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    Dr. C. L. Withycombe (1927)
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    Nature 119 (1927), S. 131-132 
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. CYRIL LucOKES WITHYCOMBE, lecturer in advanced and applied entomology, died at Cambridge on December 5, aged twenty-eight years. Born at Walthamstow, the son of a schoolmaster, he early developed a peculiar taste and power for the keeping and rearing of insects, and this indicated his career. ...
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    The Modern Soap and Detergent Industry, including Glycerol Manufacture (1927)
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    Nature 119 (1927), S. 79-80 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE working up of the by-product, glycerol, of the soap and stearin candle industry is of such economic importance that the author has felt justified in allotting this entire volume to the subject of glycerol. In attempting to prepare a complete treatise (as the present volume claims to be) on any ...
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    The American Annual of Photography, 1927 Vol 41 (1927)
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    Nature 119 (1927), S. 80-80 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Tuis well-known annual appears this year in a new form with a much larger page, which gives more scope for the considerable number of half-tone reproductions with which it is embellished. The text also is improved, for the articles are fewer, longer, and of more interest; and the developer formula ...
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    Wireless Communication and Terrestrial Magnetism (1927)
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    Nature 119 (1927), S. 82-83 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE letters which have recently appeared in NATURE on the relationships of wireless reception and terrestrial magnetism suggest that a few remarks from the point of view of a magnetician may not be superfluous. First, on an historical point, it should be remembered that estimates of the ...
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    An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1927: containing an Account of the Astronomical and other Phenomena, and a Vast Amount of Information respecting the Government, Finances, Population, Commerce and General Statistics of the various Nations of the World (1927)
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    Nature 119 (1927), S. 80-80 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE new edition of 'Whitaker' has undergone some rearrangement and contains several new features, but its familiar appearance and convenient form remain unchanged. Among the new features are fifty-seven short articles dealing with questions of the day so varied as betting, Kent coalfields, polar ...
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    The Symmetrical Top in Wave Mechanics (1927)
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    Nature 119 (1927), S. 83-83 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a recent issue of NATURE (Dec. 4, 1926, p. 805) there appeared a letter of Messrs. R. de L. Kronig and I. I. Rabi, in which they gave, on the basis of the new wave mechanics of Schrödinger, an expression for the energy of a symmetrical rotator, i.e. a rigid polyatomic molecule having two ...
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    Behaviour of Silicic Acid Gel during the Drying-up Process (1927)
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    Nature 119 (1927), S. 84-85 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the Proceedings of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science for June 1926, K. Krishnamurti in a short note describes the formation of fibres of potassium chloride when crystallised from silicic acid gel. This note was apparently written as the result of an observation made in ...
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    A Source for Resonance Radiation (1927)
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    Nature 119 (1927), S. 85-85 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHILE engaged in some experiments on mercury resonance radiation at Johns Hopkins University last spring, I became convinced that a less erratic and, if possible, more intense source than the usual watercooled quartz arc was almost a necessity for some kinds of work. A high-voltage discharge ...
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    Rate of Work done by Athletes (1927)
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    Nature 119 (1927), S. 86-86 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN an article by Dr. J. S. Haldane and Dr. Y. Henderson in NATURE of August 28, p. 309, are references to the rate at which a man in good physical training can do work. For example, in a mile and a quarter rowing race the rate was 0.57 horse-power; and again, Douglas and Haldane, for short ...
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    Total Solar Eclipses in the British Isles (1927)
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    Nature 119 (1927), S. 87-90 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON June 29 of this year the sun will be totally eclipsed over a belt of northern England. Unfortunately, this event takes place very early in the morning, the total phase beginning at about 5h 24' 1 G.M.T. or 6" 24m B.S.T., so that the sun will be only about I2' above the north-eastern horizon. ...
