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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 764-764 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ONE of the first aims of the Russian Academy of Science founded by Peter I in 1724 was the geographical study of the country's natural resources and populations. Geography and geology have also been kept in the forefront of the manifold activities of the present Academy of Sciences. In 1920 a ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 769-769 
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    Notes: [Auszug] UNTIL recently one of the factors limiting large-scale application of disinfection of potato seed for the prevention of various diseases was that no suitable appliance had been evolved for handling large bulks of seed potatoes. During 1940 and 1941 considerable tonnages of early varieties were ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 769-769 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN damp weather it has been noticed that a good many varnishes produce a white precipitate when used for fixing smoked tracings after experimental physiology work. This naturally interferes with the final tracing and sometimes forms all over it, thereby obliterating the original work. We have ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 771-771 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE most recent number of the Proceedings of JL the Malacological Society of London (25, Pt. 2) is entirely occupied by an important paper by Dr. Kathleen M. White on "The Pericardial Cavity and Pericardial Gland of the Lamellibranchia". Present and future workers on the morphology of the ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 764-764 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AN account of the war-time activities of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences has recently been received from the U.S.S.R. Early in the War the Academy was transferred to the interior of the country, (vhere it resumed work. It was faced with complex problems which had to be tackled at short notice, in ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 764-765 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE scarcity of rubber is being felt more and more in Sweden. While through a rapid perfection and large-scale adoption of producer-gas the motor fuel problem has been relatively satisfactorily solved, it is now the shortage of rubber and lubricants that is the great cause for anxiety and which has ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 720-723 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHILE many materials are sensitive to light and can be used for making photographs, the present art of photography is based upon one specific process: the light-sensitive material is silver bromide in the form of extremely small crystals held in a layer of gelatin. The direction in which advances ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 727-727 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS volume is the outcome of a symposium on "Visual Mechanisms" organized in September 1941 for the celebrations of the fiftieth anniversary of the University of Chicago. It is in twelve chapters, each written by specialists engaged in research on particular aspects of vision and each dealing with ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 732-732 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE bicentenary of the birth of the Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, whose recently published manuscripts were reviewed in our columns on November 7, falls on December 19. His birthplace was Stralsund, in Pomerania, then a Swedish province, but he was trained as a pharmacist in Gothenburg. ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 732-733 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the discussions in the House of Commons on December 9 and 10 on the National Service Bill, 1942, Mr. E. Bevin, Minister of Labour, pointed out that the measure was largely an administrative one to facilitate the calling up of young men of eighteen. The position of prospective university students ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 734-734 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the recently published September issue of Folk-Lore, Mr, L. F. Newman discusses the curious but widespread and ancient custom named 'couvade', which consists in the illness of the husband during his wife's pregnancy, parturition and puerperium.He classifies the theories as to its origin in three ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 734-734 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A NOTE on some important Soviet flights in the Arctic is contained in the Polar Record of July. In March 1941 Ivan Cherevichni, and four others, flew from Moscow via Archangel, Franz Josef Land and Severnaya Zenalya to their base on Wrangel Island. Thence several flights were made to the north to ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 697-697 
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    Notes: [Auszug] CHRISTMAS DAY is the three hundredth V anniversary of the birth of Newton, an event which, were it not for the conflict and chaos of these times, would have been celebrated on a world-wide scale, and marked by an international gathering of representative men of science in London and probably also ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 706-709 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE duty has been assigned to me of telling you something about Newton as an experimentalist. As the result of a study of what is known of his history, it seems to me that among his various intellectual pursuits experiment was his first love and the love to which he was most constant. Strange ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 718-720 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ONE of the important questions raised at the Conference on Science and World Order, which was held in London during September 1941, under the auspices of the British Association Division for the Social and International Relations of Science1, was that of post-war university education and the ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 725-726 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. D. N. WADIA, author of the well-known "Geology of India for Students", retired from the Geological Survey of India in 1938, and shortly after took up the appointment of mineralogist to the Government of Ceylon. He was president of the Geological Section of the Indian Science Congress at its ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 728-729 
