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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 1003-1003 
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    Notes: [Auszug] FOR four months, July to October inclusive, the Canadian School of Prehistory has been carrying on excavations in the classic hillside of CombeCapelle, in the beautiful valley of the Couze—a tributary of the Dordogne, in which many gisements occur. It was there that some twenty years ago Homo ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 986-987 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT has been shown by Krogh (Arch. f. Ges. Physiol., vol. 179; 1920) that the laws of diffusion of gases will explain the supply to the tissues of insects of those quantities of oxygen which they actually consume. This theory is satisfactory so far as it goes, but it makes no provision for such ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 988-991 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE are only three factors which can affect the climatic zones of the world: (a) the amount of solar radiation; (b) the horizontal transfer of heat from one part of the earth to another; and (c) the characteristics of terrestrial radiation. If we examine each of these factors, we find that ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 1003-1004 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE has always existed among scientific workers a wide divergence of opinion as to the true nature and origin of the manna, believed to have fallen from heaven to provide food for the Israelites in the Sinai desert during the Exodus from Egypt. Some authors considered the manna to be a desert ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 943-943 
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    Notes: [Auszug] (1) THIS little book gives a method of basing the theory of arithmetic on the properties of finite aggregates and on Dedekind's section. Prof. Holder holds the view that an arithmetic founded solely on postulates and axioms must be insufficient, since even in this case series of operations must be ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 1004-1005 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON.—The title of emeritus professor has been conferred on Dr. E. A. Gardner on his retirement from the Yates chair of archeology at University College, and on Dr. F. W. Oliver on his retirement from the Quain chair of botany at University College. The following doctorates have been conferred: ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 973-974 
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    Notes: [Auszug] NEWS arrived by cable on Dec. 15 of the discovery in the cave at Chou Kou Tien of the fossilised fragments of ten more examples of Sinanthropus, certainly the most remarkable find of early Pleistocene human remains that has ever been made. Amongst these is said to have been a compltte skull with ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 980-980 
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING the last few decades much attention has been given to the methods of teaching science, especially chemistry. Definite courses of instruction have been framed for educational purposes, and they have tended to become stereotyped in conformity with the requirements of examining bodies. The ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 982-982 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. FLEURE defines with swift ease the fields of geographic research, and uses each as setting for one or two examples, gems of exposition. There is more in this brief pamphlet than in many a stately book, but finest of all is the description of that oceanic climate wherein the chemistry of heat ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 994-998 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. ROBERT RoBINsoN, the new Waynfiete professor of chemistry in the University of Oxford, may be aptly described as the most brilliant pupil of his illustrious predecessor, the late Prof. W. H. Perkin. His association with Prof. Perkin began in Manchester, and he remained in communion with his ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 987-987 
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    Notes: [Auszug] As a contributor to the new edition of the “Encyclopædia Britannica”, may I beg the hospitality of the columns of NATURE in order to disclaim responsibility for certain statements that appear in one of the articles over my initials ? In the article “Acanthocephala” the short passage commencing ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 943-943 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS work by the veteran Prof. G. Steinmann gives an excellent summary of what is at present known of the geology of Peru. Unlike Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, and Venezuela, which were visited in the first half of the nineteenth century by D'Orbigny, Darwin, and Humboldt respectively, scarcely any ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 941-942 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS volume is a sketch of Sir Oliver Lodge's well-known theories concerning the universe, man, survival, and immortality. There would not appear to be anything new in his treatment of these matters in the present work; rather is it intended for a different type of audience. For on examination, it ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 942-942 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS unassuming but extremely valuable publication is the descendant of the "Index of the Technical Press" which was commenced in 1903 by the International Institute of Bibliography at Brussels to supply the need for a comprehensive bibliography of applied science. The "International Catalogue of ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 961-963 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Early Man in India.—In a report by Col. Seymour Sewell and Dr. B. S. Guna (Memoirs, Archceol. Survey, No. 35, App. 5), the bones excavated at Nal, in Baluchistan, by Mr. H. Hargreaves of the Archao1ogica1 Survey and attributed by Sir John Marshall to the chaicholithic age, are described and their ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 964-965 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE objective of the British Museum Expedition to British Honduras this season was the group of ruins situated between the Pusilha and Joventud branches of the Mojo River in British Honduras. A preliminary investigation of the area had been made in 1928 by Capt. E. L. Gruning, Dr. T. Gann, and Mr. ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 965-966 
