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    Letters and Recollections of Alexander Agassiz (1924)
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    Nature 92 (1924), S. 601-604 
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is an unusually interesting and well-conceived biography, for it gives us a vivid and often a pathetic picture of a truly remarkable man, and a thoroughly readable account of his great scientific enterprises as they followed,. one growing from another, during his marvellously active and ...
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    Continuity (1924)
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    Nature 92 (1924), S. 606-606 
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT will be remembered that Sir Oliver Lodge's presidential address to the British Association was printed in full in the issue of NATURE for September 11 last (vol. xcii., p. 33). Its republica-tion with twenty-four pages of explanatory notes should ensure renewed attention to the important ...
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    Notes (1924)
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    Nature 92 (1924), S. 612-616 
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE announce with profound regret the death on Saturday, January 24, in his seventy-first year, of Sir David Gill, K.C.B., F.R.S., formerly H.M. Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope. BEFORE Lord Strathcona was carried to his grave in Highgate Cemetery on Monday, there was an impressive memorial ...
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    International Conference on the Safety of Life at Sea (1924)
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    Nature 92 (1924), S. 616-617 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE International Conference on the Safety of Life at Sea, first suggested by the German Emperor and convened by the British Government, has now held its final meeting. As a result of its labours, a very important convention has been signed by plenipotentiaries of the following States:-The " ...
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    Geology in North America (1924)
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    Nature 92 (1924), S. 618-621 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Geological Survey Branch of the Department of Mines of Canada continues to cover a wide field of research. Even its " Summary Report" for 1911 includes topographic and structural papers, in which coal-mining areas are dealt with, as well as notes on peat and clay, and (p. 316) on petroleum in ...
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    Diary of Societies (1924)
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    Nature 92 (1924), S. 626-626 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THURSDAY, JANUARY 29. ROYAL SOCIETY, at 4.30.- The Origin of Thermal Ionisation from Carbon: Prof. O. W. Richardson.-The X-ray Spectra given by Crystals of Sulphur and Quartz: Prof. W. H. Bragg.-The Temperature Variation of the Photo-elastic Effect in Strained Glass: Prof. L. N. G. Filon.-Studies ...
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    Aristotle's Physics (1924)
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    Nature 92 (1924), S. 606-606 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I AM unable to find the passage in his works, but I think it was Prof. Ostwald who pointed out that while Aristotle was much more impressed with the retarding effect on the velocity of the mass of the medium through which the falling mass fell, than with the laws of “free fall,” Galileo ignored ...
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    Some Habitats of a Marine Amœba (1924)
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    Nature 92 (1924), S. 606-607 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a letter to NATURE (NO. 2300, vol. xcii.) I described a common habitat of a marine Amœba, and in view of the subsequent discussion of this matter in letters to NATURE it will be of interest to record some further observations bearing on that discussion. In the letter to NATURE ...
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    Dr. S. C. Chandler (1924)
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    Nature 92 (1924), S. 611-612 
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. S. C. CHANDLER, whose death we recorded with regret last week, was not the least conspicuous in that earnest band of American astronomers whose energy and resource have done so much to advance astronomical science. He began his scientific career in the United States Coast Survey, a school that ...
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    Recent Temperatures in Europe (1924)
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    Nature 92 (1924), S. 617-617 
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    Notes: [Auszug] CEVERAL features of especial interest were associated with the recent cold spell of weather experienced over the central and southern, parts of western Europe. It is common enough in January for lower temperatures to prevail over Germany than in England, but in the coastal regions of the south of ...
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    Römer's “Adversaria.” (1924)
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    Nature 92 (1924), S. 621-622 
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    Notes: [Auszug] " ETUDES sur les notes astronomiques contenues dans les Adversaria d'Ole Romer," is the title of a paper by G. van Biesbroek and A. Tiberghien, published in the Bulletin of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences (112 pp.). The "Adversaria" were published in 1910, and were reviewed in NATURE (vol. ...
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    Books Received (1924)
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    Nature 92 (1924), S. 625-626 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Introduction to Modern Inorganic Chemistry. By Dr. J. W. Mellor. Pp. xvi + 684. (London: Longmans and Co.) 45. 6d. . . The Banana: its Cultivation, Distribution, and Commercial Uses. By W. Fawcett. Pp. X1 + 287 + plates. (London: Duckworth and Co.) js. 6d. net. A School Course in Geometry. By W. ...
