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    Nature 9 (1873), S. 13-14 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. COOTE M. CHAMBERS has most kindly presented to the British Museum a specimen of the Stick-fish, from English Bay, Burrard's Inlet, British America. The specimen was placed alive, immediately it was caught, into a tin tube, filled with a solution of arsenic and salt. Mr. Chambers observes that ...
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    Nature 9 (1873), S. 18-19 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE consider that the most urgent portion of the task entrusted * to us is that which concerns the selection and nomenclature of units of force and energy; and under this head we are prepared to offer a definite recommendation. A more extensive and difficult part of our duty is the selection and ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 548-549 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Dr. SANDERSON has strangely misunderstood the wording of my letter which appeared in NATURE on the 9th inst. Any one may see that I did not challenge him to “deal” with my main proposition “that Bacteria are capable of arising in fluids independently of living reproductive or ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 549-549 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I WRITE to confirm Prof. Clifton's letter (in the last number of NATURE) respecting Mr. Perry and Oxford Science Fellowships. Nothing, it seems to me, can be more conclusive than the way in which Mr. Perry's letter has been answered. Any remark further of mine on this point would be ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 550-551 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE syllabus of the Biological subjects in which examinations arc held by the Science and Art Department, has undergone considerable modifications in the edition of the Directory which has been recently issued. Animal Physiology, Elementary Botany(including Flowering Plants only), are subjects ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 557-559 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE regret to have to record the death of two notable men this week. The one is Sir henry Holland, Bait., M.D., F.R.S., &c., who died on Tuesday, the 2Sth inst., at the age of S5 years. Sir Henry had caught cold on returning from Paris, which, in spite of his wonderfully robust constitution, ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 562-562 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PARIS Academy of Sciences, Oct. 20.-M. de Quatrefages, president, in the chair.-The following papers were read:-Theory of the movement of a point attracted towards a fixed centre, by 1sf. J. Bertrand.-On Dr. Reye's explanation of the solar spo4s, by M. Faye. Dr. Reye considers that the heat of a ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 523-524 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE have devoted part of our space this week V to a kind of Census of our Local Scientific Societies. It will be seen that in these Islands we nlready muster a goodly number, but no friend of Science would consider the number satisfactory; it does not, we are sure-seeing that there are twenty ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 521-522 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AND FIELD CLUBS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. The following list has been compiled mainly from information recently sent us by the Secretaries of the various Societies named. For obvious reasons the Chartered London Societies have been omitted, and in the meantime we have omitted the scientific ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 527-528 
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    Notes: [Auszug] SINCE reading Principal Guthrie's first letter on this subject (vol. viii. p. 67), I have thought of several ways of investigating the equilibrium of temperature in a gas acted on by gravity. One of these is to investigate the condition of the column as to density when the temperature is ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 529-531 
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    Notes: [Auszug] III.-Foundation of the Nautical Almanac DURING his voyage of 5765 to the island of Sai Helena, for the purpose of observing the transit of Venus, Maskelyne, like La Caille, investigated the methods for determining longitudes at sea, and on his return, in "The British Mariner's Guide" (1763), ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 531-533 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN accordance with an intention entertained previous to resigning the tenure of roy office as Curator to the Brighton Aquarium, I propose to give a brief outline of the plan of construction and general system of arrangements obtaining in that institution. The Brighton Aquarium, while emulated by ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 534-534 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A CIRCUMSTANCE of singular interest has recently £ - been revealed in connection with the investigations still being carried on with gun-cotton at Woolwich Arsenal. The experiments n-iade with this powerful explosive have now extended over a period of ten years, and although many discoveries ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 540-540 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A collection of more than twenty specimens of rocks of the best - marked descriptions were chosen for the pitt-pose, and were cut to a uniform shape and size by Messrs. Walker, Emley, and Deal!, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and a part of them were subjected to experiment. The plates arecircular, 5 in. in ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 503-503 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS excellent and well-known little work would scarcely require to have special attention now drawn to it, if it were not that the present edition contains an additional chapter, which adds much to its value as a text-book fOr amateurs. Until now the subject of polarised light ha5 been omitted, ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 505-505 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MY father finds that in his letter, published in your number for September 25, he did not give with sufficient clearness his hypothetical explanation of how useless organs might diminish, and ultimately disappear. I therefore now send you, with his approval, the following further explanation of ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 509-509 
