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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 784-786 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AMERICAN INDIAN Music.-Miss Frances Densmore, the well-known student of the music of the American Indian, and author of a number of monographs on the music of specific tribes, has published in the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, Vol. 18, No. 14, a study of the general characteristics ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 788-789 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON Oct. 14-16 the State College of Forestry, situated in the vicinity of Stockholm, celebrated its centenary. This College, formerly known as the Forestry Institute, was founded on Oct. 15, 1828, by that far-seeing man, Israel Adolf av Strom, who even at that distant date endeavoured to arouse his ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 790-791 
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    Notes: [Auszug] CELEBBATTON OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVEBSABY. AN event of considerable importance and interest -^-*- in the world of science is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the foundation of the Faraday Society. This was celebrated on Friday, Nov. 9, first by a luncheon which was attended by representatives of ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 720-721 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE rapid advances in recent years in the various fields of physics make it increasingly difficult for the physicist to keep abreast of the remarkable developments in his subject, and for other men of science to keep in touch with current physical ideas. A series of publications such as the " ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 722-723 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS book is a publication in English form of-the course of twelve lectures delivered in 1925 by Prof. Wheeler at the University of Paris. The treatment here given of the evolution of the social insects-wasps, bees, ants, and termites-is as careful and thorough as would be expected of so eminent an ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 724-724 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN this new edition the author has incorporated the outlines of many of the modern advances, particularly in geology and geophysics. The early chapters deal with the character and origin of the oceans, the depth and nature of the sea-bottom. The origin of the earth is first considered. This is done ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 725-725 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE importance of the formation of condensation products by thermal decomposition of methane is of interest to chemists and petroleum technologists alike, the latter being confronted with the problem of the better utilisation of ‘dry’ natural gas. The pyrolysis of ethane, propane, and the ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 728-728 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. BONE'S claim for Neilson of the invention of the hot blast cannot be allowed to pass unchallenged, for the regenerative principle of heating and cooling fluids had been patented by the Rev. Robert Stirling in 1816. After stating how he proposed to apply this principle in general terms, ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 729-729 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHILE working in chemical laboratories I have often noticed a green colour in the sodium phosphate bottles which did not occur in any other bottle. On examination under the microscope this proves to be due to the presence of unicellular green algæ, either singly or in chains. I should be glad ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 728-728 
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    Notes: [Auszug] HAVING read Mr. E. Wyndham Hulme's letter, together with a copy of the article in the Engineer to which he refers, and the specification of Stirling's Patent No. 4081 of 1816, I cannot see any ground for his supposition that it anticipated Neilson's subsequent invention of hot blast in ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 729-729 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ONE of the algæ which occurs in sodium phosphate bottles is apparently a Chlorella, possessing a prominent pyrenoid, cells 3-5 µ, in diameter, from each of which four daughter cells may arise. Mr. W. R. Trotter's reference to cells in chains suggests that he may be dealing with a different ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 731-733 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE International Permanent Council for the Exploration of the Sea has issued, as a jubilee volume, a record of all that the contributors think most worthy in the performance of their respective thirteen nations during a quarter of a century of international exploration of the sea. It is thus not ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 737-738 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PETEB PETROVITOH STJSHKIN was born on Feb. 8, "1868, in Tula, Central Russia. From his early days he was deeply interested in wild Nature, and already;;as a young student of the University of Moscow;Znade a thorough study of the bird fauna of the Tula, Moscow, and Voronezh provinces and published ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 736-737 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. WILHELM WIEN, of Munich, whose death on Aug. 30 last, at the comparatively early age of sixty-four years, is deeply regretted, was in the front rank of the physical investigators of his time. He was born at Gaffken, near Fisch-hausen, in East Prussia, where his father was a farmer, and ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 743-743 
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    Notes: [Auszug] -Mr. K. Sreenivasan, referring to his letter entitled " Long Wave Radio Reception and Atmospheric Ozone " in NATURE of Oct. 27, p. 646, informs us that while correcting the proof he overlooked a mistake on p. 646, near the bottom of col. 2. The figure for correlation given there is 1-77 ±0-23; it ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 743-743 