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    MR. S. M. Edwardes, C.V.O., C.S.I. (1927)
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    Nature 119 (1927), S. 93-93 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE premature death from bronchial pneumonia of Stephen Meredyth Edwardes, at the age of fiftyfour years, which took place on Jan. i at Fielden, near Boxmoor, is a loss to the study of Indian history and archaeology deeply to be deplored. Mr. Edwardes was a son of the Rev. Stephen Edwardes, fellow ...
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    Sir Francis Fox (1927)
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    Nature 119 (1927), S. 93-93 
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    Notes: [Auszug] By the death on Jan. 7, at the age of eighty-two years, of Sir Francis Fox, the engineering world loses one of its oldest and most distinguished representatives. Four years younger than his brother Sir Douglas Fox (i840-1921), Sir Francis Fox was the son of Sir Charles Fox (18IO-1874), whose ...
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    Research Items (1927)
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    Nature 119 (1927), S. 99-100 
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    Notes: [Auszug] SUMERIAN TABLETS.-The Manchester Museum has published copies of all of the " Behrens Collection " of Sumerian tablets excepting three, which are defaced and consequently useless. The complete collection contains 50 tablets from Drehem and Umma. The Drehem tablets, eight in number, tally in subject ...
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    University and Educational Intelligence (1927)
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    Nature 119 (1927), S. 103-103 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Sr. ANDREWS.-IJniversity College, Dundee, will benefit to the extent of £25,000 under the will of the late William Gibson of Ellieslea, Broughty-Ferry, Dundee. This sum becomes payable on the death of the testator's two sisters, and is to be used to build and equip a laboratory for study and ...
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    The New Heat Theorem: its Foundations in Theory and Experiment (1927)
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    Nature 119 (1927), S. 43-44 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ONE of the most important branches of thermodynamics as applied to chemistry is the relation of heat of reaction with chemical equilibrium data and the calculation of the effect of temperature on the equilibrium constant. The fundamental equation here is that first deduced in its present form by ...
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    The Aurora of October 15, 1926, in Norway and Sounds Associated with it (1927)
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    Nature 119 (1927), S. 45-46 
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    Notes: [Auszug] To the above most interesting communication from M. Jelstrup I may add the following: On Oct. 15 I had the aurora stations at Bygdö, Oslo, Oscarsborg, Tömte, and Kongsberg in action from about 18h Greenwich Civil Time to about 2h on the following morning, and ...
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    Clerk Maxwell and the Cavendish Laboratory (1927)
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    Nature 119 (1927), S. 46-46 
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    Notes: [Auszug] OF all the notable contributions to the record of the Cavendish jubilee given in the issue of Dec. 18, perhaps the most interesting to many is the one by Sir Joseph Larmor on Clerk Maxwell; for it suggests the way in which his equations, like those of the writer himself, contained the germs of ...
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    The Origin of Fatuoids in Cultivated Oats (1927)
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    Nature 119 (1927), S. 49-49 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE sudden appearance of fatuoids, that is, forms resembling the wild oat Avena fatua, in varieties of the cultivated oat A. sativa, has for many years attracted much attention both by its genetic interest and agricultural importance. The opinion has been widely held that they originate through ...
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    The Supposed Law of Flame Speeds (1927)
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    Nature 119 (1927), S. 51-51 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WITH reference to Prof. Bone's letter in NATURE of Dec. 11, p. 837, it is evident that the speed generalisation advanced by Prof. R. V. Wheeler and Dr. W. Payman must break down when one of the combustible gases in a complex mixture interferes with the burning of another. This has been shown to ...
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    Sir William Augustus Tilden, F.R.S. (1927)
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    Nature 119 (1927), S. 58-59 
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    Notes: [Auszug] BY the death of Sir William Tilden on Saturday, Dec. II, in his eighty-fifth year, British chemistry lost one of its best known and most loved representatives. Born before Frankland had endowed the atom with valency, or Cannizzaro had used the implications of Avogadro's hypothesis to fix its ...
