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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 671-672 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE history of which this is the first instalment is not only a co-operative, but also an international work. The fifteen contributors to the present volume represent schools of history or economics in France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Jugoslavia, ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 685-687 
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    Notes: [Auszug] FOR countless centuries Africa had supplied *o labour to Eastern countries. When the American continent was discovered, an immediate demand arose for African labour for its plantations and industries. Eventually the slave trade came to an end, and Africa turned to developing the, export of its own ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 690-690 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the second of a series on "Transport in Ihe Soviet Union", Modern Transport reviews the progress of railway electrification in Russia. It is stated that there were no electric railways in Imperial Russia. The Soviet began the electrification of the suburban lines in the Baku area in 1926 on the ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 691-692 
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    Notes: [Auszug] As was recently noted in NATURE1, an increasingly high degree of accuracy in the specification of colour in terms of C.I.E. units is now being sought as a result of the growing realization of the indefiniteness of the colour discrimination limen and the low values it can assume ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 690-690 
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    Notes: [Auszug] BRACKEN-INFESTED land can be made very suitable to potato growing provided the proper methods of cultivation are used. Such land is normally light and would be easy to work if it were not for the formidable amount of roots and surface trash that must first be cleared. Trials (described by I. P. ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 693-694 
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    Notes: [Auszug] I AM pleased that my article should have aroused the interest of such a well-known authority on adaptative coloration as Prof. G. D. Hale Carpenter. Before answering in detail, I should like to deal with his first general protest. He objects to the word “frequently” in formulating a rule and ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 702-702 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Great Britain and Ireland Interim Scheme for the Training and Eesettlement of Disabled Persons. Pp. 8. (London: Ministry of Labour and National Service.) 1.411 University of London: University College. Calendar, Session 1941-1942. Pp. lxiv + 228+lxv-lxxviii. (London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd.) ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 655-655 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE death on October 20 of Prof. W. H. Heaton at the age of eighty-five brought to an end a personal association with University College, Nottingham, almost from its beginning. William Haslam Heaton, born at Bolton in 1856, attended Manchester Grammar School, where he won an open scholarship at ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 637-639 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHY are writers who approach religious ' * problems from the angle of the sciences so often haphazard in their reasoning, striding forward regardless of obstacles, the moment they quit the strictly scientific beat ? They are as reckless as the theologians who dabble in science, and with less ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 701-702 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A RECENT valuable contribution to the natural history of New Zealand by Dr. G. Archey dealing with the moa* fully maintains the high reputation of the ornithologists of that country, and both the author and the Council of the Auckland Institute, who sponsored the work, merit our congratulations. ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 655-655 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE regret to announce the following deaths: Dr. E. S. Beaven, the well-known agricultural botanist and plant breeder, on November 12, aged eighty-four. Dr. J. A. Hood, founder of the Hood chair of mining in the University of Edinburgh, on November 19, aged eighty-two. Prof. Wai her Nernst, ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 657-657 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE following reply to the message sent by American mathematicians to their colleagues in the U.S.S.R. (see NATURE of November 8, p. 560) was sent from Moscow on October 7: "Your splendid message, dear colleagues, found wide response in the hearts of the scientists of our country. We read it with ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 658-658 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A NEW step in the rationalization of the British fine chemical industry has been taken by the formation of the Therapeutic Research Corporation of Great Britain, Ltd., the directors of which are Lord Trent, of Boots Pure Drug Company, Ltd., Mr. C. A. Hill, of the British Drug Houses, Ltd., Mr. H. ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 606-606 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. TIMOSHENKO is one of the outstanding exponents of the mathematical theory of elasticity and of the application of this theory to a variety of practical problems. He has written on these topics for thirty years, and his books have become indispensable to every engineer who has to apply ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 580-584 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE last ten years have witnessed in Great Britain a strong revival of a movement that for at least three generations has been a decisive force in the formation of opinion and the trend of social affairs in Europe: the movement for 'economic planning'. As in other countries-first in France and then ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 605-606 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE first edition of this book was published in 1889, since when a great deal has happened in the world of photography, and the size of the "Dictionary of Photography" has increased accordingly. The sixteenth edition, as mentioned in the preface, has been published largely because of the ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 624-624 
