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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 414-415 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE eighty-sixth annual exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain was opened at the Society's Galleries, 16 Princes Gate, S.W.7, on September 5, by the Right Hon. J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon, the Minister of Aircraft Production. This is the second exhibition that has been organized ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 369-370 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN his latest annual report Sir Alexander Macgregor, medical officer of health for Glasgow, states that the total number of houses in that city in which bed bugs were found in 1939 was 309, or 2-1 per cent, as compared with 3-1 per cent in 1938. In 79 houses, or 0-5 per cent only, a "trace" of bed ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 367-367 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. CLAUD MACKENZIE HUTCHINSON, who died on August 2, at the age of seventy-two, was a pioneer in the field of agricultural bacteriology in India and also contributed notably to a wide variety of problems of tropical soil, fermentation and medical science. He was educated at Glenalmond and St. ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 372-372 
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    Notes: [Auszug] CONSIDERABLE difference of opinion prevails concerning the size and mass of meteors. While one school of investigators, attacking the problem from theoretical considerations based on certain relations between amount of light emitted by an incandescent body and its extent of surface and mass, is ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 763-766 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE International Labour Organisation remains almost alone of the institutions framed to promote international co-operation, understanding and world order after the War of 1914-18. Although its staff has been drastically reduced and all but a small group of officials have been transferred to ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 766-767 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE thesis maintained in this book by the professor of psychology in Colgate University, is that civilization is to perish, not by war, but by the action of certain evils which are inherent in our Western way of life. "Let us suppose," he writes, "that this war takes the very worst turn possible. ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 770-770 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE first volume of the twenty-second edition o*o of the Extra Pharmacopoeia-Martindale- has appeared at about the time that it might have been expected if there had been no -war. It looks like its immediate predecessors and, like them, will be almost indispensable to the physician and the ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 771-771 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE are almost numberless little books written to help the layman to understand modern physics. At first sight this modest volume is yet another. But not quite. It deals, as they all do, with the rapid development of physics, indicating how it is that our concepts have become less and less ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 768-770 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE appearance of these books is a sign of a -oo more permanent aspect of the times than that which unfortunately must now engage most of our attention. Not only are the tables now before us of great intrinsic importance; they are significant also as a symbol of the transition of atomic ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 771-771 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS book is written for pilots and observers in A the R.A.F., who will find in it much useful information. It is marred by some inaccuracies, over-sweeping generalizations and dubious explanations of phenomena that meteorologists have not yet succeeded in explaining. One of the inaccuracies is ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 771-771 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS work is written specially for young people and the subject is approached from the observational side: mathematics are completely absent from the text. The copious illustrations will prove very helpful to the tyro as will also some of the simple experiments which have been suggested, for ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 771-771 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE author advocates the use of non-Aristotelian logic. This would mean abandoning the laws of identity, contradiction and excluded middle. He claims that such a revolution in thought would eliminate many ancient and modern fallacies, and introduce a new and better era in science, philosophy and ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 774-776 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MEN of science at the symposium on "Life at High Altitudes and Aviation Medicine" held at the University of Chicago on September 23 as part of the University's fiftieth anniversary celebration heard dissertations ranging from a description of an "Altitude Human Race" to the physiology of the free ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 772-774 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE study of mere increase in size and weight has steadily lost the interest of British later Huxdirected their research to other fields. Many of the beliefs about organic growth that formerly seemed reasonable or even self-evident-in the existence, for example, of an integral biochemical process ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 776-777 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE passing on November 12 of Dr. Edwin Sloper Beaven at the age of eighty-four, after a brief illness, will be deeply regretted by a wide circle of friends in Great Britain, and by many in other countries to whom he was known either by personal contact or through his published works. Dr. Beaven ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 777-777 
