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    Nature 147 (1941), S. 584-584 
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    Notes: [Auszug] [Meeting marked with an asterisk is open to the public.] Monday, May 12 ROYAL· GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY (at Kensington Gore, London, S.W. 7), at 5 p.m.-Sir Charles Arden-Close, F.R.S., Mr. F. S. Richards, Mr. Arthur R. Hinks, F.R.S.: "Map Projections and Sun Compasses". Tuesday, May 13 ROYAL ...
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    Nature 147 (1941), S. 517-519 
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING last summer, in the early stages of the Battle of Britain, the Prime Minister was reviewing the first year of the War and spoke in homely terms of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, having "to be somewhat mixed up together in some of their affairs for ...
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    Nature 147 (1941), S. 495-495 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS little book provides an excellent guide to practical work for first-year students in histology and vertebrate embryology. Dr. Eales is an experienced and successful teacher and knows well the pitfalls that lie in the way of the beginner. The simplest methods and a small number of fixatives and ...
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    Nature 147 (1941), S. 501-504 
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    Notes: [Auszug] NATURE OF AN EXPLOSIVE A? explosive is a store of chemical energy in liquid or solid form which can be rapidly converted into heat and thence into mechanical energy. The explosive products must be gaseous, either wholly or in part, because the heat energy of solid or liquid products is not ...
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    Nature 147 (1941), S. 507-507 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT the request of the Ministry of Agriculture the Imperial Bureau of Horticulture and Plantation Crops, East Mailing, has issued a bulletin compiled by G. St. Clair Feilden, on haricot beans (Occasional Paper No. 6. Is.). Hitherto cheap supplies of beans from North America, Japan and Hungary have ...
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    Nature 147 (1941), S. 508-508 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE first volume of a work which describes the observations carried out by the Canadian Polar Year Expeditions, 1932-33, is largely statistical; but there is a general introduction by Dr. J. Patterson, the director of the Canadian Meteorological Service, and notes on the instruments at the ...
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    Nature 147 (1941), S. 511-511 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a recent note Preston1 has commented upon the agreement of his experimental results for the diffuse scattering of X-rays by single crystals of aluminium with the predictions of both the Preston–Bragg block hypothesis and a formula derived by Faxén. It seems necessary to ...
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    Nature 147 (1941), S. 515-515 
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. R. DENNELL'S work on the structure of the photophores in certain decapod Crustacea from deep water is of outstanding interest and importance*. It has been known for long that luminous organs exist in many of the deep-sea decapods; but it is astonishing to find such a variety of structure and so ...
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    Nature 147 (1941), S. 459-461 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A GENERATION ago geology was among the sciences which attracted a wide public interest; at the present time not only has public interest greatly declined, but also there are many workers in other sciences who are almost completely unaware of the content of geology. Yet at no time in the past ...
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    Nature 147 (1941), S. 467-471 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE diffuse reflexion of X-rays by crystals was the subject of a discussion held by the Royal Society on February 6, when the theoretical and experimental evidence was reviewed by a number of speakers. By way of introduction to the views put forward concerning the origin of diffuse reflexions, a ...
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    Nature 147 (1941), S. 475-476 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE extension of war into Yugoslav territory takes it into an area of the south-eastern Europe fauna and flora which had only begun to be properly explored by biologists within modern times. The British Museum expedition of 1937 collected four species of Clitellus (susliks or gophers) in Yugoslavia ...