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    News and Views (1927)
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    Nature 119 (1927), S. 59-64 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE New Year honours list includes the names of the following men of science and others associated with scientific work:-Privy Councillor: The Hon. W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies and president of Section E (Geography) of the British Association at the Oxford meeting ...
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    Popular Long-Range Weather Forecasts (1927)
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    Nature 119 (1927), S. 52-55 
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    Notes: [Auszug] SINCE last April, forecasts of the weather for fifty days ahead have been appearing in the Daily Mail. The forecasts, which are prepared by Lord Dunboyne, have excited a considerable amount of interest. The question of long-range forecasts has been engaging the attention of meteorologists for some ...
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    Sir James Wilson, K.C.S.I. (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE regret to record the death of Sir James Wilson, late of the Indian Civil Service, on Dec. 22 at his residence, Annieslea, Crieff. He was a recognised authority on a variety of topics connected with India -administrative, economic, philological, and ethnographic. After his retirement from the ...
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    Our Astronomical Column (1927)
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    Nature 119 (1927), S. 64-64 
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    Notes: [Auszug] COMET COMAS SOLA.-The following is a continuation of the ephemeris for 0h U.T. Jan. 8. 12. 16. 20. 24. HRA. 2h 261n 6s 2 28 48 2 31 56 2 35 48 2 40 3 N. Decl. 15° 13' 16 4 16 55 17 48 18 41 log r. 0-279 0-276 0 273 0 270 0-267 log L. 0i112 0 121 0 129 0 138 0-146 The brightness remains nearly ...
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    Die Chemie des Lignins (1927)
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    Nature 119 (1927), S. 5-7 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS monograph on a subject of outstanding in1terest will commend itself under its sectional title to a wide circle of workers as an important and timely critical survey. The author's treatment of the matter, however, is much more comprehensive than might be inferred from the title, for it embraces ...
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    L'Art et la religion des hommes fossiles (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] M. LuQUET is a stern critic of facile theorising, and he will have none of the wholesale application of analogies from the practices of primitive people to the interpretation of the facts of palheolithic culture unless supported by internal evidence. Witness his treatment of the theory that the ...
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    The Origin of an Albino Mutation in Limnæa peregra (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE normal colour of the head, mantle, and footsole of the pond-snail Limnæa peregra is a yellowish grey of variable intensity which is clearly visible through the horn colour of the shell. The eyes are black. During the course of our experiments with the sinistral form of this snail (Jour. of ...
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    Formation of Calcareous Tubes round the Siphons of Teredo (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT the beginning of June 1926 a quantity of wood heavily infected with Teredo (probably all Teredo norvegica), taken from the experimental rafts moored near the Plymouth breakwater, was placed in one of the tanks in the Plymouth laboratory. It was left undisturbed for almost four months, and ...
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    The Polishing of Surfaces (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. HAMPTON of West Bromwich has directed my attention to Mr. J. M. Macaulay's letter on “ The Polishing of Surfaces” in NATURE of September 4, P. 339. In conversation with Sir Herbert Jackson, Mr. Twyman, and others, I have once or twice had occasion to point out that the energy ...
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    Solar Radiation and Athermancy (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE efficacy of a material in excluding solar heat is a complex function. For practical purposes, however, athermanous materials may be graded in terms of an empirical transmission factor, ... where K is the conductivity (B.Th.U. per sq, ft. per degree Fahr. per hour), E1 the ...
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    An Amusing Conception of Scientific Discovery (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE want of touch between politicians and science, at all events a score of years ago, is amusingly illustrated in the following extract from the official report of a speech made by the Marquis of Lincolnshire in the House of Lords on Dec. 6 last. He was speaking on the Small Holdings and ...
