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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 683-684 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE high position of the annual reports of the Director of the International Labour Office among current reviews of the industrial and economic condition of the world has been earned only in part by the large resources of knowledge upon which they can draw. It is equally due to their wide outlook, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] (1) THE first of these books represents one of the most pleasing accounts of the present position of nuclear physics that the reviewer has read. It gives a most up-to-date description of the neutron and its properties, of ^??^? and artificial radioactivity and of the new chemistry of the nucleus, ...
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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 691-692 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE third volume of this exhaustive work has just'made its appearance, and is not inferior to its two successors in its high standard. The value of this volume is heightened by a number of admirable coloured sketches of geese by Peter Scott, his pictures of grey lags and of barnacle geese being ...
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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 700-701 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE debate in the House of Commons last week on the Ministry of Information was announced too late for account to bo taken of it in the leading article on the suggested Directorate of Scientific Information in NATUBE of October 14, but there appears to have been nothing said which invalidates the ...
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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 702-702 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE report of the committee appointed by tho British Association in 1938 to prepare a scheme for a projected National Atlas of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was presented to the Association at the Dundee mooting and contains provisional details of tho format and contents of such an atlas. "The ...
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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 702-702 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN an article contributed to "Russia To-day Bross Service" (Sept. 12, 1939) Prof. P. Kapterov gives an account of his oxporimonts with organisms contained in frozen soil from Siberia. A paper by Prof. Kapterev on his discoveries was read beforo tho Academy of Sciences of tho U.S.S.R. during 1936 ...
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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 704-704 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE all-welded structure of the new municipal bus and tram sheds at Johannesburg is claimed to cover an area greater than that of any other welded structure in South Africa. In Electric Welding of August, it is stated that, excluding an office block of reinforced concrete, the building has a ...
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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 705-705 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE annual general meeting of the British Astronomical Association will bo held as usual on October 25, in accordance with the articles of tho Association, and no arrangement has been made at present to alter procedure in the matter of ordinary meetings. The president, two secretaries and treasurer ...
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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 1059-1061 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT has long been an argument against the admission of the scientific worker to administrative responsibility that the specialist is too immersed in his own particular subject to be capable of taking the wide and detached views involved in administrative decisions, and that he does not possess ...
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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 1062-1063 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THAT James Gregory was an outstanding figure in the scientific world of the seventeenth century must be generally known. The Gregorian telescope and Gregory's series are familiar evidence that he was an exceptionally gifted man. It is also known that his name, the Anglicized form of Macgregor, is ...
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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 1064-1066 
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    Notes: [Auszug] (1,2) SECTIONS 4 and 5 of the volume on ^ potassium of this great work deal with its compounds with boron, silicon, phosphorus, arsenic, antimony and bismuth. Three derivatives of the boranes have been identified, namely, K2B2H6, KsB4H10 and K2BSH9, of which the first is the most stable. Stock and ...
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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 1066-1066 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE subject of this book is climate and weather as part of man's environment-Lebensraum in the literal sense-including not only the natural air of the free countryside, but also the modified air of great cities, houses, air-conditioned buildings and, on a still smaller scale, within clothing. These ...
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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 1067-1068 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE increasing number of publications of recent years which deal with the subject of inheritance is testimony to the keen interest in the laws and principles of this science. Our knowledge of it increases daily through the research activities of universities, experiment stations and other ...
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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 1068-1069 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE science and practice of radio-communication have, during recent years, advanced at such a rate that it is desirable that the books dealing with fundamental principles should be revised to keep abreast of the progress, and also that new books or monographs should deal in an up-to-date manner ...
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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 1070-1073 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A DISCUSSION on tissue respiration was organized for August 31 jointly between Sections ? and I (Chemistry and Physiology) of the British Association at Dundee. Owing to the imminence of war several of the proposed speakers were unable to attend, namely, the organizer and opener Prof. R. A. Peters, ...
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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 1069-1069 
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    Notes: [Auszug] (1) IN association with the 1939 Callendar Steam Tables [Fahrenheit Units] there have also been published, in convenient octavo pamphlet form, two sets of Abridged Callendar Steam Tables. These, which are now in their fourth editions, are available both in centigrade units and in Fahrenheit units, ...