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    Notes: [Auszug] TAYLOR'S COMET.-Herr Reinmuth, of the Konig-stuhl Observatory, announces that he made a careful search by photography for Taylor's comet on two nights without success, which gives ground for apprehension that this comet is following the example of the lost comet of Biela; it will be remembered that ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 738-738 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE regret to announce the following deaths: Sir Hugh Anderson, F.R.S., Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, a distinguished worker on the physiology of the nervous system, on Nov. 2, aged sixty-three years. Sir Alexander Kennedy, F.R.S., emeritus professor of engineering in University ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 747-747 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A CONFERENCE of physicists and astronomers, -^- arranged by members of the Institute of Physios resident in Australia, was held at Canberra on Aug. 15-18, and was attended by nearly forty research workers. This conference arose from a desire to hold more frequent meetings of physicists than are ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 750-750 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHEN the fat-soluble vitamins were first differ-' * entiated, it was soon recognised that animals maintained on synthetic purified rations deficient in fat-soluble A not only ceased to grow after a variable time, but also were very prone to develop various infections. One of the most obvious and ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 751-751 
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    Notes: [Auszug] CAMBRIDGE.-The annual report of the Board of -Research Studies shows a further slight increase in the number of students working for research degrees, the increase coming mainly from the graduates of the University of Cambridge itself. Trinity and Emmanuel Colleges lead the field in the number of ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 675-676 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is a very delightful book, scholarly and whimsical, but it recalls just a little a reviewer's remark on a distinguished philosopher's " Secret of Hegel," that whether the author had understood the secret or not, the practical certainty was that he had kept it to himself; for after reading Mr. ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 683-684 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE adder (Vipera Berus) has her young about the end of August and the first week in September. The gestation period is 4½ months. It is unusual for a herpetologist to have a captured snake giving birth to young immediately after being caught, but such has been my experience on two occasions, ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 680-680 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS excellent and attractively produced little volume stands out in refreshing contrast with most elementary books on bee life, since it is the product of the author's original researches. Dr. K. v. Frisch is well known as an expert experimenter through his observations on colour sense, methods of ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 682-682 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE of May 12, p. 770, the following statement was made under “Research Items” in directing attention to my recent work on the MS. drawings of Indian Fish (Ham.-Buch. Collection): “In the first volume there are 22 plates of fish illustrations, representing 51 species, and the rest of the ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 684-684 
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    Notes: [Auszug] OXYGEN, since the time of Lavoisier, has been considered the vital component of the air: the 79·19 per cent inert part has had little use assigned it. Popular opinion had stated that animal life would be more efficient if these inert gases were replaced by oxygen. Carefully conducted ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 685-685 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the pachyphase of Lilium pardalinum, in specimens fixed with chromic-acetic-formaldehyde, and stained with iron-brazilin, there were estimated to be 2193 chromomeres, each usually consisting of two pairs of chromioles. The average diameter of the chromioles was estimated at 0·23 micron, and ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 686-687 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Eare informed by Science Service, Washington, VV D.C.,that what will be the world's largesttele-scope, with a concave mirror two hundred inches in diameter-twice that of the greatest existing instrument- will be under construction within a few months. This important announcement was made at the ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 707-709 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ROCK-PAINTINGS IN THE LIBYAN DESERT.-In Antiquity for September, Mr. D. Newbold describes a number of rock-paintings not previously seen by Europeans from various localities in the Libyan' Desert. These were visited in the course of two expeditions in 1923 and 1927. Stone implements and pottery ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 710-710 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ANNUAL MEETING AT COLOGNE. rPHE annual meeting of the Brussels Institut Inter--*- national de Bibliographic was held at Cologne on Sept. 18 and 19, and by invitation of the Ober-burgermeister, Dr. Adenauer, the proceedings took place in the Petite Salle des Congres of the ' Pressa ' Exhibition. ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 683-683 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN vol. 48 of Rapports et Procès-Verbaux des Réunions of the Permanent International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, recently published, six writers, each representing a country abutting on the Baltic, give accounts of the salmon and sea trout fisheries, and in one case, that of the ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 684-685 