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    ‘Sun Circles’ in Ritual Dances (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN connexion with Miss Violet Alford's lecture on ritual dances, reported in NATURE of December 4, it would be interesting to know whether anthropologists familiar with ritual dances among tribes of the southern hemisphere, for example, the Australians, have noted in these the practice of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I. IT is usual to contrast the horizontal forces acting on the earth's crust with those that are vertical and to regard the latter as more fundamental and important. This attitude is apt to be misleading, although it rests on a foundation of fact, if it be true, as is generally believed, that most ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WITH this issue we begin the publication of a weekly " Calendar of Discovery and Invention," in which, so far as possible, each day will be used to recall some event of importance in the history of science and its application. The notes are being compiled by Engineer Capt. Edgar C. Smith, of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the hope that we may be able to restore a piece of lost property to its owner, we would greatly appreciate the publication of the following facts. Recently the New York Central Railroad had an auction sale of unclaimed baggage. One of the pieces of baggage contained what appears to be ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is common knowledge that the drain upon the world's resources of coniferous timber is very heavy, and that in some countries the outlook is regarded with increasing disquietude. In the " Third Report on a Forest Survey of Illinois," by C. J. Telford, the position of the State is explained with ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SATURDAY, JANUARY 1. ROYAL INSTITUTION OF' GREAT BRITAIN, at 3.-Prof. A. V. Hill: Nerves and Muscles: How swe Feel and Move: (3) The Heart and some other Muscles. MONDAY, JANUARY 3. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY (at Eolian Hall), at 3.30.-F. Rodd: Camels and Carai ans (Christmas Lecture for ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A SERIES of ten animal stories dealing with the adventures of a wide range of North American creatures, from owls and eagles to racoons, pumas, and bison. The stories are linked with the experiences of white hunters and Indians; they are well written, full of interest and excitement, and the author ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING recent years X-ray analysis has been successfully applied to the investigation of long-chain organic compounds. The method seems especially adapted to the study of polymorphism of such substances (Piper, Malkin, and Austin, Jour. Chem. Soc., 1926; 2310. G. M. de Boer, NATURE, Jan. 8, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SOME time ago a friend of mine who was interested in my amateurish experiments on frogs took some pictures which he intended for publication. He found it necessary to bring out some of the natural markings with ink so that they would reproduce better in print. I am wondering if the marking of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] KAMMERER'S untimely death has confronted us with three problems, seeming intrinsically interwoven, but, as it appears now, distinct enough to be dealt with separately: they are— (1) The motives of his suicide; (2) the mystery of the ‘doctored’ specimen; (3) the validity of the original ...
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    The Best Books: a Reader's Guide to the Choice of the best available Books in every Department of Science, Art, and Literature, with the Dates of the first and last Editions, and the Price, Size, and Publisher's Name (both English and American) of each Book: a Contribution towards Systematic Bibliography (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] DESPITE any criticism of detail, this is a 11) work indispensable to all persons for whom books are practical tools. This volume will have a special appeal to readers of NATurE; although it includes the classes of science, art, music, drama, domestic arts, and sports, three-quarters of the ...