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    Notes: [Auszug] JUDGING by the fact that this book has been reprinted five times since its first publication in April 1937, and has now been revised, it has proved very popular in the United States. The public interest in meteorology is probably much greater there than in Great Britain; for one thing, the ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 743-743 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHAT has come to be known as stump planting' that is, the use of root and shoot cuttings, has been long known in India, some of the earliest experiments made in this direction having been successfully attempted with the sissu (Dalburgia Sissoo) in the irrigated plantations in the Punjab. In Indian ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 744-744 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Sunday, December 20 WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION (GLASGOW BRANCH), ASSOCIATION OP SCIENTIFIC WORKERS (SCOTTISH AREA), WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL TKADE UNION COMMITTEE (SCOTTISH AREA), and the EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCOTLAND (GLASGOW ASSOCIATION) (in the Glasgow and West Scotland Commercial ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 674-674 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE sixth edition of this well-known book requires no introduction, and it is a pleasure to note that Dr. Nicholls, who was responsible for so much good work in his revision of the previous edition, has now become the recognized author. This edition, which has been increased in size by about one ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 675-675 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE life of William Osier by Harvey Cushing, published in 1925, has held its place, and must continue to do so, as one of the greatest of medical biographies. The book under review consists of one volume instead of two, and contains, with unaltered text, only eleven of the forty-seven original ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 677-678 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE development of the science of mathematics in Russia is comparatively recent, beginning with the establishment of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the eighteenth century, when Bernoulli and Euler, leading mathematicians of the time, were invited to Russia. These men, however, remained ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 736-736 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I WAS interested in Dr. Manton's communication with her new and apparently incontrovertible evidence of the telophase split1. Her photograph b of somatic chromosomes in Todea shows clearly a displaced double strand which has been under a state of tension. PHOTOGRAPH FROM A ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 684-684 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MB. WILLIAM R. S. LADELL, whose sudden death in Jamaica on November 6 has just been reported, was born in 1887 and educated at the Merchant Taylors School and Finsbury Technical College. Before completing his degree, he went abroad and started work on agricultural science in the tropics, which was ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 685-685 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE regret to announce the following deaths: Dr. E. J. Allen, C.B.E., F.R.S., secretary to the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom and director of the Plymouth Laboratory from 1895 until 1936, on December 7, aged ssventy-six. Prof. R. A. Gortner, professor of biochemistry in the ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 685-685 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE widespread interest in the problems of postwar reconstruction and planning was reflected in the House of Commons debate on December 1 and 2 on an amendment to the Address. The debate was characterized by notable speeches from Mr. Greenwood, Sir William Jowitt and Mr. Anthony Eden. Sir William ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 686-687 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A FURTHER colloquium in the series arranged by the Manchester University Branch of the Association of Scientific Workers was addressed by Dr. T. G. Cowling on December 2, the title being "The Temperature of the Atmosphere". Dr. Cowling began by describing how the temperature of the lower part of ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 687-687 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Sm JOHN RUSSELL retires on September 30, 1943, under the age limit, from the directorship of the Rothamsted Experimental Station. Sir John Russell succeeded Sir Daniel Hall in 1912 and during his thirty-one years as director the Station, the oldest agricultural institute in the world, has shown a ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 689-689 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN connexion with work on the induction of flowering, an attempt was made to vernalize onion. It is known that autumn-sown onions occasionally become thick-necked in the following summer. In February of this year, onion seed of the varieties James Long Keeping and Ailsa Craig was germinated at ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 690-690 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE classification of the petrological constituents of coals developed in Great Britain by Dr. Marie C. Stopes and published in a revised version in 19351 has been widely adopted as a basis for further research in many directions. Much more attention