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    Notes: [Auszug] We regret to announce the following deaths: Prof. Phillipo Bottazzi, formerly professor of physiology in the Universities of Genoa and Naples, aged seventy-four. Prof. Carrie M. Derick, emeritus professor of morphological botany and genetics in McGill University, on November 10, aged ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 777-778 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Sydney Ball Lecture on "Administrative Problems of International Organization", delivered by Mr. F. P. Walters, which has now been published as Barnett House Paper No. 24 (Oxford University Press. Is. net), is highly relevant to the tentative discussions on post-war international reconstruction ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 778-779 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ACCORDING to the June issue of the Statistical Bulletin, the organ of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, of New York, there were fewer cases of smallpox in the United States in 1940 than in any previous year on record. The 2,839 cases reported represented a drop of more than 70 per cent from ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 778-778 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a paper in the Journal of Social Psychology (11, 59-77; 1940), Prof. Vyscheslevzeff, of the University of Geneva, maintains that modern sociology cannot function, nor contemporary upheavals be understood and 'new orders' firmly established without the application of collective psychology, ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 779-779 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a recent address (Nordisk Med., I'D, 1921; 1941) at the opening of the new Psychiatric Clinic at the Caroline Hospital, Stockholm, Dr. Viktor Wigert gave a retrospect of clinical psychiatry in Sweden during the last hundred years. In 1844 it was stated by the authorities in charge of the ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 778-778 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ACCORDING to Dr. M. H. Watt, director-general of health for New Zealand, the year 1940-41 was on the whole the most favourable for health that the Dominion has had. Infantile mortality of the European population fell to 30-21, of which 22-03 is accounted for by 722 deaths in the first month of ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 779-779 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ONE of the most noticeable effects of the war-time conditions upon British bird-life has been the rapid increase of magpies, judging from reports in many parts of the country. Much larger flocks than usual have been seen in many counties, like Cheshire, but there is no evidence of any harmful ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE following officers of the Iron and Steel Institute have recently been elected: President, Mr. James Henderson; Vice-president, Dr. Andrew McCance; Hon. Treasurer, The Hon. R. G. Lyttelton; Members of Council, Prof. J. H. Andrew and Mr. N. H. Rollason. Mr. Walter S. Tower, president of the ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 780-780 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a recent letter1 Mrs. Lonsdale reports that the shapes of certain “diffuse spots” in the pattern due to mono-chromatic X-rays which have been scattered by sodium are in agreement with calculations made by Jahn, and points out that this is the more noteworthy because the ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 780-781 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT has been pointed out1 that in the sol-gel change, gel formation should be more rapid the higher the temperature, in the absence of changes of solubility with temperature. In the case of pectin-sugar gels, the method, of preparation is generally such that the temperature ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE moon is full on January 2d. 151\. 42m. U.T. and new on January 16d. 21h. 32m. Lunar conjunctions with the planets occur on the following dates: Mercury on January 18d. 5h., Mercury 4° S.; Venus on January 18d. 13h., Venus 2° N.; Mars on January 24d. 8h., Mars 5° N.; Saturn on January 25d. 17h., ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 781-781 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE nomenclature of fowl genetics has become somewhat confused in recent years. So many characters have been investigated that the difficulty of designating symbols for the corresponding genes has increased considerably. There have been much overlapping and repetition, and the same symbol now ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 782-783 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ONE of the major difficulties in the work of helminthologists has been to differentiate between living and dead nematodes. According to Lapage1, most of those who have studied the metabolism of these worms have taken their failure to move either as a result of or without the ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 782-782 
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    Notes: [Auszug] INDEPENDENT investigations in our respective laboratories have resulted in the isolation from perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) of a new constituent with unusual optical properties. Further study has shown that the material is an alkaloid of empirical formula (hydrochloride) ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 783-784 