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    Vergleichende Physiologie und Morphologie der Spinnentiere unter besonderer Berucksichtigung der Lebensweise (1924)
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    Nature 92 (1924), S. 605-605 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS book is the first instalment of a work dealing exclusively with one class of Arthropods, to wit the Arachnids. It is an account of the external form and coloration of these animals in relation to their surroundings, and the author's point of view set forth in the preface will commend itself to ...
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    Aristotle's Physics (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] CAPT. HARDCASTLE's authentic quotations from Aristotle are most interesting. May I as a teacher emphasise the fact that “terminal velocity” is the best instance of Newton's first law of motion in actual operation-an instance strangely neglected by elementary exponents. On anything moving at ...
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    Projective Geometry (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] ARE not the references to the “epidemic of projective geometries” in a note in NATURE of January 1 (p. 510) somewhat unfair? It is complained that they "may teach pupils to copy out oroofs of stereotyped bookwork." The best of the treatises contain an excellent selection of problems ...
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    Weather Forecasting (1924)
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    Nature 92 (1924), S. 608-609 
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    Notes: [Auszug] OF the sciences, meteorology is perhaps the one which most deserves and requires State-aid. Even to the individual whose business is not affected directly by the weather, a more certain knowledge of the atmospheric changes which may be expected to take place during the day woukl be of very ...
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    Automatic Aëroplane Controls (1924)
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    Nature 92 (1924), S. 609-610 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MUCH interest has been excited in the announcement contained in the daily Press that Mr. Orville Wright has succeeded in fitting-aeroplanes with a device which, according to his statements, renders them as nearly " fool-proof " as anything can be. This device, as illustrated in the Daily Mail, is ...
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    Zonal Structure in Colloids (1924)
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    Nature 92 (1924), S. 607-608 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE notice of Prof. Kuster's work on zoning in colloids in NATURE of January 8 suggests to me that such an influence is often manifest in our concretionary formations. In 1912 Prof. S. Leduc, after seeing some of my photographs of the Sunderland Magnesian Limestone, suggested osmosis as ...
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    Atomic Models and X-Ray Spectra (1924)
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    Nature 92 (1924), S. 609-609 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT seems scarcely possible that Prof. Nicholson (NATURE, vol. xcii., p. 583) requires his two rings of electrons, rotating under the inverse square law, to have one and the same angular velocity; because, if so, the impossibility of two different radii is self-evident; but his letter does not ...
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    The Importation of Birds' Plumage (1924)
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    Nature 92 (1924), S. 617-617 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AS is now well known, the United States Government has made the importation of birds' plumage penal, as well as prohibited the wearing of feathers. Austria and Germany are in accord with England as to the necessity of putting a stop to this nefarious traffic by similar laws. France and Belgium ...
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    Societies and Academies (1924)
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    Nature 92 (1924), S. 623-625 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON. Royal Society, January 22.-Sir William Crookes, O.M., president, in the chair.-Dr. R. T. Glazebrook and D. W. Dye: The heat production associated with muscular work: a note on Prof. J. S. Macdonald's paper, Proc. R.S., B, vol. lxxxvii. Prof. Macdonald's results are analysed graphically by ...
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    (1) Principles and Practice of School Gardening (2) Educational School Gardening and Handwork (1924)
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    Nature 92 (1924), S. 604-605 
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    Notes: [Auszug] (1) THE author points out that nature-study, ? as usually carried on in elementary schools, is purely observational, and that, at twelve years of age, the pupil's interest in the acquisition of information by this means begins to flag, unless it aids him in action that requires thought. It must, in ...
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    Matter and Some of its Dimensions (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS book will scarcely be appreciated by those who like an author to remain in touch with actual fact when presenting scientific achievement in a popular manner. It abounds with misstatements, such as that "bodies which emit electrons are known as radio-active," and that "radio-active bodies emit ...
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    The Eugenics Education Society (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] WILL you allow me, through your columns, to point out another aspect of the present methods of popularising “eugenics”? I had recently occasion to criticise this popularisation, and especially the methods of the Eugenics Education Society. I then used the following words:—“Sir Francis Galton ...
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    Projective Geometry (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] I AGREE with Mr. Piaggio that projective geometry is a pleasant and suitable subject of study for arts students, especially women, who are reading for honours with a view of entering the teaching profession. But for such students a single text-book written by an eminent pure mathematician would ...
