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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1138-1138 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS book is the autobiography of David Fairchild, written with the assistance of Elizabeth and Alfred Kay. It consists of an account of his life and of his varied experiences during the course of his journeyings as a plant explorer. In early manhood, Fairchild's chief interests were in the ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1142-1142 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THESE sections of the "Hand- und Jahrbuch der A Chemischen Physik", like their predecessors, are noteworthy for their completeness, good presentation of experimental facts and technique, and their convenient format. It is impossible here to do more than comment upon a few of their more striking ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1143-1146 
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    Notes: [Auszug] It is common knowledge that the trawl fisheries -V have mainly been unprofitable for many years and that the number of British fishermen has been reduced by about thirty per cent since 1919. Some of this decline is due to loss of herring fishermen; and this article is not concerned with that ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1150-1150 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a preliminary statement issued by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, Dr. F. F. H. Roberts, jun., reports that in the course of last summer, his fifth season of excavation of the camp station of Folsom man on the now famous Lindenmeier site in northern Colorado, he recovered a large number ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1152-1152 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LOUD-SPEAKER systems are being installed on an ever-increasing scale on railway platforms. A critical discussion of them by O. Vogel and K. Rothe is given in the second number for 1938 of the quarterly Review published by Siemens and Halske. Until quite recently, orders were shouted to the shunters ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1152-1153 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A PAPER by B. M. Thornton and Prof. W. M. Thornton, upon which written discussions are to be sent to the secretary of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers before January 31, 1939, gives a method of measuring the thickness of metal walls from one surface only by electrical means. A reference was ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1154-1155 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Physics Forum of the November issue of the Review of Scientific Instruments is devoted to an account of the use made of physics in the detection of crime in the United States. It is written by J. Edgar Hoover, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice. Although the ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1155-1155 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN view of the great importance of manganese ores in modern steel manufacture, much interest is attached to a small book by Dr. A. W. Groves on "Manganese" (Second Edition. Imperial Institute, 1938. 35. 6d. net). It is one of the series of monographs on mineral production. Ores occur in many lands, ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1162-1162 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a recent communication1, Prof. E. A. Owen advances a theory to account for the Widmanstätten figures in meteorites. He suggests that the meteorite is heated to a high temperature in its passage through the earth's atmosphere and is then suddenly, cooled on coming to rest in ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1172-1172 
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    Notes: [Auszug] (not included in the monthly Books Supplement) Great Britain and Ireland National Smoke Abatement Society. Ninth Annual Report, 1938-9. Pp. 32. (London: National Smoke Abatement Society.) [3011 National Physical Laboratory; Metrology Department. Schedule of Fees of Tests on Volumetric Glassware. ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1104-1105 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE report of the Food Investigation Board A describes the general activities of the Board and, in summary form, the scientific researches carried out by the members of the food investigation staff, under the general direction of Mr. E. Barnard, the director of food ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1134-1134 
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    Notes: [Auszug] (not included in the monthly Books Supplement) Great Britain and Ireland Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Vol. 59, Part 3, No. 20: Studies on Plumage in the Male Brown Leghorn Fowl. By Dr. J. P. Chu. Pp. 533-562 + 5 plates. (Edinburgh: Robert Grant and Son, Ltd.; ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1051-1052 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the early summer of 1933, the Academic Assistance Council was founded, under the presidency of Lord Rutherford and with the active support of many distinguished men of science and other scholars, to find places in the fabric of world science and world scholarship for men and women driven from ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1110-1110 