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    Notes: [Auszug] TOWARDS the close of the last meeting of the British Association at Bradford, a paper was read before the Biological Section, which calls for special comment, because of the unfavourable. impression which it and much of the ubsequent discussion must have left on non.scientific as well as scientific ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 512-512 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE following Lectures in Natural Sciences will be given at Trinity, St. John's, and Sidney Sussex Colleges during Michaelmas Term, 1873:- On General Physics and Mechanics. By Mr. Trotter, Trinity, in Lecture Room No. is (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, at ii, commencing Wednesday, Oct. 15). On ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 517-519 
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    Notes: [Auszug] SANITARY science is a thing of yesterday, comparatively speaking; but sanitary art, the art of preserving the health, whether of individuals or of communities, has been studied and practised for ages. Sanitary science is the latest and highest development of medicine. I say it is the highest branch ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 481-482 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a recent number of NATURE (vol. viii. p. 292) we intimated that honours had been conferred upon a large number of British men of science by the Emperor of Brazil and the King of Sweden. Some of the gentlemen:to whom these Foreign Orders have been offered have, however, thought it right to refuse ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 484-484 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE are glad to see from the Third Annual Report of this Society that it continues prosperous, the number of members being, in 5872, io5. We hope good use will be made of the valuable herbarium of flowering plants, ferns, lichens, &c., collected and arranged by the late Mr. Hill, which ha come ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 485-486 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AFTER the lapse of half a year Mr. D. Forbes has recurred in NATURE for Sept. 4, 1873, to my remarks published in NATURE of March 20 last, to his remarks upon my Theory of Volcanic Energy and heat contained in his review of my translation of Palmieri's “Incendio Vesuviano,” ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 487-487 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LORD RAYLEIGH's notes on Harmonic Echoes recall to my recollection a little experience which I had in hearing what I supposed to be overtones reflected. I have frequent occasion to cross a portion of an open public park in which there are few trees. When any sharp sounds are heard in ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 487-487 
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    Notes: [Auszug] CAPTAIN MARKHAM has most kindly presented to the Herbarium of the Royal Gardens, Kew, a small but very interesting collection of plants brought back by him from his recent Arctic voyage. Amongst them are four specimens which he obtained from Dr. Bessel, who collected them in hat. 82° N., the ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 488-488 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN examining the sections of the skulls of the Wild Boar the Babirussa, the Phacochoer, and the Peccary, I was struck with the great difference in the form and development of the internal part of the organ of smelling of the peccary as distinguished between it and the other genera. The Wild Boar, ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 499-500 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Monthly Microscopical Journal commences with an article, illustrated with a plate, "On Organic Bodies in Fire Opal," by Mr. H. J. Slack, in which the author, from the appearances which he finds and describes, expresses an opinion, though not a decided one, that these minute bodies may be ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 462-464 
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    Notes: [Auszug] SINCE the first volume of "The Principles of Geology" appeared-now more than forty-ihree years ago-Sir Charles Lyell has put forth an uninterrupted series of new works or new editions, and we have now arrived at the I ith edition of the "Principles," the 7th of the "Elements of Geology," and the ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 464-465 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE appears in NATURE, vol. viii. p. 330, a notice of a thesis for the M.D. Cantab. on the subject of Bright's disease, in which reference is especially made to some sphygmographic observations therein contained. It is apparently from the pen of Mr. Garrod, who is himself the author of ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 466-467 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN reference to the article on venomous caterpillars in NATURE of the 14th inst., I beg to offer you, if the subject is not closed, my own very unpleasant experience. On the 19th of June last, as I was sitting in my drawing. room near an open window, looking on the garden, I suddenly felt ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 468-469 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Meteorological Congress which met at Vienna during tile past month worked very hard amid ninny difflcu)ties, and we believe will have good results. Tie Congress sat from Spt. 2 to Sept. i6. The protocols arid appendices are in the press, and will appear officially in French and German; while ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 472-473 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT would be well if our men of science were to be found more frequently distributing prizes and taking an interest in the schools in which, thanks to the wisdom and energy of Mr. Cole, so many thousands of our people are learning science. In this Prof. Williamson has just set a good example by ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 480-480 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Royal Horticultural Society.