appears, however, to have ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 693-694 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE seventeenth report of the Select Committee on National Expenditure, dealing with merchant shipbuilding and repairs, points out that the rate of output of merchant ships has been greatly increased since the beginning of the War. The programme of merchant shipbuilding which was set for 1941 was ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 695-695 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A.G.LOWNDEShas described* not only the method indicated by the title of his paper but also methods for determining the water content of living (especially aquatic) organisms and in some cases the density of their protoplasm. The accurate determination of the weight is (with marine animals) achieved ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 696-696 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Great Britain and Ireland Royal College of Surgeons of England. Scientific Report for the Year 1941-1942. Pp.24. (London: Royal College of Surgeons.) [2310 National Physical Laboratory. The Technique of Calibrating Platinum Thermocouples for use in Liquid Steels. Pp. 8. (London: H.M. Stationery ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 644-644 
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    Notes: [Auszug] BARON EHRENFELS has undertaken an ambitious scheme in his analysis of mother-right in India, and that is no less than to investigate "the entire complex of problems grouped round the questions of the matriarchal system in India". The results at which he arrives are far-reaching. He concludes that ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 646-647 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS book, which comes with a commendatory 1 foreword by Beatrice Webb, is the work of writers well versed in the comparatively new but vigorous science of demography. As its title clearly intimates, however, its aim is not academic but practical. Demography has made rapid progress since the War of ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 648-649 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Oil Drop Method THE steps in the progress towards precision in JL the measurement of the electronic charge, e, are well known. The first measurements by J. S. Townsend and J. J. Thomson of 1897 and 1898 were approximate ones. H. A. Wilson in 1903 used a method new in principle, but it was not ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 652-654 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MANY of the most important institutions in Great Britain have, like Topsy, 'just growed', and among them is the Central Council for Health Education. Set up originally in 1927 as an offshoot of the Society of Medical CKncers of Health, it has grown until it is now recognized by the Government as ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 656-656 
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    Notes: [Auszug] CAPT. GEORGE TYKRELL McCAW, who died on October 17, was the editor of the Empire Survey Review and one of the foremost and best known authorities on geodesy in the British Empire. McCaw was born in Lurgan, Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland, in 1870, and, after a distinguished career at Trinity College, ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 657-658 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the House of Commons on November 26, Sir Edward Grigg moved an amendment to the address in reply to the King's Speech, in which he welcomed the declaration that it is desired to raise the standards of life of peoples in the Colonies, but regretted the lack of mention of specific proposals, ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 658-658 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health stated in the House of Commons on November 28 that a Medical Advisory Committee has been set up to advise the Minister on the medical aspects of problems relating to the health of the people. The members of the Committee are: The presidents of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SIR GUY MARSHALL retired recently from the post of Director of the Institute and has been succeeded by Dr. S. A. Neave. The work of the Institute is well known. It publishes the Review of Applied Entomology and the Bulletin of Entomological Research, identifies insects submitted by entomologists ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 659-659 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ACCORDING to the Journal of the American Medical Association of September 26, the United States National Tuberculosis Association has reported that 44 persons per 100,000 of population died of tuberculosis in 1941, as compared with 46 in 1940. In 1941 the deaths from tuberculosis in the United ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 319-319 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the course of blowing experiments on air-dried soils, by use of an adaptation of a simple type of ‘spore-blower’ recently described1, a growth of Piptocephalis was obtained which proved to be parasitic on Penicillia. This has now been in culture for more than a year. The ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE change of sign of the thermal diffusion factor α with composition, which Prof. S. Chapman1 has pointed out is theoretically possible in certain conditions, has been found to occur in neon-ammonia mixtures recently examined. In a mixture of molecules differing slightly ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ONE point bearing on Sir Lawrence Bragg's address on “Physicists after the War” (NATURE, July 18, p. 74) which should be noted is the practice of many British firms of refusing publication of research carried out by their staffs. Each year a considerable amount of scientific investigation is ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is generally accepted that the molecule of selenanthren... is folded about the line joining the selenium atoms, but no experimental data have so far been obtained which would give the actual value of the angle of fold, although