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    Notes: [Auszug] EXHIBITS illustrating the culture of the inhabitants of mesolithic pit-dwellings at Farnham, Surrey, are now on view in the Prehistoric Galleries of the British Museum (Bloomsbury). These dwellings, on a site which is the only one of its kind as yet found in Britain, have been excavated by Dr. ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1111-1111 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Air Ministry has announced its intention to equip all R.A.F. bombers and reconnaissance aircraft with the Lorenz blind approach system. If experiments during this winter prove this to be successful, the fighter class of aircraft will then also be so equipped. This follows the announcement ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1112-1112 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE fifth annual meeting of the Parliamentary Science Committee was held at the House of Commons on December 13, under the presidency of Prof. J. Graham Kerr. The honorary secretary's report disclosed that the Committee's constituent bodies now number twenty-six, five of which have ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1114-1114 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a paper on “Marine Engineering Problems of To-day” read to the International Conference of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers in June of this year, Mr. Sterry B. Freeman suggests that the time is now ripe for a reconsideration of the gas engine for ship propulsion. On October ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1115-1115 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A CATALOGUE of its publications has been issued by the Carnegie Institution of Washington giving a classified list of publications in various branches of science, international law and literature. Most of the books marked in the classified section as out of print are to be found in the ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1115-1115 
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    Notes: [Auszug] In the article on “National Parks” in NATURE of December 17, p. 1087, second paragraph, line 18, for “16,000 ft.” read “1,600 ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1016-1017 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PR0F. CASTELNUOVO'S scientific jubilee occurred in the year 1935; and in the same year he retired from the professorship of geometry at the University of Rome, a post which he had held for nearly forty-five years. To mark the occasion, his friends and pupils urged him to publish a book of memoirs ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1071-1071 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A NEW departure in publication is a series of "Anthropological Papers" consisting of articles less extended in length than the usual report on the explorations of the Smithsonian Institution, which will be numbered consecutively, and will be collected from time to time in bulletin form as occasion ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1127-1127 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WITH the “Semaine Internationale contre le Cancer”, which took place at Paris between November 23 and 30, the fortieth anniversary of the discovery of radium by Pierre and Madame Curie was commemorated. Simultaneously, the discovery of the electron, the X-rays, and Hertzian waves ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1131-1131 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE new Admiralty Laboratories at Janson Street, Sheffield, were opened on December 15 by Sir William Bragg, president of the Royal Society. These laboratories, which have been constructed to cope with the ever-increasing amount of Government work, are designed in such a fashion as to ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1053-1054 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE are to be five volumes of the "Hand- book of British Birds", and the second volume which has just been published deals with the warblers, the thrush family, wheatears, whin-chats and redstarts, nightingale and robin, hedge-sparrow and wren, the water ousel, the swallow and the swift family, ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1087-1087 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT a meeting of the Linnean Society held on December 8, the objects of national parks were discussed. The immediate cause of the discussion was a letter from Prof. J. B. Cleland, chairman of the Commissioners of the National Park at Belair, South Australia, who asked for "an authoritative ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1058-1058 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is the fifth of a series of handy pocket books (see also NATURE, 141, 351; 1938), one of their merits being that they actually are pocket books, 5J in. by 3J in., and therefore convenient to carry on nature rambles. In this volume, sixty-nine species of British animals are described, and the ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1066-1067 
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    Notes: [Auszug] J. W. BEWS was born at Kirkwal], in the Orkney Islands, in 1884, being the younger son of the late James Bews, of Berry Hill, Scapa, Orkney. From the Kirkwall Burgh School he entered the University of Edinburgh as Earl of Zetland bursar in 1902. After graduating, he was appointed lecturer in ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1066-1066 
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    Notes: [Auszug] SIR THOMAS OCTAVIUS CALLENDER, who died at his home at Bidborough Court, Kent, on December 2, at the age of eighty-two years, spent a long and very busy life in promoting the electrical industry. He was the eldest son of the late W. O. Callender of Bournemouth and was born in Glasgow in April 1855. ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1068-1068 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON December 22 occurs the centenary of the birth of the Russian chemist Wladimir Markownikoff, whose investigations in the latter part of last century were of great importance to the petroleum industry. He was born in the neighbourhood of Nijni-Novgorod and was a student at the University of Kasan, ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1018-1018 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS useful synopsis deals not only with the French species but also with those found in countries bordering on the Republic. Since the various species found in Great Britain are also included, this work provides a handy and ready means for their identification. In addition to the descriptions of ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1028-1028 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE regret to announce the following deaths: Sir Thomas Callendar, deputy chairman and managing director of Callendar's Cable and Construction Co., Ltd., a pioneer in electricity supply, on December 2, aged eighty-three years. Mr. W. P. Dreaper, O.B.E., formerly superintendent of H.M. Factories at ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1029-1030 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the discussion which followed Mr. Barger's lecture at the Royal Society of Arts on November 30 (see , p. 1046) interest in the future of the India Museum at South Kensington and the position of Indian studies in Great Britain will appear to have eclipsed the claims to attention of the lecturer's ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1019-1022 