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING the last few years it has been established, on the basis of spectroscopic and other evidence, that certain metals, for example, the alkali metals and mercury, are capable of forming di- or poly-atomic molecules in the vapour state. It is also known that the vapours of certain pairs of ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 685-685 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN his letter in NATURE of Oct. 27, Mr. T. Smith repeats in a slightly different form the matter contained in my letter in the issue of Oct. 13. If the wave-length were infinitesimal the geometric theory would be correct. With a finite wave-length it ‘pays,’ so far as definition is concerned, ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 644-644 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE separation of plant parts from the parent organs has been much studied in more or less isolated examples, but for the first time the very scattered results have been fully classified and considered as aspects of one subject'in the above work. The classification of abscission tissues is under ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 689-700 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE ancients were for the most part content to were called ' electrons.L regard the universe as a theatre which had been specially constructed for the drama of human life. Men, and even the gods that man had created in his own image, came, lived, and disappeared after strutting their tiny hour upon ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 650-650 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN connexion with my investigations on certain elastic properties of solid metallic elements, Prof. H. C. H. Carpenter, of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, South Kensington, has had made for me single-crystal aluminium wires of diameters 1 mm. and 2 mm. respectively. The wires ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 655-656 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE herbals which have come down to us from pre-Benaissance days offer a vast field for inquiry, as yet imperfectly explored. Dr. Charles Singer's new memoir not only affords invaluable clues to the labyrinth of codices which confronts the perplexed student, but also illuminates the subject by ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 657-657 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE death is announced of Miss Jessie Laidlay Weston, D.Litt., which took place in London on Sept. 29 at the age of seventy-seven. Miss Weston was born on Dec. 29, 1850, and educated at Brighton, Paris, and Hildesheim, and studied art at the Crystal Palace School. In 1890, at the suggestion of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE regret to announce the following deaths: Prof. R. A. Berry, professor of agricultural chemistry at the West of Scotland Agricultural College, Glasgow, on Oct. 12, aged fifty-two years. Brigadier-General W. H. Bixby, formerly of the U.S. Army, a former president of the Mississippi River ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 658-663 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is not an infrequent practice nowadays to supply details respecting the centenaries and bicentenaries of famous men oftentimes considerably in advance of the precise dates when these events fall. This has happened with regard to Capt. James Cook, the two-hundredth anniversary of whose birth at ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 638-639 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Bakhshali MS. is a valuable and interesting document in the history of mathematics. The work of editing it must have been extremely difficult and laborious, and the editor is to be heartily congratulated on the result, which really leaves nothing to be desired in the shape of aids to the study ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 668-668 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the issue of NATURE for May 7, 1927, p. 686, an account was given of work which had been carried out at the Experimental Research Station of the University of Illinois over a period of several years. The authors, S. W. Parr and F. G. Straub, showed that the embrittlement of boiler plates takes ...
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    Nature 122 (1928), S. 669-669 
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    Notes: [Auszug] BRISTOL.-The first Henry Herbert Wills Memorial Lecture, founded to commemorate the gift of the Physical Laboratory to the University, will be delivered by Sir James Jeans on Oct. 30 at 5.30 P.M. The title of his lecture will be " The Physics of the Universe." KING'S COLLEGE, University of London, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26. ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC BIOLOGISTS (in Botanical Lecture Theatre, Imperial College of Science and Technology), at 2.30.-R. N. Chrystal: The Biology of Sirex ci/aneus and its Parasites.-K. St. G. Cartwright: Notes on a Fungus associated with Sirex cyaneus, ROYAL SOCIETY OF ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the opening chapter of this interesting book is introduced the main theme of the whole volume: the neuronic arc is the basis of all nervous activity, whether the simple purposive reflex or even the human cerebral processes associated with thought, memory, and reasoning. Neuronic arcs are formed ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is evident that the apparent area of an irregular surface will depend on the size of the object used for measuring it. This has been clearly expressed by Constable (NATURE, Sept. 15, p. 399), the ‘maximum’ area of a surface being defined as that of “the envelope of the monatomic film of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is interesting to compare the attitudes of the two most recent writers in English who deal with Euclidean geometry. Sir Thomas Heath, in the second edition of his three-volume translation of the "Elements" (Cambridge, 1926), reiterates his opinion that Euclid " remains the greatest elementary ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WITHOUT