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    Liquid Air as a Fixative (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] LAST year when Mr. Atkins and I were searching for a method of extracting sap unchanged from various vegetable tissues, treatment with liquid air suggested itself and proved a valuable means for attaining this object. The rapidity of its action in suspending vital processes and chemical changes ...
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    The Atlanta Meeting of the American Association (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE sixty-fifth meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science was held at Atlanta, Georgia, during the week December 29, 1913, to January 3, 1914, under the presidency of Dr. ?. ?. Wilson, of Columbia University. It was the first meeting which the association has held in the ...
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    Our Astronomical Column (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] ASTRONOMICAL OCCURRENCES FOR FEBRUARY:- Feb. 3. 19I1. om. Venus in aphelion. 5. 5h. 32m. Saturn in conjunction with the Moon (Saturn 6° 50' S.J. 7. oh. 39m. Mars in conjunction with the Moon (Mars i° 9' S.). 8. ioh. 38m. Neptune in conjunction with the Moon (Neptune 40 31' S.). 11. 8h. om. ...
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    University and Educational Intelligence (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] CAMBRIDGE.-Mr. D. G. Reid has been appointed junior demonstrator of human anatomy for five years in succession to Dr. Rogers, who has resigned the office. The prize of 50Z. from the Gordon Wigan Fund for a research in chemistry was awarded in the year 1913 to Mr. H. V. Thompson, for investigations ...
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    Our Astronomical Column (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] BRIGHTNESS OF PLANETS AND STARS. - The Chaldaean (vol. vi. No. 21) contains an interesting article by C. Schoch on the brightness of stars and planets at various distances. The most recent values of the planetary albedoes are employed. The earth seen from the moon is of mag. - ?? 6, but Mars seen ...
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    Capillary Action: Transpiration (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IF a capillary tube, A, Fig. 1, with a wedge-shaped cut in it at a distance of about 10 mm. from its upper end, at right angles to, and deep enough to make a breach in one side of its aperture, is lowered slowly into water the rising column of water pauses for an instant when it reaches the ...
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    [Obituaries] (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE regret to announce the following deaths: Dr. J. F. W. Tatham, formerly Superintendent of Statistics at the General Register Office, on November 8, aged eighty. Dr. T. L. Watson, Corcoran professor of geology at the University of Virginia and director of the Geological Survey of Virginia, who ...
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    Crystal Structure (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING the Toronto meeting of the British Association, Sir William Bragg's presidential address was followed by a discussion on crystal structure. Prof. W. L. Bragg described the manner in which the refractive indices of certain crystals, the structure of which has been determined by X-ray ...
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    The Word “Scientist” or its Substitute (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] MAY I offer some general observations in connexion with the question as to the use of the word “scientist.” Language appears to be our way of expressing ideas by posture and gesture of the tongue, lips, etc. These gestures are recognised by the musical effects produced when air is blown ...
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    Dr. C. F. Newcombe (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. C. F. NEWCOMBE, whose death on October 19 is just reported from British Columbia, went out to that country about thirty-five years ago from the English Lakes. The lovely coast of the north-east Pacific inspired in him a passionate devotion. With scarcely any scientific companionship, he ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE PEARL IN OCEANIA.-The prominence given to pearls by Prof. Elliot Smith and Mr. W. J. Perry in their theories relating to the diffusion of culture, has led Dr. A. C. Haddon to make a careful examination of the evidence. The result is published in Man for December. Prof. Elliot Smith founded his ...
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    Parker Plant for Low Temperature Carbonisation (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] ATTENTION has already been directed in NATURE l\ (September 20, p. 441) to the Government offer to test at public expense approved processes for the carbonisation of coal at low temperatures. The Low Temperature Carbonisation Company, Ltd., has been quick to submit for test the standard unit of " ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON. Royal Statistical Society, November 18.-G. Udny Yule; The growth of population and the factors which control it. Prof. Verhulst's law implies that the percentage rate of increase falls continuously, and in the simplest case is a linear function of the population at any moment. Verhulst's ...
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    The Vesuvius Eruption of 1906: Study of a Volcanic Cycle (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS valuable monograph gives the results of the author's investigations on the state of Vesuvius from the end of 1903 to 1921, and more especially his observations on the mountain during the height of the eruption of 1906, which culminated in the stupendous outbreak on the night of April 7-8. The ...