estimates have been given1. It has also been ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LORD BRABAZON'S appeal (NATURE, May 16, p. 554) for a simplified musical notation particularly interested me inasmuch as I have encountered all the difficulties he mentioned in learning to read music. Some time ago I developed what I considered to be an improved musical notation, but was ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE fifteenth annual report of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Commonwealth of Australia, covers the year ended June 30, 1941, and includes the financial statement as well as lists of publications of the Council and of the personnel of the Council and its committees and the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Saturday, November 7 BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY (in the Department of Organic Chemistry, Imperial College of Science and Technology, South Kensington, London, S.W.7), at 11 a.m.: Discussion on "The Theory and Application of Chromatographic Methods to Biological Problems". Saturday-Sunday, November 7-8 ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Catalogues A Catalogue of Books and Periodicals on Astronomy, Chemistry, Electricity, Engineering, Mathematics, Mining, Navigation, Physics, etc. (No. 603.) Pp. 32. (London: Bernard Quaritch, Ltd.) Catalogue of Lewis's Medical and Scientific Lending Library, Supplement 1938-1941. Pp. 168. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE making of dictionaries is an evolutionary process; each new dictionary has or claims to have certain advantages over its predecessors that justify its appearance in the competitive struggle for existence, while the greater part of the reading matter must necessarily remain unchanged. The most ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A CONSIDERATION of the development of endocrine histology throws considerable light both upon the problems which have confronted the investigator and the way in which attempts have been made to solve them. When the physiological significance of the endocrines was less understood than it is now, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is an instance of a magic carpet, though we JL suspect it was really a steamer, which has transplanted a professor and his book from Europe to the Americas, the language changing during the process from German to Anglo-Saxon. The original German work was published in 1927 and translated for ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. SRINIVAS, writing with the valuable equip-ment of a sympathetic understanding of Hinduism and of the traditional values expressed in the customs of Mysore related to the family, and appreciating, with the objective view of the anthropologist, its social structure, has presented readers with a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] UNDER the title of "A Great Country Doctor", the June issue of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine contains a lively article by Prof. Charles Singer on Francis Adams of Banchory, the son of a village labourer who rose to be one of the greatest medical scholars of his age. His principal ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] RICHARD MORSE in this attractive book takes us with him through each month of the year. The author in his preface hopes that readers of this book may be induced to keep Nature diaries of their own-an admirable suggestion and one which gains rather than loses its force in these grim days. Mr. Morse ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE utilitarian aspect of mathematics has been well emphasized in thedeclaration that "Mathematics is ever ready to serve, and it rules because it serves". The present conflict has undoubtedly called forth no inconsiderable development of the practical nature of the subject. As a consequence, quite ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PRESSOR amines comprise a great variety of β-substituted primary and secondary alkylamines the cyclic portion of which may contain one or two phenol groups. The various functional groups determine the catabolic fate of these amines which, in turn, contribute to the nature, intensity and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LAST year I presented some results of experiments on the antagonism between p-aminobenzoic acid and sulphanilamides (sulphanilamide, sulphapyridine and sulphathiazole) in autotrophic organisms1. These experiments were carried out with two strains of the freshwater diatom ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE have pointed out1 that ultra-short radio waves polarized with the electric vector vertical are propagated into the shadow of hills more readily than horizontally polarized waves. We have since observed the opposite effect for receiver positions beyond hills but just outside ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the review of Mass-Observation's recent report “People in Production”1, the main theme of this report seems to have escaped the reviewer's attention. What "People in Production", a report on six months study in war factories, analyses out is a fundamental psychological ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE fact that an animal is able to discriminate between two stimuli is the foundation of a method used extensively in animal psychology. It is, however, open to various sources of error. While looking through a number of papers dealing with this method I found that some of these possible pitfalls ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Chairman: F. W. Aston. Members: N. Bohr, O. Hahn, W. D. Harkins, F.Joliot, R. S. Mulliken, M. L. Oliphant. Owing to the impossibility of publication during 1941, this report covers double the normal period. The following changes in the Table of Isotopes are recommended: Helium. Evidence has been ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE death of Prof. David Waterston on September 4 at the age of seventy-one removed one of the distinguished anatomists of the Edinburgh School and a familiar figure for the past twenty-eight years in the life of the University of St. Andrews. After graduating