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    Notes: [Auszug] To the interesting discussion aroused by Dr. C. H. Waddington in NATURE1 may be added comments reflecting United States opinion on the matter. It was remarkable that three leading American biologists, representing the east, mid-continent, and west, should have come to about ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE margin between dermis and epidermis is one natural-splitting layer of human skin. By the gentle tryptic digestion of flat human skin slices for a length of time depending on their thickness, it is possible to disengage the epidermis in the form of an intact sheet uncontaminated by ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 784-784 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AMONG the obvious motives of mankind are the tendencies to seek company and to seek living-space. If we were to regard these tendencies as being in simple opposition to one another, we should expect the population to be able to remain uniformly spread over any uniform piece of land; and the ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 787-789 
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    Notes: [Auszug] UNTIL comparatively recently biology might well be said to have been the 'Cinderella' of the sciences so far as primary and secondary education in Great Britain were concerned. Over a period of about ten years, however, the subject has become recognized more and more as of vast cultural and ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 785-786 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Production of Cancer by Ultra-violet Irradiation THIS topic was discussed by H. P. Rusch and B. E. Kline at the Autumn Meeting of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences held during October 13-15. The idea that sunlight is an important causal agent in cancer of the skin is not new. The high ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 790-790 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS tree (Aleurites fordii'B.wcasl.), an inhabitant of China, produces the Chinese wood oil of commerce, the oil being used in the manufacture of paints and varnishes owing to its rapid drying qualities. It came into prominence during the War of 1914-18 when it was extensively used in the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE University of Oxford, since 1938, has contributed towardsthe cost of research into the problems of island faunas, with special reference to the Pacific, and, in particular, theMarquesas Isles. Mr. E. P. Mumford, of Jesus College, who is conducting the inquiry, has made it one of his chief aims ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] (not included in the monthly Books Supplement) Great Britain and Ireland University of Heading: National Institute for Research in Dairying. Annual Report for the Year ending 30th September 1940. Pp. 52.(Reading: National Institute for Research in Dairying.) [2411 University of Sheffield. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SATURDAY, JANUARY 3 JOIHT MEETING OF TECHNICAL INSTITUTIONS arranged at the request of the Mines Department (in the H. H. Wills Laboratory, Royal Fort, Bristol), at 2.30 p.m.--Discussion on the Best Ways and Means of Improving the Efficient Use of 3?uel and Power in Existing Industrial Plants, ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 733-735 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE dominant lesson of the War is that the quantity and scale of the equipment which the combatants can throw into the scales at the right place will go as far to determine the issue of the struggle as the military virtues of the rank and file or the skill of the commanders. The industrial effort ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 738-738 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A BOOK on the Raman effect, written from a o**o physical point of view, has been badly needed for some time. Since the discovery of the effect in 1928, there have been several attempts to review and collate the enormous literature which has grown up in the succeeding years. Although there are now ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 737-738 
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    Notes: [Auszug] SOIL physics, although a science having but few ^ devotees, has grown up in two separate divisions, one dealing with soil as a habitat for plants and the other for large public buildings and roads, etc. Unfortunately these two divisions are still in almost water-tight compartments with respect to ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 739-743 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AN opportunity to see old problems in new **o circumstances and discussed by new-comers is rare enough to be usually worth taking. Interest is added when the problem is the central one of biology and the speakers are Russians engaged in trying to.build a society about which there may be as many ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 736-737 
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    Notes: [Auszug] JEFFERIES has been dead for half a century, *J while three of his posthumous works were published in 1889, 1892, and 1909. Mr. Looker's scrap-book (it is scarcely more than that) of Jefferies' jottings will, therefore, come as a surprise to most people who, since Jefferies died at the age of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ONE of the most interesting of the Fiftieth Anniversary Symposia, held at the University of Chicago during September 22-27, was that on two-dimensional systems or surface chemistry. Introductory remarks on the origin and development of this subject at the University were made by Dr. Irving ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LAST week, on the outbreak of war between the United States and the Totalitarian Powers, the King sent a message to President Roosevelt, which concluded with the words: "We share your inflexible determination and your confidence that, with God's help, the powers of darkness will be overcome and the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN reply to a, question asked by Sir Herbert Williams, the Minister of Labour and National Service stated in the House of Commons on December II that as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made, the present Central and Supplementary Registers are to be merged in a new Appointments Department ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is well known that modern life in peace and especially in war depends on fuel in liquid form. While consumption of the lighter and more volatile fuels in internal combustion