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    Leaves from the Golden Bough (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT was a happy idea of Lady Frazer's to transform by a few magical touches the learned treatise of anthropology into a fascinating book of stories for children. It is remarkable how readily young folk will respond to good literature, to true talent and to real wisdom. Any one who wishes can ...
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    Cancer: its Causation, Prevention and Cure (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] UNTIL the cause of cancer is discovered, it will remain common ground for ill-informed persons to express their views. The most recent amateur recruit to the cancer problem is Dr. John Harger-apparently a chemist-who considers that as such he has had a " precious legacy," handed to him by Pasteur, ...
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    Problems of Belief (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. SCHILLER'S little book is a serious contribution to a large philosophical problem. The author's irrepressible humour enlivens the subject and prevents it being for a moment dull. Some years ago, Dr. Schiller sent out. a questionnaire with the view of discovering how far the desire for a future ...
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    Polarisation of the Light of Rainbows (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is quite well known that the failure of Brewster's law in the case of several substances is due to unavoidable imperfections in the polish of the surfaces. Several years ago the late Lord Rayleigh showed, by mechanical separation of surface impurities of water kept in a long metal trough, ...
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    The Biology of the Suez Canal (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Cambridge and Royal Society Expedition which set out last September to investigate the biology of the Suez Canal (see NATURE, October 4, p. 520) arrived at Suez at the .end of the month, and at once went under canvas on the shores of the Bitter Lakes, being provided with boats, etc., by the ...
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    The Development of Industrial Research Associations (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] MANY of the Research Associations; founded under the auspices of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, have been in existence for five years, and consequently it is possible to form some idea of their future development and usefulness. The reasons for their establishment are well ...
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    (1) The Production of Field Crops: a Textbook of Agronomy (2) Grassland Farming, Pastures and Leys (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE agricultural industry is passing through a critical period not only in Great Britain but also-if for very different reasons-in the United States of America. It would almost appear as if these difficult times are operating to bring the man of science and the man of practice closer together, and ...
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    Cotton in Australia: the Possibilities and the Limitations of Australia as a Cotton-growing Country (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE author describes this book as the result of eighteen months' investigation made in Australia, when secretary of the British Cotton Delegation, 1922. He sets out to prove that great areas of that continent can produce cotton commercially; of course he succeeds. At first one is inclined to resent ...
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    La structure des cristaux: déterminée au moyen des rayons X (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is an excellent introductory treatise describing the methods of X-ray crystal analysis and the results which have been obtained. A difficulty in the presentation of our new knowledge of crystal structure is due to the fact that we all dislike being asked to think in three dimensions. Prof. ...
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    Le Principe constitutif de la Nature organique (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS large treatise seeks to bring under one comprehensive and constitutive principle the whole scheme of the conscious life from its basis in physiology and evolutionary biology to its manifestation in cognitive, moral, and aesthetic activity. It is mainly founded on the philosophy of Kant, and is ...
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    The Word “Scientist” or its Substitute (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE submitted your inquiry to my son, who is a literary critic. He sees no objection to “scientist,” and is rather surprised that it has not been adopted before. He thinks it as well-formed as “artist.” He does not much like words ending in “ist,” but concludes that they cannot be ...
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    The Biology of Verse (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] NATURE for October 11, 1924, p. 534, I have reported the results of the only registrations of verse ever made and analysed. They show that verse is a current of speech energy of varying amount so adjusted as to come in more or less regular waves. When the centroids of these waves are ...
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    The Colour of Sulphur Suspensions (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the review of Ostwald's “Licht und Farbe in Kolloiden” which appeared in NATURE of November 8, p. 672, the reviewer alludes to the investigations of Keen and Porter on “sulphur suspensions containing particles large compared with wave-lengths and indigo in transmitted light.” He adds, “No ...
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    Our Astronomical Column (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE GREAT FIREBALL OF NOVEMBER II.-Mr. W. F. Denning writes that the fireball of November 11, 5 h. 40 m. G.M.T., was observed by a great number of persons in Ireland and extreme north of England. Sixty-nine accounts of it have been received, and though the observers were taken by surprise and most ...
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    The British Dirigible Programme (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE decision to take up again the development of dirigibles in Great Britain has probably been influenced by the example of the United States. The following table gives a basis of broad comparison with German craft: Name. Length. Diam. Volume. Displace-ment. Power. Speed. Length/ Diam. m. m. ...
