider the meaning of words, and who desire, as " far as possible, to remove ambiguity from the terms employed in denoting chemical change, must have felt some dissatisfaction with the nomenclature used, chiefly by physiologists, in describing and discussing the remarkable phenomena ...

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Sadi Carnot's Essay (1890)

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Notes: [Auszug] NE soyons pas exigeants: la perfection est si rare / This is one of the rules laid down by Sadi Carnot for his own guidance :-and we will endeavour, as far as possible, to give his present Editor and Translator the benefit of it. They need it sadly. There is no Press-mark on the book before us, ...

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Notes: [Auszug] THIS is a most interesting and useful little book, and should be in the possession of all those who take any interest whatever in weather forecasting. It is written with the intention of showing what a single observer can do as regards this subject, supposing him to have a baro meter, means for ...

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Principles of Economics (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 362-364

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Notes: [Auszug] ECONOMICS admit of being reduced to principles more than other sciences dealing with human actions, for the reason which Prof. Marshall has thus expressed: "Wide as are the interests of which the economist takes account when applying his doctrines to practice, the centre of his work is a body of ...

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Notes: [Auszug] NOTHING of scientific value can be extracted from the ghastly descriptions of the recent electric execution. These graphic horrors are too evidently manufactured for sensational or political purposes to be trusted, even had the writers been spectators of the scene. But we may at least gather from ...

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The Scientific Principles Involved in Making Big Guns: III (1890)

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Notes: [Auszug] PART III.-WIRE GUN CONSTRUCTION. AN inspection of Fig. 5 (p. 307), and of the serrated edge of the "oo curve of circumferential tension, t, shows that only the inner fibre of each coil is doing its full share of resistance when the gun is fired. Great economy of material can be effected if we can ...

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Societies and Academies (1890)

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Notes: [Auszug] LONDON. Entomological Society, August 6.-Captain H. J. Elwes, Vice-President, in the chair.-Prof. Meldola, F.R.S., exhibited a male specimen of Polyommatus dorilist Hufn., a common European and Asiatic species, which had been taken at Lee, near Ilfracombe, in August 1887, by Mr. Latter. At the ...

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Notes: [Auszug] La Photographic Judiciaire : A. Bertillon (Paris, Gauthier-Villars).- British Cage Birds, Part 4 : R. L. Wallace (U. Gill).-The Canary Book, Part 4 : R. L. Wallace (U. Gill).-The Elements of Solid Geometry: R. B. Hay ward (Macmillan).-Les Facultes Mentales des Animaux : Dr. F. de Courmelles (Paris, ...

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Chambers's “Hand-book of Astronomy” (1890)

MAUNDER, E. W.

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 341-341

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Notes: [Auszug] As the writer of the article on “Spectroscopic Astronomy” in the above work, I should like to be permitted to comment upon two points wherein your reviewer has, though doubtless inadvertently, scarcely done me justice. On p. 292 (NATURE of July 24) the reviewer says that I have "selected ...

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Chambers's “Hand-book of Astronomy” (1890)

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Notes: [Auszug] I REGRET that my words allowed the interpretation which Mr. Maunder points out, for I had no intention of insinuating that the comparisons were “cooked.” What I take exception to is that, according to the values given, γ Cassiopeiæ has a motion in the line of sight of − 12, although on ...

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Notes: [Auszug] A MEETING was held at Stonyhurst College, on Tuesday, to consider a proposal for the establishment of some memorial of the late Father Perry. Sir Edward Watkin, M.P., presided, and he was supported by the Bishops of Salford, Shrewsbury, and Mangalore (India), Sir John Lawson, and a large body of ...

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American Gems (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 315-315

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Notes: [Auszug] THE general dissociation in Nature of useful and ornamental materials, which has often been commented upon, finds nowhere a more striking illustration than in the North American continent. Rich as this part of the globe is in coal, the ores of iron, and of almost all the metals employed in the ...

