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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 559-560 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS book may be commended to the notice JL of such as wish to know what can be said by a theologian possessing the broad outlook of the philosopher, and equipped with a knowledge of recent philosophical literature, as to the intellectual claims of Christian theism; it represents a good type of the ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 563-563 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE are glad to extend a welcome to the new issue of tins invaluable year-book. The system adopted in previous issues of classifying the societies according to the subjects with which they are concerned is adhered to, and a few pages are devoted to miscellaneous societies particulars of which were ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 566-567 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE further letter from Mr. H. J. Denham in NATURE of December 15, p. 496, does not in any way alter my opinion that the method of varying the intensity of illumination in the microscope described by him is not the best or the most convenient at present available. The use of a monochromatic ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 568-568 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE reference in our Note was to the first commercial telegraph. The history of the invention of the telegraph is well known, but importance must be attached to inventions on the lines on which it developed. A model of the pith-ball telegraph of Francis Ronalds is in the collection of ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 569-569 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN his article in NATURE of October 20, p. 247, Prof. Wildon Carr has maintained that the relativity theory has made the reality of matter untenable. Later writers have denied this. May I state the relation of their views? Einstein refers the universe to a system of axes fixed to an ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 570-571 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN September of the coming year there will be a very favourable total eclipse of the sun, and several expeditions are preparing to proceed to stations on the narrow track of the moon's shadow. This eclipse is a member of an important family, from the point of view of solar physics, because one of ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 575-575 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE regret to see announced in the Chemical Age the death on December 19 last, at the age of seventy-three years, of MR. HENRY ROWLATT AUGUSTUS OERTLING. Mr. Oertling was educated at University College, London, and as a young man entered the balance-making business founded by his father. For more ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 576-580 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A NEW volume of NATURE will begin with next week's issue, so that in future each of the two volumes published annually will bear the date of a single year. This change has been decided upon for convenience of reference, and we believe it will be generally welcomed. Hitherto reference to a ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 568-568 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE striking relationship between the hydrogen-ion concentration of the soil and plant distribution is apparently not without its parallel in animal distribution. A number of facts concerning the relationship of certain forms of animal life to plant-hosts have been brought together by Fr. Dahl ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 569-569 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Is it possible for the ear to distinguish two notes of the same pitch and of different quality sounding concurrently? Evidently it is possible. Of a number of examples the following may be the simplest for experiment. Hum any note with the teeth touching, but not clenched. The performer ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 573-575 
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    Notes: [Auszug] TO emphasise the State as the most important human grouping on the large scale leads us so far astray that even some serious students of social psychology try, with obvious ill-success, to discuss -the psychology of whole nations like France, England, and Germany. The very inadequate justification ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 575-575 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE notice with regret the announcement of the death on December 25, at the age of ninety, of DR.'G.'S. BRADY, F.R.S., hon. prof essor of natural history in the Armstrong College of the University of Durham, ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 581-582 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT the annual public meeting of the Paris Academy of Sciences the prizes and grants for 1921 were awarded as follows: Mathematics. The Francceur prize to Rene Baire, for his work on the general theory of functions; the Bordin prize was not awarded, as no memoir on the question set was ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 586-587 