engines is more apparent to the layman, there is a large consumption of heavier fuel oils consumed for industrial furnaces ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A THOUGHTFUL address was delivered on October 27 by Mr. H. G. Taylor, chairman of the Liverpool Centre of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, on "Co-ordination and Standardization". He regards co-ordination as the best means of arriving at standardization. He said it would be disastrous if the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ACCORDING to the October issue of the Anglo-Swedish Review, medicine and technology in Sweden are collaborating in the problem of poisoning from gas-producers, with the result of the establishment of the first clinic in the north at the Sabbatsberg Hospital in Stockholm. The work is being conducted ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE arterial road connecting Toronto and Niagara Falls, known as Queen Elizabeth Way, is lighted by incandescent lamps in parallel over its whole length of 70 miles. Already the lighting installation enjoys the distinction of being the longest in the world, and no doubt it will be continued on the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE September-October number of Man contains a letter which is of distinct importance to those who concern themselves with the problems of Stone Age Africa. It would seem certain that Archdeacon Owen has discovered in a rock-shelter in Kenya an early Smithfield industry, and that Prof, van Riet ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a paper on this subject (Brit. J. Inebriety, July-October), Dr. J. D. Bolleston remarks that with the exception of Hovorka and Kronfeld's great work on comparative folk medicine no writers have dwelt at length on folk-lore in relation to alcoholism. He has therefore collected the folk-lore of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT a meeting of the Section of Epidemiology and State Medicine of the Royal Society of Medicine on November 28, Dr. Melville D. Mackenzie read a paper on the control of louse-borne typhus fever in Gredt Britain in the light of experience in Russia, Poland, Rumania and China. After discussing the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE report of the National Institute for Research in Dairying (University of Reading) for the year ended September 30, 1940, has just been published. Many members of the staff are now acting in an advisory capacity on various war-time committees appointed by the Government, especially the Ministry ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ACCOBDING to an editorial in the August issue of the Statistical Bulletin of New York, tuberculosis is already on the increase in other countries than the United States, although the evidence is based only on provisional or fragmentary data. In England and Wales the death-rate among male civilians ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE first number of the war-time issue of Country-Side, the quarterly journal of the British Empire Naturalists' Association, has appeared to start the ' twelfth volume of this well-known journal. It is edited by Mr. Leslie Beckett, the honorary organizing secretary, and comprises a twenty-page ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THREE papers in recent numbers of the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society describe the history of gardens and gardeners of the past. The gardens at Wormley Bury, Broxbourne, Herts, have been the means of introducing many new plants to the horticulture of Britain. Sir Abraham and Lady Amelia ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] STATISTICS relating to the Portland cement industry of the United States, compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Mines, show that the quantity of this substance pro-" duced in 1940 was 130,216,511 barrels (the unit of measure employed throughout the statistics is the barrel of 376 lb.). The output for 1940 ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PEGS'. EMILE PICABD, For. Mem. R.S., permanent secretary of the Paris Academy of Sciences and a, distinguished mathematician, died on December 12, aged eighty-five. The Symons Gold Medal for 1942 of the Royal Meteorological Society has been awarded to the late Dr. J. S. Owens, whose death occurred ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHILE the use of the metre-kilogram-second-coulomb system of units is rapidly becoming more widespread, that of the E.M.U. system is almost nonexistent, except in elementary courses and old-fashioned text-books. In purely electrostatic problems, on the other hand, the general use of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] To meet the requirements of those engaged in the animal industries, a new section of Biological Abstracts, to be known as "Section F, Abstracts of Animal Production and Veterinary Science", will begin in January next. It will contain all the abstracts published in Biological Abstracts that have to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE international procedure which in normal times can be adopted for agreement or otherwise to suggested changes in the nomenclature of fundamental units cannot function at the present time, but it is hoped that Dr. Guggenheim's suggestion, which can be brought to the notice of those it ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SINCE atmospheric refraction plays an important part in the bending of ultra-short radio waves round the surface of the earth, an adequate study of the propagation of these waves requires a knowledge of the refractive indexes of gases at very high frequencies. It was thought desirable to test ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WITHIN recent years considerable doubt has been cast upon the validity of the Gibbs adsorption isotherm as applied to aqueous solutions of the paraffin-chain salts (soaps and soap-like molecules)1,2. The chief objection has been, the numerous well-established examples of dilute ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the course of an investigation into the mineral content of foodstuffs, some