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    Notes: [Auszug] His MAJESTY THE KING has been graciously pleased to approve the recommendations made by the Council of the Royal Society for the award of the two Royal Medals for the current year, as follows: Prof. E. A. Milne, Rouse Ball professor of mathematics in the University of Oxford, for his researches on ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 625-625 
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    Notes: [Auszug] UNDER the title "American Foreign Policy" Prof. D. W. Brogan has given (Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs, No. 50. 4d. net) a brilliant and concise interpretation of the traditional outlook of the United States on world affairs, the policy which she has followed in recent years and the machinery by ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 626-626 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT has been shown by Gregory and Purvis1,2, Kostjucenko and Zarubailo3,4 and others that the developing grain can be vernalized in the ear during the period of embryo formation. It has further been suggested by Cholodny5,6,7 and others that auxin or ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 629-630 
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    Notes: [Auszug] SEVERAL equations have been suggested for the swelling pressure of a hygroscopic gel, of which the best known is the approximate form due to Katz1. Porter2 gives an exact and general equation for the osmotic pressure of a solution. We may, for simplicity, conform ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 630-630 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHEN Sturt discovered the Darling River he left the following notes, for which I am indebted to Mr. Charles Daley, secretary of the Historical Society: 1. “The channel of the river was from 70 to 80 yards broad, and enclosed an unbroken sheet of water evidently very deep, and literally covered ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 573-575 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE appointment by the Minister of Agri-ooo culture of a Committee to review the position of agricultural education (see NATURE of August 9, p. 161) will be welcome to many who have long regarded a national committee or commission on agricultural education as being needed. Agricultural education ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 517-517 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is the fourth edition of a well-known textbook, produced under the limitations of wartime. These have compelled the author to omit many details of which up-to-date statistical information is not available, and thereby given more prominence to the permanent factors of geography in comparison ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 590-590 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A CENSUS of koalas on Phillip Island, Victoria, was taken this year with the aid of school-children, and, we are informed by Sir James Barrett, the count shows a record population of 590, a natural increase of thirty-nine over the number shown after the census of July 1939. Many Eucalyptus ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 592-592 
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    Notes: [Auszug] UNDER the will of Mr. Alfred Corner, of Stavarton Road, Brondesbury Park, London, who died in 1934, the University has received £1,440 for the solo purposes of the Cambridge University Biochemical Laboratory. The full value of the bequest of which this is an instalment may approach £1,800. The ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 564-565 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT has been shown by Ullyott1 that the aggregation reaction of the flatworm, Dendroccelum lacteum, in a gradient of light intensities, can be described in terms of the rate of change of direction and the process of sensory adaptation in the eyes. This reaction has since been ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 565-566 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a recent paper, Fraenkel and Blewett1 described experiments on the growth of Tribolium on flour. They conclude that for this insect: (1) the addition of vitamin B1 (aneurin) to patent flour does not in the least alter its nutritional qualities; (2) the nutritional ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 482-483 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THOSE who have some acquaintance with Prof. Daly's researches and writings will expect both pleasure and profit from his latest book; nor will they be disappointed. Geophysics demands the co-operation of workers in a number of different sciences, and with the modern tendency of research to run ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 526-526 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE regret to announce the following deaths: Prof. M. Bodansky, professor of pathological chemistry in the Texas University School of Medicine, aged forty-five. Mr. W. H. Heaton, formerly principal of University College, Nottingham, aged eighty-five. Prof. F. Kafka, director of the Psychiatric ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 529-529 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN view of the comments on the present-day status of youth in science, beginning on p. 511 of this issue, the analysis of the ages of men of science on the U.S. National Roster of Scientific and Specialized Personnel presented by Dr. L. Carmichael, president of Tufts College and director of the ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 496-496 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. ARTHUR HAMILTON SMITH, who died on September 27, was best known among classical scholars and archaeologists by his Catalogues of Classical Sculptures and of Engraved Gems in the British Museum, but in unobtrusive ways he rendered valuable service to ancient art and archaeology. He was born ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 499-500 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE September issue of Antiquity contains a note by Prof. V. G. Childe on some finds of rock carvings in Scotland. Two of these are in Argyll and one in Midlothian. The first photograph shows a hind engraved in outline from Gleann Domhain, Argyll. The figure is in profile, two long ears appearing ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 503-504 