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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 1073-1083 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE motive directly responsible for the organization of two British expeditions, the -Cambridge West Greenland Expedition, 1938, and the St. Andrews University West Greenland Expedition, 1939, to West Greenland, was the inviting geological problems of Ubekendt Island (see Fig. 1) first encountered ...
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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 1075-1075 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE problem of devising a universally applicable system of soil classification calls for a wide knowledge of the soils found in different parts of the world as well as an intimato acquaintance with soils in the field. An attempt at devising such a system is made, by a pedologist with both these ...
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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 1075-1075 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS authoritative account of soil conditions in Palestine, the outcome of thirteen years uninterrupted work at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, is opportune. Part of the book is devoted to a description of soil formation within the framework of the Mediterranean type of weathering. The intense ...
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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 1075-1076 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE need for this book was great. Advisory mycologists, teachers of horticulture, and gardeners had to search for any knowledge about the diseases of bulbs among scattered journals in several languages. The almost dramatic expansion of the bulb industry in Great Britain, moreover, brought new ...
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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 1076-1076 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. GRIGSON'S anthropological investigations were undertaken largely owing to tho suggestion of the lato Sir Montague Butler; but his immediate objective in his contact with them was the remedy of certain grievances, moro especially those caused by tho application in a primitive State, of criminal, ...
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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 1076-1076 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE expedition to south-eastern Tibet which Mr. Ronald Kaulback describes in this volume started from Upper Burma in April 1935, and returned by way of Assam at the beginning of 1937. Of its twenty-two months duration, eighteen were spent within tho borders of Tibet. Tho objectivo of tho expedition ...
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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 1077-1077 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE three Ifugao autobiographies comprised in this volume were collected in the'course of an ethnographical investigation, which lasted for the greater part of 1937, in the island of Luzon. They attain a new standard in the attempt to eliminate the point of view of the white observer in cultural ...
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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 1077-1077 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ARCHÆOLOGY, no less than "other branches of research, has profited from the increased popular interest in the results of scientific inquiry and their application to social ends which followed on tho close of the War of 1914-18. If the practical bearing of archaeological aims was less immediately ...
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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 1077-1078 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Charophyta have usually been regarded as A a somewhat isolated group of Thallophyta, but the author of this monograph probably rightly regards them as a family of tho Chlorophycese. Like some members of the Rhodophycese and Siphonales, they have left as records of their existence in past ages ...
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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 1078-1078 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS delightful book, which was written chiefly A for the layman interested in the seashore, deals with the littoral fauna from the ecological point of view. No scientific account of the animals is given, but most have been illustrated and their habits described. There are many beautiful ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS attractively produced book is composed of a series of twenty-four plates (9 in. X 12 in.), each containing coloured sketches of animals grouped under such headings as 'egg-laying and pouched mammals', 'gnawing mammals', 'primates: New -World monkeys', etc. Altogether 320 animals are featured, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN view of the tremendous advances in our knowledge of the anatomy of fossil fishes during the past twenty years, the appearance of this little book should prove most opportune. A good deal of recent work, such as the classical researches of Stensio on the Cephalaspids and Placoderms, has been ...
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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 1078-1079 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE late Prof. W. H. Wheeler began his career as a naturalist and later subjected his interests in living organisms to the disciplinary influence of scientific training. His philosophical outlook was conditioned not only by the naturalist's disciplined imagination arising out of a vast, first-hand ...
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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 1079-1079 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is an interesting account, told in the form of fiction, of the life of tho great skua, a bird which is found only on the northern islands of Britain. The author has evidently studied his subject with care, and he gives a convincing picture of the skuas at their island home. He describes them ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE object of this book is to provide a revision course in inorganic chemistry up to higher certificate standard. The opening chapter deals with the classification of the elements, and subsequent chapters aro devoted to the chemistry of the elements, arranged in tho groups and sub-groups of ...
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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 1080-1080 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS book provides a suitable course in volumetric analysis for the higher school certificate examinations. Thus an account is given of the preparation and use of standard solutions of acids, alkalis, potassium permanganate and dichromate, iodine, thiosulphate, and silver nitrate in neutral and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] HISTOLOGICAL technique was onco a mere rule-of-thumb affair, and there aro some to whom it is so still! One stain gave red, another blue; one stained the nucleus, another cellulose; but how or why was no concern of the histologist so long as the result seemed good. But following Sir William Hardy's ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS survey of current knowledge in selected fields of hormone and vitamin research, of which tho first volume was reviewed in NATURE, 143, 659 (1939), maintains the cosmopolitan aspect to which we then directed attention. Four articles are in English, all from England: four are in German, one from ...