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    The Internal Secretions of the Sex Glands: the Problem of the “Puberty Gland” (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE field of sexual physiology has been so since "Die Pubertatsdriise und ihre Wirkungen was published in 1917, that it has been found neces- sary to rewrite the book and to give it a new Comparison of old and new provides a clear indication of the advances that have been made and of the modifi- ...
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    Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien: nebst ihren Gattungen und wichtigeren Arten insbesondere den Nutzpflanzen (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] ONLY those bryologists who worked in the 'seventies and 'eighties of the last century can realise the great difficulties which then existed in determining mosses which came from outside Europe. Karl Mueller's " Synopsis Muscorum Frondosorum," published in 1849, had become obsolete so far as its ...
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    Vibration in Engineering (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] AN increasing degree of attention has been given recently in engineering colleges to the study of vibrations, and students will welcome the appearance of this volume in which has been collected a large amount of information hitherto scattered in various volumes dealing with physics and in technical ...
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    The Cause of Cyclones (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the winter of 1922–23 there appeared in NATURE some correspondence on “The Cause of Anticyclones,” and on that occasion I put forward certain views as to the mechanism by which the more rapid increases of barometric pressure are brought about in temperate latitudes (NATURE of March 31, 1923, ...
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    Cell-wall Formation (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] A CHARACTERISTIC difference between the processes of cell-wall formation in plants and animals has long been recognised. In the tissues of higher plants a new cell-wall is generally laid down on the nuclear spindle and then spreads peripherally until it cuts the cell into two. The cell-wall may ...
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    The Trend of Development of Marine-Propelling Machinery (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE eleventh Thomas Hawksley lecture was read i- before the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on Friday. November 7, by Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir George G. Goodwin, and dealt with the development of marine-propelling machinery. Whilst naval conditions impose restrictions on the design of ...
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    Sex Determination (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] MAN KIND has always been intrigued by the problem of what are the factors that determine sex, but it is only comparatively recently that a real light has been thrown upon this subject. The influence of the sex glands upon certain characteristics of the body has, it is true, been known for many ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON. Royal Society, November 20.-J. Barcroft, M. L. Anson, A. E. Mirsky, and S. Oinuma: The correlation between the spectra of various haemoglobins and their relative affinities for oxygen and carbon monoxide. Hartridge's reversion spectroscope was used, and it was found that if A be the ...
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    Official Publications Received (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] United States Department of Agriculture. Department Bulletin No. 1238: The Canker-worms. By B. A. Porter and C. H. Alden. ??. 38 + 3 plates. 10 cents. Department Bulletin No. 1243: Studies of the Mexican Bean Beetle in the Southeast. By Neale F. Howard and L. L. English. Pp. 51 + 12 plates. 20 ...
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    Diary of Societies (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29. ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, at 4.15. NORTH-EAST COAST INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS (Graduate Section, jointly with the Mining Institute) (at Bolbec Hall, Newcastle-on-Tynej, at 7. . HULL ASSOCIATION OE ENGINEERS (at Hull Municipal Technical College), at 7 15.-W. J. ...
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    Science, the Church and Disease (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE appears to be little or nothing recondite in the widely advertised dispute concerning missions of " spiritual" healing which has developed within the Church of England. The point at issue was expressed with great clearness and ability by a committee of the Lambeth Conference at the beginning ...
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    Air Ministry: Meteorological Office (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE outstanding feature of this work, gathered from a rough examination, after realising the immense labour in its production, is the valuable step made by the publication of the several annual results towards interpreting aright the causes which influence the weather and its changes in different ...
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    Descriptive Labels for Botanic Gardens (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE booklet of descriptive labels drawn up by the Director of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden is a very useful publication, and it is interesting to see that the practice started at Kew many years ago for trees has been extended by Mr. Carter to other plants of economic or botanical ...
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    Pyramid and Prophecy (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the notice in NATURE of October 25 of the work entitled “The Great Pyramid: its Divine Message,” by the late Dr. H. Aldersmith and myself, the reviewer, by a careful selection of remotely secondary features of the book, convinces himself he has proved the work to be of the “assertionist ...
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    Earth Tides, Ocean Tides, and Local Geology (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE read with interest Dr. Lambert's letter in NATURE of October 18 with reference to the earth tides observed by means of Hecker's horizontal pendulums at Potsdam. These indicated a greater rigidity on the earth in a direction a little north of west and south of east. I connected this with ...