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Notes: [Auszug] THE work of which this is a translation records Dr. Junker's experiences as a geographical explorer from the year 1875 to 1878. Besides an excursion to the Siwa Oasis and Natron Valley, it includes " a careful survey of the Baraka watercourse, wanderings through Upper Nubia, an expedition to the ...

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The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 355-357

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Notes: [Auszug] THE annual summer meeting of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers was held last week in Sheffield. There could be no more appropriate centre around which either this Institution, or the sister Society, the Iron and Steel Institute, could gather. Sheffield has, however, of late years been ...

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Scientific Serials (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 334-335

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Notes: [Auszug] THE Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science for June 1890 contains :-On the embryology of a scorpion (Euscorpius italicus), by Malcolm Laurie (Plates xiii.-xviii.). The development of this scorpion, of which very elaborate details are given, would appear not to agree closely with any other ...

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Notes: [Auszug] THE original of this little book is the third edition of a small pamphlet entitled " Die Anatomischen Unterschei-dungsmerkmale der wichtigeren in Deutschland wachsen-der Holzer," and why the translator should have altered the significance of the title is not explained. In any case it would not be ...

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Notes: [Auszug] THIS is the third volume that has been published of this most interesting Bulletin, and, glancing through its pages, we conclude that it is one of the best publications of its kind that we have come across. The articles, written in great part by men of acknowledged ability, contain a large amount ...

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William Kitchen Parker, F.R.S. (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 297-299

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Notes: [Auszug] WILLIAM KITCHEN PARKER was born at Dogs-thorpe, near Peterborough, June 23, 1823, and died suddenly, of syncope of the heart, July 3, 1890. He was visiting his second son, Prof. W. N. Parker, at Cardiff, and, whilst cheerfully talking of late discoveries and future work in his favourite biological ...

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 299-303

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Notes: [Auszug] THE American Association for the Advancement of Science will meet this year at Indianapolis, under the presidency of Prof. Goodale. The first meeting will be held on August 19. The subject selected in advance for special discussion is "The Geographical Distribution of North American Plants," and ...

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Weight, Measures, and Formulæ used in Photography (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 310-311

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Notes: [Auszug] THE Photographic Convention of the United Kingdom, at a *o meeting held in the Town Hall, Chester, on June 26, considered the Report of a Committee which had been appointed to consider the weights, measures, and formulae used in photography. The Committee consisted of W. Bedford, C. H Bothamley ...

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The Volcanoes of Hawaii (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 266-267

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Notes: [Auszug] THE veteran geologist of the United States has rendered an inestimable service to science by the publication of this splendid monograph, which has just made its appearance simultaneously in this country and in the United States. To find any work on a similar subject comparable with it either in ...

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The Indian Civil Service and the Indian Forest Service Competitions (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 265-266

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Notes: [Auszug] THOSE who devote attention to educational questions JL are looking with interest for the publication of the new schedule for the Indian Civil Service competitions. But past experience of the Civil Service Commissioners, who are largely responsible for these matters, and on whom the various ...

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Masks from New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 268-269

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Notes: [Auszug] DR. A. B. MEYER has written the seventh of the series of fine publications of the Royal Ethnographical Museum of Dresden which are brought out under his direction. He has selected for description and illustration the masks fr6m New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago which are to be found in the ...

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Notes: [Auszug] THE author has fully succeeded in supplying the want that has been long felt, of a book which should explain the elementary principles of dynamics, illustrating them by easy examples in a manner suitable for use in schools with boys of ordinary mathematical attainments. Section I. deals with ...

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Chimpanzees and Dwarfs in Central Africa (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 296-296

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Notes: [Auszug] PERHAPS Mr. Stanley or Surgeon Parke, if applied to, could throw some more light on the extraordinary statement made by Emin Pasha, recently referred to, which, if it be true, is the most important statement in the whole book. It is probable that when Emin Pasha witnessed the ...