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    Notes: [Auszug] SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON has not met my point (NATURE, Sept. 20, p. 341). Assuming, in accordance with his claim, that criteria could exist which would determine that a law was applicable to certain experiences, I asked what he would do if such experiences were found to violate an “inviolable” law. ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 506-507 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE mechanism by which a 'white' substance reflects light is fairly simple and is fundamentally the same for crystalline and vitreous powders such as snow and borax, for suspensions such as milk, paint and opal glass, and for fabrics and paper. In all these cases, a multiplicity of transparent ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 510-510 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Great Britain and Ireland Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. Centenary Commemoration, April 15, 1941. Pp. ii+84. (London: Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.) [910 Institution of Automobile Engineers: Automobile Research Committee. Tenth Annual Report, July 1st, 1940-June 30,1941. Pp. ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 452-453 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS book is delightful reading. It tells of o*o pleasant people in happy times, for it is mostly about Philadelphia in Benjamin Franklin's day. John Bartram, member of the S'ociety of Friends and poorly educated in a village school, bought a piece of rough land on the Schuylkill River, hard by the ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 463-463 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE regret to announce the following deaths: Baron Mataro Nagayo, formerly president of the Tokio Imperial University, director of the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, and editor of Gann, the Japanese journal of cancer research, on August 16, aged sixty-three years. Prof. Rudolf ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 567-567 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ONE of the points generally agreed upon during the proceedings of the Conference on Science and World Order arranged by the Division for the Social and International Relations of Science of the British Association was that careful scientific planning is essential for post-war relief and ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 513-514 
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    Notes: [Auszug] NEW scientific society devoted to the study of nutrition, the Nutrition Society, has just come into existence (see NATTJBE of October 11, p. 433), and an account of its first meeting appears on p. 519 of this issue. Nutritional thought in Great Britain has so far centred around the Biochemical and ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 519-519 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE newly formed Nutrition Society began its active life at Cambridge on Saturday, October 18, with a Symposium on "The Evaluation of Nutritional States". The audience included the president of the Royal College of Physicians, Lord Dawson, Prof. E. J. Bigwood, professor of biological chemistry in ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 516-517 
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    Notes: [Auszug] GRASS is one of the few crops which is still grown under semi-natural conditions; even the best-managed grassland still remains an association of plants, as opposed to the pure culture of most other crops. It is no idle coincidence that the pathology of grassland has been for so long neglected. The ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AFTER lengthy discussions last year, books were exempted from the Purchase Tax, on the grounds of their cultural value and their value as exports. Having survived the threat of ordeal by taxation, books are now confronted by the ordeal of war-time shortage of materials and labour. Lord Samuel ...
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    Nature 148 (1941), S. 529-529 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON October 26 occurred the centenary of the birth of the Austrian astronomer Theodor Ritter von Oppolzer who from 1876 until his death on December 26, 1886, held the chair of astronomy at Vienna. Born at Prague, he was the only son of Johann von Oppolzer, (1808-71), a well-known pathologist who ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, in co-operation with Science Sarvice and the Jesuit Seismological Association, has determined the tentative epicentres of four recent earthquakes from reports received from seismograph stations. On August 2 the earthquake at llh. 41-5m. TJ.T. had its epicentre ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE of August 2, p. 139, it is stated that a new comet (1941 d) had been discovered by Dr. H. van Gent, of Bosscha Observatory, Lembang. Dr. van-Gent, writing from the Union Observatory, Johannesburg, informs us that the comet was discovered by him from plates taken with the Franklin Adams ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE main part of the non-ionizing component of cosmic radiation near sea-level consists of photons1 and neutrons2. A rough survey carried out by Rossi and his co-workers3 at sea-level did not give any evidence of penetrating neutral particles. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. WADDINGTON appears to identify ‘ethical’ with whatever the super-ego demands, which is surely too sweeping. Even when it presents its demands in the name of conscience the super-ego is, emphatically, not always a trustworthy guide. Anyone who has studied the vagaries of conscience must ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] "Why and how are words so important that they can not be too often used." (NAPOLEON.) DETACHMENT for a moment from the stress of personal circumstances and the attempt, however humble, to view with cool sanity world affairs of the moment, at once bring an uncomfortable feeling of bewilderment. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is a text-book intended primarily for undergraduates. It is designed to give a broad basis of knowledge comprising such theories and theorems in those parts of algebra which are mentioned in the title as are of constant application in other branches of mathematics. The book is divided into ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] CARBONIC anhydrase, the enzyme which catalyses the reversible reaction H2C03^COa +H20, is present in a large concentration in the red blood corpuscles1, the gastric mucosa2'3-4 and the pancreas5 of vertebrates, especially mammals. The enzyme plays a very important part in the carbon dioxide ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON p. 477 of this issue appears an argument which attempts to explain the behaviour of present-day Germany. On p. 490 are published extensive abstracts from the messages sent by Russian men of science to others in democratic countries. These messages constitute first a direct appeal to all decent ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE possibilities of scientific films are immense. They appeal directly to the eye, and their appeal can be reinforced by spoken or printed text. Their ocapabilities in representing motion enable them to illustrate processes which cannot otherwise be adequately conveyed to the mind. By the control ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT must always come as somewhat of a relief to the ordinary anthropologist that quite ordinary explanations are adequate to account for conditions to which more romantic solutions have been attached. It is, therefore, with some sense of thankfulness that we learn that Prof. F. Weidenreich has ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING routine measurements of the permeability of rocks carried out in 1939–40, certain anomalies were observed when the rate of flow was extremely low. It was seen that when the rock was highly impervious and the velocity of the flowing air was consequently low due to limitations in the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] I FIND it very helpful in all discussions on the philosophy of science to make two distinctions. The first is to restrict the word ‘science’ to those studies involving experiment with something other than symbols. This rules out mathematics as a science and prevents, for example, the confusion ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] REGENT experimental and theoretical studies of bond strength1 have shown that our forecast2, according to which in the series of gas reactions Na + XR = NaX + R (X = halogen, R = R1, R2 …) the reactivity is inversely related to the bond ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN 1931 I appealed in NATURE1 for information for a biography of William Hyde Wollaston. Since then, probably all printed information of any importance has been supplemented by a large amount of unpublished material. In the collection of the latter, much of which is of great ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A PRIME necessity in a war-time economy is for the maximum and most efficient use of all the co\intry's resources. Particularly necessary in this War is the full use of technical- man-power. After two years of war, when it is implied by Government spokesmen that we still lack sufficient material to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Great Britain and Ireland British Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association. TechnicalReport, Reference A/T83: Mechanical Behaviour of Bitumen. By W. Lethersich. Pp. 28. (London: British Electrical and Allied Industries ResearchAssociation.) 15s. [179 Other Countries Proceedings of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the conflict of ideas, the clash of two diametrically opposed ways of living, which are involved in the present War, the British Association's recent Conference on Science and World Order may well prove to have as profound a significance as President Roosevelt's clear enunciation of the four ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE have learnt with deep regret of the death in a recent aeroplane accident of Dr. M. Benjamin, while engaged on work for which he was seconded from industry to the Ministry of Supply. He was a physicist of great promise who had begun to make his mark in pure science as well as in applications to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Jesuit Seismological Association at Saint Louis, U.S.A., has determined tentatively the epicentres of j^r."