-Gcneral Meeting, Aug. 20. -W. A. Liadsay, Secretary, its the cliair-The Rev. M. J. Berkeley said Kerscn's seedling gooseberry, a fine variety which gained a fItnt-class certificat: at the last meeting, turned out to be not a garden seedling bit one originally ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 431-432 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I BEG permission to make a few remarks bearing on Prof. Wyville Thomson's interesting account of the rudimentary males of Scalpellum regium, in your number of August 28th. Since I described in 1851, the males and complemental males of certain cirripedes, I have been most anxious that some ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 433-435 
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    Notes: [Auszug] On the co-existence of Irco forms of flowers in the sa,ne species or more conspicuous one adaAtr'd to cross-ferlilisalion by insects, and a less conspicuous one adapted to self-fortilisation. SINCE Darwin, in his admirable work on Orchids,t had proved that the flowers of this family are endowed ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 441-446 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN accepting the invitatio of the Council of the British Association to deliver an address to the operative classes of this great ipdustrial district, I felt that I was undertakin no easy task. Having to speak on behalf of the Association, and in the presence of many of its most distinguished ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 397-399 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I.-FARADAY Michael Faraday, born Scfttember 22, 1791, died Auusl 25, 1867. WITH this number of NATURE WC present to our subscribers the first of what we hope will be a long series of Portraits of Emtnent Men of Science. This first portrait is one of Faraday, engraved on steel, by Jeens, from a ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 404-405 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AN election will be held oct Thursday, 0ctobe 30, to two fellowships in connection with Merton College, Oxford. The examination for one of these fellowships will be in mathematics, for the other in physical science. The election to the physical science fellowship will be decided with respect to ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 405-405 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Paris Academy of Sciences, Sept. 8.-M Bertrand in the chair.-The following papers were read:-Fifth note on Guano, by M. Chevreul.-Note on the observations of M Lecoq do Boisbaudran, relative to the appearance of Phylloxera in the vineyards of the Charente, by L Milne-Edwards.-Note on the number of ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 377-378 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AMONG the difficulties which are likely to impede the ready realisation of the object to which attention has been drawn, there remains one which will always be most keenly felt by those who have devoted the most thought to the question. Beneath the word "Science" there lurks a distressing ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 405-428 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE forty-third meeting of the Association was opened yesterday evening in Bradford, 3vhen Dr. Carpenter resigned the Presidency, and was succeeded by Prof. A. W. Will iarnson, who delivered the opening address in S. George's hall. Notwithstanding that Bradford is considerably larger than ...
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    Nature 8 (1873), S. 378-380 
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    Notes: [Auszug] FEW branches, perhaps, of entomological science .1- show the effects of independent andisolated labours more strikingly than Arachnology-_limiting this term here to the order Araneidea (or Aranee). The great works of N. Westring on Swedish Spiders, published in x86i, that of Mr. Blackwall on those ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Tnis fine work continues to appear with commendable regularity every month, and keeps up. its high character both for fulness of information and beauty of illustration. In the numbers now noticed are several hicthly artistic plates, such as those which represent the White-shouldered and Imperial ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS forms the concluding part of Dr. Reis's useful handbook of Physics. The subject of physiological optics is continued, followed by a description of optical instruments and the laws of the interference and polarisation of light. Heat is treated in the next part, but hardly so fully nor so well ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT will probably be considered necessary that Dr. Tyndall's pamphlet,* which first appeared as an article in the Contemporary Review, be answered at fell length. That, however, cannot be decided for some time, as several of those concerned are abroad but it may be well to let Dr. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I RESPECTFULLY request admission, into an early number of NATURE, for an explanatory word or two, in reference to W. S. J's review of my poor book on Law, &c., in the valuable publication named, for July 24, 1873. W. S. J.'s very first sentence speaks of the said little book as ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE, Aug. 14, a paper under this heading concludes thus:—“Colonel George Greenwood, who is, I presume, the same as the former active correspondent about this subject, visited this lake (Lesjeskaugen) last summer, as appears from the entry of his name in the day books. I am not ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] As Prof. Jevons has revived the question of the existence of lakes possessing more than one outlet, I would invite the attention of your readers to what appears to me an unequivocal instance of the kind, though on a small scale, in the neighbourhood of the place whence I write. On the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE of June 26 (antea, p. 164), Mr. W. A. Forbes points out an error in the report of the meeting of the Zoological Society for June 15, in a statement that no example of Grus vipio (sive leucauchen) had been brought to Europe previously to those lately received by that Society. Instead ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I SHOULD be much obliged to any of your readers who would give me any information as to the cause of the colour of lightning. In one of two storms which passed over here yesterday evening the lightning was decidedly pink in tint; later in the night it had regained its normal yellow or ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN reference to the question of “Harmonic Echoes,” allow me to suggest to those who may have the opportunity of observation, how desirable it is that these echo-tones should be investigated in a manner to determine whether they are truly harmonic or not. There would be no difficulty ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MY attention has just been accidentally called to some notes on “Oreodon Remains in the Woodwardian Museum, Cambridge” in your number of August 14. I hasten to correct art error into which your correspondent has fallen as to the locality in which the remains to which he refers ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I BEG to send you the following particulars of the observed paths of nine bright shooting stars recently seen here. Began Ended Length Approx. Radiant ReF. Date. Time. Apparent R.A. i,°- R.A.: Dc. of path. point. No. Mag. Ii. in. i July aS 11.32 = 2j 210'' coo 8' s4 Pegasus a, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Mr. E. D. JONES, of San Paulo, Brazil, has sent me the enclosed extract from his diary, referring to the meteor shower of November last, which he observed whilst crossing the Atlantic. "Nov. 27, 1872,-s.s. halley, N.lat. II' 30', V.long. 26° 50'. -There was a splendid shower of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE are now in possession of facts which will sup '' plement our last reference to this subject. The following names may be added to the list of scientific men accompanying the Wheeler Expedition engaged on surveys west of the 100th meridian:-Mr. Severance, ethnologist; Drs. H. C. Garrow and J. L. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IV.-The Metric System AS a system of weights and measures, constructed on strictly scientific principles, the metric system may justly claim pre-eminence over all others. It was establishecl upon the fundamental basis of the metre, its primary unit of length bearing a determinate decimal ratio to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is announced that the Transatlantic Balloon will leave New York to-day. It will carry four passengers-Prof. Wise and Mr. Donaldson, the aronauts; an officer of the United States Signal Service, and an agent of the Daily Graphic. They hope to reach some point on the English or Continental coast ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE meeting of the American Assoriation for the Advance. menl of Science was held this year at Portland, in the State of Maine, during the birth week of August; there was a large attendance of well-known scientific celebrities and members. The following account, for which we are indebted to the iVw ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE author gives chiefly the results of his spectrum observations, and simultaneous spot observations, recorded in the Transactions of the Berlin Academy of Sciences for November 1871, and May 1872. To the two earlier instances of striking changes observed in the protuberances, there is added an ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE following Memorandum on the Whitworth Scholarships, prepared by Sir Joseph Whitworth, has been approved by the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education, South Kensington x. The experience of thc past competitions for my scholarships has proved to me the necessity of establishinge rules ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE difficulty in predicting the rate of a chronometer for a voyage arises from the imperfect state of the instrument; and by a wellarranged and carefully conducted test, these imperfections may be so exhibited as to enable the manner to avoid the danger which must frequently follow from the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE current number of the ZooloSist commences with a notice by the editor, of Mr. Lloyd's "Official Handbook to the Crystal PalaCe Aquarium." In an interesting historical sketch of the growth of aquaria, he divides its development during the last forty years into three eras, the earliest being the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PARIS Academy of Sciences, Sept. x.-M. Bertrand in the chair. -The following papers were read:-On the Aurora Borealis, by 71. Faye. The author's paper related to Donati's late memoir on the same subject, in which he suggests that the passage of electro-magnetic currents from the sun to the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ENGLISH.-The Sea and its WonSers: Itartsvig (Losginins & Cx).- Centrifugal Force and Gravitation: John harris (irSbaer & Co.).-Q.Iantitative Chemical Analysis: Thorpe (Lnngrnans & Co.) -\Vhat a House should be: WI! b'ardwell (Dean).