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING the last few decades, the main interests of astronomical research have shifted rapidly from the solar system outwards. Nevertheless, the planets have not been entirely neglected in recent research. The great light-gathering power of large modern telescopes has enabled spectrographs of very ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1030-1030 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. EDWARD THURLOW LEEDS, keeper of the Ashmolean and the Department of Antiquities in the University of Oxford, whose election to a professorial fellowship at Brasenose College is announced, holds a position of distinction among archaeologists for his carefully documented studies in Celtic and ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1031-1031 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ACCORDING to a statement in The Times of November 30, the chairman and managing director of Messrs. Cable and Wireless, Ltd., has made an offer to the Government to create a system of wireless telegraphic and telephonic communication throughout the Colonial Empire without cost to the ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1035-1035 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is remarkable how few decisive verifications of second-order relativity in physical systems have been effected: one can only recall the experiments of Michelson and Morley, Rayleigh and Brace, and FitzGerald and Trouton. It is therefore desirable that the very remarkable investigation by H. ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1037-1038 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE carcinogenic properties of œstrone, and the close structural relationship between the powerful carcinogenic hydrocarbon methylcholanthrene and the steroids, makes the hypothesis appear justified that perhaps light-cancer of the skin is due to photochemical conversion of steroids situated in ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1039-1040 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHEN a metal is cleaned in air, the surface will still be covered with a relatively thick layer of oxide and other adsorbed impurities. Friction measurements are usually made with metals coated in this way, and if a lubricant is added, it is superimposed on the surface films already present. ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1047-1047 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE town's gas industry is now well advanced into its second century of activity, although during the last half century it has, from time to time, been considered by observers as doomed to supersession sooner or later by other methods of using coal. Such opinions, based as they were on superficial ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1050-1050 
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    Notes: [Auszug] [Meeting marked with an asterisk is open to the public.'] Monday, December 12 ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, at 8.30.--Dr. Hugh Scott: "A Journey to the Yemen". Tuesday, December 13 ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE (in the rooms of the Royal Society), at 8.30.-Dr. D. F. Thomson: "Survey of Arnhem ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1000-1000 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. P. M. S. BLACKETT calculates the mean range of the mesotrons (particles of mass intermediate between that of the electron and that of the proton) from the relative intensity of the inclined cosmic rays to the vertical rays, and also from the absorption anomaly between air and water. He ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 746-746 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE proposed formation of a scientific film society, which would give shows of scientific documentary films to its members and their guests, was announced in NATURE of June 4. Such a society has now been formed, under the name of the London Scientific Film Society, and its inaugural meeting was ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 955-956 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is customary in X-ray crystallography to regard a crystal as a continuous distribution of scattering matter, expressible in the form of the electron density function: ... Whereas X-ray techniques permit the determination of the amplitudes r, they do not determine the phases α. This, as is ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SIR EDMUND DAVIS'S excavation of Julaber's Grave, Chilham Hill, Kent, under the direction of Mr. R. F. Jesup, in continuation of the investigations of 1937, after a brief interruption during the recent crisis, owing to the absence of the director, has been brought to a close, after being carried to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIMANN1, using the standard Avena technique, showed that a growth-substance is produced in considerable amount in root nodules. He further-more claimed that the growth-substance produced is not derived from the meristematic tip of the nodule, but comes directly from the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the so-called ninhydrine reaction there is formed, in addition to carbon dioxide, an aldehyde corresponding to the particular amino-acid present. When the reaction is carried out so that the formation of aldehyde is as quantitative as possible, the amino-acid can be determined by the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE twenty-fourth meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science is to be held at Canberra on January 11-18, 1939, under the presidency of Prof. Ernest Scott, emeritus professor of history in the University of Melbourne. This meeting is regarded as the jubilee ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] FROM the communication by B. R. Nebel1 in NATURE of August 6 reporting that acenaphthene solution does not induce chromosome doubling in Tradescantia, I believe that he is not well acquainted with the method by which I worked. In my first paper2 I described the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN an earlier note published in these columns1, it was reported that cyclical variations occur in the responsiveness of the uterus of spayed monkeys to constant œstrogenic stimulation. In view of several considerations, it was suggested in a later communication2 ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] USING the cloud chamber method, we1 have investigated the beta-ray spectra of 24Na. The K.-U. plot showed clearly the existence of two groups. The energy difference between the higher energy group and the lower one is about 1 Mv., their relative intensities being ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] American Indian Place-Names DR. JOHN P. HARRINGTON has been engaged in an investigation of the origin and meaning of some well-known American place names of Indian derivation. A preliminary report issued by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, deals with certain of his results. Utah, it has ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT was apparent during the recent critical weeks that, though the problem of the utilization of science in war-time had been under consideration, no comprehensive scheme for this purpose was in existence. The immediate danger is now past, but there are clear signs that the peace obtained by ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Imperial Council of Agricultural Research was set up as a result of the Royal Commission on Agriculture in India in 1926. One of the conditions laid down was that the Council's activities should be periodically reviewed by some disinterested expert, and in 1936 Sir John Russell was invited to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MARCONI'S discovery that radio waves followed the curvature of the earth indicated that the signals were reflected back to earth by an electrified condition of the upper atmosphere. In 1925 Prof. E. V. Applet on in England and Breit and Tuve of the Carnegie Institution (U.S.A.) gave definite ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE annual meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute held on May 4-6 was devoted to a general discussion of open-hearth steel-making prac- * tice. A very large amount of data was brought together from all of the main steel-producing areas of the British Isles, and this material is most excellently ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS book, comprising vols. 2 and 3, is intended A to complete the school course and to provide a suitable introduction to higher work for those who are proceeding to the universities. Attention has rightly been concentrated upon fundamental principles and methods which are essential to a more ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Commemoration at Cromarty T?? rise of geological knowledge in the first half of last century was marked by the appearance of innumerable books dealing with the rich mass of observations which could be made by even superficially interested persons. Most of these books are wisely forgotten; but in ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] To Mr. Edgar P. Chance all credit is due for his film of cuckoo life, which thrilled every ornithologist who saw it and made a distinct contribution to scientific knowledge. This achievement, however, does not necessarily justify all his other activities, and for his egg-collecting he has been ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MB. M. E. L. MALLOW AN'S expedition to the Habur region of Northern Syria in the spring of 1938, from which came the finds to which reference is made above, excavated four areas, which in conjunction yielded evidence covering a period extending from 3100 B.C. down to 1500 B.C. The remains latest in ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A'SURVEY of Industrial Development for 1937 recently issued by the Board of Trade includes particulars of factories opened, extended and closed in 1937 with some figures for 1936, and indicates the extent to which industrial development in the form of new factories and factory extensions took place ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS admirable little volume has the strongest claims on the attention of all scientific workers. Dr. Joules and his colleagues give a concise but lucid account of the service which the doctor can render in time of war, and the problems he has to face, as well as of the effect of the disregard of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE author, who is managing editor of the well-known journal Electronics, is in an ideal position for observing the continuous and successful application of electronic devices to industry. Without the subtlety associated with the specialist and research worker, or even a professor, and taking a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE importance now attached to the incremental permeability of silicon-steel and of nickel-iron alloys arises from the use of these materials for the cores of transformers and chokes in communication apparatus. Under these conditions, the magnetization is due to a continuous steady current upon ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING the recent period of uncertainty in international relations, the Research Co-ordination Committee approached several organizations having valuable unpublished data With the view of securing co-operation for their safety in case of War. The microfilm technique of duplication Was considered, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE annual report of the Director of the Mellon