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    Notes: [Auszug] SOME months ago a beautiful pillar which ha?1 come from the old Kew Bridge, and had been presented to the Royal Gardens by Mr. George Hubbard, was set up in the grounds of Cambridge Cottage. Prof. Vernon Boys, having learned from the Director that a sundial was required to stand on this pillar, ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 966-966 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE invisible multiplying bodies generally known as filterable viruses are among the most interesting things in biology to-day, partly because they are the cause of many diseases in animals and plants, and chiefly because they seem as if they might in the end prove to be some of the transitional ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 906-907 
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    Notes: [Auszug] (1)DURING the past few years the study of crude drugs derived from the vegetable and animal kingdoms has attracted an ever-increasing amount of attention, and the interest in this branch of knowledge has shown a remarkable revival. Medicinal plant farms, where the changes effected in the ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 909-910 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is not very easy to deal with Mr. Reinheimer in a short notice; but at the same time one cannot feel sure that he deserves a longer one. This book is but one of a number which he has written, all telling the same story, namely, that the standards of virtue and vice in the universe depend ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 910-910 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE enjoyment with which many readers of the London Hospital Gazette have perused Dr. Ernest Wards articles will be shared by all who read his book Medical Adventure . Written with a literary ability rarely found in medical men, every chapter reveals the authors powers of observing and ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 903-905 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS book is an attempt to picture, in language which any intelligent reader can follow, the universe around us, from its greatest to its minutest features. Astronomy has undergone, in the last generation, a peaceful development which is greater than a revolution. It has become universal. The ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 927-929 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Religion of the Torres Straits Islanders.Dr. Haddons Frazer Lecture for 1929, The Religion of a Primitive People , delivered in the University of Liverpool, has now appeared in the Annals of Archceology and Anthropology. The Islands fall into three groups, in Mrhich culture was practically ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 930-930 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. PIO EMANUELLI, secretary of the Vatican Observatory, has just published an extensive table for the conversion of Right Ascension and Declination into galactic co-ordinates, which forms an appendix to vol. 14 of the Publications of the Oh- servatory. The author gives a summary of the various ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 932-934 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON. Royal Society, Dec. 5.F. A. B. Ward, C. E. Wynn- Williams, and H. M. Cave: The rate of emission of alpha-particles from radium. A new type of electrical counter was used in which the whole of the amplification is produced by triode valves. The amplification was linear, so that the counting ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 867-869 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN these two volumes, which are dedicated to Dr. Fritz Haber, there are reprinted the collective memoirs on the subject of enzymes from the school of one of Germanyâs greatest chemists. The collection comprises more than a hundred and thirty original contributions to the subject, the first eight ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 873-873 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WRITTEN in response to the wish of the late Prof. Starling that the writer should analyse âin the briefest possible manner, the present state of our knowledge concerning the pressure pulses in the cardiovascular system â, it is impossible to indicate in a paragraph more than the purpose of this ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 874-875 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE trend of the excellent leading article in NATURE of Nov. 9, on “The Grant of Invalid Patents”, is to recommend that more power be entrusted to the Patent Office because of the great evil of expensive patent litigation, but in the course of the article two statements occur which I submit are ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 876-876 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LECTURERS on the more popular aspects of the wave-electron may be interested in a simple lantern slide model for demonstrating the waves which I have not seen previously described. Based directly on an explanation given by de Brogue in his “Recherches sur la Théorie des Quanta” (Ann. de ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 877-877 
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    Notes: [Auszug] My friend Dr. Ami is wrong in supposing that at the University of Birmingham I was associated with the work of Prof. Charles Lapworth on graptolites (NATURE, Nov. 16, p. 766). All that I can claim is to have set him free from some of the routine work of his professorship and thus helped him to ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 874-874 