entering into a discussion of the correct interpretation of high power microscopic images, which is a very recondite subject, I should like to point out that Mr. Mallock's statement in NATURE of Oct. 13 that an object of alternate opaque and transparent lines cannot be separated by any ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ONE of the most important theories brought forward during recent years is that known as the radiation hypothesis, which was developed independently by Perrin and by W. C. McC. Lewis. Briefly stated in an elementary way, this theory postulated that molecules in general have no chemical reactivity, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHILE engaged in an investigation to determine the number of free electrons in metals, we have noticed a change in resistance when β particles and γ rays from radium are allowed to impinge on an insulated thin plate of lead. We have further noticed that the change is not permanent and that the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROGRESS in the prevention and cure of foot-and-mouth disease is hampered by the fact that no method has yet been devised for cultivating the virus in vitro; and since it cannot be seen, it can only be propagated and recognised by the inoculation of susceptible animals. Further, the control of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Russian Physical Society usually meets in -L one of the larger university towns, but this year a new departure was made, and in order to visit some of the more remote universities the congress became itinerant, in much the same way as is done by the British Association when it visits the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is a continuation of the author's preceding chapters, " How Olympos found his New Scale " and "The Olympion," published in 1926. The first of the new chapters is a technical and historical discussion of the problem of the second string of the enharmonic tetrachord, and Dr. Perrett directs ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE author believes that the student of chemistry should become acquainted with thermodynamical methods at an early stage, and his book affords an elementary introduction to the underlying principles and their applications. It demands little mathematical equipment and is chiefly concerned with ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] (1) THE new edition of this indispensable work has been enlarged, new sections have been added, some of the older matter has been omitted, and the names of new collaborators appear on the title-page. Full accounts are given of the technique of tissue cultivation and of micro-manipulation. More ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN his preface Mr. Andersen admits that in the field of Polynesian mythology his personal gleaning has been small. He came too late in the field. He has accordingly availed himself freely of the work of Grey, of Percy Smith, and particularly of Elsdon Best, to name some only of those to whom he ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A PREVIOUS work of this author, " Higher Mathematics for Students of Engineering and Science," has already been favourably reviewed in these columns, and the present volume will supply a real want in the introduction of trigonometry at an early stage of the mathematical course. Mensuration is ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE call for a second edition of this book within a year indicates that at least in the United States it has fulfilled a useful purpose. Practical courses in geology in the universities of Great Britain probably stand less in need of such external assistance, but most teachers will find that they ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN view of the recent controversy concerning the structure of the methane molecule, it is proposed to state briefly the results of an X-ray ‘powder’ investigation of solid methane at a temperature intermediate between that of liquid air and liquid hydrogen. Only one modification, a cubic ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] RECENTLY the Kala-Azar Commission of the Royal Society implicated Phlebotomus chinensis as a carrier of kala-azar in Northern China. The distribution of this sandfly is therefore a matter of the very greatest importance. Hitherto it has been found only in Northern China and in the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN some of the elementary books used in learning languages, a short glossary of difficult words is set at the head of each exercise. Will you not follow this practice in your technical articles and reviews? A recent obviously brilliant notice of a geological work of surpassing interest—on ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SIR HORACE DARWIN, whose death on Sept. 22 is widely regretted, was born in 1851, the fifth son of Charles Darwin and the third of the group of brothers to become a fellow of the Royal Society. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, taking his degree as a Senior Optime in 1874. Immediately ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] NATIVE CULTURE OP THE SOUTH-WEST.-Under this title, Mr. A. L. Kroeber has written a valuable analysis of the problems of the anthropology of the south-western United States which consequentially analyses the methods of American archaeology and ethnology and more particularly the method of ' ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON. Society of Public Analysts, Oct. 3.-G. W. Monier-Williams: Polarimetric determination of sucrose in milk and sucrose mixtures. A method has been based on the work of Jackson and Gillis and on the observations of Vosburgh and of Zerban, on the effects of concentration and temperature on the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12. DIESEL ENGINE USERS' ASSOCIATION (at 19 Cadogan Gardens, S.W.), at 5.30.-S. B. Freeman: Marine Oil Engines. ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE (Clinical Section), at 5.30. INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS,(North - Eastern Students' Section) (at Armstrong College, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THAT the modern fashions of biochemistry and 'genetical study have resulted in most valuable contributions to that rather incoherent mass of knowledge which we call biology will be denied by no one; that these methods have severe limitations is not perhaps so clearly realised. Mr. Cunningham, whose ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE genetics of sex in plants is probably more complicated than in animals. It is even doubtful how far sex phenomena are comparable in the two kingdoms. Certainly they have diversified along different lines with the greater individual unity and specialisation in the higher animals as contrasted ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN previous discussions held by the Faraday Society, the influence of surfaces and of light on the velocity of chemical actions has been reviewed, and it was with the object of obtaining a summary of the present position in respect to homogeneous reactions that a further discussion was held at ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MAN must have speculated on the meaning and source of life ever since a race of beings arose on this planet endowed with the power of reasoning, the particular form taken by his speculations depending on the stage of civilisation and culture reached. At all times there have been those-fewer now ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE method of education is the stimulation of the cells of the brain by impressions from without: impressions provided by the casual and haphazard incidents of experience and by the deliberate and systematic agencies concerned with the imparting of facts and opinions. The aim of education is so to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN his nine hours' flight of 1200 miles over Graham Land on Dec. 19, Sir Hubert Wilkins made discoveries of great value. This was the first flight ever made in Antarctic regions and shows the value of air transport for the explorer in a part of the world where pioneer work has yet to be done. In a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] CHARLES ROBERT YOUNG was born at V-V Nottingham on Mar. 4, 1880, and was the son of Robert Young, a bank-actuary of that city. He received his early education at the Nottingham High School, and from there went to the Royal College of Science, where he remained from 1899 until 1901. He obtained the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. CHARNOCK BRADLEY'S excellent manual, " Notes on the Dissection of the Dog," has now grown into an important treatise on canine anatomy, which is not only of interest and value to the veterinary student and surgeon, but also to medical and science students. It is a valuable work of reference ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN " From Tribe to Empire," Profs. Moret and M. G. Davy drew a picture of the growth of civilisation in the favoured area of the Mediterranean and Near East, taking this to include Mesopotamia. The former now turns to a more intensive study of one of the three great cultures included in the area, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE new edition of Mr. Edward Step's " Shell Life " is very attractive with its many delicately coloured plates. It is a popular account of all common mollusca, marine, fresh-water, and land, of Britain, and not only the shells but also the animals are described with notes on their habits. It is ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN this little work the author has attempted to sketch the most important advances made during the years 1914-25 in inorganic chemistry. Since separate volumes in the series deal with the closely related branches of physical chemistry, physico-chemical mineralogy and petrology, colloidal chemistry ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. ANDRADE'S book is founded on the Christmas lectures delivered by him at the Royal Institution last year. Not a- little difficult is it for the author of such a work to decide just how far to go in the development of his subject. It is clearly necessary, after the broad principles have been ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PARIS. Academy of Sciences, Sept. 3.-G. Bigourdan: The unification of radiotelegraphic time signals. A suggested modification of the time signals, giving, an easy identification of each minute.-Paul Vuillemin: Relations of the conidial apparatus with the mycelium of Aspergillus,-N. larotzky: A ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ARRANGEMENTS are now actively in hand for -£*¦ the meeting of the British Association in South Africa, in Cape Town and Johannesburg, next July and August, under the presidency of Sir Thomas Holland, rector of the Imperial College of Science and Technology. The following sectional presidents have ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] CAMBRIDGE MEETING. THE twenty-ninth annual meeting of the Science Masters' Association was held at Cambridge on Jan. 2-5. The members were accommodated partly in Trinity College, partly in Gonville and Caius. The deputy vice - chancellor, master of Sidney Sussex College, heartily welcomed the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT seems still uncertain that the modified lines observed by Prof. C. V. Raman in the light scattered by liquids are of the incoherent type of radiation. Raman has observed that when the ordinary scattering of carbon dioxide brightened up as a cloud was formed near the critical state, the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PARIS. Academy of Sciences, Aug. 27.-G. Bigourdan: The co-ordinates of the observatory of the rue Sainte-Avoye. The position of Delambre's observatory and extracts from some of his notes.-L. Joubin: Various octopod cephalopoda from the cruises of the Dana in the Atlantic. Amongst the specimens ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. RUSSELL'S books are always a pleasure to read, perhaps because they have been a pleasure to write. The " Outline of Philosophy " is evenpleasanter than most of his philosophical works, and gives also the completest account of his views. A considerable part is essentially a summary of the " ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON. Geological Society, Dec. 5.