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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 467-469 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN mixing comparatively rich iron ore in powder, with about twenty-five per cent, of its weight of pounded coal, and in exposing this mixture for some hours to the heat of a common stove or of a smith's fire, metallic iron is formed, which, on being heated to the welding point, on the same smith's ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 469-470 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AS we have said already, while the Nashville Meeting of the American Association could not be called a brilliant one, most of the papers read were of substantial importance, and I show that a large amount of valuable scientific work is being 1 carried on in the United States. The number of visitors ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 470-472 
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    Notes: [Auszug] II. THIS reptiles most characteristic of our American cretaceous strata are the Mosasatiria, a group with very few representatives in other parts of the world. In our cretaceous seas they ruled supreme, as their numbers, size, and carnivorous habits enabled them to easily vanquish all rivals. Some ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 437-437 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN his preface the author draws attention " to the peculiar character of the present work," and quotes by way of explanation two paragraphs from the Directory of the Science and Art Department. He remarks that " the student will at once perceive that the author has discussed all the subjects ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 437-438 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE second number of the above Bulletin contains three important entomological articles from the pens of Messrs. ? sten Sacken, Uhler, and Thorell. The first memoir, from the pen of that distinguished Dipterist, Baron C. R. Osten Sacken, bears the modest title of " Descriptions of New Genera and ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 438-438 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a recent number of Les Mondes (tome xliv., No. I, September 6, 1877), M. l'Abbé F. Raillard puts forward a theory to explain the reddish tinge acquired by the moon during a total eclipse, attributing it possibly to the great elevation of temperature caused by the continuous exposure of its ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 62-62 
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    Notes: [Auszug] CAPT. TUCKEY is dead and gone and cannot answer for himself; it may therefore, perhaps, serve to clear his memory in some measure of a doubt about the correctness of his description of the Yallala Rapids in 1816, arising from the very different account of them given by Stanley sixty years ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 62-62 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN your number of the 8th instant there are some interesting remarks upon the habits, &c., of the common earth-worm. From frequent observations I fully concur with the remark that the worm does not consume living vegetation but only vegetable matter undergoing decomposition. I am also ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 65-66 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT the late meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Nashville Tenn., Dr. T. Sterry Hunt presented a report on the above subject, of which at the time we gave a brief note. The following extracts, which have been sent us; will no doubt be more satisfactory to geologists ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 441-441 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE results obtained in the experiments mentioned by M. C. Tomlinson are to be attributed to the elevation of temperature of the candles exposed to solar light and heat. The influence of light on combustion has been mistaken for the action of heat, which, in this instance, seems to have ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 441-442 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE SATELLITES OF MARS. - The following ephemeris of the outer satellite is deduced from the elements given in this column last week, except that the daily motion is corrected to 285° 5''i47 by observations to Sept. 16: - At 8h. om. Pos. Dist. 75 49 54 70 29 76 35 63 59 38 For the inner ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 442-442 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ACTION OF ORGANIC SUBSTANCES INCREASING THE SENSITIVENESS OF CERTAIN SILVER SALTS.-Mr. M. C. Lea, of Philadelphia, has criticised, in a short paper, the theory brought forward by Poitevin and Vogel, that increased sensitiveness was imparted to the halogen compounds of silver by certain organic ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 21-22 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AFTER the occurrence of great colliery explosions such as those which took place recently in Pem-berton and Blantyre collieries, one very general and pertinent question presents itself to most minds, namely, What has been done or attempted with the view of preventing these disasters ? It would be ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 445-448 
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    Notes: [Auszug] FILIPPO PARLATORE, Director of the Museo di Fisica e Storia Naturali, at Florence, and of the Botanic Oardens, died suddenly, of a fit, on Sunday, September 9. He elaborated the Gnetacese and Coniferae, for the sixteenth volume of De Can-dolle's " Prodromus," and was author of a partly completed ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 25-25 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS work is one of the earliest published of a series "adapted for school purposes," and "composed with special reference to use in school teaching," as we are told in the general preface. We feel very strongly that no good can come of the introduction of such subjects as the dynamical theory of ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 26-26 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN my letter published in NATURE (vol. xvi. p. 227), I stated that I should re-examine the question of the discrepancy between Appunn and Koenig, and inform you of the result. During the whole month of September I was engaged in very carefully counting and recounting Appunn's tonometer in the ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 29-29 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Several years ago I received some of these animals from a friend, and kept them in confinement for one or two months. The description which your correspondent gives of their performance leaves very little to be added by me, as in all respects this description agrees perfectly with my own ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 30-31 
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    Notes: [Auszug] FROM soundings taken by the second German Polar Expedition, and kindly communicated by Capt. Koldewey, of Hamburgh, I have been induced to alter my views about the configuration of the sea-bottom | around Jan Mayen. The figure of the bottom which I at Depths present find the most probable I have ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 35-35 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WITHIN the last thirty years or so their respective vacations happen to have called two able lovers of natural history in the direction of the Celestial Empire Mr: Robert Swinhoe, from England, and the Pere Armand David, a Frenchman. The simultaneous investigations of these two biologists have ...