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    Notes: [Auszug] FROM spectral theory it is known that the lowest energy states for atoms of the oxygen group form a stable triad designated as 3P012. Next higher to these is a metastable state 1D2 and next to that again a metastable state ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 875-876 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS communication deals with a glucose effect on the permeability of cell membranes to sugar molecules as studied by the intensity of respiration when leaves of Artocarpus Integrifolia were injected with varying concentrations of glucose solution. The investigation developed as a very ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 846-847 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MORE than fifty years ago Thomas Wemyss Fulton and I worked side by side in Turnerâs dissecting-room in Edinburgh, with David Bruce and Noel Paton among our comrades there. D. J. Cunningham, then senior demonstrator, was studying the anatomy of the Challenger marsupials; the junior demonstrator ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 848-854 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE debate in the House of Commons on Nov. 20 on Empire timber resources was largely confined to a reiteration of the view that the world will be faced with a famine in softwood coniferous supplies in some thirty yearsâ time. The debate originated from a resolution moved by Sir George Courthope ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 836-836 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE author states in the preface that in this book he has tried to illustrate the technique of radium in cancer in various anatomical situations and some of the results obtained by it by quoting selected cases. After a few short chapters on radioactivity, the methods of irradiation and the general ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 837-838 
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    Notes: [Auszug] EVER since Wegener published in 1915 his remarkable theory of the drift of the continents and the movement of the poles, most of us have viewed a map of the world with entirely different eyes, and it has become almost instinctive to look for correspondences between the outlines of the ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 839-839 
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    Notes: [Auszug] SIR ARTHUR SCHUSTER'S letter gives interesting information about the 1875 eclipse, which the biography of Sir Norman Lockyer (for the relevant portions of which I am responsible) might well have included. It is not made clear there that the British expedition divided into two sections: ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 840-840 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN connexion with the article on the above subject which appeared in NATURE of Nov. 16, I should like to explain that the words “Towards the end of 1900 the first research work by the Forest Department was commenced, when a member of the forest staff was appointed”, referred to the fact that ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 845-846 
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    Notes: [Auszug] SCIENCE generally has suffered a very severe loss by the recent death of Prof. Richard Zsigmondy, late Director of the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry at Gottingen. For years he has been one of the most prominent figures in the field of colloid chemistry. Richard Zsigmondy was born in Vienna on ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 847-847 
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    Notes: [Auszug] SIR THOMAS HUNGERFORD HOLDICH, who died on Nov. 2 at the advanced age of nearly eighty- seven, spent most of his active life in the Survey of India, where he was largely engaged on Frontier and trans-Frontier work. His commission in the Royal Engineers dates so far back as 1862. His first war ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 793-793 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the course of some experiments recently carried out in these laboratories, a curious series of annular markings was observed in a glass tube through which air, carrying water-vapour and powered charcoal, was passing under diminished pressure. The accompanying photograph (Fig. 1) shows the ...
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    Nature 124 (1929), S. 790-790 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE strange custom of couvade, which consists of various taboos for and practices by the father of a new-born baby, more particularly his âlying-inâ, has attracted the attention of many writers. Mr. Warren R. Dawson has evidently studied the subject to see how it would fit in with the migration ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN recent years great advances have been made in our knowledge of the atmosphere. The increase in the number of observatories and the transmission of meteorological data from ships at sea have made material contributions to these advances. There are, however, still large areas of sea and land of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE volume contains a history of the development of nephelometers, an account of the theory of nephelometry, and examples of the use of the nephelometer in inorganic and organic analysis; it has a useful bibliography and satisfactory author and subject indexes. Prof. Yoe rightly lays stress on the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE of June 8, Ikusaku Amemiya gives a list of five species of oysters recorded as being monœcious, and later, July 6, Paul Pelseneer adds two additional species, making a total of seven altogether. The only moncecious species in this list recorded from Australasian waters is Ostrea ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHEN lying at full length in a bath of water, preferably salt, it is easy to demonstrate to oneself rather strikingly the existence of the muscular sense. Allow one of the arms to float on the surface which, as is well known, it