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On the Superficial Viscosity of Water (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 282-287

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Notes: [Auszug] THE idea that liquids are endowed with a viscosity peculiar to the surface is to be found in the writings of Descartes and Rumford; but it is to Plateau that its general acceptance is due. His observations related to the behaviour of a compass needle, turning freely upon a point, and mounted in the ...

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Studies in Biology for New Zealand Students (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 309-309

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Notes: [Auszug] TT is now generally recognized that of all recent works dealing -1- with elementary natural science, none have more thoroughly revolutionized our methods of teaching than those of Huxley, well known; and the years 1875-77 will be for all time memorable to English-speaking students, as those which ...

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 312-312

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Notes: [Auszug] Evolution of Photography : J. Werge (Piper and Carter).-Higher Geometry, W. J. Macdonald (J. Thin).-Zoological Types and Classification: W. fi. Fothergill (J. Thin).-Principles of General Organic Chemistry: Prof. E. Hjelt, translated by J. Bishop Tingle (Longmans).-Philosophy of Tumour Disease : C. ...

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A Polyglot Medical Vocabulary (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 267-268

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Notes: [Auszug] THE current literature of medical subjects is extensive and polyglot, and those who endeavour to keep themselves abreast of the most recent research in any branch require to dip into works in many languages, and need to have at hand some such aid as the present vocabulary, wherein they can seek for ...

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The Photographic Image (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 246-250

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Notes: [Auszug] THE history of a discovery which has been developed to such a remarkable degree of perfection as photography has naturally been a fruitful source of discussion among those who interest themselves in tracing the progress of science. It is only my presence in this lecture theatre, in which the first ...

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The Ethnology of the Gambia Region (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 256-258

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Notes: [Auszug] THE Governor of the Gambia, in his last Report, devotes a long section to an account of the African tribes connected with that settlement, of which the following is a brief summary:- Mandingoes.-The head-quarters of this extensive and powerful race lie in the mountainous district near the sources ...

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Notes: [Auszug] THIS volume constitutes Dr. Gresswell's dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Medicine at Oxford, and is published " as a mark of distinction?? by the University. It is the result of some six months clinical work at the South-Western Fever Hospital of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and the ...

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Spiny Plants in New Zealand (1890)

THOMSON, GEO. M.

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 222-222

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Notes: [Auszug] IN Mr. Wallace's recent work on “Darwinism,” reference is made to the absence of spiny and prickly plants in oceanic islands in disproof of Prof. Geddes's theory that spines are an indication of the ebbing vitality of a species. Mr. Hemsley's remarks on the subject are quoted, and an ...

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Darkest Africa (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 223-229

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Notes: [Auszug] IT would be out of place in these pages to discuss Mr. Stanley's remarkable narrative of a remarkable expedition so far as the main purpose of that expedition is concerned. It is nearly four years since the interest in the position and fate of Emin Pasha reached its height in this country. The ...

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The Marine Biological Association (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 236-238

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Notes: [Auszug] AT the annual general meeting of the Marine Biological Association, held at the rooms of the Royal Society on Wednesday, June 25, the following Report was submitted by the Council, and unanimously adopted. We omit only the list of those who went as a deputation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on ...

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Societies and Academies (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 261-264

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Notes: [Auszug] LONDON. Royal Society, June 19.-" On the Changes produced in the Circulation and Respiration by Increase of the Intracranial Pressure or Tension." By Walter Spencer, M.S., Assistant Surgeon to Westminster Hospital, and Victor Horsley, B.S., F.R.S. The authors have made for some time the effect of ...

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Gérard's “Électricité” (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 219-220

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Notes: [Auszug] THE author of this book says in his preface that when he took charge of the classes in electric technology at Lidge he felt the want of a text-book which would give a clear and definite account of electrical phenomena without requiring more extensive mathematical knowledge than his pupils might be ...