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    Notes: [Auszug] COLLOID chemistry has never been discussed so frequently as it is to-day. Its comparatively recent growth and development, and the fact that its ramifications extend into every field of chemical research and industry, seem to be leading chemists-to turn to colloid chemistry as a possible panacea ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 587-587 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. RICHARDS'S short note of eleven pages, which has been published by the Survey of Egypt, deals.with observations which were made in 1913 and 1914 to determine the azimuth of the axis ¢of Karnak temple. In 1890 Sir Norman Lockyer took some preliminary observations, which suggested to him that the ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 588-588 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE programme of work undertaken by the Fuel Research Board includes research into the utilisation of machine-won peat, and a report has been issued giving the results of the first series of experiments on the carbonisation of peat in vertical gas retorts with steaming- This material was macerated ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 589-591 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON. Geological Society, December 7. Mr. R. D. Old-ham, president, in the chair. S. S. Buckman: Jurassic chronology; II., Preliminary studies. Certain Jurassic strata near Eype's Mouth (Dorset): the junction-bed of Watton Cliff and associated rocks. A detailed section is recorded of a white ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 521-524 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MORE than ordinary interest is attached to the Report before us,1 inasmuch as it deals with issues of considerable importance from the points of view both of national economy and of public health. To understand the question involves not only some knowledge of the history and conditions of public ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] (1) T)ROF. HOWLEY'S study is a sound piece JL of work written by one who has knowledge and training along lines of thought which we cannot afford lightly to dismiss. Without denying the validity of the concept of sub-consciousness (in some sense of the word)- he rejects that of merely automatic ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 526-527 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ALTHOUGH the editor has nothing particularly new to bring forward this year, he has succeeded in making a very interesting and instructive volume. We think that the illustrations, which are many and various, reach a rather higher standard of excellence than that to which we have been accustomed. ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 527-527 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE practical details of analysis are described in this book more minutely than is customary in order to minimise the necessity of constant supervision of the student. All accounts of the theory, even the chemical equations of the reactions, are omitted. These are to be discussed orally. It would, ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 528-529 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A NOTICE has recently appeared in the daily Press, signed by a number of jewellers, with reference to Japanese “culture” pearls. This notice, besides endorsing the opinion expressed by the diamond, pearl, and precious stones section of the London Chamber of Commerce that “the insertion of ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 528-528 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PERHAPS readers of NATURE will recognise the principle of the Eötvös torsion balance in the communication of Sir Arthur Schuster published in NATURE of October 20 (p. 240) entitled “The Tendency of Elongated Bodies to Set in the North and South Direction.” The calculation there given is, ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 540-541 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE value of science to the belligerent coun--t tries was proved over and over again during the warin the United States no less than in other countries. The United States, however, had the advantage over other countries in this as in other matters, that, before it joined in the fighting, many ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 529-530 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE of. December 8 there appears an article by my friend Dr. F. A. Bather entitled “Echinoderm Larvae and their Bearing on Classification.” The article consists of a review of Dr. Mortensen's work entitled “Studies of the Development and Larval Forms of Echinoderms,” and in the course of ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 531-531 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN answer to Mr. W. R. Bousfield's question I may say that he is mistaken if he thinks that I would deny the possibility of curative processes being set going by “suggestion.” But I would maintain that suggestion is not a mental process. There is a popular error, widespread, that thought can be ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 531-532 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN 1769 the French academician Le Gentil went on a journey to Mauritius, Pondichéry, and Manila to observe the transit of Venus and to study atmospheric refraction in the tropics. As an incident of the latter, while at Pondichéry he observed carefully the form of the rising sun, with attendant ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 532-532 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN view of the advantages offered by the use of valves for measuring ionisation currents, which have been pointed out in a recent paper by M. J. Malassez (Comptes rendus, vol. 172, p. 1093, I921) it appears to be of some interest to describe another method of using valves for this purpose, ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 489-491 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE sixth Report of the Committee for Scientific and Industrial Research,1 which was recently issued, deals with a number of matters of scientific importance. It seems but a short time since the establishment of the Department, described in the pages of NATURE for May 20 and July 29, 1915, or the ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 539-539 