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    Nature 147 (1941), S. 425-427 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A SPECIAL committee of the Town Planning Institute has been investigating the problem of compensation and betterment in relation to town planning*. A review of existing legislation on compensation and betterment and the acquisition of land by public authorities, including a survey of foreign ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 669-670 
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    Notes: [Auszug] SCIENTIFIC workers are adding here and there to human knowledge, and from time to time it is opportune to take stock in science, to ask whether the efforts are directed towards the best ends or whether we are largely chasing our own tails in working on details of established problems. For the ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 677-677 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS book is lineal successor in a series of famous books dealing with structural chemistry from a physical point of view, the first of the line being G. N. Lewis's "Valence and the Structure of Atoms and Molecules". The first edition of Prof. Pauling's work was published two years ago. Its ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 674-675 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ANY work dealing with the. behaviour of iodine in the body is bound to be mainly an account of the physiology of the thyroid gland. It is chiefly for this that biochemist and clinician alike will consult the book under review. Neither will be disappointed; for the author shows himself to be equally ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 677-677 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is the kind of book that makes any flower-lover's mouth water. Kingdon Ward had, of course, to make the chance for himself. But what a chance it was ! Wandering about in a flower paradise with nothing else to do but collect the most glorious plants. Thirty-nine rhododendrons-that alone should ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 677-677 
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. VAUGHAJST CORtflSH in his interesting study of historic thorn trees shows that their distribution in England coincides strikingly with the areas invaded in the south by the Belgic tribes from Gaul, and in northern England, by the Parisii, an adjoining tribe. From these tribes probably ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 689-689 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT the twenty-sixth annual general meeting of the British Social Hygiene Council, the president, Sir Walter Langdon-Brown, took for his subject the relation between biology and health. This address has been printed in the current issue of the organ of the above Society, Health, and Empire. As an ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 689-689 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE British Standards Institution announces that, in view of the continuing expansion of the work of the Institution and the development of its relations with the Government Departments and with standardizing authorities overseas, the General Council has appointed an Executive Committee under a ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 690-690 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT the suggestion of Dr. G. Jedlewski, medical adviser to the Polish President, a special medical board has been formed in London to prepare plans for fighting epidemics which may break out in Poland at the end of the War. A DIETETIC council has been set up in Ireland with Dr. P. T. O'Farrell to ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 690-690 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON the evening of November 25 an earthquake caused some apprehension in Lisbon and the surrounding country, though little material damage appears to have been done. Details of recordings from seismographic observatories are awaited before the exact epicentre can be determined. Several of these ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 701-702 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A RECENT valuable contribution to the natural history of New Zealand by Dr. G. Archey dealing with the moa* fully maintains the high reputation of the ornithologists of that country, and both the author and the Council of the Auckland Institute, who sponsored the work, merit our congratulations. ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 655-655 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE death on October 20 of Prof. W. H. Heaton at the age of eighty-five brought to an end a personal association with University College, Nottingham, almost from its beginning. William Haslam Heaton, born at Bolton in 1856, attended Manchester Grammar School, where he won an open scholarship at ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 653-654 
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    Notes: [Auszug] BY the death of Prof. Arthur George Green on September 12, at the age of seventy-seven, the British dyestuffs industry has lost its foremost chemist and an indefatigable champion whose experience had extended over fifty-six years. His genius as a chemist lay in his capacity to produce a simple ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 656-657 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE twenty-fifth anniversary meeting of the Society of Glass Technology was held at the Department of Glass Technology, Sheffield, on November 19, when hi addition to the technical papers which were presented, the day was marked by two interesting official functions. The first was the presentation ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 654-654 