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    Nature 144 (1939), S. 1081-1081 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE same principles are- followed in this third, Year-Book as in No. 1 (1936) and No. 2 (1937), the ultimate aim being to give comparable statistics of world power resources. Two noteworthy advances have, however, been incorporated in tliis volume, quite apart from progress made towards publication ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE fact that Prof. Uren has had to expand the first edition of this work, which he wrote fifteen years ago, into two volumes and approximately twice as many pages is yet another indication of the steadily accumulating mass of technical knowledge now available to the petroleum industry. The work is ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MGEORGES MACOVEI. is well qualified to write a text-book on petroleum since he brings to the task twenty years of experience ag a lecturer at the Polytechnic School in Bucharest and thirty years of practical experience of the Carpathian deposits. He has not hesitated to consult the works of already ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. J. C. P. MILLER has compiled these tables to facilitate the conversion of rectangular to polar co-ordinates, and after several years of experiment ho is convinced that thoy afford tho maximum efficiency. Acknowledgment is made of tho advice and assistance of Dr. L. J. Comrio both in the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] TEACHERS of elementary trigonometry may A discuss tho order in which to introduce the tangent, the cosine, and the sine, and there are substantial and interesting arguments in favour of each as the first to bo studied, but there has been general agreement for many years that in a first course the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] NEITHER the psychology nor the physics of this book is of the conventional type. In a previous book, "The Identity Theory" (1936), Mr. Blarney Stevens put forward views which are now presented in a simpler form. To begin with, he suggests that space and time have no objective reality, and are ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A. MAURICE LECAT, the relentless and indefatigablo critic of tho "Belgian Shakespeare", has issued separately tho bibliography which forms part of his work entitled "Maeterlinckisme", of which tho first volume was published in 1937 and the third is to appear shortly. The bibliography consists of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS lecture must have been a stimulating and A provocative discourse, for surely many hearers must have itched to refute and debate its many inconsistencies. For example, while apparently condemning 'escape' stories, Miss Bowen praises the effect of music and poetry in taking us away from our ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS book describes the results of some research work carried out in a pioneer factory, which has attempted to put into practice a system of democratic government. The object was to discover those factors involved in the production of good work allied with contentment. An analysis was made of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF.WALDEMAR LBSTDGREN,deeply respected by all raining geologists, died at Brookline, Massachusetts, on November 3 at tho ago of seventy-nino. He was born at Kalmar in Sweden, and, after a general education in his own country, qualified for the diploma of mining engineer at tho well-known ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ALTHOUGH this work purports to be a critical survey of the work undertaken by psychical research workers during the last fifty years, and even to be a continuation, of the late Mr. Frank Podmore's history of modern spiritualism, it is, if the truth be told, nothing of tho kind. It consists of a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE death of Warren Plimpton Lombard at the ago of eighty-four years removes one of the last direct links between the laboratory of Carl Ludwig and experimental physiology in tho United States-a link with which American physiologists, like those of Britain, have always been proud. Born on May 29, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE regret to announce the following deaths: Mr. George Eumorfopoulos, the well-known collector of Chinese porcelain and other examples of Oriental art, on December 19, aged seventy-six years. Prof. Eduard Fischer, professor of botany in the University of Bern from 1897 until 1933. Senatore ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the two years 1937-39 a series of researches carried out by P. Teilhard do Chardin, Prof. Franz Weidenreich and their fellow-workers of tho Conozoie Research Laboratory of the Geological Survey of China, papers on which havo only just reached Great Britain (see NATURE, December 23, p. 1054 and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AN Advisory Council on Scientific Research and Technical Development has been set up by the Minister of Supply to advise him on scientific and technical problems. The main functions of the Council will be to ensure that the work of the Directorate of Scientific Research is carried out with due ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is generally known the Government grants to tho universities of Great Britain have been stabilized for a limited period from the beginning of the War. As that time approaches its end, tho Government and the University Grants Committee will bo faced with a difficult task. The incessant call for ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT has been found impossible to continue meetings of the