analyses of hens' eggs were made. The white and yolk were treated separately. The ash was analysed by the ordinary arc spectrum method, and the liquids were also analysed directly by a spark technique similar to that ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE suggestion made by Gunn and Walshe1, that the avoiding reaction of Paramecium fits into the scheme of klino-kinesis, receives some support from the behaviour of the animal in a uniform high temperature, as I described it in 19392. If the temperature of a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PREVIOUS papers from these laboratories have shown that the subjection of yeast, other micro-organisms, and several animal tissues to various forms of injury, such as ultra-violet irradiation, X-rays, mechanical injury, chemical irritation and oxygen lack, results in the release into the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is well known that vanadium pentoxide, used as a catalyst, greatly increases the efficiency of sodium chlorate when employed as an oxidizing agent in the production of certain dyes. Investigations have been carried out to determine whether similar use could be made of vanadium in certain ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHEN drawing objects under a microscope with a camera lucida the size of the drawing is normally dependent solely on the magnification of the microscope. Usually this magnification can be adjusted to give a drawing of the required size; but when drawing objects which are only a few microns ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a recent communication, Lowndes1 has pointed out the advantages attained by applying the Dean and Stark method2 for the determination of water to plant and animal tissues. A modification of this well-known method has been used for the determination of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A RAPID method for the estimation of water in animals and plants consisting of distillation with an immiscible liquid has been suggested1. The liquid used was xylol, and some charring of sugar occurred. If toluene (b.p. 110.7° C.) is substituted for xylol, the amount of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Biochemical Society held a discussion meet-JL ing on the mode of action of chemotherapeutic agents on November 29 at the Courtauld Institute of Biochemistry, Middlesex Hospital, Prof. E. C. Dodds being in the chair. Dr. G. M. Findlay, in opening the discussion, said that chemotherapeutic action ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT a conference organized by the Association of Scientific Workers and held at Birmingham on December 6, the need for greater co-ordination and collaboration in all fields of applied science was urged. The essential part which the scientific worker has to play in the modern community was emphasized ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN view of the statements made in recent articles in NATUBE regarding the employment of scientific workers in connexion with the national effort, the following statement of the situation as it concerns members of the Institute of Physics may be of interest. With negligibly few exceptions ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Annual Conference of the Society of Agri-A cultural Bacteriologists, held at the Midland Agricultural College during September 12-13, covered a wide range of subjects. The papers may be classified, somewhat arbitrarily, into those concerned with dairying and those with other fields. Instances ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE diet of man now contains a variety of foods very different from those consumed by his pre-hislorie ancestors. Cooking, which may wash out or destroy mineral constituents and vitamins, has long been prad ised, while more modern processes such as the decortication of cereals, and the extraction ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20 BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY (at Tavistock House. Tavistock Square, London, W.C.I), at 11 a.m.-Discussion on "Problems Affecting the tinder-Fives in Total ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Great Britain and Ireland Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Vol. 47, Section A, No. 1:On the Solutions of Wave Equations for Non-Vanishing Rest-Mass including a ource-Function. By Erwin Schrodinger. Pp. 24. Is.Vol. 47, Section A, No. 2: Experiments on Condensation Nuclei.By P. J.Nolan. Pp. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ALTHOUGH the health of the nation in war o*"*o has recently been debated in both Houses ' of Parliament, the attention paid to the subject has scarcely been commensurate with its importance; indeed it might be held that in this matter Government action is in advance of public opinion. Upon the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. DUTCH begins his book with an excellent destructive account of the muddle which was made, especially from the economic point of view, of the settlement of European affairs after the War of 1914-18. This encourages the hope that he will be equally successful in making practical proposals for the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] APPLICATIONS are invited for the following appointments on or before the dates mentioned: LECTURER IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND MECHANICAL ENGIN-EERINS-The Registrar, The University, Leeds 2 (December 29). EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST and a PSYCHIATRIST-The Secretary for Education, Education ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN recent years British Colonial policy has been largely directed tomatters of nutrition, and the health and well-being of the native inhabitants have been matters of particular concern. In many Colonies the development of export crops had, for long, been the main interest, and such research and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE has long been a need for a short general account of the Algae, for the various works published during recent years are either detailed treatments, often dealing only with certain aspects, or