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    Notes: [Auszug] JOHN STANLEY PLASKETT, late director of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, B.C., who died at Victoria on October 17 at the age of seventy-five, was the doyen of Canadian astronomers. Educated at Woodstock High School hi Ontario, and apprenticed to the Edison Electric Company at o ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 659-659 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON December 1, a century ago, Dr. George Birkbeck died in London and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. His name to-day is recalled by Birkbeck College, London, which began its career as the London Mechanics' Institution with Birkbeck as its president. There were at one time hundreds of such ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 658-658 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A NEW step in the rationalization of the British fine chemical industry has been taken by the formation of the Therapeutic Research Corporation of Great Britain, Ltd., the directors of which are Lord Trent, of Boots Pure Drug Company, Ltd., Mr. C. A. Hill, of the British Drug Houses, Ltd., Mr. H. ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 664-665 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Electrical Phenomena in Heart Muscle During Activity J. A. E. EYSTBB, in a paper read at the Autumn Meeting of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences held during October 13-15, dealt with the electrical potentials which develop in the heart in the interval immediately preceding and during the ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 659-659 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AN investigation has been carried out by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in collaboration with the National Physical and Chemical Laboratories and the Imperial Institute, of the mechanical properties of the fibre from nettle stems (Urtica dioica) and other plants native to Great Britain, and of ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 606-606 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. TIMOSHENKO is one of the outstanding exponents of the mathematical theory of elasticity and of the application of this theory to a variety of practical problems. He has written on these topics for thirty years, and his books have become indispensable to every engineer who has to apply ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 612-616 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the study of man and his activities three types of cultural development may be recognized; and they are all measured by different standards. In the fine arts the imaginative qualities of the mind appeal primarily to the emotions through stimulation of the aesthetic judgment; material culture is ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 666-667 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Avena method of estimating auxin in plants requires such technical perfection and specialized apparatus that it is rendered useless to workers who have no access to elaborate equipment. The method described below has been worked out under ordinary greenhouse conditions and, while it is fully ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 623-623 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE regret to announce the following deaths: Mr. V. M. Foster, geologist in the U.S. Geological Survey, on September 2, aged thirty-seven. Prof. A. C. Eraser, professor of plant breeding in Cornell University, on September 17, aged fifty-one. Prof. E. E. Maar, professor of the history of medicine ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 576-576 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE disquieting fact has to be faced that the world's stock of wild geese and wild duck is steadily decreasing. To obtain accurate information on this decrease, and to seek some method of checking it, the International Committee for Bird Preservation recently carried out an exhaustive inquiry, the ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 580-584 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE last ten years have witnessed in Great Britain a strong revival of a movement that for at least three generations has been a decisive force in the formation of opinion and the trend of social affairs in Europe: the movement for 'economic planning'. As in other countries-first in France and then ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 588-589 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON December 2, 1940, science suffered a severe loss in the death of Nicolai K. Koltzov, the great Russian biologist. Born in Moscow in 1872 and educated at the University of Moscow, Koltzov began research as a comparative anatomist and his first paper was on the development of the amphibian pelvis. ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 616-618 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE view that the arrangement of atoms or o*o molecules in a liquid is not entirely random may now be considered well established. In other words, the liquid possesses certain characteristics to which the term 'structure' can be properly applied. This does not mean that a liquid possesses anything ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 591-592 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE report for 1940 of H.M. Astronomer at the Capo of Good Hope illustrates how astronomical work in tho belligerent countries is being affected even though they may be far removed from the present scene of hostilities. Half the observing staff at the Cape is now engaged on non-astronomical duties, ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 592-592 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, in co-operation with Science Service and the Jesuit Seismological Association, hasdetermined the provisional epicentre of the earthquake of July 3 at 7h. 11-7m. TJ.T. as being at lat. 33° S., long. 68° W. The calculations have 'been based on reports from ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 594-595 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE quickest and also the most accurate method of determining the percentage of water in animals or plants or tissues in general is a simple modification of the recognized method of determining the percentage of water in oils by means of a Dean and Stark's tube. The animal or plant is ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 597-598 