will do quite easily. When it has come to rest there, make ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHEN we review the history of our knowledge of atmospheric electricity, we find that it can be divided into three well-marked periods. The first of these periods opens with the suggestion made by a number of philosophers between 1730 and 1750, that the phenomenon of lightning is nothing more than ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Purification of Swimming Bath Water.Reports appear from time to time suggesting that disease may be spread by swimming baths, and as the pro- vision and use of swimming baths has increased greatly in recent years, the Ministry of Health has been well advised to institute an inquiry into the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON. Royal Society, Nov. 14.V. Henri and 0. R. Howell: The structure and activation of the molecule of phosgene. An analysis of the ultra-violet absorption spectrum of phosgene vapour. The spectrum, about 270 bands between 3050 A. and 2380 A., has been photographed at pressures from 0 . 1 mm. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THOUGH opinions may, and undoubtedly do, differ as to how far it is incumbent upon a science to justify its raison dâêtre by its practical value, it would indeed be remarkable if in the case of anthropology, the science of man, its applica tion to the problems of society were ignored. Yet there ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE ninth volume of Mellorâs âComprehensive Treatiseâ covers the tervalent and quinquevalent elements, arsenic, antimony, bismuth, vanadium, columbium, and tantalum. These elements do not possess the exceptional interest of the earlier homologues, nitrogen and phosphorus, which were described ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. MEEK, in his letter to NATURE of Oct. 5 on “Adaptation”, has used in illustration of his views instances of crustacean races (of the amphipod Gammarus duebeni and the copepod Canthocamptus pygmcæus) residing in pits and mines which had lost their colour and eyes without losing the power ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHAT Dr. Marshall is so good as to say in NATURE of Oct. 26 in regard to my advocacy of the principle of inter-sexual selection makes it, I think, incumbent upon me to point out that I did not originate the idea of this, any more than of sexual selection in the ordinary sense. Darwin had ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SYMMETRICAL dichiorodimethyl sulphate isolated by Fuchs and Katscher (Ber., 60, 2288; 1927) has been found to react with soda cellulose (using Haworth's technique) giving monomethylene cellulose of maximum OCH2, content 17.2 per cent and corresponding with the formula ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] His MAJESTY THE KING has approved of the follow- ing awards this year by the president and council of the Royal Society in respect of the two Royal medals: A Royal medal to Prof. J. E. Littlewood, for his work on mathematical analysis and the theory of prime numbers. A Royal medal to Prof. R. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AN attempt to solve the problem of the origin of the bird fauna of the arctic has recently been made by Prof. A. Tougarinov (â The origin of Arctic Faunaâ, Priroda, No. 7-8, 654-680, Leningrad, 1929). The total number of species nesting in the arctic zone is abdut 180, or 240 if one includes ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AMONG the easiest tasks to conceive, and yet one of the hardest adequately to perform, is the production of an introductory text-book of chemistry such as shall faithfully expound the un changing, but always fashionably dressed, principles of the science, shall include what is necessary of formal ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] BRITISH justice is a pearl of great price. More specifically it may be stated that in the case of patent actions in the High Court its price ranges from £600 to £1000 a day, and that such actions may last for a number of weeks. Dr. Levinstein has performed a public service in giving prominence, in ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS small volume focuses attention upon the principles underlying the branch of science which is the most neglected of all at the present time, anatomy. It is true that professors of anatomy are attached to the medical schools of Great Britain and other countries; but most of their work is ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS fine volume contains a facsimile of the original Latin edition published by Harvey at the age of fifty in 1628, followed by a free translation by Prof. Leake, who holds the chair of pharmacology in the University of California. We learn from the postscript that this is the third attempt to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WITH the view of making accurate measurements of the velocity of sound, and hence of the ratio of the two principal specific heats of gases, we have been studying the formation of dust figures in a sounding tube. Instead of using a stroked rod to produce the vibrations of known frequency, as ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Meteorological Office always welcomes friendly and constructive criticism, and therefore it gives me much pleasure to reply to the points raised by Mr. Wilfred Trotter in his letter published in NATURE of Oct. 19. Mr. Trotter's main indictment is that modern British forecasts prepared on ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PERHAPS readers of NATURE would be interested to hear the results of two rearing experiments which were carried out under my supervision this summer by two of my pupils in the Zoological Laboratory of the Imperial College of Science. (1) The common starfish, Astenas rubens, was obtained ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE have been so much struck with the justice of the reviewer's comments in NATURE of Oct. 26 upon the limitation of the sale of Dr. Van de Velde's book, “Ideal Marriage”, that we have decided for the future to sell it, not only to members of the medical profession, but also to biologists