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    Nature 17 (1877), S. 37-38 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE session of the Royal Society opens next Thursday with the Bakerian Lecture On the Organisation of the Fossil Plants of the Coal Measures, Part ix., which will be delivered by Prof. W. C. Williamson, of Manchester, F.R.S. WE learn from the Times that the following is the list of the new Council ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 416-417 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. PENNINGTON has done good service to science by publishing his “Notes.” The objects he describes belong to the palaeolithic, the neolithic, and the bronze ages of Britain and Western Europe generally; but, following Prof. Boy d Davvkins, the author includes the entire, period between the close ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 417-418 
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    Notes: [Auszug] JUST fifteen years ago we became aware, by the chance sight of a copy of the Educational Times, of the existence of a paper which gave up three or four pages monthly to the proposal and solution of mathematical questions. We at once sent to England, and a more careful examination, of the copy we ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 418-418 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE perused this volume with interest and pleasant , surprise; we were pleased at finding it to be an excellent and well-written review of all new occurrences in the scientific world, and we were surprised to see such a work emanate from a country which hitherto has contributed but too small a share ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 418-418 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE importance of an examination of the intemal as well as the external anatomy of insects has unhappily not hitherto engaged the attention which it deserves at the hands of British entomologists. It is a fact which cannot be disputed that by far the greater portion of that energy which our country ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 418-419 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A RECENT visit to Orkney has brought forcibly before me certain points of the highest interest in modern glacial geology, upon which, I believe, the state of the surface deposits in these islands is calculated to throw considerable light. I may premise that although I am perfectly well ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 420-420 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN reference to the article in NATURE (vol. xv. p. 491) on the development in certain instances of Batrachians without metamorphosis, Mr. B. G. Wilder writes to the American Naturalist (vol. xi. No. 8, August, 1877, p. 491) to point out that the author of the article in NATURE has overlooked ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 419-420 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN connection with certain variations of temperature observed during the total eclipse of the moon on August 24, 1877, by M. Berigny, and discussed at a late meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, as reported in NATURE (voL xvi p. 412), I am reminded of some observations made on board H. M. ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 420-420 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ENGLISH naturalists seem to be “all abroad” on this subject, judging from some remarks in NATURE, vol. xv. p. 257. P. L. S. states his conviction that Tachyglossus will be discovered in the ranges of N. Queensland when these have been properly examined, being evidently quite unaware that ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE deferred my answer to the remarks of Mr. J. J. Murphy (NATURE, vol. xvi. p. 182) till now, in order to see if my letter of June 14 would cause more discussion. But it seems that my views are not deemed worthy of much consideration in England ; I shall therefore say only a few words in ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 421-422 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE registration of temperature is one of the most difficult of meteorological problems. Among the registering instruments employed the thermometer is certainly that to which most attention has been devoted, and yet no solution has hitherto given re-suits altogether satisfactory. The extreme ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 422-423 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AN examination of the voluminous records of the Patent Office discloses the fact that the activity in a particular line of invention periodically waxes and wanes. After slumbering for a number of years the problem of procuring effective electrodes for the production of the luminous electric arc has ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 427-428 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE OUTER SATELLITE OF MARS.—As a guide to those who may be examining the immediate vicinity of Mars, with the view to detecting the exterior satellite, an ephemeris of its positions from September 8 to 18, for 8h. 3om. and lih. om. each evening is subjoined. It will enable an opinion to be formed ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 428-431 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE health of M. Leverrier is so far restored that he is daily expected at the Paris Observatory to resume his official duties. The glass of the large refractor has been put in position, after having undergone repairs, and will be tested again before being silvered. Bischofsheim's transit ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 431-431 