full Educational Advisory Board of the British Social Hygiene Council during the War. A representative Emergency Committee has been formed, however, and held its first meeting on December 19 at Tavistock House, London, W.C.I. It was decided ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE dream of tho archaeologist, for whom from tho nature of his material an absolute chronology is rarely available, has been the attainment of a system of dating which should be universally valid; but diversity of conditions, as a rule, precludes anything approaching certainty when attempts are ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AN interesting historical review of progress in the production of early vegetables by methods of intensive cultivation has recently been issued by R. J. G. Hopp (J. Hoy. Hort. Soc, 64, Pt. 2; Nov. 1939). Tho first record of forcing plants appears to bo in the time of the emperor Tiberius, when ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE annual report of tho National Institute for Research in Dairying, Reading, covering the year ending September 30, 1938, has just been published; tliis seems an unnecessarily long delay. Developments, administrative matters and changes in tho staff aro outlined, and a summary is given of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE cyclotron constructed in the workshop of the Physics Department of Purduo University, Indiana, is described in the November issue of the Journal of the Franklin Institute by tho five members of the staff who designed it. So far as possible standard materials available in industry have been used ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A MEETING of the general purposes committee of the International Society of Medical Hydrology was held in London on November 17 last to deal with emergency measures made necessary by the War, and also by tho death of the Society's chairman of council, Dr. E. P. Poulton. Dr. J. Barnes Burt was ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE medical organizations of all-India aro reviewed by Major-General Bradfield, director-general of tho Indian Medical Service, in a volume of C58 pages entitled "An Indian Medical Review" (Government of India Press, New Delhi, 1938). Administrative organization and the medical profession and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING tliis month, the night shortens in tho latitude of London by 1 hour 10 minutes, reckoning from sunset to sunrise. Tho moon is new on January 9, and full on January 24. Occultations of stars by the moon include tliree stars of magnitude 3-4 of the Hyades cluster wliich precedes Aldebaran. Tho ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Royal Meteorological Society's Symons Gold Medal for 1940 has been awarded to Prof. Dr. J. Bjerknes of the Geofysiske Institutt, Bergen. THE Secretary for Mines has appointed Lord Cadman to bo honorary adviser on oil, and Sir Harold Hartley to be honorary advisor on the development of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE read with interest the editorial in NATURE of November 25, 1939, concerning the need for a centre of documentation with the purpose of supplying original papers to scientific institutions and to libraries. Further aims of such a centre might be to prepare abstracts and translations, to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PREVIOUS investigations have shown that the hydrogen lines are usually absent from spectrograms of the auroral luminescence. Even when the stronger lines and bands are much over-exposed and also very faint lines appear, there may still be no trace of the H-lines visible on the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MESSRS. J. DUFAY AND M. BLOCH1 have recently discussed the presence of a faint emission band at about 4932 A. in the spectra of Nova Herculis (1934) and of Nova Aquilse (1918), and have suggested that the radiation is to be identified with the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHILE iron rusts quite easily in air, such baser metals as aluminium, magnesium, zinc, etc., do not manifest this tendency and retain their metallic lustre for a considerable length of time. This commonplace fact is interesting but requires experimental study for a full understanding. For a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THAT the catalytic decomposition of hydrogen peroxide by catalase requires the presence of molecular oxygen was demonstrated by a number of manometric experiments previously described1. Being, however, well aware of certain difficulties in this kind of work, we have given a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WORK on the evocation of neural tissue in vertebrate embryos by chemically prepared substances has hitherto been confined to the Amphibia1. But since in the induction of neural tissue in general the chick has shown considerable similarities to the newt, especially in the inducing ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN investigations on the physiology of neoplastic growth, the conceptions are often encountered that the malignant cell has an unusually high growth capacity as compared with the normal cell, and that neoplastic tissue is especially rich in growth-promoting factors. Recent work has shown ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AMONG some maize plants (Sutton's White Horse Tooth) originally planted in connexion with other work, there appeared one which bore anomalous male flowers the morphology of which may be worth recording. In the tassel of this plant, in a consider-able number of cases, the lower flowers in each ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] EXPERIMENTS carried out in