^ recent earthquakes. From the readings of sejsmograms from eight stations the earth-ejiiake of June 27 at 17h. llm. 30s. G.M.T. was found to have an epicentre near 16° N., 93° W., which ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING the past ten years the staff of the Sheffield City Libraries have compiled a number of bibliographies on technical subjects of special interest to research workers and technical staffs of local firms. In the compilation of these bibliographies expert help has been enlisted where necessary, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A SOMEWHAT perplexing and highly interesting peculiarity in the regimen of rainfall variation is this: all over the world, there is a much greater degree of uniformity in the relative variability of annual rainfall expressed as a percentage of the normal than in the absolute variability ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT was an excellent idea to base a general discussion on the relations between science and ethics on Dr. Waddington's stimulating and lucid account of the subject1. What has been most striking about the comments which have been made on it is the failure which some of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A SCIENTIFIC statement is essentially an expression of relations derived from and applicable to experience: it is therefore easy to determine whether a statement is scientific or not by considering its relation to experience. Dr. Waddington's statement “The real good cannot be other than that ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN these modern times the opportunities for o*- making new geographical discoveries have become very scarce, and for this reason the open-Ing up of a large new cave system, such as G.B. ocave, within twelve miles of Bristol, should be of considerable interest to the scientific world. The range of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A GALLERY in the National Museum of Wales at Cardiff is used exclusively for temporary exhibitions, of which there may be three or four in any one year. The present exhibition, "Tin through the Ages in Arts, Crafts, and Industry", was designed to dispel the notion that because we describe an ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Considering the use to which the trans-^-^ mission of radio waves is put, it is remarkable how few have studied the problem. Engineers are interested in the terminal apparatus-the great transmitting and receiving stations; and physicists seem to be more interested in sending radio waves to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THOUGH damaged on two occasions and partly evacuated, the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine has spent an active year, as shown by its annual report. As usual, the work has covered a wide field, including studies on antigens, phosphorylation in osteoid tissue, fat metabolism, and mucolytic ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DB. HBKBEKT RITCHIE SPENCER, the well-known London consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology, who died on August 28, was born at Atherstone in Warwickshire on January 16, 1860. Contrary to what has sometimes been stated, he was no relation of his namesake the famous philosopher. He received his ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE of July 19, p. 90, this problem was discussed briefly with special reference to an interesting pamphlet "Eating for Victory" by Mr. J. R. B. Branson,, and it was pointed out that the main objection to the inclusion of grass in the human diet lies in its high content of cellulose. Mr. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE more general reports upon the series of five -1 expeditions to West Greenland undertaken by the University of Michigan between the summers of 1926 and 1933 are published in this volume. (Part I, which appeared in 1931, was limited to "Aerology, Expeditions of 1926 and 1927-29"; the originally ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] FURTHER information is now available concerning the conference on "Science and World Order" to be held under the auspices of the British Association (Division for Social and International Relations of Science) during September 26-28, at the Royal Institution (see p. 331 of this issue). The First ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Dr. W. H. Mills, F.R.S., emeritus reader in stereochemistry in the University of Cambridge, has been elected president of the Chemical Society until the next annual general meeting. A meeting to celebrate the tercentenary of the arrival of Comenius in London will be held at the Caxton Hall, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ASMALL illustrated monograph written by Mr. A. L. Griffith, I.F.S.* provincial sylviculturist, Madras, merits the close attention of the administrative and forest officers in West and East Africa. A century ago in the 1830's and 1840's Madras was passing through some regrettable and painful ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SO long ago as 1653, Sir Hugh Plat, of London, heated glasshouses with steam from a cast-iron pot placed outside. This is described in his book on horticulture, "The Garden of Eden". James Watt is believed to have used in 1784 the first elementary steam radiator. It was fitted in his study and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ANIMAL NUTRITION INSTITUTE, CAMBRIDGE THE value of the egg as a constituent of war-o*o time dietaries, particularly for children, has to some extent been overshadowed by the insistence placed on milk as a perfect food. In point of fact, milk is not a complete food, being deficient in iron and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Dr. G. E. Condra and M. K. Elias, of the University of Nebraska, have sent a' notification to the Editors of NATURE of a proposal to preserve the generic name Fenestella. The following is an abstract of the document: The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature is asked to suspend the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Great Britain and Ireland Report of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, read at the Annual Visitation of the Royal Observatory, 1941, June 7. Pp. 16. (London: Royal Observa tory, Greenwich.) [106 London Bird Report for 1940: Being an Annual Report on ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE British Council was formed in 1934. Under its charter, its object is denned as the promotion of a owider knowledge of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the English language abroad, and the development of closer cultural relations between the United Kingdom and other countries. The Council ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] REGINALD CAMPBELL THOMPSON died of heart failure after coming off duty with the Home Guard on the night of May 23. He was the last representative in England of a phase of Assyriology which converted that study from a discovery into a science. When he was a boy at St. Paul's, he was attracted by the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] TWENTY