in arts in the University of Edinburgh ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHEN one looks back on the career and life of Prof. Hillhouse, formerly professor of naval architecture in the University of Glasgow, who died on September 28, at the age of seventy-three, one cannot but realize that his success was due to the combination of great ability in his chosen profession ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is with deep regret that we record the death of H.R.H. The Duke of Kent on active service in a flying-boat crash in Scotland on August 25. The Duke was thirty-nine years of age. For ten years, as Prince George, he served in the Royal Navy, and it was not until he was withdrawn from active ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE most interesting effect of the War upon nesting birds in Great Britain has been the attraction of the black redstart (Phcenicurus ochrurus gibral-tariensis) to nest in the air-raid ruins of some English towns. Until the War, this was one of the rarest British nesters, although a regular winter ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE March issue of the Boletin de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana contains an interesting paper by Dr. Rafael Vega Gomez, head of the Tuberculosis Department and ex-director of health, El Salvador, on the control of tuberculosis in his country. The campaign against the disease began in 1928 with ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AN article by R. A. Shetzline (Bell Lab. Rec, 20, No. 10, June 1942) reviews the factors involved in this increasingly important subject. Opening with a brief reference to the multi-frequency disturbances caused by the operation of a relay or switch, the author cites an example of a telephone line ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] APPLICATIONS are invited for the following appointments on oi before the dates mentioned: UNIVERSITY CHAIR OF CHEMISTRY, tenable at the Royal Cancer Hospital-The Academic Registrar, University of London, Richmond College, Richmond, Surrey (September 1). JUNIOR EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST at the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] "WAR Farming and After" was the title chosen by Lord Cornwallis for apaper to the Farmers' Club at the centenary meeting held in London on October 6. Using the first-hand knowledge gained as chairman of the Kent Agricultural Executive Committee, Lord Cornwallis outlined the problem facing British ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in co-operation with Science Service and the Jesuit Seismologieal Association, on a basis of instrumental reports from 23 seismographic observatories, has determined theepicentres of recent earthquakes in Central America. The first was on August 6, 1942, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Association of Scientific Workers is arranging an exhibition, "Photography in Science and Industry", to be held during November in the rooms of the Royal Photographic Society at 16 Princes Gate, London, S.W.7.The exhibition will be opened by Sir Robert Watson Watt, president of the Association, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SOVIET medicine and health services will be strongly featured in the National Exhibition of Soviet Life in War and Peace which will be held at the Wallace Collection, Hertford House, London, W.I, during November 8-22. Ten national organizations, in addition to the Ministry of Information, have ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] HITHERTO, the Research Fund Committee of the Chemical Society has metin December of each year to consider applications for grants from the Research Fund. In view of present conditions, however, the Council has decided that for the present, applications for grants shall be considered as and when ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is the most exhaustive work on the biology of the cuckoo that has yet appeared. The author's qualifications for writing it are unique, for not only has he studied the habits and economy of birds of this family for nearly seventy years, but also he has obtained far and away the most complete ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] HARVARD College Observatory Card 626 announces that van Biesbroeck found this comet as a fifteenth magnitude object on a pair of plates exposed at the 24-in. reflector, Yerkes. Its position on 15 June o34763d. was, R.A., Oh. 04m. 25-lls., Dec. - 4° 50' 18 -7". The comet showed a short tail 1' in ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AN attempt to isolate the goitrogenic substance present in rape seed1,2 suggested the possibility of its being a derivative of this urea. Allyl thio-urea was therefore tested. Doses of 20 mgm. were given to rats daily by stomach tube for a period of eight weeks, after which the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] COLONEL C. P. ROMULO, formerly a publisher in Manila, now aide-de-camp to General MacArthur, has reported in the New York Herald-Tribune of July 17 that the Japanese have destroyed by fire the Library of the Philippines at Manila. According to Colonel Romulo, the aim of this vandalism is to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE journal Indian Farming, now in its third year of publication, is issued by the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research of India and is a praiseworthy attempt to bridge the gap between cultivator and scientific worker. It is a monthly with a pleasant appearance of format and is copiously ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] H. D. HARRADON, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, has given a short account of this subject (Sky and Telescope, 1, 8; June, 1942), commencing with the discovery of the secular variation by Henry Gellibrand in 1634-a discovery of considerable importance, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SIR HAROLD SCOTT, director of the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is retiring on August 31. The Secretary of State for the Colonies has appointed Dr. C. Wilcocks, assistant director of the Bureau, to be acting director. THE medical faculty of the University of Basle has conferred an ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A LIVING specimen of Aurelia aurita about 4 in. in diameter was weighed by the displacement method1 and the percentage of water found by distilling it under xylol2. The result was: water, 95.56 per cent; residue, 3.87 per cent; giving a difference of 0.57 per ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN view of the statements made in recent letters1 in NATURE regarding the estimation of moisture by distillation with an immiscible liquid, and the relationship of such figures to those obtained by oven drying, the results we have obtained recently may be of interest. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE report of the Ontario Research Foundation for the year 1941 includes the report of the Director, the audited financial statement and a list of publications issued to December 31, 1941. During the year the work of the Foundation has been increasingly concerned with problems associated directly ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Tuesday, August 25 INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS (at Great George Street, Westminster, London, S.W.I), at 2.30 p.m.-Conference on "Civil Engineers and the Building Industry" (to be opened by Prof. C. E. Inglis, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the past few weeks, the movement for making fuller use of the scientific and technical man-power of Great Britain in the war effort has been increasingly to the fore. The question was raised in the House of Lords on July 29 by Lord Strabolgi, who expressed the belief that the work- of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Verzar and Pulver1 discovered that alcoholic fermentation by living yeast cells is accompanied by a striking shift of equilibrium between extracellular and intracellular potassium. The beginning of fermentation is marked by a vigorous intake of potassium from the surrounding ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AN experimental investigation of the kinetic friction of non-lubricated metals has shown that, in general, friction cannot be regarded as a surface effect. Penetration and distortion occur to some depth beneath the surface, and the frictional force and the nature of sliding are both influenced by ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the early part of the century the importance of entomology to the health services and to agriculture in the Overseas Empire was at last beginning to be realized. In 1909 the Entomological Research Committee of the Colonial Office was formed, with Sir Guy Marshall as scientific secretary. In ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE selection of speeches by General Smuts which A has recently appeared under the title "Plans for a Better World"* makes its appearance at an opportune moment when, as recent debates in the House of Lords and House of Commons on Colonial policy demonstrate, many of the problems which General ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies held its forty-seventh annual congress at Guildford on July 25, a single day of sessions and excursions attended by seventy representatives and members. A representative assembly to transact the business of the seventy constituent societies was held ...
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 528-528 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Great Britain and Ireland The Scientific Journal of the Royal College of Science. Vol. 12: containing Papers read during the Session 1941-1942 before the Imperial College Chemical Society, the Royal College of Science Mathematical and Physical Society, and contributions from the Royal College of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE is now widespread recognition that our JL enemies in this War derived no small share of their strength from their enthusiastic belief in the Nazi and Fascist doctrines which their leaders have inspired. Perverted though these beliefs may be, dangerous and destructive to the finest elements in ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN buildings of almost every type acoustical problems may arise in one form or another, ranging from the avoidance of noise from neighbours in small houses and flats to the provision of good hearing conditions in concert halls and cathedrals. It cannot be repeated too often that acoustical ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE sub title of this handbook gives the clue to the mode of treatment of the subject matter, and so inactivates the critical faculty of anyone who would judge it as a strictly scientific work; but it may at once be said that the information provided, being accurate and clearly presented, will be ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a rapidly changing world theWwhole system of education must come under review and the teaching of science cannot escape. The ideal surely is a cultural background as full as possible and a training which produces a graduate able to think both critically and constructively, with a wide knowledge ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE social, economic and environmental changes JL produced by the War have not so far invalidated the major findings of pre-war social surveys. The social statistics made available by the investigations at York, Bristol, Merseyside, Tyneside and other inquiries will be of value to those concerned ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE degeneration of the potato seems to have been unknown in Europe before about 1770, but after that it rapidly assumed such proportions that by 1780 farmers in some districts had to abandon potato growing, and prizes were offered to those who could find the cause and devise a cure for this ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE wireless engineer and radio physicist require to know the speed or velocity of electric waves in order, for example, to convert their measurements of frequency into the corresponding wave-lengths, while various methods of studying the propagation and direction of arrival of waves involve a ...
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