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    Notes: [Auszug] TWO years' thermometric observations made three times a day at Rama, Labrador, about 6ob north latitude, furnish the following monthly and annual means. grade. The degrees are Centi- Monthly mean of temperature. Absolute monthly miuima. (Dates in parentheses.) Absolute monthly maxima. (Dates in ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON.—Prof. Morris, who for more than twenty years has held the chair of geology and mineralogy at University College, has resigned his appointment. The Rev. T. G. Bonney, fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and Prof. H. G. Seeley, of King's College, are mentioned as candidates. ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 432-432 
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    Notes: [Auszug] American Journal of Science and Arts, August.—Discoveiy of oxygen in the sun by photography, and a new theory of the solar spectrum (with plate), by II. Draper.—Action of certain organic substances in increasing the sensitiveness of silver haloids, by M. C. Lea.—Critical periods in the history of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PARIS Academy of Sciences, September 3.—M. Peligot in the chair.—M. Villarceau gave an outline of his and M. De Magnac's new work, entitled “Nouvelle navigation astronomique.”-The following papers were also read:—On the combinations of chlor-hydrate of ammonia with the chlorides of potassium and ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 393-394 
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. HARRIS has long been known as one of those social scholars who combine with much modern learning a great deal of the learning of the ancients. He is essentially an antiquary in science, and he has obviously collected and brought under ready command a fine array of authorities of various schools ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 395-396 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS volume is quite as interesting as any of those which have preceded it, whilst the amount of reliable information it brings to a focus, not only regarding the fish and fisheries of the United States, but of the fisheries of Great Britain, Sweden, Prussia, Holland, France, and Russia, is ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 140-140 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE author has given in a handbook a description of the various physical phenomena which, without belonging to the true domain of chemistry, are nevertheless involved in all chemical processes, and which can adequately be described as physico-chemical. These phenomena, of the highest importance for ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 397-397 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE phenomenon to which Mr. Bennett alludes is, I presume, well known ; but it is not universal, though common. He will find illustrations in Hassal's “British Freshwater Algæ,” where the zygospores are formed in both filaments simultaneously; e.g., plate 19, Zygnema (Spirogyra) ; plate 38, ...
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    Nature 16 (1877), S. 397-399 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE SATELLITES OF MARS.—The Paris correspondent of the Times writing on August 27, states that at the meeting of the Academy of Sciences the same day, M. Faye had announced the independent discovery of the satellites of Mars by M. Borrelly at Marseilles, claiming lor him even an earlier detection ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] NEW WORK ON BIRDS.—We have received the prospectus of a new. work by Dr. A. B. Mayer, Director of the Royal Zoological Museum of Dresden, to be entitled “Abbildungen von Vogel-Skektten,” in which he signifies his intention to publish, in parts, figures of the skeletons of rare or little-known ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE last week announced briefly the death of Dr. J ? P. Gassiot, and now give some account of the principal scientific results obtained by him. Mr. Gassiot, partner in the firm of Martinez Gassiot and Co., wine merchants, Mark Lane, first devoted his spare time to electrical experiments about the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE is still something to be solved about the Japanese mirrors, which show the figures that appear in relief on the back in the disk of light reflected from the face. Not only does it seem impossible (without some indication which I have not yet met with) to tell which mirrors in a series ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] As the fact of the preference of sparrows for yellow crocuses still excites interest and requires explanation, perhaps you will allow me to call attention to the following remarks of Gilbert White in his “Observations on Nature” :— Birds are much influenced in their choice of food by ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Report of the Committee, consisting of the Rev. II. F. ? antes, C. Sp(nce Bote, Esq., ?. ?. Dresser, Esq. (Secretary}, Dr. A. Gunther, J. ?. ?arting, Esq., J. Gwyn Jejfreys, Esq., Prof. NtWton, and the Rrj. Canon 7 l tram, appointed for the purpose of inquiring into the posnbilty of establishing a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE eastern part of the dominions of the Emir of ··· Bokhara is the belt of land between 37° 30' and 39° N.L., and 67° and 71° EX., bordered on the north by the now Russian province of Samarkand and the Karategin, and on the south by Afghanistan (the Balkh, Kunduz, and the Badakshan districts). It ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ACCORDING to the terms of its charrer from Congress, the National Academy of Sciences must hold its annual meeting in April, at Washington. It holds also a semi-annual meeting in the autumn. Its membership has been very slowly increasing, till now it numbers nearly, if not quite, 100. At the last ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE following is a list of the officers of the forty-seventh annual meeting of the British Association which will, as we have intimated^ commence at Plymouth on Wednesday, August 15:-President Elect-Prof. Alien Thomson, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., F.R.S.E. Vice-Presidents Elect-The Right Hon. the Earl of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] OXFORD.