specialized taxonomic works. The book under review aims at supplying this need and endeavours to deal ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the past, most important pharmacological discoveries have been made in German universities and German commercial laboratories, but in recent years the work of American pharmacologists has been growing rapidly in importance. "The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics", by Profs. Goodman and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN Vol. 1 (reviewed in NATURE, 145, 660; 1940), Dr. Chalmers described optical methods of metallurgical investigation. In the present volume, he unites with Dr. Quarrell, a pioneer in the development of electron diifraction research in metallography, to deal with electrical methods, thus completing ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is possibly strange that engineers have had to wait so long for a book dealing specifically with jointing methods used in the large-scale production of small parts. So far as Great Britain is concerned, it is probable that everybody has waited for Mr. Miller to write it. Those readers who have ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS book is a departure from the usual type of story from the South Seas in that it contains quite a lot of information that will interest an anthropologist. The author lived for several months on Manu'au, an isolated group of three volcanic islands inhabited by Polynesians of Samoan. stock. These ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS book will be regarded as throwing interesting light on the impact of nutritional science on cookery practice in the United States. It shows how the American housewife has become 'food-conscious' and 'vitamin-conscious', and why she has been diverted from the straight and honest path of Mrs. ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 714-716 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MANY methods are available for the delinea-o*o'ooo tion of the size-frequency curve of a substance in amorphous form, but most of those in current use are adaptations of the microscope or of sedimentation technique. Each of these has certain disadvantages. The microscope-whether it employs a beam ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING a recent trip to the United States in oo-o' an official capacity, I was fortunate to be able to repeat for a few hours a visit I madefirst in 1938 to the Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California. The earlier visit was made with the object of obtaining information which would enable me to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] HENRY MARRIAGE WALLIS died on November 10 at the age of eighty-seven in Reading, where he had resided since 1872. He was a member of a well-known Quaker family from Ipswich. He had travelled widely In Europe and North Africa, spending each winter in and around the Mediterranean. He was 'father' of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN peace-time, gardening was merely a hobby to a great many people. In consequence it was common to have a superabundance of vegetables in the summer and insufficient in the winter. Very few people before the War gave any thought to the food value of the crops they grew in their gardens. Nowadays, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is one of the conditions of the existence of a group of individuals as a society that certain rules for the guidance of the individual be obeyed. This applies as much to nations in their association with other nations as to individuals. A fundamental rule in international relations is that no ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE regret to record the recent death in Australia of Mr. Bichard T. Baker. For thirty years Baker was curator of the Technological Museum, Sydney, and for thirteen years lecturer in forestry at the University of Sydney. He is perhaps best known to botanists for his comprehensive work on the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE American Academy of Arts and Science has awarded the Rumford Goldand Silver Medals to Dr. V. K. Zworykin for his invention of the iconoscope and other television devices. Dr. Zworykin was born in Russia, and educated in Petrograd, Paris and Pittsburg. Since 1929 he has been connected with the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] "AN Evaluation of Adjustment based upon the Concept of Security" by Mary D. Salter has been published in the University of Toronto Studies (Child Development Series No. 18. Toronto: University of Toronto Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1940. 3s. net) as the first part of a larger study ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE introduction of tar oil washes in Great Britain about 1921 resulted in the greatest advance in the control of fruit pests that has been made during the present century. With extension in their use came the demand for their standardization, as differences in source and process of manufacture had ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AN interim scheme for the training and re-settlement of disabled persons, which is for the benefit of women and girls as well as of men and boys, is described in a leaflet issued by the Ministry of Labour and National Service. In addition to members of the Fighting Services, the Merchant Navy and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE "Yearbook of the Universities of the Empire" is an invaluable reference book, the last issue of which is dated 1940. In view of the numerous changes, probably mostly due directly to the War, which have occurred during the past eighteen months or so in the staffs of universities, this issue ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE August issue of the Boletin de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana contains an instructive article by Dr. Angel de la Garza Brito, directorof the School of Hygiene of Mexico, on the present and future of education in hygiene in his country. The old preparatory school in public health which was ...
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