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    The Electrodeless Discharge (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the electrodeless ring discharge, the type of spectrum produced depends largely upon the voltage drop per mean free path. This is in general only a few volts, under ordinary operating conditions. A comprehensive survey of the entire subject has been given recently by Mierdel (Phys. Zeit. 25, ...
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    British Actiniaria (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] I AM preparing a monograph on British Actiniaria which the Council of the Ray Society has undertaken to publish shortly. Certain little-known species of vague systematic position have never reappeared since their first discovery, this usually dating prior to 1860. In such a case it is very ...
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    Sir Archibald Geikie, O.M., K.C.B., F.R.S (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE " Long Life's Work " reviewed in NATURE of -I July 26 has been brought to a close. Sir Archibald Geikie passed away in his eighty-ninth year on November 10. For several years gradually failing health had confined him to the home he had made at Haslemere, but his pen was busy almost to the last, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE AMORITES.-In the current issue of Ancient Egypt, Prof. Sayce adduces further arguments for identifying the Amorites with the Mitanni rather than with the Western Semites as usually assumed. The geographical evidence is that the early Babylonians called the inhabitants of the plateau on both ...
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    University and Educational Intelligence (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] CAMBRIDGE.-Mr. ?. ?. Tunnicliffe and Mr. N. J. ?. ?. Needham have been elected fellows of Oonville and Caius College. The John Bernard Seely Prize in aeronautics has been awarded to W. A. Johnson, Peter house, for an essay on " Dynamical Similarity and Scale Effects." Dr. D. H. S. Cranage has been ...
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    Diary of Societies (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24. CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY (in Cavendish Laboratory), at 4.30.- C. T. R. Wilson: Acceleration of /3-Particles in Strong Electric Fields such as those of Thunderclouds.-Dr. G. F. C. Searle: The Determination of the Frequency of an Alternating Current Supply by the ...
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    Kilimanjaro and its People: a History of the Wachagga, their Laws, Customs, and Legends, together with some Account of the Highest Mountain in Africa (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] KILIMA NJARO has had a varied influence on the JN^ history of East Africa. After its discovery by Rebmann in 1848, its problems and the incredulity with which European geographers received the statement that it is snow-capped led to several of the first European journeys into this part of Africa. ...
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    Electrode Reaction and Equilibria: a General Discussion held by the Faraday Society, November 1923 (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE general discussions of the Faraday Society continue to fulfil the useful functions which give to that Society its unique position amongst bodies pursuing similar aims in various branches of science. The discussion on " Electrode Reaction and Equilibria " was held on November 26, 1923, in the ...
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    A School Mechanics (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. DURELL'S complete work is intended to cover the course required for the School Certificate and the various matriculation examinations. The part before us contains an easy introduction to the subject which should be successful in awakening the interest of the student; its contents are restricted ...
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    Need for the Redetermination of the Atomic Weights, of Uranium, Thorium, and Radium (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is known that the atomic weights of such radio-elements as have been determined experimentally agree approximately with those to be expected on radioactive theory, and also that small unexplained discrepancies appear when the actual instead of the approximate values are considered. The ...
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    [Obituaries] (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE learn with deep regret that Sir Archibald Geikie died on Monday, November 10, at the advanced age of eighty-eight years. The world of letters as well as that of science has thus lost a leader of the highest distinction, whose work has had a profound influence upon intellectual progress and the ...
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    Current Topics and Events (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE following is a list of those recommended by the president and council for election to the council of the Royal Society at the anniversary meeting on December 1:-President: Sir Charles Sherrington; Treasurer: Sir David Prain; Secretaries: Mr. W. B. Hardy and Mr. J. H. Jeans; Foreign Secretary: ...
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    Effect of Artificial Light on the Growth of Plants (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE effect of light on plant life has been the subject of many scientific investigations. So long ago as 1880 Siemens showed that continuous exposure to arc lamps promoted luxuriance of foliage, greater intensity of colouring, and more rapid ripening of fruit. It is common knowledge that plants ...
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    (1) The Evolution and Distribution of Fishes (2) Fishes: the Source of Petroleum (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] (1) THESE two very interesting books by the pro-L fessor emeritus of botany in the University of Pennsylvania form an aftermath of his early studies of the fossils of the neighbourhood of Edinburgh. In his previous volume, " The Causes and Course of Qrganic Evolution," he propounded the thesis that ...