Institute for the year March 1, 1937, to March 1, 1938, refers to the interest aroused in hydroxy-ethylapocupreine, a contribution of the Institute's department of research in pure chemistry. Semi-plant scale operations have been undertaken to provide ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] APART from the determination of the charac-teristics of the liquefied gases used to produce low temperatures, the original aim of low temperature research was to investigate the fundamental properties of matter in the absence of the disturbing effects produced by thermal agitation. Although this ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE very rapid growth of organic chemistry, -- alike on the descriptive side and in the theoretical aspects of the subject, has produced acute problems for teachers of chemistry, particularly for those concerned with final honours or post-graduate students. Whilst numerous and excellent elementary ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SOME months ago, an extremely faint, widely-extended stellar system in the constellation Sculptor was reported from the Harvard Observatory1. In many respects it appeared to be unlike any known stellar organization. The finding more recently of a similar system in Fornax, on ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN 1926, Prof. E. W. Brown1 raised the question whether the usual equation, ... is rigorously true for a radiating star and, in a letter to NATURE, Sir Joseph Larmor has advanced, from considerations of momentum, that (1) is true. The motion of a radiating star, according ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A DISCUSSION on recent advances in the organic chemistry of the metals, which had special reference to the transitional metals, was held in Section ? (Chemistry) during the Cambridge meeting of the British Association. It was opened by Dr. F. G. Mann, who said that recent advances in the organic ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is always a gratifying stage in the development of any department of science, when a large number of detailed investigations can be collected, correlated, and woven into a coherent philosophy of the subject as a whole. That stage has arrived in the study of soil mycology, and the monograph under ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is the second member of a series of booklets issued by the Museums Association with the general idea of helping curators in their task of conservation of precious objects. It may be said at once that this purpose is admirably fulfilled by the pages now before us. The scheme is, first to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING the last three years, Great Britain has enjoyed comparative freedom from smallpox, and the Ministry of Health has therefore considered it appropriate to issue a memorandum in order to direct the attention of local authorities to the possibility which now exists of limiting the spread of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE recognition of the + and - strains in rust fungi and the way in which the bi-nucleate aecial condition must be preceded by myeelial fusion of + and - strains or the introduction of pycniospore-containing nectar of the opposite strain, has led to the possibility of the study of inbred ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. B. W. HOLMAN, assistant professor of mining in the Imperial College of Science and Technology, has been awarded the Gold Medal of the National Bureau of Scientific and Industrial Research by the French Minister of Instruction and Fine Arts. The award of this medal to a British subject is very ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE cottage at Cromarty in which Hugh Miller was born on October 10, 1802, was handed over to the National Trust for Scotland on September 26. The occasion was of interest not only to geologists but also to many who have been attracted to his writings by their highly individual style and charm, and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE infra-red absorption spectrum of gaseous and liquid sulphur trioxide has been determined by us, in the laboratory for physical research at the Sor-bonne, in the region extending from 7μ to 14μ, with the help of the self-registering rock salt infra-red absorption spectrometer developed and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT has long been known that proteins differ widely in their rates of migration in an electric field, and many attempts have been made to use this phenomenon for purposes of separation and identification by so-called 'electrophoresis'. The principle is particularly attractive since even highly ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON September 24, Sir William Bragg, president of the Koyal Society, opened the new science building at Shrewsbury School. Charles Darwin was at the School from 1818 until 1825, and the building, hitherto used for science teaching, erected in 1903, was named after him. It has been considerably ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] [Meetings marked with an asterisk are open to the public.] Tuesday, October 18 EUGENICS SOCIETY (at the Royal Society), at 5.15.-Dr. J. A. Fraser Roberts: "Intelligence and Family Size".