this Department have shown that the addition of wetting agents to an arsenic dip results in a decreased retention of arsenic in the fleece; the wetting agent causes the dip to penetrate the fleece more readily, but it also facilitates drainage from the fleece after ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] India and Crete A SIMILAKITY between pottery found at Maniyar Math in Rajgir, southern India, and finds in Crete is suggested by J. G. Aravamuthan in Man of December 1939. The Indian pottery vessels aro attributable to an age roughly anterior to the Christian era, and are said to bear spouts ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN spectrophotograms of the auroral spectrum taken on October 18, L. Vegard has observed great enhancement of two lines coinciding with tho two well-known lines of tho hydrogen spectrum. Tliis indicates the occasional presence of considerable quantities of hydrogen in the auroral region, which aro ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] 'MODERN MAN' IN EASTERN ASIA1 "? ? ?? Upper Cave" of Choukoutien, discovered 1 in 1930, and excavated in' 1933 by Mr. W. C. Pei, is situated at the top of tho hill about 175 m. abovo sea-level, opening to the north and north-east side of the hill. It represents a dissolution cavity in the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A PAPER on electrically manufactured steels by ?. B. Sioveking, of tho Central Electricity Board, original^' allocated for reading before the Institution of Electrical Engineers on November 23, has been circulated owing to the decision not to hold meetings for the time being. Ho first gives a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Victoria Falls and Transvaal Power Company has recently completed a very successful hydroelectric scheme at tho Victoria Falls on tho Zambezi River. About thirty years ago a proposal for supplying the Rand with power from tho Victoria Falls was projected. Tho overhead transmission lino was to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] APPLICATIONS are invited for the following appointments on or before the dates mentioned: TEACHERS OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING-The Principal, County Mining and Technical School, Nuneaton, Warwickshire (January 3). EXPERIMENTAL OFFICERS (male or female) in the Chemical Inspection Department, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] (not included in the monthly Books Supplement) Great Britain and Ireland Proceedings of the Royal Irieh Academy. Vol. 45, Section A, No. 5: On Matrices of Quaternions and the Representation of Eddington's ?-Numbers. By W. H. McCrea. Pp. 65-72. Vol. 45, Section B, No. 13: Larval Stages of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AN admirable review of the problems arising out of the sudden redistribution of population involved in the evacuation of the priority classes at the outbreak of war is given in a broadsheet on the "Home Front" recently issued by Political and Economic Planning (? ? ?). So far, however, there has ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] FREDERIC W. H. MYERS died in Rome in A 1901, just as this century opened; but he left behind him a mass of writing which was afterwards edited and published as two volumes on "Human Personality", reviewed by me in NATURE of June 18, 1903 (68, 145). These books represent for all time his real ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MANY books have been published on descrip-iVJ. tive astronomy for general readers, ranging from simple stories intended to interest children in the starry heavens to surveys of celestial fact and theory requiring the intelligent attention of mature "minds to comprehend them. All such works tend to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE geological pioneer in any newly explored area distinguishes certain broad stratigraphical units, based primarily on lithic characters, and secondarily on the contained fossils. He correlates these units roughly with those on the familiar time-scale. As subsequent research, in the course of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE are two ways of compiling a glossary: - the critical and exclusivo, and the complete and impartial. Dr. Carpenter adopts the second method. Its advantage is that it brings all the varying terms and expressions together and reveals in a striking way the inconsistencies and unresolved conflicts ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE admirable series of Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs, of which the first thirteen titles given above were published before the outbreak of war, have lost nothing of their value on that score. The brief accounts they give of current international topics will serve to assist in the clear ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT has been remarked by more than one observer of the population of Mexico that whether account be taken only of the indigenous inhabitants of purely Indian descent, who subscribe to the observances of the Catholic Church, or those of mixed blood be brought into the picture, it includes a large ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is proposed here to outline some recent biological and cytological studies in experimental parthenogenesis. The rearing of reproductive parthenogones and parthenogenetic strains after experimental treatment has been achieved only once. The Russian worker, Astaurov1, after subjecting unfertilized ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] BY the death of Mr. C. J. Bond, Leicester has lost one of her most distinguished and also most beloved citizens. Few lives can have been more completely devoted to the servico of mankind. He was a 'philanthropist' in tho literal sense of tho word. Bond's skill as an operating surgeon, combined ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. CARL GUSTAF SANTESSON, the eminent Swedish pharmacologist who died on July 26, was born in Stockholm on July 5, 1862, the son of tho professor of surgery at the Karolinska Institutet. -Ho received his medical education at Uppsala, Stockholm, and Lund, and qualified at Stockholm in 1890. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON p. 1033 of tliis issuo extracts are given from an account of some remarkable magico-religious observances . recorded by. Dr. Robert Gessain in the district surrounding Huehuetla, a village in the State of Hidalgo, Mexico, in which in certain respects the use of paper figurines, or munecos, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Petroleum Films Bureau (15, Hay Hill, Berkeley Street, London, W.I) now has a library of fifteen films about oil which may bo borrowed free of chargo by schools, technical colleges, scientific societies and other educational organizations. Both 35 mm. and 1G mm. sound and silent films are ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the December issue of Antiquity, the editor discusses in the frankest terms the future and the policy of that publication in relation to present conditions in international relations and world affairs. After the most careful survey of all possibilities and probabilities, it has been decided "to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ATTENTION is directed in tho Journal of the Royal Society of Arts (Nov. 3, p. 1239) to a description of a mask which appeared in vol. 43 of the Society's Transactio)is (1825). It was designed by Jolin Roberts, of St. Helens, Lancashire, "to enable porsons to breathe in thick smoke or in air loaded ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. MERRILL MOORE (New England J. Med., 221, 691; 1939) discusses the relation between alcohol and suicide in a paper based on the study of 143 alcoholic patients, admitted to tho Boston City Hospital during tho period 1915-38, who had attempted suicide, out of a total of 1,195 admitted during, the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE methods employed in Belgium, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland, France, tho Netherlands, Norway and Sweden for improving urban and rural housing conditions, and in tho United States of America and Canada for urban housing, are reviewed in a study entitled "Urban and Rural Housing" conducted ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] According to Science Abstracts of November 4, E. S. Draper, director of the regional planning studies, reported at a meeting of tho Committee on tho Hygiene of Housing of the American Public Health Association, that by using adequate insulation against heat loss when building a small house, the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] "The Accessibility of British University Thesis Literature", a pamphlet prepared for tho Nottingham meeting of librarians last September by Colonel Lux-moore Newcombe, principal executive officer of tho National Central Library, is a full and careful survey. A thesis usually contains original ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE traditional view that tho knowledge of astronomy of tho Greece of classical times had been derived from Egypt, a view to which the writings of tho Greeks themselves lent support, has lost favour with increased acquaintance with the achievement of the peoples of Mesopotamia in this branch of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING tho last nino years, tho United States Coast and Geodetic Survoy has made an intensive acoustic survoy of tho Atlantic continental shelf and slope of tho United States. Tho survoys aro now so far advanced that tho surface topography can be studied in detail. Charts of most of the slope have ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE twenty-fifth annual report of the Lancashiro and Cheshire Fauna Committee adds a large number of insects to tho dual county lists and also to tho British area and some species new to science. Among Coleoptera, Philanthus jurgans Tott. was discovered new to science from a specimen obtained at ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE annual meeting of the Merseysido Naturalists' Association (the Merseyside Branch of the British Empire Naturalists' Association), held at Liverpool Museum on December 3, elected Mr.. R. K. Perry, keeper of vertebrates at the Museum, president for 1940, Dr. J. C. P. Miller, lecturer in applied ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE eighth number of the Royal Horticultural Society's Lily Year-book (from tho Society's Office, Vincent Square, Westminster, S.W.I, 5s. paper, 6s. cloth), makes a very effective attempt to keep pace with tho multitudinous variations of these plants. Mr. A. Simmonds lists tho names and origins of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A RECENT report in the Kew Bulletin describes experiments conducted in co-operation with the garden staff but designed by Dr. C. B. Metcalfe and Dr. W. G. Templeman to test the influence of synthetic growth-substances upon the rooting of cuttings of many plants ("Experiments with Plant ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE "List, of Common Xumes of British Plant Diseases" compiled by a sub-committee of the British Mycological Society's plant pathology committee has been accepted by the principal societies and institutes in Great Britain which need to use such names. A certain number of emendations to the second ...
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