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    Notes: [Auszug] BRITISH workers with strawberry viruses have so far failed to obtain transmission of Fragaria virus 1 (yellow edge) or Fragaria virus 2 (crinkle) by aphides other than the ‘delicate strawberry aphis’, Penta-trichopus (Capitophorus) fragariœ Theob., a species possibly identical with the American ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 598-598 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN order to investigate the causes of wars by counting occurrences, let the magnitude of any war be denned to be the logarithm, to the base ten, of the number of persons who died because of that quarrel. This definition has the advantage that it applies, not only to what are ordinarily called ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is with regret that we record the death on October 7 of Prof. B. B. Wild, emeritus professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the University of Manchester. Educated at Owens College, Prof. Wild was associated with Manchester throughout his active career. After serving for a time as an ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Dr. H. L. Shapiro and Dr. F. G. Rainey, of the American Museum of Natural History, have been excavating five hundred arctic tombs at Point Hope, Alaska. The five hundred skeletons are said to form one of the largest collections of the sort ever found at a site in America. The two anthropologists ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN an address before the London Students' Section of the Institution of Electrical Engineers on October 15, Dr. W. G. Radley, of the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill, spoke on Telecommunications of the future. He pointed out that in 1914, although wire telephony had been in use for about ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SIR HENRY DALE, president of the Royal Society, has been awarded the Gold Medal for 1941 of the Royal Society of Medicine. The Medal is given triennially for "valuable contributions to the science and art of medicine". THE RIGHT HON. LORD CHATIXELD, recently Minister for the Co-ordination of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SEVERAL equations have been suggested for the swelling pressure of a hygroscopic gel, of which the best known is the approximate form due to Katz1. Porter2 gives an exact and general equation for the osmotic pressure of a solution. We may, for simplicity, conform ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHEN Sturt discovered the Darling River he left the following notes, for which I am indebted to Mr. Charles Daley, secretary of the Historical Society: 1. “The channel of the river was from 70 to 80 yards broad, and enclosed an unbroken sheet of water evidently very deep, and literally covered ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] BY the sudden death of Mr. I. O. Griffith on September 22, the day before his sixty-first birthday, the University of Oxford, and especially the science faculties, have lost more than can be easily measured. As member of the Hebdomadal Council, vice-chairman of the General Board, chairman of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A NATIONAL science activity, Science Clubs of America, is being sponsored by Science Service, the American science news service. In every locality throughout the country there will be groups active in various fields of science. Science clubs in high schools will be encouraged and given the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A CENSUS of koalas on Phillip Island, Victoria, was taken this year with the aid of school-children, and, we are informed by Sir James Barrett, the count shows a record population of 590, a natural increase of thirty-nine over the number shown after the census of July 1939. Many Eucalyptus ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] UNDER the will of Mr. Alfred Corner, of Stavarton Road, Brondesbury Park, London, who died in 1934, the University has received £1,440 for the solo purposes of the Cambridge University Biochemical Laboratory. The full value of the bequest of which this is an instalment may approach £1,800. The ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT the quarterly meeting of the council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England it was announced that Mr. D. L. Kerr has been admitted as a Macloghlin scholar, and that Prof. John Beattie has been appointed Bernhard* Baron research professor. The following awards were reported: o a Prophit ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I AM sorry that Dr. Waddington (NATURE, Sept. 6) allows the word ‘good’ to be spelt with a capital, even if only once. The use of a capital letter makes an adjective appear to be a noun, that is, a thing, which has an independent existence, and this leads to endless confusion, such as that ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ELFORD1 has developed a method of particle size determination by centrifuging solutions in inverted capillaries. The sedimentation within the capillaries fulfils Stokes's law, that is, there is a uniform movement of the particles until the boundary approaches the lower open end ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MANY attempts have been made to demonstrate a possible endocrine influence of the uterus upon the ovaries of animals. The most recent report dealing with this subject1 describes degenerative changes in the ovaries of hysterectomized rabbits. An extract of rabbit endometrium ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] APPLICATIONS are invited for the following appointments on or before the dates mentioned: ACTING HEADSHIP OF THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY-The Registrar, University College, Hull (November 6). LECTURER IN PHARMACOLOGY-The Secretary and Registrar, University, Bristol (November 8). GRADUATE LECTURER ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WORLD-WIDE interest and sympathy has been aroused by the appeal of the meeting of men of science held in Moscow on October 12. Messages of greeting, sent in advance to the meeting, included one from Sir Henry Dale, president of the Royal Society of London, declaring solidarity with the Soviet men ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. ARTHUR HAMILTON SMITH, who died on September 27, was best known among classical scholars and archaeologists by his Catalogues of Classical Sculptures and of Engraved Gems in the British Museum, but in unobtrusive ways he rendered valuable service to ancient art and archaeology. He was born ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] HABBY STANDISH BALI was born in South Africa in 1888 and died at Haslemere after a long illness on September 26. He was a distinguished mining engineer with wide experience of South African and American methods, and during the War of 1914-18 became one of the recognized authorities on military ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] It was stated in NATURE of October 18, p. 457, that Dr. E. Kodicek, who contributed a paper on post-war relief at the recent British Association meeting, was formerly lecturer in psychology in the University of Prague; this is incorrect. He held the position of head of the Department for Vitamins ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SHELL2 has shown that the offspring of X-rayed male mice produced before the onset of complete X-ray sterility contain a certain proportion—depending on the dosage—of semi-sterile individuals, which when outcrossed to unrelated animals throw litters of reduced size. This ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AS was mentioned in the issue of NATURE of February 15, the Institution of Electrical Engineers now publishes extended abstracts only of papers in Part I of its Journal, the full papers being issued later in either Part II or Part III, according as the subject-matter of the paper is appropriately ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28 ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE (at 21 Bedford Square, London, W.C.I), at 1.30 p.m.