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    History of the Great War: Based on Official Documents Medical Services General History (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is the final volume of the general history of the Medical Services during the War, and is perhaps the most readable. The ground covered is adequately expressed in the title. The book shows the great and varied difficulties which had to be contended with, and while it is clear that towards the ...
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    Problems of Unemployment Insurance (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] At the recent Toronto meeting of the British Association, a paper by Prof. John R. Commons, of the University of Wisconsin, on " The Limits of Unemployment Insurance/' was read to the Section of Economic Science and Statistics. In view of recent discussion in Great Britain of the relative merits ...
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    Official Publications Received (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] Western Australia: Geological Survey. Bulletin No. 89 (revised and amended edition of Bulletin No. 50): The Geology and Mineral Industry of Western Australia. By A. Gibb Maitland and A. Montgomery. Pp. 119. (Perth: Fred. Wra. Simpson.) U.S. Department of Agriculture: Bureau of Biological Survey. ...
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    Hydrodynamics (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] LAMB'S text-book has long been the chief storehouse of information of all workers in hydrodynamics. One may note that the interval between the first and second editions was 16 years, and that successive editions have followed at intervals of 11, 10, and now 8 years respectively. Perhaps the steady ...
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    Institution of Petroleum Technologists Standard Methods of Testing Petroleum and its Products (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Committee appointed by the Institution of Petroleum Technologists to standardise methods of oil-testing has, under the above title, published its first report in the form of a concise manual. It was no easy task to criticise existing methods, to comment on relative advantages and disadvantages ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE second edition of Mr. Rickard's book has been thoroughly revised and enlarged. It is a useful guide to the writing of technical papers, and, although the worst examples of faults to be avoided are more often found in the technical press of the United States than in Great Britain, even a ...
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    The Causation of Cancer (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE no desire to embark on a controversy with Mr. Ellis Barker in a scientific journal like NATURE, though I have behind me thirty years' study of new growths. His hymn of hate above is no doubt a relic of the time when, as “Who's Who” informs us, he “devoted his literary career, ever since ...
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    Microseisms and Storm Forecasts (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE value of the seismograph as a detector of the more severe type of cyclonic storm in the Bay of Bengal was recognised some fifteen years ago by Mr. C. W. Peake, then Meteorologist at Calcutta. When I left the Observatory in 1922 it had become regular routine for the Omori charts to be ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE much regret to record the death on October 4, at the age of seventy-seven, of Dr. Joseph Moeller, emeritus professor of pharmacognosy in the University of Vienna, and we are indebted to the Chemtker Zeitung for the following details of his life and work. Dr. Moeller studied in Vienna and was ...
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    Our Astronomical Column (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] PLANET OR COMET?-A very interesting object, which was evidently stellar in aspect, but the motion of which is suggestive of a comet, was discovered by Dr. Baade at Bergedorf on October 23. The following positions have been telegraphed from the I.A.U. Bureau at Copenhagen. G.M.T. R.A. N. Decl. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A SKULL OF PAPUAN TYPE FROM COLOMBIA.-In L'Anthropologie, T. xxxiv., No. 5, Dr. R. Verneau directs attention to a close resemblance between the skull of a Tunebo Indian and Papuan skulls, particularly skulls from the island of Mallicolo (New Hebrides). Not only is the general morphological ...
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    The Ore Magmas: a Series of Essays on Ore Deposition (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THESE two interesting and suggestive volumes consist of essays on ore deposits based on Mr. J. E. Spurr's varied personal experience of American mines, which include so many types that they illustrate the chief phenomena of ore formation. Mr. Spurr shows in this work the clearness of insight, ...
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    The Mongol in our Midst: a Study of Man and his Three Faces (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. CROOKSHANK argues with much skill in favour of his view that in the not uncommon occurrence of Mongoloid characters in Western Europeans, of which the extreme example is the so-called Mongoloid imbecile, there is something more than a fortuitous resemblance to the racial Mongol. He adduces a ...
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    Organic Syntheses: an Annual Publication of Satisfactory Methods for the Preparation of Organic Chemicals (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] VOL. 3 of this series fully attains the high standard reached in the two previous volumes. The preparations described are models of careful work and explicit detail. For the use of students the book is excellent, though the quantities employed in the preparations are somewhat large, and changes in ...
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    International Co-operation in Phenological Research (1924)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE need for international co-operation in recording the dates of special events in the seasonal development of a few representative species or varieties of native and established cultivated plants will be recognised when the facts are considered, that the time of such events as the opening of ...
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