and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. AUGUST FRIEDRICH HORSTMANN, a pioneer in the field of physical chemistry, whose investigations of the thermodynamics of chemical pro- cesses are well known, died recently in Heidelberg at eighty-seven years of age. We are indebted to the Ohemiker-Zeitung for the following details of his ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. THOMSON'S report with regard to the sounds proceeding from the New Zealand Earthquake of June 17, 1929, is of great interest. It is usual for sounds to be heard coming from the ground in the neighbourhood of the epicentre of an earthquake, but I have found no earlier reference to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A SMALL piece of ovary of a very young pigeon was kept for about twenty minutes in a trough of dilute solution of neutral red, just pink in colour (strength—1/25000 physiological salt solution). It was then teased out and examined under an oil immersion lens in artificial light. The young ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a recent issue of the Bulletin of Entomological Research, Major E. E. Austen has a very interesting paper on the flies of the genus Thyridanthrax, which are parasitic on tsetse flies, and are the only Diptera known to be parasitic on Glossina. I thought at once of the species of Glossina ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. HETNRICH BECKURTS, who resigned the chair of pharmaceutical and food-stuffs chemistry at the Technisehe Hochschule at Brunswick in 1925, died suddenly on Sept. 15 at Bartgeheide, near Hamburg. From the Chemiker-Zeitung we learn that Prof. Beckurts was born at Brunswick in 1855. He graduated at ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON.–Mr. Charles Manning has been appointed, as from Jan. 1, 1930, to the Sir Ernest Cassel chair of international relations tenable at the London School of Economics. ST. ANJXREWS.–The Senatus Academicus has resolved to confer the honorary degree of LL.D. on the following, on the occasion of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1. ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE (Otology Section), at 10.80 A.M.–4V. M. Mollison, G. J. Jenkins, L. Graham Brown, and J. P. Stewart Triumphs and Failures of the Mastoid Operation. DIESEL ENGINE UsERs' ASSOCIATION (at Caxton Hall), at 3.30.–J. G. Pearce: Modern Engineering Cast Irons ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. HANKINS holds the chair of sociology at Smith College. He has written a book which suggests two questions. Is the task which he has undertaken one which falls to the sociologist as such to accomplish? Is he following the best method to achieve the purpose which he has in view? The title and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] (1) IF it be a geological axiom that outcrop evidence is not necessarily indicative of subsurface structure, which is admittedly true in many cases, that where comparatively soft rocks are involved the divorce between the two may be so great as to render one an unreliable guide to the other, then ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE fourth edition of Wegener's " Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane " is greatly enlarged and improved. For example, of the previous illustrations 12 are omitted, but the total number is increased from 44 to 63. The author naturally directs attention to the widespread new support to his ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING the last twelve months we have been working on the photodecomposition of ozone sensitised for visible and long-wave ultra-violet light by the addition of chlorine. A detailed analysis of the somewhat complex pressure changes which occur on insolating or on cutting off the light from a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. DAWE'S observation serves to direct attention to a matter that is of considerable interest to students of the Lepidoptera of the British Isles in connexion with the distribution of Polygonia c-album. It is not an isolated one, for in 1928 a single example of the same species was noted in a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN recent years the intensive observation of birds living in a state of Nature has led to the development of a branch of study which is not only full of interest to the outdoor naturalist, but may be as strictly scientific as the work of the museum specialist or the laboratory observer. The pioneer ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ABERDEEN.–Dr. Henry Cook, who graduated M.B., C.M., at the University of Aberdeen in 1883, and died at Bristol on Aug. 3, bequeathed " the entire residue of his estate to the Treasurer for the time being of Marisehal College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, for the use and benefit of the said ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON. Optical Society, Oct. 1O.–T. H. Court and Moritz von Rohr: Development of the telescope (1675–1830). J. Lipperhey was the first to construct a practical telescope for military use in 1608. Galileo developed this type for astronomical purposes. The Capuchin Father v. Schyrle in 1645 ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] (1)A SMALL committee of experts and a great deal of space would be required for an exhaustive review of this volume, in compiling which the editor has evidently been guided by Goethe's maxim: "Wer Vieles bringt, wird Jedem etwas bringen ". A liberal interpretation of this principle has, perhaps ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN this book, "written by practical people for practical people ", the raw materials, processes, and machinery used in paper-making are fully described in such a manner as to afford a clear and comprehensive account of the industry at the present day. The book is well arranged, profusely ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHEN visiting New Caledonia last year, my attention was directed to the varied representation of the fauna and flora of the West Indies to be found in the island. New Caledonia is a French colony, and is visited by steamers which go round the world, calling at French ports. There has been ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a letter to NATURE of Aug. 17, Dr. R. A. Fisher has given a clear statement of his reasons for believing that the methods set out in his “Statistical Methods for Research Workers” are adequate to deal with all problems arising in biological research as ordinarily conducted. Those ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN his very interesting presidential address to Section G (Engineering) of the British Association, portions of which appear in NATURE of Sept. 14, Prof. F. C. Lea attributes to J. V. Poncelet the enunciation of “the guiding principles underlying the design of vanes receiving moving ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] GLAsGow. Sir Donald MacAlister, who has been Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University since 1907, is retiring from the principalship in October next. THE American Association of Museums is carrying out a scheme, for which it has this year obtained a grant of 1 18,000 dollars, for the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Index to the Literature of Food Investigation. No. 1, March. Compiled by Agnes Elisabeth Glennie. Pp. iv+85. (London: H.M. Stationery Office.)2s. net. The Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society. Vol. 19 (N.S.), No. 22: On the Local ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHEN the British Association visited South Africa in 1905, the country was still suffering from the effects of the Boer War. Of the many problems which had demanded solution, the most acute had been that of labour. In the efforts to restore social and economic equilibrium, the mining industry had ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE entomologist working in the field in remote parts of the world is often seriously handicapped by the lack of literature; he requires a few handy books of reference that he can conveniently carry with him, books to which he can turn in times of need for reliable information concerning the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ACCORDING to a statement in his biography, recently published, Bateson intended at some time to write the history of Mendelism. Interesting as such a review would have been, the result has, in effect, been accomplished by the publication of his scientific papers and public addresses; for we have ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS first in a new series of monograpb is written by one editor of the series, Prof. L. V. Heilbrunn, and dedicated to the other, Prof. Weber, who has taken an active part in editing the new journal Protoplasma. This journal has certainly been very successful as a channel of publication for the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] As communicated in a cablegram of April 10 (NATURE, April 20, p. 618), my statistical formula, concerning any two groups of stars 1, 2, ... which is fully derived in a monograph on “The Size of the Universe”, shortly to be issued by the Clarendon Press, Oxford, when applied to 29 Cepheids ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a very interesting paper, “Physical Properties of a Gaseous Substratum in the Galaxy” (Astrophys. Jour., 69, p. 7; 1929), Gerasimovi&cbreve; and Struve have recently given strong evidence of a uniform gaseous medium of calcium in interstellar space. The absorption coefficient per ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THEORETICAL considerations suggest that the square root of mass may be more interesting and important than mass itself in the case of the ultimate particles of matter. For in the modern theory of matter, electric charge is more fundamental than mass, and the dimensional formula for electric ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WITH the help of Prof. A. E. Boycott and others, I have been engaged for the past ten years in collecting data for the study of the distribution of variations in natural populations. The species selected for study were the two common and very variable British landsnails, Helix (Cepæa) nemoralis ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MONO the vast number of ingenious inventors whose work is the heritage of to-day, a prominent place must be accorded to Thomas Newcomen, who invented the atmospheric steam engine. Newcomen died in London on Aug. 5, 1729, two hundred years ago. Steam power, which is now of universal application, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN staging joint discussions upon various subjects of general interest, the British Association performs one of the most useful of its public functions. Scientific workers of different schools and training meet, as they seldom do, to focus their peculiar outlooks upon a particular problem; the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE desirability of protection from lightning was recognised from the earliest times. The earliest attempts consisted of exorcisms by priests, the wearing of charms, the ringing of church bells, and even the burning of witches. It was not until about 1750, when Franklin proved that a lightning ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] August 3, 1822. Machine saws for felling trees have not found great favour, but many have been invented. An early example was the subject of Mourets patent granted for five years in France on Aug. 3, 1822. The saw is mounted on rollers and is moved to and fro by manually operated gear, being guided ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PARIS. Academy of Sciences, June 24. Marcel Brillouin Movements of the oceans. The Newtonian potential of the ridge in cylindrical co-ordinates. B. Cabrera and A. Duperier: The paramagnetic properties of the rare earths. Details of measurements of the variations of the magnetisation coefficients ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] TWENTY-FOUR years ago the British Association visited South Africa for the first time, and now, by invitation of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science. the parent body is again in Cape Town. Mr. Jan H. Hofmeyrs inaugural address, which is printed in the supplement to this ...
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