-Mr. E. H. Hunt: "High Places of Sacrifice in Palestine and Petra". CHADWICK PUBLIC LECTURE (at the Royal Sanitary Institute, 90 Buckingham Palace Road, London, S.W.I), at 2.30 p.m.-Mr. J. C. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. T. M. OLBRYCHT1 finds it difficult to believe that our N-type coat2 can have a comparatively simple genetic basis. That conclusion was adopted very tardily here, as papers published show3,4 and, as stated before, we have bred a few N-type animals ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ONE of the points generally agreed upon during the proceedings of the Conference on Science and World Order arranged by the Division for the Social and International Relations of Science of the British Association was that careful scientific planning is essential for post-war relief and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] APPLICATIONS are invited for the following appointments on or before the dates mentioned: HEAD OF THE MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT-The Secretary, The Technical College, Sunderbmd (November 15). CHIEF ASSISTANT ENGINEER-The Engineer to the Witham and . Steeping Rivers Catchment Board, 50 Wide Bargate, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AFTER lengthy discussions last year, books were exempted from the Purchase Tax, on the grounds of their cultural value and their value as exports. Having survived the threat of ordeal by taxation, books are now confronted by the ordeal of war-time shortage of materials and labour. Lord Samuel ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON October 26 occurred the centenary of the birth of the Austrian astronomer Theodor Ritter von Oppolzer who from 1876 until his death on December 26, 1886, held the chair of astronomy at Vienna. Born at Prague, he was the only son of Johann von Oppolzer, (1808-71), a well-known pathologist who ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, in co-operation with Science Sarvice and the Jesuit Seismological Association, has determined the tentative epicentres of four recent earthquakes from reports received from seismograph stations. On August 2 the earthquake at llh. 41-5m. TJ.T. had its epicentre ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE of August 2, p. 139, it is stated that a new comet (1941 d) had been discovered by Dr. H. van Gent, of Bosscha Observatory, Lembang. Dr. van-Gent, writing from the Union Observatory, Johannesburg, informs us that the comet was discovered by him from plates taken with the Franklin Adams ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE main part of the non-ionizing component of cosmic radiation near sea-level consists of photons1 and neutrons2. A rough survey carried out by Rossi and his co-workers3 at sea-level did not give any evidence of penetrating neutral particles. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] RECENT research work exemplifies the close col laboration maintained between the Central Research Institute at Dehra Dun, India, and the local research officers maintained in the various provinces of the country. It also furnishes evidence of a wider connexion. The first yield tables for plantation ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. D. S. EVANS, University Observatory, Oxford, writing with reference to the letter in NATURE of September 27 by Mr. D. L. Johnston urging the need for a scientific press bureau, states that the Association of Scientific Workers has devoted considerable attention to this problem. A scheme has ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] M. MAISKY, the Soviet Ambassador, has been offered and has accepted honorary membership of the Athenseum. THE title of Sir Ernest Cassel reader in commerce in the University of London has been conferred on Dr. Vera Anstey, in respect of the post heldby her in the London School of Economics. DR. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE have become interested in the relationships existing between some of the older ‘distillation constants’ and the more recent concept of relative volatility (α of Walker, Lewis et al.1). To find the rate of change with composition of total vapour pressure (P) of a binary mixture ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE first meeting of the session of the Newcomen Society was held on October 8. Two papers were read, the first by Messrs. N. Deerr and A. Brooks dealing with the "Development of Evaporation in the Sugar Industry", and the second by Mr. S. Withington on "Automobiles in 1830". There were three ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SIDEROCYTES are erythrocytes in which the presence of some non-hæmoglobin iron can be demonstrated by the Prussian blue reaction1. They occur in the embryos and new-born young of normal rats and mice, and are greatly increased in numbers in the blood of mice suffering from the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Robson and Schönberg1 have shown that triphenylethylene, a synthetic substance which is easily prepared and now commercially obtainable, will induce œstrous changes in the genital organs and mating in ovariectomized mice and hypophysectomized rabbits. The effect in mice may last ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING an estimation of anti-tetanic serum, 0.02 c.c. of a filtrate of a meat broth culture of Clostridium tetani, 0.01 c.c. of which filtrate, injected intraperitoneally, had previously killed a mouse in eighteen hours, was slowly added to 0.03 c.c. of water from a rain-gutter containing five ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] It is now announced that an international standard for vitamin E has been established and that, as in the case of the international standards for the vitamins A, Bj, C and D, the National Institute for Medical Research, Hampstead, London, N.W.3, acting on behalf of the Health Organization