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    Matter and Gravity in Newton's Physical Philosophy: a Study in the Natural Philosophy of Newton's Time (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THuE explanatory title of this book, namely, "A Study in the Natural Philosophy of Newton's Time," gives a good indication of the scope and nature of the contents. It is certainly desirable in these days, when science, philosophy, and religion are all recognised as important contributors to the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. CUREE, in his review on the above subject (NATURE, Dec. 18, 1926, p. 894), has inadvertently drawn an erroneous inference with regard to the reduction factors used by Dr. Mauchly for the Carnegie potential-gradient observations. The manner of obtaining these factors is described by Messrs. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A CURIOUS and somewhat unexpected property of the pressure of a gaseous mixture has come to my notice from an examination of some recent experimental work. Holborn and Otto (Zeit. f. Phys. 23, 77, 1924; and 33, 1, 1925) have determined the isotherms of a mixture of helium and neon, and of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Research item headed “Antarctic Echinoidea” (NATURE, Feb. 19, p. 294) says: “Antipneustes is a name that replaces Amphipneustes Koehler 1901 to avoid confusion with the unknown Amphipneustea Wiegmann.“ Since the name Amphipneustea was as unknown to me as to the writer of that note, I have ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MANE of the most interesting results of the dis0J covery of the law of universal gravitation was the light that it threw on the nature of cometary movements, which had previously baffled astronomers. In classical times comets seem to have been generally recognised as heavenly bodies: this is ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Grantham commemoration of Newton on Mar. 18-20 was a brilliant success and reflected much credit on the Yorkshire Branch of the Mathematical Association and its able and active president, Prof. S. Brodetsky. It would be difficult to say which was the best-arranged part of the programmethe ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the volume before us, the Royal Italian Geological Survey has published, as the latest of its classic "Memorie descrittive," Dr. Bernardino Lotti's comprehensive work on that region which comprises the present Province of Perugia. A distinguished member of that Survey for forty-seven years, and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] UNTIL the summer of 1926 no indubitable trace of paleolithic man had been found in Scotland, if the Azilian remains of the west coast and the Tardenoisian flints scattered throughout the country be regarded as belonging to an intermediate period between the old and new stone ages. The persistent ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] CAMBRIDGE.-P. Hall has been elected to a fellowship at King's College. A. F. H. Ward, Jesus College, has been elected to the Amy Mary Preston Read Scholarship. The University Appointments Board reports that 396 men were placed in appointments in the past year, including 135 educational ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIs volume of the " History of Civilization Series is an attempt to explain the Greek' miracle,' meaning, as Mr. Henri Berr says in his preface-not a miracle in the sense of Christian mysticism, but an object worthy of admiration, with an implication of contingency. M. Jard6 has given his ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. ROSE'S companion volume to his " Primitive Culture in Greece," if introduced into schools, might well serve to eliminate much of the dreariness which teachers of the classics have too often succeeded in introducing into the study of Roman religion and social organisation. Postulating a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] GRANT ALLEN'S "Story of the Plants" is a work which had a considerable vogue at a time when popular books on botanical subjects were comparatively few. In the present abridged edition, although the original text remains unchanged, except for deletions, the editor has wisely prefaced each chapter by ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE author, who is assistant conservator of forests to the Sudan Government, states in the preface that he has been persuaded to place on record some of his observations on gum arabic carried out during five years' work in one of the main gumproducing districts of southern Sudan. A perusal of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE object of estate accounting is to assist in management quite as much as to act as a check to expenditure, but very few books are available which describe desirable methods to be adopted. The present volume aims at presenting a system of estate book-keeping which entails the minimum of clerical ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] (1) " The Romance of Comets " is essentially a book for leisure reading, and is written primarily for those possessing little or no knowledge of elementary astronomy. Throughout, considerable space is devoted to anecdotes and reminiscences, most of which contribute materially to the readableness of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE feature of this attractive volume which first compels the reader's attention is the excellent series of half-tone illustrations from photographs, showing the apparatus set up, ready for use, including all minor auxiliary instruments. The authors point out that this plan does away with the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is an indication of the value of this work that a reprint has been required so soon. The new issue differs from the original volume reviewed in NATURE, Nov. 14, 1925, p. 707, in one particular only. At the end of the book there is added an appendix of 41 pages by H. ter Meulen and J. Heslinga on ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is regrettable that the value of clinical laboratory investigations is not realised by many physicians; ancemia is sometimes treated for months without a blood-count having been carried out; dyspeptics are rarely given a test-meal before necessity compels them to be referred to hospital or ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THis book proves that alternating-current theory is settling down into orthodox lines. It is written partly to help the average student and partly to help the more ambitious student who is anxious to master the complete theory. Numerous examples are given at the end of many of the chapters which ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING the past twenty-five years, mining engineering has been revolutionised by the substitution of power for hand labour in the majority of the operations involved in the winning and working of collieries, and we seem to be within sight of the time when the pick and the shovel will have a place ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] FOR the student of naval architecture and shipbuilding there are many text-books. With these this little volume is not intended to compete. It is written almost entirely for the layman who wishes to gain an insight into the position of the shipbuilding industry, the organisation of a shipyard, and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. DALY of Harvard once again has pre-sented in book form matter of geological interest gathered from all parts of the world, and has supplied the desirable connective tissue of theory and speculation. The present work is based upon a course of popular lectures given at the Lowell Institute of ...