-K. S. Sandford: The erratic rocks and the age of the southern limit of glaeiation in the Oxford district. The Plateau Drift around Oxford contains rocks brought from long distances: from Scandinavia, Scotland, East Anglia, the Midlands, and, most surprising of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] BRITISH. Madras Agricultural Department. Year Book, 1927. Pp. ii + 48+5 plates. 10 annas. Report on the Operations of the Department of Agriculture, Madras Presidency, for the Year 1927-28. Pp. ii +103 + 4 + 6 plates. 1 rupee. Bulletin No. 92: Mosaic Disease of Sugar Cane. By Budolph D. Anstead. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] FRIDAY, JANUARY 11. ROYAL ASTKONOMICAL SOCIETY, at 5.- T. Royds: A Very High Prominence on Nov. 19, 1928.-J. M. Baldwin: Alignment Chart Connecting Position Angle and Distance of the Apex of the Sun's Way and Galactic Co-ordinates with Equatorial Co-ordinates. PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY (at University ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE appearance of a separate volume on " The Metal-Ammines," in Friend's " Text-book of Inorganic Chemistry," suggests the prospect of a book of marked individuality, dealing with one of the most exciting sections of modern inorganic chemistry. This prospect has not been realised, since the text of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] (1) SUCCESSFUL long-distance flights are becoming so numerous that the habit of writing a book descriptive of each must soon end. Except for the technical details of flying, there is a great deal of sameness about such books, although the aerial views are always of interest. Five de Havilland ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS interesting book is a speculative discussion of the causes of motion of the earth's crust, which have led to great foldings and mountain building, and also, according to opinions to-day widely current, to large relative displacements of the continents. The discussion is from a purely ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE attempt to cover the story of invention in applied science, as is done in this volume, within the compass of 188 pages, is almost bound to fail, unless made by one who is expert in each separate invention. The severe condensation necessary leads either to a bald catalogue of facts or, if the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE author has presented us with a very readable little book. He perhaps tries to make the subject of intelligence rather simpler than current opinion would justify. Intelligence is defined as the " power to become, aware of the necessity of certain causal relationship.'' Whether the awareness of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LOOKING at an old map of Africa last year, I noticed an island named San Matteo about half-way between Ascension and the Gold Coast. My curiosity was aroused, and in the past eighteen months I have examined more than a dozen maps dating from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, including ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] RELIGION IN SZECHUAN, CHINA.-No. 1 of vol. 80 of the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections is a study of Chinese religion in Szechuan Province by Mr.- David C. Graham, who points out that this area provides an excellent ground for the study not only of the religious beliefs of the Chinese ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LEEDS.-The foundation-stone of the new buildings will be laid by the Duchess of Devonshire on Oct. 2. After the ceremony a congregation will be held in the Great Hall of the University to confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on Her Grace, Sir. A. E. Bain, Mr. Alexander Campbell, and Mr. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PABIS. Academy of Sciences, Aug. 13.-A. Lacroix: New observations on the lavas of the Marquesas and the island of Tubuai (Southern Polynesia). Complete analyses of 21 specimens are given.-Eugene Slutsky: A criterion of the stochastic convergence of ensembles of contingent values.-Silvio Minetti: ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE complex problem of continental drift has everywhere been the subject of animated discussion in geological circles during recent years, and the publication of the papers presented at a symposium held in New York late in 1926 serves a valuable purpose in bringing together the considered opinions ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE influence of mountain-building movements on -*- oil migration and accumulation has long been recognised, and is so plainly manifest in different petroliferous provinces all over the world, that it has become one of the least controverted theories in the general hypothesis of oil occurrence. In ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PERIODICITIES. AN annual periodicity was early suspected in my own observations in England. At the time of writing, observations lasting over five years are available, so far as the auroral component is concerned. To examine impartially whether or not an annual variation is present, the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE brochure entitled " Broadcast English I. Recommendations to announcers regarding certain words of doubtful pronunciation," which was recently published by the British Broadcasting Corporation, is a scholarly production, and one that should appeal to a wider audience than that for which it is ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] INFORMATION about higher education and research in the United States is available in great, to the uninitiated, indeed, in embarrassing abundance. Besides the ' catalogs ' and reports of a thousand colleges, universities, and professional schools, there are the excellent statistical summaries and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PAKIS. Academy of Sciences, Aug. 6.-A. Lacroix: The pegmatitoids of volcanic rocks with basalt facies.- S. Winogradsky: The oxidation of cellulose in the soil. The greater part of the work of the disintegration of cellulose in the soil is done by aerobic organisms. A method of culture is described ...
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