-The Conavotutions of the Hu-non Brain: Ecker (S.nIth, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AS was to be expected, the subscriptions for the welldeserved testimonial to Mr. Cole, to which we have already referred, have so far been thoronghly satisfactory, upwards of e,oool. having already been subscribed. Among the names of the subcribers will be noticed the names of men eminent in nearly ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PHYSICAL Geography is one of those branches of knowledge which, without being a science in itself, makes use of many of the Sciences to explain and illustrate the facts and phenomena with which it deals. So far as it is c¢nfined to the mere knowledge of facts and description of natural ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE are two ways at least in which the first principles of Natural Science may be taught to the youthful mind, as well as to "intelligent people who have not had time to enter into the technicalities of scientific questions." One which, if we may judge from the number of elementary works on ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE excellence of these reading books and their adaptation to the broader culture of the present day demand from us some notice. The editor of the series, who has done his work with unusual ability, tells us in the preface that his aim has been to cultivate the love of reading. So far as we are ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I READ with great interest, in Prof. Tyndall's American lectures, a statement about the rainbow which appeared to me so extraordinary, that I determined to test it on the first opportunity. The statement (I have not the book with mc here, and give merely my recollection of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I AM not enough of a metaphysician to say whether a substance which can be compressed and expanded necessarily contains void spaces. If so, the idea of air, furnished to a beginner by instruction in "Boyle's Law," is self-contradictory; and any molecular theory afterwards developed in ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ONE at least of the “obvious difficulties” which your correspondent, Mr. Henry R. Proctor, finds in my hypothesis as to the origin of Nerve Force, would scarcely have existed if he had directed his attention to a sentence in my article (NATURE, July 31), which runs thus: “In ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE just read with great interest, in NATURE of Aug. 21, Capt. J. Herschel's account (elicited by Mr. Guthrie's letter, vol. viii. p. 86) of his ocular and telescopic observations or Indian kites at rest in mid-air, and I am tempted to offer an explanation which occurs to me of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SOME time ago, being desirous of showing a class the explosion of chlorine and hydrogen by artificial light, I devised a simple method which was perfectly successful. Equal volumes of the two gases, prepared separately by the usual methods, were mixed in a stout test tube and confined by a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MY absence in Spain during the months of March and April prevented my having seen NATURE for the 20th March, and left me until a few days since in blissful ignorance that it contained a lengthy critique by Mr. Mallet on my review (NATURE, Feb. 6) of his translation of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE British Museum has justreceived a series of skins of a new Bubale from Abyssinia called Tora. It is like the Hartibeest for having a white patch on the rump, and white inside the ears, but it is without any black on the face or on the outer side of the limbs. It is of a bright pale bay colour, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE appears every likelihood that before the end L of the year a feat will be attempted which seems to have been first seriously proposed thirty years ago by Prof. Wise, an American aeronaut, who is now making preparations to cross the Atlantic to England in a monster balloon. The American ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS instrument consists of two moveable circles, .1 which may be made of brass or pasteboard, placed in a common watch-case. The lower and outer one shows the hours doubled up to XXIV., and divided into quarters. The upper one, which is also inner, shows the sixty minutes, 5, o, &c. This ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE IMPERIAL STANDARD YARD THE immediate superintendence of the construction .I of the new standard yard was entrusted, in the first instance, to Mr. Baily, who conducted all the preliminary investigations and experiments. After his death in August 1844, it was undertaken by Mr. Sheepshanks, by ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE session of this young Association which has just been concluded at Lyons appears to have been altogether successful, and according to the Reports read the Association is in an exceedingly prosperous condition, both as to number of members, income, and the carrying out of the scientific aims ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE finalarrangements for the Bradford meeting of the British Association are as follows:-The first General Meeting will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 8 P.M. precisely, when Dr. Carpenter, LL.D., F.R.S., &c., will resign the Chair, and the President-Elect, Prof. W. A. William3on, F.RS., ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT will be in the recollection of the readers of the 7our,a that, in April last, an analogy was pointed out between sunlight and the electric light, and that certain conditions were therein indicated as being most favourable to that particular de velopment of light which would best bring out the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE continuous absorption of oxygen, and formation of carbonic acid, is an essential condition of evolution of structure, both in plants and in animals. The above proposition in so far as it relates to animals will probably be admitted by all; the opposite opinion is, however, commonly held as ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE first number of the Zeitschrzft f¼r Eth,:ologk for 1S73, opens with an interesting, paper by Dr. George Schweinfurth on the Monbutta Tribes of Central Africa, whose name and (xistence have hitherto been unknown to us. Dr. On and M. Jules Poncet had shown that there were important streams ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] BELGIUM Royal Academy of Sciences, June 7.