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    (1) The Endocrine Organs: an Introduction to the Study of Internal Secretion (2) The Comparative Anatomy, Histology and Development of the Pituitary Body (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] (1) THIS volume completes the second edition of the well-known monograph upon the endocrine organs issued for the first time in 1916 and founded on a course of lectures (Lane Medical Lectures) delivered by Sir E. Sharpey-Schafer at Stanford University, California, in the summer of 1913. The second ...
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    Radio-activity and the Heat of the Earth (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHILE recognising the importance of the evidence brought forward by Dr. Lawson in NATURE of Feb. 19, p. 277, I cannot agree that it is sufficient to demonstrate that only an insignificant portion of the energy emitted by radio-active elements in rocks is expended in effecting changes in the ...
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    Electron ‘Reflection’ in Vacuo (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Pt. 5, vol. 23), just received, there is an interesting article by Mr. C. F. Sharman on the application of the magnetic spectrum method to the study of secondary electron emission. Several investigations of this type are now and ...
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    Prof. E. H. Rennie (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] TIME irresistibly takes its terrible toll and the 1 names left upon the roll of our old guard are now very few. The Australian mail just in brings me a copy of the Adelaide Register of Jan. 10, with an account of the sudden death of my old friend, Prof. Edward H. Rennie. He seemed to be in good ...
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    The Decimal Classification of Melvil Dewey and its Extension by the Brussels Institute of Bibliography (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE study of classification is a necessary preliminary to the preparation of a comprehensive guide to recorded information. Of the multifarious systems that have been suggested for the classification of literature, Dewey's " Decimal Classification and Relative Index," first developed in 1873, ...
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    News and Views (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE new Sir William Dunn School of Pathology was formally opened at Oxford on the afternoon of Friday, Mar. 11. Unfortunately the Chancellor of the University, Viscount Cave, who was to have performed the opening ceremony, was prevented by illness from being present. The circumstances which led the ...
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    Wind Drift (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] A STRONG wind at sea has long been known to cause a drift of the upper layers of water superimposed upon the regular and periodic tidal currents. Sailing coastwise in clear weather, the navigator can determine the position of his vessel by bearings on landmarks, but in thick weather he can no ...
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    Societies and Academies (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON. Royal Society, Mar. 10.-A. Levin and J. Wyman: The viscous elastic properties of muscle. 'Viscosity' is a term used to denote irreversible processes which cause a loss of work, greater with greater speeds, and prevent the muscle from contracting instantaneously. A mechanical model ...
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    In Unknown Arabia (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] OF the excellence of Major Cheesman's journey 0 into the deserts of eastern Arabia there can be no question. He travelled down the Persian Gulf from Basra to Bahrain, and from there to the little port of Oqair, on the Arabian coast; there he met camels, sent down for him by the ruler of ...
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    The Theory of Electricity (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE first edition of Prof. Livens' " Theory of Electricity," published in 1918, was reviewed in NATURE in 1919 (vol. 103, p. 142), and therefore the present notice need only take account of the changes introduced in the new edition. In its present form the book has been very much curtailed-from ...
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    The Band Spectrum of Mercury from the Excited Vapour (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] I WISH to bring forward one or two additional results on this subject in supplement to my letter published in NATURE of Nov. 27, 1926. In the first place, I found that the green visual band, extinguished by heat, recovers to some extent as the excited vapour moves on to a cold part of the ...