well-established earthquakes were registered at the Swiss observatories in March 1941, and nineteen in April 1941, according to the bulletins just received. Some of these were distant earthquakes mentioned previously in NATURE, but some were local. On March 12 an earthquake was felt with ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PBOF. THEODOR KOCHEB, one of the most famous of recent scientific surgeons, was born on August 25, 1841, at Bern, where he received his medical education and qualified in 1865. After a postgraduate tour abroad he returned to Bern, where he served as Lueck's assistant and succeeded him as professor ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE following appointments and promotions in the Colonial Service have recently been made: R. W. Ford, veterinary officer, Gold Coast; T. T. Threlkeld, veterinary officer, Jamaica; B. D. Evans (assistant director), director, Royal Observatory, Hong Kong. FIVE hundred bottles of blood serum ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] OUT of a total of 9,530 deaths in Queensland in 1939, 2,786 were classified as due to diseases of the heart or circulatory system. Cancer and other tumours were responsible for 1,069, and diseases of the respiratory system for 811. Parasitic and infectious diseases claimed a total of 747, the chief ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. WILHELM THIERRY PREYER, a well-known German biochemist and psychologist, was born on July 4, 1841, at Moss Side, Manchester. He studied in Bonn, Heidelberg, Berlin, Vienna and Paris, where he was a pupil of Claude Bernard and Wurtz. In 1869 he was appointed professor of physiology at Jena, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SIR HENRY DALE has announced in a letter in The Times the gift by the American Physiological Society of 5,000 dollars to the Royal Society "for the support of British scientific publications, especially in physiology". This is the third gift recently made by American scientific institutions to aid ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Drs. Booth, Mapson and Moore1 feel that in a recent article in Nature2 I exaggerated when I made “an allusion, divorced from its context, to cooked cabbage as having only 17 per cent of the vitamin C of the fresh cabbage”. What I wrote was as follows. “A cabbage ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Whilst it is an accepted fact that there may be considerable wastage of vitamin C when vegetables are cooked, any statement which tends to underestimate the antiscorbutic value of cooked vegetables is to be deprecated. Dr. Pyke's original article tends to give this impression, and it is ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Evolution of Sex Chromosomes M. J. D. WHITE (J. Gen., 42, 143-172 and 173-190; 194 *) has examined the sex-chromosome mechanisms in praying mantids and in the crickets and grasshoppers. The majority of the Mantoidea have an XO-XX sex chromosome mechanism; the X-chromosome is mediocentric. In the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] HITHERTO most apologists for science have done little more than stress the potential value of aspects of technology, such as would provide new foods, weapons and other things. Until recently this was the only non-cultural justification of science, but to maintain it now is out of date. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE is one point which I should like to add to Prof. Hardy's article on “Plankton as a Source of Food”1. He is concerned chiefly, and rightly so, with marine plankton. Would it not be possible to make use also of the freshwater plankton from our lakes and reservoirs? In this ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROLONGED and uniform trapping .of the flies emerging from the bacteria beds of sewage works at Leeds has demonstrated a type of seasonal rhythm that is probably common in rapidly breeding insects. Spaniotoma minima Mg. (Chironomidse) prevails throughout the year, and during eightyears of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN his highly suggestive and constructive Conway JLMemorial Lecture, "The Moral Paradox of Peace and War", Prof. J. C. Flugel gives us an acute analysis which is as pertinent to our plans for reconstruction as to the building of a world order from which war has been eliminated. Starting with an ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. KAHAN'S stimulating account of the more recent developments in radioactivity and the artificial transmutation of the elements will be welcomed by all students who require a short up-to-date survey of the subject. It gives a very satisfactory account of the state of our knowledge of a-, p- and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] APPLICATIONS are invited for the following appointments on or before the dates mentioned: LECTUEEK IN THE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, and a LECTURER IN THE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT-The Principal, Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh (August 30). HEAD OF THE SCIENCE DEPARTMENT OF THE ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a memoir which appeared in 1926, Laue1 showed by purely classical reasoning that the X-rays scattered by elastic solid waves of thermal origin in a crystal have the frequency v ± v*, v being the primary X-ray frequency and v* the frequency of the elastic waves. He evaluated ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A GOOD deal has been said and written in recent weeks about educationin the Forces, or the lack of it. It is generally agreed that something needs to be done, although there may be considerable difference of opinion as regards steps which might be taken. Among the often conflicting evidence, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AFTER seventy years of forest administration in India and Burma, andnearly forty years in some of the British Colonies, it is disturbing torealize how little the importance of the forest wealth of some of the countries in question is understood in Great Britain or by the responsible administration. ...
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