* Wednesday, October 19 SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF ALCHEMY AND EARLY CHEMISTRY (at University College, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WITHIN historic times, the English fenland stretched over the greater part of the area to the west and south of the Wash, extending as far north as Lincoln and as far south as Huntingdon and Cambridge. On the seaward side, the surface deposits are semi-marine silts, laid down, and afterwards ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. WILLIAM DICKSON LANG, who retires from the keepership of geology in the British Museum (Natural History) at the end of the year, has made notable contributions both to palaeontology and to geology. While occupied with curatorial duties he has studied especially polyzoans and corals, and in ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Guthrie Lecturer of the Physical Society this year was Prof. A. V. Hill, Foulerton research professor and secretary of the Royal Society, who chose as the title of his lecture delivered on November 11 "The Transformations of Energy and the Mechanical Work of Muscles". Prof. Hill is a Cambridge ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN his Guthrie Lecture on the subject, Prof. A. V. Hill pointed out that the study of the heat given out by muscles in relation to the work done by them is one of the classics of physiology. Until recently, however, the matter appeared much more complicated than it really is, owing to technical ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE public acquisition of the High Elms estate in Kent, as part of London's 'green belt', is an event of note in the history of science; for this was the home of the Lubbock family from 1808. In that year, Sir John William Lubbock acquired the nucleus of the property, some 270 acres; by later ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. ROBERT BROOM continues to provide sensational news from South Africa for anthropologist and palaeontologist. In another column of this issue (see p. 897) he reports further finds of relics of South African fossil anthropoids, which, if anything, surpass in interest the remarkable discoveries he ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] NOVEMBER 14, 1938, marked the fiftieth anniversary of the inauguration of the Pasteur Institute of Paris as the result of international subscription, but the actual celebrations have, owing to the recent crisis, been postponed until December 27, the anniversary of the birth of Pasteur. The spacious ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is reported from the Air Ministry that an earthquake of great violence was recorded on November 10 at Kew Observatory at 20 h. 30 m. 7 s. G.M.T., a second movement following about half an hour later. The displacements of the ground at Kew were about one tenth of an inch, and the epicentre of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AN earthquake, with an epicentre near Vienna, occurred about 4h. G.C.T. on November 8, doing some damage to property, but causing no casualties. An earthquake in this region is most unusual, and the last one of any importance was in 1927 on October 8 at 19h. 48m. 55s. G.C.T. with epicentre lat. 48° ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS book bears the imprint of the practical man and is based on the experience of an owner of woodlands during thirty years of management of his own estates. In his preface, Mr. Ackers alludes briefly to the training he went through to prepare himself for the work he has since carried out. In a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE first edition of this useful and handy little work appeared in 1933. It has now been brought up to date by the inclusion of a large number of new Words and 120 fresh illustrations. A considerable amount of heterogeneous information has been appended, such as notes on infant feeding, poisons and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE object of this book is to aid students and others engaged in the preparation of manuscripts requiring illustration, which includes the method of assembly and display of illustrations and diagrams designed for scientific publications, and the placing of the matter in a form convenient for ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MRS. HANDY, who in 1920-21 accompanied her husband, Dr. Craighill Handy, on the Bayard Dominick expedition of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum of Honolulu to the Marquesas, there devoted herself to the study of the tattooing for which the islanders have always been noted. Her observation of this ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry CROSBY LOCKWOOD & SON, LTD. Intensive Salad Production-C. P. Quarrell. Practical Lawn Craft-R. B. Dawson. ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES PRESS, LTD. Fruit Growing up to Date-W. E. Shewell-Cooper. Principles and Practice of Poultry Husbandry-T. Newman. P. S. KING ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN my letter in NATURE of February 5 (141, 245), I pointed out that a slight alteration in the usual form in which Bode's Law is stated leads to some interesting results in Saturn's satellite system. As the amended method of stating the law assists in certain conjectures regarding the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A NEW periodical entitled Chemical Products and the Chemical News, which is being published monthly by Science Services, Ltd., 35 Great James Street, Bedford How, London, W.C.2, is designed to emphasize the indivisibility of the chemical industry. It will accordingly deal with matters of interest ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE following appointments have recently been made: F. J. Harper, agricultural officer, Nigeria; G. A. Jones, director of agriculture, Jamaica; F. H. Fitch, geologist, Malaya; T. G. Chamberlain, veterinary officer, Kenya; D. Slavin, veterinary research officer, Kenya; J. F. C. Swan, veterinary ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SIR WILLIAM BRAGG, president of the Royal Society, is to deliver an address on "The Advance of Science" at the Ely Diocesan Conference to be held at Cambridge on November 21. DR. H. SPENCER JONES, Astronomer Royal, will deliver the fourteenth annual Norman Lockyer Lecture under the auspices of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] INVESTIGATIONS by us during the last four years, supported by grants from the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund, have shown that a hitherto unrecognized flint industry occurs in the coast section at Corton, near Lowestoft, and in the neighbourhood of Cromer. From the geological point of view, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the course of work on the constitution of certain wood starches and other polysaccharides containing uronic acid residues, we have found it necessary to investigate more closely the accuracy of the analytical methods used in the estimation of the uronic acid content. The usual procedure ...
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