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Notes: [Auszug] THE author of this little book was a friend of the late Father Perry, and is, therefore, most capable of writing a sketch of his life and work, and few lives could afford more of the material which makes such a sketch interesting. The programme of work undertaken by the deceased astronomer ten ...

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The Bagshot Beds of Essex (1890)

MONCKTON, HORACE W.

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 198-198

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Notes: [Auszug] In the second part of the paper on the Westleton beds, by Prof. Prestwich, recently published in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society (vol. xlvi. p. 152), a section of the Brentwood railway cutting is given, which is, if possible, of more interest from the Eocene beds described than ...

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Our Astronomical Column (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 235-236

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Notes: [Auszug] OBJECTS FOR THE SPECTROSCOPE. Sidereal Time at Greenwich at 10 p.m. on July 3 i6h. 47m. 295. Name. | Mag. i Colour. R.A. 1890. Decl. 1890. h. m. s. (i)G.C. 4373 (2) 387 Birm. (3) TT Herculis - Greenish-blue. 5 6 Reddish-yellow. 3 Yellow. 17 58 IQ16 40 3317 II 12 + 66 37 + 8 47 + 36 ...

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Notes: [Auszug] Three Years in Western China: A. Hosie (Philip).-Encyclopaedia of Photography, Part i : W. E. Woodbury (Iliffe).-Advanced Physiography (Physiographic Astronomy) : J. Mills (Chapman and Hall).-A Manual of Orchidaceous Plants, Part 6 (Veitch).-Text-book of Physiological and Pathological Chemistry : ...

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Notes: [Auszug] A GOOD book on food is greatly wanted, one treating of the varieties of food, and thqir arrangement in the dietaries of health and disease. In some respects Dr. Yeo's small work fulfils the requirements of a satisfactory book on the subject. It will be found useful for reference by the busy ...

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Electro-Magnetic Repulsion (1890)

CROFT, W. B.

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 198-198

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Notes: [Auszug] THOSE who have not the means of showing the striking effects produced by Prof. Elihu Thomson may be glad to know a simple illustration of the same principles. A top consists of a soft iron disk with a brass axis put through it. A small magnet is held over the edge whilst spinning; each ...

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Sir Warington W. Smyth, F.R.S. (1890)

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Nature 42 (1890), S. 205-205

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Notes: [Auszug] MINING has suffered an irreparable loss by the death VJ- of Sir Warington Smyth, which occurred suddenly at his house in Inverness Terrace on the iQth inst. He was the eldest son of Admiral W. H. Smyth, F.R.S., and was born at Naples 73 years ago. He was educated at Westminster and Bedford Schools ...

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The System of the Stars (1890)

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Nature 43 (1890), S. 169-172

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Notes: [Auszug] THE gifted author of this work became justly famous by the publication of her now classical " History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century." The mass of accurate information there brought together, and the delightful way in which it was related, won well-earned praise on every hand. Her ...

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Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics

Notes: [Auszug] MR. SPIERS does not profess to give in this little book a full account of any one of the subjects with which he deals. His aim has been " to awaken or to stimulate a love for Nature in the minds of some who may not as yet have suspected what wondrous and ever-varying beauty lies everywhere about ...

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Notes: [Auszug] THIS book will be found of considerable value. Although Dr. David does not record original observations of his own, most facts stated being copied from other works, he nevertheless deserves credit for putting together in concise form all that is known of the micro-organisms occurring in the oral ...

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Nature 43 (1890), S. 174-175

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Notes: [Auszug] A REPRINT from the Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, containing an alphabetical syn opsis of the animal, vegetable, and mineral products of Western Afghanistan and Eastern Persia, together with their native names, with their English and Latin equi valents, and their applications. ...

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Notes: [Auszug] THIS book is written to explain and illustrate the practice of plain hand turning, and slide-rest turning as performed in engineers' workshops. The ornamental section of the craft is therefore entirely excluded. No attempt is made to describe all the numerous types of heavy lathes which are to be ...

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