of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] APPLICATIONS are invited for the following appointments on or before the dates mentioned: MAINTENANCE ENGINEER-The Borough Electrical Engineer and Manager, Halifax Electricity Department, 19-23 Northgate, Halifax (endorsed 'Maintenance Engineer') (October 21). LECTURER IN CHARGE OF THE MARINE ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is impossible for one author to attempt to bring A within the compass of one or even a series of volumes a comprehensive and authoritative account of high polymer systems. Nothing less than a carefully chosen team of experts will suffice for the task. While the subject has comemore and more into ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE lecture of Szent-Györgyi, recently reported in NATURE1, prompts us to publish some of the results we have accumulated on the electric conductivity of wool and other materials. Dry wool shows strong polarization under an applied potential, but as its regain* is increased ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. A. STANLEY BABJSTES has resigned his post as dean of the Faculty of Medicine in the University of Birmingham after ten years in office. Dr. Barnes, who was a student of Mason College, in addition to being closely associated with the local hospitals, attained an outstanding position as a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. ARTHUR GAMGEE, F.R.S., physiologist and consulting physician, wasborn at Florence on October 10, 1841, the son of a veterinary surgeon and pathologist. From the outset of his career he showed a special interest in physiology, particularly physiological chemistry,' as was evidencedby his ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 437-437 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THALLIUM at room temperature has a close-packed hexagonal structure, but this transforms at 230° C. into another structure which is given in the literature as face-centred cubic. This is based on the work of Sekito1, who used specimens quenched from the melt and specimens ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 439-440 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT has long been the general assumption that, at least in the higher vertebrates, the stock of oogonia and oocytes laid down in the ovaries during embryonic life is never afterwards increased, and that in the adult the waves of maturing eggs are derived from this stock which lasts the animal ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 442-443 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON September 24 the Industrial Radiology Group of the Institute of Physics held the first meeting since its inauguration, this taking the form of an afternoon conference at the Royal Institution, presided over by Prof. J. A. Crowther. The Conference was opened by Sir William Bragg whofirst spoke of ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 369-369 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the Bell Laboratories Record of July a description is given by C. D. Hanscom of a variety of equipment which has recently been assembled by the Bell System for use in public lectures. One of the most unusual demonstrations is a Rochelle salt crystal which flashes a neon lamp when hit with a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ACCORDING to the British Medical Journal of August 9, the National University of Mexico, four years ago, founded its social service system under which every medical graduate is required to practise for five months as a health officer in some part of the country where there is no such ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 403-403 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE regret to announce the following deaths: Mr. H. S. Ball, O.B.E., principal of the School of Metalliferous Mining, Cornwall, on September 26, aged fifty-three. Mr. R. T. Baker, formerly curator of the Technological Museum, Sydney, a well-known authority on Australian eucalypts and pines, on ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Prime Minister sent the following message to the Conference: "One of our objects in fighting this war is to maintain the right of free discussion and the interchange of ideas. In contrast to the intellectual darkness which is descending on Germany, the freedom that our scientists enjoy is a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THOUGH damaged on two occasions and partly evacuated, the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine has spent an active year, as shown by its annual report. As usual, the work has covered a wide field, including studies on antigens, phosphorylation in osteoid tissue, fat metabolism, and mucolytic ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Council of the National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge, has decided to offer for sale about a hundred quarters of Steadfast, a winter wheat bred by Prof. F. L. Engledow, of the Cambridge University Plant Breeding Institute. Hitherto the wheat has been grown in the Institute's ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ACCORDING to preliminary estimates of the Central Office of Statistics, the population of Sweden in 1940 was 6,370,964. Comparison with the figure at the end of 1939 shows that the population has increased by about 30,000, corresponding to 4-68 per thousand. The growth of the population was split ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] So little is known of the reproductive processes of any South American monkey that additional data on the typical genus Cebus are worthy of record. Capuchins seldom breed in captivity, only three records during a hundred years being given for the London Zoo by Zuckerman1 and no ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 323-325 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHATEVER form Anglo-American co-operation may ultimately take after the War, there are certain fields in which some continuity appears to be inevitable. Notably this is true of a whole range of questions such as the future of agriculture in the United States and in the British Empire, questions of ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 412-412 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the review in NATURE of August 16 of the above book by Dr. Harker, which was recently published posthumously, attention is directed to certain omissions in a Table of Formations which was added to Dr. Marker's original manuscript. Perhaps I may be allowed to explain that the Table was drawn ...
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