-An examination will begin on October 2 for the purpose of electing to a Physical Science Postmastership at Men on College. The postmastership is of the annual value of So/, for five years, to be raised after two years,* at the recommendation of the tutors, to loo/. The subjects of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] American Journal of Science and Arts^ June.-An account of the discoveries in Vermont geology of the Rev. Augustus Wing (continued), by James D. Dana.-On barite crystals from the Last Chance Mines, Morgan County, Missouri, and on Gothite from Adair County, Missouri, by G. C. Broadhead.- Estimation ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Royal Society, June 14.- On the Minute Structure and Relationships of the Lymphatics of the Mammalian Skin, and on the Ultimate Distribution of Nerves to the Epidermis and Subepidermic Lymphatics," by George Hoggan, M.B., and Frances Elizabeth Hoggan, M.D. Communicated by Dr* William Farr, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE are authorised to publish the accompanying list of the sums to be paid by the Government, on the recommendation of the Royal Society, during the present year in aid of Scientific Research. We might well leave the list to speak for itself, but it would be ungrateful not to point out that the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the present agitation concerning speaking or telephonic telegraphs, the following extract from M. Le Comte du Moncel's “Expose des Applications de l'Electricite,” edition of the year 1857, vol. iii. p. no, may be interesting as pointing out how nearly the idea has been forestalled. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. CROOKES' interesting observation of the reflection of a rainbow—described in his letter in NATURE, August 16—is easily reproduced, on a small scale, experimentally. I fixed a “spreader” to the nozzle of a garden-engine so as to cause a shower of fine drops of water to spread in the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE D'ANGOS COMET OF 1784.-Encke's investigation relating to this reported comet appears in Zach's Corre-spondance Astronomique, as an u Imposture Astronomique grossiere du Chevalier D'Angos, deVoile*e par J. F. Encke a Gotha." Gibers, in a letter addressed to him, had, as already stated, asked his ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the autumn of 1875 Mr. C. Randell proposed to the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society that it be referred to the Chemical Committee to consider the propriety, and the manner, of instituting a series of experiments, to test the accuracy of the estimated value of manure obtained by the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. FRANKLAND, D.C.L., F.R.S., has now in the press a volume containing his collected researches in Pure, Applied, and Physical Chemistry, dedicated to Prof. Bunsen, of Heidelberg. The section on Pure Chemistry treats, amongst other matters, of the Isolation of the Organic Radicals, and the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Chemical Society, June 7.-Dr. Gladstone in the chair.- The following papers were read:-On the gases inclosed in lignite coal and mineral resin from Bovey Heathfield, by J. W. Thomas. Four samples were examined, two of which contained much hydrated oxide of iron in the cleavages. The gases ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Conference on the Antiquity of Man lately held by the Anthropological Institute, and reported in these columns, has led to a result by no means unsatisfactory, when all the conditions of the problem are duly weighed. The result is merely negative, but in arriving at it several misconceptions ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WELL-arranged museums are valuable to the state in many ways. The technological department ought to show in what new directions capital may and may not be invested; the geological and mineralogical should point out in what kind of rock and in what parts of the earth's 1 crust ores and minerals are ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE have here a little work of some 300 pages, which deals with the philosophy of aesthetics almost exclusively on its physiological side. Of course, in thus restricting his subject, the author neglects all the more subtle and intricate parts of that philosophy; but every competent reader will agree ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I PROPOSE in this preliminary paper to indicate the means by which I have discovered oxygen and probably nitrogen in the sun, and also to present a new view of the constitution of the solar spectrum. Oxygen discloses itself by bright lines or bands in the solar spectrum and does not give dark ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A MEMOIR on the temperature and humidity of the air at different hours, by Dr. ?. ?. Hamberg, based on observations made by him during the summer of 1875, at heights varying from 2 inches to 22 feet above the ground, was published recently in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Sciences at ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE find in a recent number of the Bulletin of the Society of Natural Sciences at Neuchatel an interesting report Of the Neuchatel Observatory on the annual competition, of chronometers for prizes awarded yearly by the Observatory. The report gives some idea of the degree of perfection reached in ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE two soirees that were held in the Guildhall, the first on the evening of Thursday, the loth instant, and the second on Tuesday, the 2ist, were very fully attended. At the second conversazione several objects of scientific interest were exhibited. At the centre table Prof. Herbert McLeod showed ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] EIGHT years ago I was piloting a famous botanist from the east of England among the fields and lanes round Taunton, when he asked me the name of a plant which he did not at the moment recognise. I answered that it was the gipsy-wort, and received a prompt rebuke. “This is the third time,” he said, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE greatly regret to record the death of Mr. J. P. Gassiot, D.C.L., F.R.S., which took place on the I5th inst., the opening day of the Plymouth meeting of the British Association, at the age of upwards of eighty years. Sir Wm. Thomson referred to Mr. Gassiot at the concluding meeting of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Bulletin de V Academie Roy ale des Sciences de Bdgique, No. 3. On the pension-fund of widows of officers of the Belgian army, by M. Liagre.—Some curious examples of discontinuity in analysis (continued), by M. Plateau.—Reply to M. Terby's criticism on the map of Mars, published in the Terres du ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the address of Prof. Sylvester at the Johns Hopkins University, to which we have already referred, he spoke as follows on the above subject:- Let me take this opportunity of making my profession of faith on a subject much mooted at the present day, as to whether the highest grade of university ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING the past year the Danish Government de-spatched the well-known geologist, Prof. Johnstrup, to Iceland, for the purpose of making a thorough scientific investigation of the scene of the recent volcanic disturbances. A short time since he laid before the Danish Parliament a report of his ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the number for May 24 we gave abstracts of the papers read by Professors Dawkins and Hughes, and Mr. Tiddeman at the Conference on the subject of the Antiquity of Man at the Anthropological Institute, and this week we give a report of the discussion which followed the reading of these papers, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Norwegian Deep-Sea Expedition will have started from Bergen on its second summer cruise in the steamer Bceringen. It has been decided by the proper authorities that the expedition, like last year's, shall be commanded by Capt. Wille with Lieut. Petersen as first officer. The scientific staff of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE customary annual address on the occasion of the anniversary of the Linnean Society was, on Wednesday, the 24th May, delivered by the President, Prof. Allman, F.R.S. In continuation of his last year's summary of the progress in this department of biology, he dwelt upon the important additions to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AMONG those on whom honours were conferred on the occasion of Her Majesty's birthday, was Dr. J. D. Hooker, President of the Royal Society and Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew. Dr. Hooker has been made a K.C.S.L THE twenty-sixth annual meeting of the 'American Association for the Advancement of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] CAMBRIDGE, May 30.-The Sheepshanks Astronomical Exhibition has been adjudged to John Edward Aloysius Steggall, scholar of Trinity College. The twenty-second annual report of the Botanic Garden Syndicate has been issued. It is stated that during the past year much attention has been paid to the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] American Journal of Science and Arts, May.-On vortex rings in liquids, by J. Trovvbridge.-An account of the discoveries in Vermont Geology of the Rev. Augustus Wing, by J. D. Dana.-Notes on the history of Helianthus tuberosus, the so-called Jerusalem artichoke, by J. H. Trumbull and Asa Gray. -A ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Royal Society, May 31.-"On the Amplitude of Sound-Waves," by Lord Rayleigh, M.A., F.R.S. Scarcely any attempts have been made, so far as I am aware, to measure the actual amplitude of sound-bearing waves, and indeed the problem is one of considerable difficulty. Even if the measurement ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] FEW of the many subjects now pressing themselves on the attention of the public are more important than that of museums, of the work which they are doing now in general education, and what they may reasonably be expected to do in the future. It is one which has occupied my mind for many years, and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] III.-THE SENSITIVE PLANT (Mimosa pudica), IN our ordinary popular conception of the difference between the two kingdoms into which the organic world is divided, we are apt to attribute to one a power of spontaneous motion dependent on the possession of a certain internal mental faculty to which we ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE is, perhaps, no book on mechanics so well suited to the wants of civil and mechanical engineers as the late Dr. Weisbach's " Lehrbuch der Ingenieur und Maschinen-Mechanik." In his preface to the first edition of his work the author thus stated his design (we quote from the translation before ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE title of this work is somewhat' misleading. The " physical" and " historical" elements are so meagre that they are scarcely worth mentioning as features of the work. To call this a " complete gazetteer of the world " is a misuse of the term " complete;" incomplete would have been more accurate. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON Royal Society, June 21.-"The Relationships of the Nerve-cells of the Cortex to the Lymphatic System of the Brain." By Bevan Lewis, F.R.M.S., Pathologist and Assistant Medical Officer at the West Riding Asylum. (Communicated by Dr. Ferrier, F.R.S.) The anatomical relationships of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. DARWIN will receive the honorary degree of LL.D. at Cambridge on Saturday next, at 2 P.M., at a congregation specially convened for the purpose. In the evening the annual dinner of the Philosophical Society will take place in the Hall of Clare College, when a brilliant gathering is expected to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING the past week the British Medical Association ^-^ held its forty-fifth annual .meeting in Manchester. The Committee of Management for the reception of the Association ceserves hearty congratulations on the success which has followed their hospitable effort. For although they were under no ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THESE simple lessons are intended for younger children than those for whom the primers published by Messrs. Macmillan have been written, and they appear admirably adapted for the purpose they have in view. Mr. W. E. Forster, in his recent speech at Huddersfield, referred to the importance of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT has been suggested to me that I should publish a description of a simple and portable wave-motion apparatus, devised by me a year or two ago, which has given satisfactory results to others as well as to myself. I therefore send the description. In the figure A A represents an ordinary ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE reason to believe that the “grievous error” with which I charged “John O'Toole” in his reference to the clock is not meant by him to be his own view of the matter at all, but merely a legitimate deduction from the confused and inconsistent language of “the doctors”. Such an erroneous ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] In Nature, vol. xvii., p. 18, there is an account under the above heading of M. Hensen's investigations of this subject, to which I wish to add a note. He says the assertion that the earth-worms gnaw roots is not proved by any fact; roots gnawed by worms were never met with by him, and the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] As an old Alpine man, let me say that Edelweiss is not localised in any part of the Alps; I have found plenty of it at far less altitudes than the natives sometimes try and make awestricken tourists believe. Your paragraph is otherwise correct, more so than one in a contemporary which ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is a matter of general knowledge that a very thin plate of a transparent substance exhibits colours, the tints of which depend upon the angle of incidence of the light by which it is viewed, and also upon its thickness and refractive index, and that these " colours of thin plates " were ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Lavoisier medal of the French Society for the Encouragement of Industry has been awarded for the present year to Mr. Walter Weldon, for the great progress realized by his manufacture of bleaching powder. This medal is seldom awarded-among the few recipients being Henri St. Claire Devllle, Hem i ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON.-The Rev. Philip Magnus, in his address at University College School on the occasion of the distribution of prizes, spoke in high terms of the progress which that school has made since he himself was a pupil in it. He referred especially to the extension of science-teaching to the small boys ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PARIS Academy of Sciences, August 6.-M.. Peligot in the chair. Conditions for the principal normals of a curve to be principal normals of a second curve, by M. Serret.-New considerations on the localisation of cerebral centres regulating the co-ordinated movements of articulate and written ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE important role played by electricity in modern J- warfare affords an excellent example of the influence which science has of late exerted in naval and military affairs. It is no isolated example of scientific warfare that we have here to deal with, for the electric fluid has in a great measure ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE publications of the Austrian Geological Institute are deservedly noted for their number, their fulness, and the beauty of their illustrations. Especially are the large quarto memoirs published under the name of Abhandhtngen remarkable in the latter respects. Consisting usually of complete ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THESE two works practically refer to the same period, which nearly coincides with the fifteenth century, and deal mainly with the same events. Mr. Major's work centres round Prince Henry as the initiator of the remarkable series of discoveries which were made during the century referred to, while ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I TRUST your correspondent of “X” will not object to my pointing out that the “hibernation” story which he retails in NATURE (vol. xvi., p. 43) has in common with dozens, not to say scores, of others, the defect of being delivered at second-hand, without even the slightly confirmatory evidence ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON comparing the results of Mr. Barlow's determination of the modulus of elasticity of Teak timber, given in his “Strength of Materials,” p. 82, sixth edition, with the results of different Dutch investigators on Djati timber of Java, I was struck by the great difference between those results, ...
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