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    Hereditary Choice of Food-plants in the Lepidoptera and its Evolutionary Significance (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE problem of the practical differentiation of species in Nature stands so much in need of experimental work, that the recently published paper by Dr. J. W. Heslop Harrison on an apparently successful attempt to influence the hereditary instincts of a sawfly (Proc. Roy. Soc., Series B, vol. ...
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    The Behaviour of Polyploids (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. HUSKINS' description (NATURE, Jan. 8, p. 49) of the strict correlation he has observed between abnormal chromosome behaviour and abnormal breeding results in fatuoid oats encourages me to put forward suggestions based partly on analogous observations of my own. The basic chromosome ...
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    Intensity Distribution in the Fine Structure of the Balmer Lines (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the course of an investigation of the fine structure of the Balmer lines, at present being undertaken in this Laboratory, certain preliminary results of an apparently novel character have been obtained which seem to be of considerable interest. These refer to the dependence of the relative ...
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    Colonel C. H. T. Marshall (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] C OL. CHARLES HENRY TILSON MARSHALL C died in London on Jan. 20 in his eighty-sixth year. He was born on July 8, 1841, and was the eldest son of W. Knox Marshall of Hereford. He entered the Indian Army in 1859, and on arrival in India was attached to the 35th Royal Sussex Regiment. On leaving this ...
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    Our Astronomical Column (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] RETURN OF THE COMET PONS-WINNECKE.-This comet was detected by Prof. G. von Biesbroeck at Yerkes onMar. 3d 10h 19.5m U.T., inR.A. 14h 1220.48, N. Dec]. 250 45' 24" (1927-0), magnitude 16-0. With the aid of this observation, and using the following elements, which are those of Mr. C. J. Merfield ...
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    Special Biological Studies (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] EARLY in 1925, Dr. J. P. Lotsy, at the invitation of the university colleges of New Zealand, delivered there three lectures on " Evolution considered in the Light of Hybridisation. " These were afterwards published by Canterbury College, together with an introduction and an appendix by Dr. L. ...
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    [Book Reviews] (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] FULL theoretical accounts of the subjects of polarimetry, spectroscopy, and nephelometry are given, together with descriptions of selected pieces of apparatus. The accounts are written from the point of view of the biologist rather than the physicist, especially the section dealing with ...
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    Modern Physics (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] As at once a professor of experimental physics and a field observer, Dr. V. F. Hess is specially fitted to write a general text-book on atmospheric electricity, and we learn from the preface that a work of this character by himself and his colleague at the University of Gratz, Prof. H. Benndorf, is ...
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    [Book Reviews] (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS eleventh edition of one of the best-known German treatises on physics is the first that has appeared since the War. It shows conclusively that Germany is neither forced nor willing to abdicate her former leading position in the matter of exhaustive text-books. (1) This volume may be regarded ...
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    [Book Reviews] (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] MOST of the standard French treatises on mathematical analysis expound the subject in a way that gives but little help to a student by supplying him with exercises to test his progress. The volume before us is welcome as a useful supplement to such treatises. It contains more than a thousand ...
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    Gmelin's Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] INORGANIC chemistry has been so completely T transformed withinrecent years that long before the completion of the seventh edition of Gmelin's well-known treatise, an entirely re-fashioned and comprehensive work, showing but little resemblance to the older editions, has been undertaken by the ...
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    The Atomic Weight of Silver (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE of Dec. 11, 1926, reference is made to the determination of the atomic weight of silver (Trans. Chem. Soc., 1926, p. 2510) by H. Brereton Baker and H. L. Riley, who, by determining directly the ratio Ag: O in pure silver oxide have obtained the value 107.864 ± 0.0013. This work, ...
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    Biological Fact and Theory (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. JOHNSTONE'S letter in NATURE of Feb. 26 suggests an analogy. I happen for my sins to be gifted with very poor mathematical powers. Like him, also, on this account I “feel that I may be missing something that will help in an understanding” of the scientific problems with which mathematics ...