-M. Quetelet presented a note on the solar eclipse of May 26, 1S73.-M. Mon. tigny gave the results of a second series of experiments made on the spire of Antwerp Cathedral, in which he determined barometrically the heights at several points, in winds of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN relation to the Colleges, the attention of the CornI missioners has been principally directed to the following points:-x. The Scholarships. 2. The Fellowships. 3. The Organisation of the Instruction given in the Colleges in relation to the Instruction given in the Universities. 4. Contributions ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] OF the Congresses which have recently been held, none were more urgently called for than an International Congress of Meteorologists. Doubtless even under the diverse systems of observation which have been in use at national observatories and among meteorologists of different countries, large and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE recent outbreak of enteric fever in the West End I. of London presents many points of remarkable interest and teaches many useful lessons. Typhoid, Enteric, or Pythogenic fever, although a disease about which all our accurate knowledge is quite recent) is a fever about the causes of which we ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. W. COPELAND BORLASE, the talented author of "Nenia Cornubia," in his communication to NATURE (voL viii. p. 202), calls attention to the structure of Lanyon Quoit as an undeniable example of a British tripod cromlech or free-standing dolmen, by way of "protest against the dictum of Mr. Lukis ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE left Bermudas on Thursday, June 12, for the '" Azores. His Excellency Gen. Lefroy, C.B., F.R.S., Governor of the Island, with his private secretary, Capt. Trench and Capt. Aplin, R.N., Captain Superintendent of the Dockyard, and a party of ladies, came on board in the afternoon, and we bade ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON the iith of April last, Hansteen died at Christiania at the advanced age of 88, having been born on the 26th September, 1784. On leaving the cathedral school of Christiania, where he received his early education, he entered the University of Copenhagen in i8oa, as a student of law, which, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE second session of the French Association was 1 opened at Lyons last Thursday, by an inaugural address from the President, M. de Quatrefages, who pointed out the almost inconceivable advance of Science during the past century, and the importance of Science in education. In speaking of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE last number of the Ibis (July 1873, p1. x.) contains a representation of a very interesting bird, about which, though discovered and descnibd in the last century, naturalists have for a long time been doubting. This is the species said to be first metioned by Callam in 1783 (Voy. Bot. Bay), and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] 11.-The "Comzaissance des Tempts," under the direction of the Academy of Sciences THE first to whom the Academy entrusted the editorship of these Ephemerides was Lieutaud. The only real modification introduced into the volume was the substitution, for the table of refractions published by ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Cape Argus for July so contains the report of the curator, Mr. Roland Trimen,ofthe South African Museum, for the previous half year. Many valuable additions have been made to the museum during that time, but its efficiency is very seriously crippled through want of funds, mainly due, we are ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] GEOLOGICAL surveys have been proceeding, to a greater or lesser extent, in all, the Australian colonies for several years, and in Victoria the work has been prosecuted so systematically, and with such success, that the main features of the surface geology of the country are comparatively well ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SIR SAMUEL and. Lady Baker arrived at Cairo, iast Sunday. All was well. TIlE twenty-second session of the American Association for the Advancement of Science commenced its meetings at Portland, Maine, on Wednesday, aoth inst. Prof. Lovering, of Cambridge, is president for the year. TIlE discovery ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Der Naturforscher for July 1873, contains, among other interesting matter, an account of observations by Herr Nhgeli, among plants in Alpine regions, as to the production of closely. related plant forms. He is led to conclude, (in opposition to the common view), that association is more favourable ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] RICA Society of Naturalists, March 5.-Dr. Petzholdt concluded a series of five lectures on Turkestan, having described the fauna and flora, ethnographical features, dwellings, manners and customs, state of agriculture, mining and manufacture, &c. lie commends the mode of treating silkworms as ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] F0REIGN.-Renharks on Synonyms of European Spiders: Prof. T. Thorell (Upsa'a).-Lehrbuch der Phyoik, Dritte Lieferung: Dr. Paul Rein (Leipzig). ESiGLI5n.-Gateway to the Potynia, a Voyage to Spitzbergen, from the Jou.nat ot J. . VeI1n, R.N. (H. S. King & Co.).-Sound and Music: Sedley Taylor, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ONE of the two Royal Commissions appointed to - inquire into University matters has just issued its Report, and it come in the very nick of time; for while on the one hand the question of University reform is day by day attracting a larger share of public attention, on the other the Financial ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ACCORDING to Dr. Brewer "The harmonic echo repeats in a different tone or key the direct sound. The harmonic is generally either the third, fifth, or tenth of the tonic.... On the river Nahe, near Bergen, and not far from Coblentz, is an echo thus described by Barthius:- It makes seventeen ...
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