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    Notes: [Auszug] FOR some time past experiments have been in progress in adapting to the purposes of aerial navigation the '' leader 'J cable system now successfully used in connection with shipping. Various tests made in this country revealed that a marine installation is of little use to aircraft, as no signals ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 495-495 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE first edition of the author's " Insects Injurious to Staple Crops " was published ten years ago. The advances made during the past decade have been such that it was considered necessary to rewrite practically the whole book. In its present form it covers all the more important insects affecting ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 542-542 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE regret to announce the death on Saturday, December 17, of DR. T. A. CHAPMAN at the age of seventy-nine years. Dr. Chapman, who was the author of numerous papers on entomology and other branches of natural history, was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 542-547 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THOSE interested in bibliographical research will be glad to learn that the proposals made in NATURE of June last (vol. 107, p. 449) for the compilation of a Union List of Current Research Serials under the direction of the British Museum authorities have not fallen on barren ground. We trust that ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 548-549 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON September 9, in the course of the meeting of the British Association at Edinburgh, a discussion on the origin of the Scottish people was held in a joint session of Sections E (Geography) and H (Anthropology), Lord Abercromby, president of .Section H, being in the chair. The discussion was opened ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 549-550 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AN interesting and important development is recorded in the report under notice.1 The Qlympia Agricultural Co., Ltd., is a comparatively reirent enterprise which is farming nearly 10,000 acres of*land on strictly business principles, one of the first examples of the application of industrial ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 552-553 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON.Dr. R. H. Aders Plimmer has been appointed as from January 1, 1Q22, to the University chair of chemistry, tenable at St. Thomases Hospital Medical School. Since IQIQ Dr. Plimmer has been head o|〉 the Biochemical ^Department of the Rowett Research Institute of Animal Nutrition at the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] December 22, 1590. Ambroise Pare died.Surgeon to four Kings of France, Pare" served through many campaigns, doing much to improve the treatment of wounds, especially by the substitution of ligature of the arteries for cauterisation with a red-hot iron after amputation. He is regarded as the father ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 500-500 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MY attention has been directed to the letters in NATURE of October 20 and November 10 on the flight of thistledown. The explanation of the phenomenon observed seems to me to lie in the very slow air-currents which are sufficient to raise the pappose structures of many Compositæ, especially when ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 492-493 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is earnestly to be hoped that every British man of science will take the opportunity of studying this account of chemical warfare prepared by Brig.-Gen. Fries and Major West, of the United States Army. He will then be able to make up his mind, knowing the facts, as to the possibility of ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 506-506 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE regret to announce the deaths, on December 9, of LORD LINDLEY at the age of ninety-three years, and, on December 11, of LORD HALSBURY at the age of ninety-eight years. Both were elected fellows of the Royal Society under the special clause which permits the admission of members of the Privy ...
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    Nature 108 (1921), S. 511-511 
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    Notes: [Auszug] FIREBALLS.Mr. W. F. Denning writes:"On Sunday, December 4, a large fireball was observed by Mr. E. H. Collinson from Ipswich at ioh. 10m. p.m. It was estimated to be several times brighter than Venus, and its path was from 288+670 to 279+510; it moved swiftly, and left a silvery streak along its ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] (i) A PUBLICATION entitled " Nedtwiakttagel-**- ser i Norge," recently received from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, contains information relative to precipitation at about five hundred Norwegian stations over periods of from 10 to 40 years ending 1915. The tables give mean and extreme ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Report of the Food Investigation Board for 1920 * records a considerable amount of research work of scientific interest and immediate practical value. The Engineering Committee of the Board has shown that of the two channels of heat loss through an insulator, the solid itself and the air ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] December 15, 1890. James Croll died.Known for his writings on physical geology, such as his " Climate and Time,'5 1875, Croll was successively a joiner, an insurance agent, an assistant at the Andersonian College, Glasgow, and keeper of maps in the Geological Survey of Scotland. December 16, 1798. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I WAS present at a meeting of the Malacological Society last May when Dr. Boycott read a very interesting paper, in which he showed how the small snail Balea perversa occurred on trees, walls, and rocks, but not on the ground. The question arose how it got from tree to tree; and in the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN view of the Government having enforced reductions in State funds available for research, it may be of interest to refer to the subject of awards to discoverers as means of effecting economy in, and increasing incentives to, research. In a leading article in NATURE of March 31 last on ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the course of experiments carried out this year (1921) on the rate of growth of the slipper-limpet in the River Blackwater, Essex, I obtained a number of oyster spat on shells put in a floating raft and on clean scallop shells which were put in the water on June 9. These clean scallop shells ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is now about five and twenty years since * research and educational work in agriculture began to be developed seriously in this country. Since that date a very great deal of effort has been expended in investigating the forces by which plant and animal life are controlled, and in bringing ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. C. H. POWNALL, of Banjoewangi, 1V1 Java, has sent to NATURE office a letter accompanying three bracelets made from the horny skeletal substance of a soft coral or Gorgonian, known to science as Plexaura. This forms great branched growths which are abundant on the outer or seaward sides of coral ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON Saturday, December 10, the Official Referee under Part I. of the Safeguarding of Industries Act gave his decision on the complaint that santonin has been improperly included in the list of goods upon which import duty must be paid. The drug is derived from flowers grown almost exclusively in ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT a meeting of the Royal Anthropological Institute, held on November 8, Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, president, in the chair, Prof. G. Elliot Smith and Capt. Guy Crowden read a paper on "The Mound Builders of Dunstable." After describing the results of excavations on one of the Five Knolls on Dun- | ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE preservation of a fauna or flora is a national and international duty. The main arguments for protection are: (a) economicthe argument of the commercial mind and of the Board of Agriculture; (b) aestheticmainly used in support of bird protection; (c) humanitarianthe argument against cruelty and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] BRISTOL.There was a large attendance in the council room at the University on Friday, December 2, when Dr. Lloyd Morgan was presented with his portrait, a gift from friends, colleagues, and students both past and present. The portrait was executed by Mr. Anning-Bell, A.R.A. CAMBRIDGE.The event of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THURSDAY, DECEMBEU 15. ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE (Dermatology Section), at 4.30.Major A. E. Milner: Diathermy in the Treatment of Lupus Erythema-tosus. LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON, at 5.Prof. G. C. Bourne: The Raninidas, a Group of Crustacea.F. A. Potts: Narrative of the Carnegie Institution ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON. Association of Economic Biologists, November 18.Sir David Prain, president, in the chair.E. J. Butler: Meteorological conditions and disease. The meteorological conditions known to influence diseases of plants are chiefly temperature, humidity, and radiation. The influences are most marked ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I WAS much interested in the letter from Mr. H. J. Denham on the above subject in NATURE of November 17. It is gratifying to know that the importance of adjustment of the intensity of illumination in the microscope is recognised. At the National Institute for Medical Research several workers ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MANY British scientific workers have acquaintances and friends among Russian men of science, and as Christmas is approaching they may wish to send a Christmas greeting which will support their colleagues during the hardest time that Russian science has ever had to endure. The American Relief ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE history of the Rayleigh Memorial is soon -L told. Shortly after Lord Rayleigh's death in 1919 the desire was expressed by many of his friends to commemorate him in some suitable manner, and a committee was formed, with Sir J. J. Thomson, then president of the Royal Society, as chairman, to give ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. H. E. ANTHONY, associate curator of mammals in the American Museum of Natural History, New York, has sent us a detailed notice of the life and scientific work of DR. J. A. ALLEN. Lack of space prevents us from publishing more than the following extracts referring to a few points of particular ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is with much regret that we record the death of Mr. W. A. Baillie-Grohman, who passed away suddenly on November 2"j at Schloss Matzen, in Tyrol, in his seventy-first year. A man of striking physique, endowed with high courage and great mind, he possessed an intense affection for the wild and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE EFFECTIVE WAVE-LENGTH OF THE LIGHT OF GALACTIC STARS.-Prof. O. Bergstrand contributes a paper on this subject to the centenary number of Astron. Nach. The research is based on a series of plates of the star-cloud in Cygnus obtained with a 15-cm. triple objective prism. The spectral types of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON. Royal Society, November 24.-Prof. C. S. Sherring-ton, president, in the chair.-K. Sassa: (1) Observations on reflex responses to the rhythmical stimulation in the frog. In the study of the relation between the frequency and intensity of stimulation and the resulting reflex reactions, there ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Seventh Scientific Report on the Investigations of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. Pp. viii+9i + 22 plates. (London: Taylor and Francis.) 15s. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918. Vol. 5: Botany. Part A: Vascular Plants. By J. M. Macoun and T. Holm. Pp. 25+13 plates. (Ottawa: F. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MY reply to my friend Mr. Hugh Elliot is quite plainly that, so far as I can discover from his letter in NATURE of December 1, and from his book, and from an article I have read of his, and from an essay which I believe nearly won the five-thousand-dollar prize, he has not understood the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. RAMAN has recently directed attention (NATURE, September 1, p. 12) to some observations by Brewster on what the latter called the “radiant spectrum ” (Phil. Mag., vol. 2, p. 202, 1867). Brewster advanced the hypothesis that the phenomenon was due to the granular surfaces of the eye ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] READERS of NATURE may be interested in a simple form of differential barometer by means of which changes in air pressure as small as one part in a hundred thousand may be readily observed. The apparatus consists of a vacuum flask to the mouth of which is fitted a two-holed cork. One hole bears ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] BROADLY taken, the apparatus of prosecution of research in this country is made up as follows: (1) Scientific and professional societies and some institutions entirely privately supported; (2) universities and colleges, with their scientific departments; (3) institutions, using that term in the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] On behalf of the Royal Society and of the University of Cambridge it is my privilege to thank the Dean and Chapter of Westminster for permission to-erect a memorial to Lord Rayleigh in the Abbey. I desire also to thank the artist, Mr. Derwent Wood, whose skill has made the memorial an excellent ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the years prior to the war endeavours were made by various internationally constituted bodies to secure greater uniformity in the symbols used in different countries and by different writers to represent physical, physico-chemical, and electrotechnical quantities. As part of the general movement ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN reference to Mr. Onslow's letter on this subject in NATURE of November 17, I may say that it requires some care to prepare specimens for the pressure test. The chitinous coat is thick, and is softer below than it is at the colour-producing surface. The inner layers should be removed so far ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE anniversary meeting of the Royal Society was held on St. Andrew's Day, November 30, and the following officers were elected:-President: Prof. C. S. Sherrington. Treasurer: Sir David Prain. Secretaries: Mr. W. B. Hardy and Mr. J. H. Jeans. Foreign Secretary: Sir Arthur Schuster. Other Members of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] The Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey is in the south transept, and not the north, as stated in the article on "Science in Westminster Abbey" in last week's NATURE, p. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I SHALL be grateful for space to bring before readers of NATURE the following facts concerning the activities of the Imperial War Relief Fund, Universities' Committee. This committee, which was created at an Inter-University Conference which met at University College, London, on July 7, 1920, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Zoological Record, which was founded in 1864 by English zoologists, has been issued regularly ever since, and contains each year a complete bibliography of all publications connected with zoology. It is now the sole work of the kind, and is invaluable to all workers in every branch of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE cone of light reflected from a cylindrical surface described by Mr. Shaxby in NATURE of November 17, p. 369, is discussed in Tait's elementary treatise on Light. A related phenomenon, also mentioned in the same work, the explanation of which is readily deducible from the above, is of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE results of a detailed examination of the problem of nitrogen fixation were given in the comprehensive Final Report of the Nitrogen Products Committee of the Ministry of Munitions, published in 1920, and already noticed in these columns (vol. 104, pp. 533 and 569; vol. 105, p. 201). As the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE regret to announce the death in Montreal on October 25 of SIR JOHN KENNEDY, consulting engineer of the Montreal Harbour Commissioners. From an account of his career which appears in the Engineer for November 11 it appears that he became blind in 1907, and at the time of his death he had reached ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE aim of this work has been carefully explained by the author, and the reader must continually bear that fact in mind. The book is not a history of mathematics; it is not an account of striking discoveries, or a criticism of mathematical methods, as such. It is an attempt, in the light of our ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT would be difficult to overpraise Osier. He was heart and soul in love with life a man most lovable, courteous, gracious, of uqfailing sympathy, hopeful, generous. Toronto, Montreal, Baltimore, Oxford these universities were the stages of his work for mankind: a great teacher, a good example to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A THIRD ethnographical expedition, under the direction of Prof. C. G. Seligman, is being sent out by the Sudan Government with the object of investigating the tribes of the Mongalla province, particularly those along the east bank of the Nile. Prof, and Mrs. Seligman will be.joined at.Khartum by. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. WILDON CARR has for a number of years been busily engaged in ringing the death-knell of materialism. I was therefore not a little surprised to read in NATURE (October 20) his statement that Einstein's theory was the “death-knell of materialism.” I thought, from my previous acquaintance ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE letters of Sir Arthur Schuster and Col. E. H. Grove-Hills in NATURE of October 20 and November 24 under the above heading are interesting, as is also the article by Mr. W. D. Lambert in the American Journal of Science for September last, to which reference is made by the latter, but the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. A. H. COMPTON'S letter to NATURE of November 17, p. 366, on the softening of secondary X-rays directs further attention to a problem of very great importance. There is distinct evidence with these rays of a change of periodicity which varies with the angle of scattering. Such a variation ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE subjoined table was made thus:— From Table VI. in the American Nautical Almanac, for each date and latitude indicated, the hour of sunset on the meridian of Greenwich is taken and corrected for equation of time, giving an hour-angle precise within 1m. or 15′ (as both local mean time and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I BEG to thank Dr. Gahan and Dr. Stenton for their notes on this insect in NATURE of November 24, p. 403. I am well aware of the importance of precision in recording the behaviour of any animal and any other natural phenomenon; wherefore I was specially careful to ascertain from the persons who ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. NORMAN CAMPBELL has not understood me. Probably thinking that I am an idealist philosopher, he has supposed that I must be arguing that there is no scientific reality in the accepted meaning—that is, no scientific criterion of reality—and that the naturalist's mongoose, for example, has ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] (a) “VARIATION is the sole cause of non-inheritance”; (b) “Apart from variations like exactly begets like, when parent and child develop under like conditions”; (c) “The development of the individual is a recapitulation (with additions and subtractions due to variations) of the evolution of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. PETER THOMPSON, whose untimely and deeply lamented death occurred at Pen-maenmawr on November 16, early showed an unusual aptitude for human anatomy. He obtained a special mark of distinction in the subject when a student, and it gained him the gold medal on taking the M.D. (Victoria) from ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE DECEMBER METEORS. Mr. W. F. Denning writes: "This event is anticipated with unusual interest this year on account of the brilliant and abundant display observed in 1920. Early in the morning of December 13 meteors were observed to be falling at the rate of about five per minute, and several ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] JUDGING by the continued interest displayed in J the meetings of Section A during the recent visit of the British Association to Edinburgh, the proceedings of this section may be accurately described as very successful. Four strenuous mornings were devoted to the formal work of the section, yet the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE first section, issued separately, of the report of * the Fuel Research Board for the years 1920-21 〉 is devoted to an account of experiments made at the Greenwich Experimental Station on steaming an vertical gas retorts. A Glover-West setting was employed, but the ordinary system of working ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON. Geological Society, November 9. Mr. R. D. Oldham, president, in the chair. L. D. Stamp and S. W. Wooldridge: The igneous arid associated rocks of Llan-wrtyd (Brecon). Pt. 1: Stratigraphi-al (L. D. S.). The succession of rocks is given; the fossils from the lower horizon include ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT was nearly one hundred years ago that Charles Darwin began his scientific studies in the University of Edinburgh. No more fitting subject, I think, could be found for an address than certain problems relating to his doctrine of evolution. Perhaps the best way of treating these general subjects ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Wages and the Cost of Living. By Dr. C. V. Drysdale. Pp. 51. (London: Malthusian League.) 6d. The Malthusian Doctrine and its Modern Aspects. By Dr. C. V. Drysdale. Pp. 68. (London: Malthusian League.) Problems made Easy for Preparatory Schools and the Lower Forms in Public Schools. By R. Tootell ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. EDGAR SMITH, of the University of X Pennsylvania, in studying the lives of early American chemists, naturally encountered the name of Priestley, who, as is well known, left this country for America in 1794. The odium and insult he had met with as a Dissenter culminated in the Birmingham Riots ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS volume by Prof. Rudolf Lieske, of the Botanical Institute at Heidelberg, on the morphology and biology of the Actinomycetes, forms a valuable addition to the literature of this subject. In a general introductory chapter there are an account of the occurrence of Actinomycetes in Nature and an ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE present is the twenty-fourth Memoir, published after a considerable interval, of the well-known L.M.B.C. series. The animal with which it deals is a member of the Opisthobranchiata, one of the two orders of Euthyneura, to the other of which, the Pulmonata, belong the ordinary land snails. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I AM sorry to say that the postscript of “The Writer of the Article” to my letter on p. 274 in NATURE of October 27 is not according to facts. It was he who used Trillium, Dirca, and Scoliopus as evidence against “bad pollen” being an indication of hybridity; this evidence appeared to me to be ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT would take too much space to reply in detail to all of Dr. Lotsy's statements, for which I have great respect. They go far outside the original point at issue, but it is necessary to refer to the more important of them, and it will then probably be seen that the others are immaterial. In his ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] As was pointed out by the late Lord Rayleigh, the basis of his theory of the blue sky, namely, that the molecules scatter the incident energy independently of each other's presence, is only true for gases in consequence of the freedom of movement the molecules possess in this state of matter. ...
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