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    Migration and Reproductive Rhythm in Birds (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a previous letter (NATURE, April 4, 1925) a brief account was given of an attempt to break the annual reproductive rhythm in the Junco (Junco hyamelis) and to induce premature recrudescence of the gonads in the middle of the winter. It was suggested that migration might be dependent on the ...
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    Mr. J. J. Lister, F.R.S. (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] W TITH the death of J. J. Lister on Feb. 5 in his A I home at Grantchester, there passes away one of the band of younger zoologists who, under the leadership of Francis Maitland Balfour, helped to build up the reputation of the Cambridge school of zoology. Although he was most widely known for his ...
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    Our Astronomical Column (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] BRILLIANT FiREBALL ON FEB. 25.-Mr. W. F. Denning writes: " This object appeared at 11.54 P.M. and caused a vivid illumination of the sky over the south-west of England. There was a double outburst resulting in two flashes of dazzling intensity. Some observers thought the size of the nucleus about ...
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    British Industries Fair (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE British Industries Fair, which is organised T annually by the Department of Overseas Trade, was held on Feb. 21-Mar. 4 at the White City, London. A section of the Fair was held at the same time at Birmingham, mainly for hardware and engineering exhibits. Evidence of the increasing popularity of ...
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    Official Publications Received (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] BRITISH. Scientific Reports of the Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa (including the Reports of the Imperial Dairy Expert, Physiological Chemist Government Sugarcane Expert, and Secretary, Sugar Bureau), 1925-26. Pp. vi+212. (Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch.) 2.8 ...
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    Fortschritte der Geologie und Paläontologie (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] GEOLOGISTS will be deeply grateful to Prof. ' Obrutschew for his masterly summary of the geology of Siberia, since so much of its extensive literature is in Russian and therefore inaccessible to most western workers. His book will form a standard work of reference for the geology of northern ...
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    A Road to Fairyland (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] A ROAD TO FAIRYLAND" is dedicated to "all children between the ages of seven and seventy," and the author has indeed provided a variety in her twelve stories in which something should please her clientele at every stage within these limits of their years. Here and there we catch an echo of the folk ...
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    The Genesis of the Great Nebulæ (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] WITHIN the mesh of our local star-system are nebulæ of irregular shape, such as the Orion nebula, which are of only slight cosmogonic interest. Far beyond the confines of this local star-system lie the great nebulæ of regular shapes, spiral, elliptic, circular, etc., each of which is comparable ...
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    Melanism in the Lepidoptera and its Evolutionary Significance (1927)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IF reference is made to my original article, it will be found that in his letter Prof. Dakin simply repeats my own views, as he himself realises when he quotes from my concluding remarks. This position I emphasise further in a paper with the title " Experiments on the Egg-laying Instincts ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I HAVE noticed that people who are good at solving cross-word puzzles are also very good at understanding those complex statements of Mendelian results. I am distressed at my inability to worry out cross-word exercises and also those F1, F2, etc., synoptical charts, for I ...
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    The Dinosaurs of Tendaguru (1927)
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    Nature 119 (1927), S. 320-322 
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    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THE expedition sent out by the British Museum in 1924 to Tanganyika Territory to explore the dinosaur remains at Tendaguru broke down in the following year on the death of Mr. W. E. Cutler, the leader, in August 1925. I was appointed leader in his place, and work was resumed on my arrival in ...
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/119320a0
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    [Obituaries] (1927)
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    Nature 119 (1927), S. 326-326 
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    ISSN: 1476-4687
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] WE regret to announce the following deaths Mr. Francis Campbell Bayard, president in 1898–99 of the Royal Meteorological Society. At his home at Wallington, Surrey, he equipped a meteorological station and maintained regular observations there from about 1890 until last year. He died on Jan. 22,at ...
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