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    Research on Coal Utilization (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 763-764 
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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    Notes: [Auszug] Sin EVAN WILLIAMS announced, in his presidential address to the British Coal Utilization Research Association on December 17, that a scheme utilizing £1,000,000 in five years for research on coal has been prepared. He said that this is by far the largest co-operative research scheme ever undertaken ...
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    The Sky in North Africa (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 764-764 
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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    Notes: [Auszug] A SECOND edition of the "Star Atlas for the Latitude of Egypt", compiled by H. E. Hurst, M. R. Madwar and A. H. Samaha, and published by R. Schindler, Cairo, will be welcomed by members of the British forces campaigning in North Africa. It is designed for use in latitude 30° N., but can be employed ...
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    Cancer-producing Mineral Oils (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 765-765 
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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    Notes: [Auszug] ADDRESSING a recent meeting of the Manchester University Branch of the Association of Scientific Workers, Mr. R. Lyth described how methods of preventing certain types of occupational cancer have been discovered. External cancers which are prevalent among Scottish shale oil workers have also ...
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    Regional Survey Atlas of the Croydon District (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 766-766 
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE ambitious project for a regional survey atlas covering some 200 square miles around the Borough of Croydon was begun by the Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society so long ago as 1913. Despite the difficulties of war-time conditions, it has been continued by the issue this year of a ...
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    Announcements (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 766-766 
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    Notes: [Auszug] SIR JOHN C. G. LEDINGHAM is to retire on March 31 from the post of director of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, which he has held since 1930. To succeed Sir John Ledingham in the directorship, the Governing Body of the Institute has appointed Dr. A. N. Drury, Huddersfield lecturer in ...
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    Seed Potato Disinfection by Conveyor Belt Dipper (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 769-769 
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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    Notes: [Auszug] UNTIL recently one of the factors limiting large-scale application of disinfection of potato seed for the prevention of various diseases was that no suitable appliance had been evolved for handling large bulks of seed potatoes. During 1940 and 1941 considerable tonnages of early varieties were ...
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    Electric Strength of Varnish Films (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 770-770 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a paper entitled "Intrinsic Electric Strength and Conductivity of Varnish Films and their Variation with Temperature" (J. Inst. Elec. Eng., 89, Pt. 1, No. 23; November 1£42), A. Morris Thomas and Miss M. V. Griffith discuss recent advances in the theory of the intrinsic electric strength of ...
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    Insulator Glazes (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 771-772 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AN article by E. Rosenthal in the Electrical Review of November 27 discusses the influence of insulator glazes on porcelain, having particular reference to high-voltage insulators. Under a strong microscope the surfaces of unglazed ceramic materials show minute projecting peaks which make it ...
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    Reports and other Publications (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 772-772 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Great Britain and Ireland Abstracts of Dissertations approved for the Ph.D., M.Sc., and M.Litt. Degrees in the University of Cambridge during the Academical Year 1940-1941. Pp. 120. (Cambridge: At the University Press.) [412 University of Cambridge: Solar Physics Observatory. Report for the Year ...
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    Newton and the Science of his Age (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 700-706 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is my task--my honourable and inspiring task- to say something of Isaac Newton as seen against the background of the science of his time. I shall try to display briefly the position as he found it and to resume in a small space his great achievements and the changes in outlook which they ...
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    Future of University Education (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 716-718 
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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    Notes: [Auszug] THOUGH the report (outlined on page 718 of this issue) of the Committee appointed by the British Association to consider university education after the War is only of an interim nature, it contains so much of outstanding and immediate value (if any of its proposals are eventually to be put into ...
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    Efficiency and Output in Agricultural Systems (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 723-725 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE measurement of outputs of agricultural systems and their valuation are always a complex proceeding, and the results of any methods of measurement and valuation which have been used up to the present time are to some extent indefinite. Outputs vary in their physical and biochemical ...
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    Temperature Control (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 727-728 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ANY regular reader of a journal devoted to physics, or to scientific instruments, or to chemistry or to industrial chemistry, will find several articles each year in which a thermostat or controlled-temperature bath is described. In the view of its author, each of these new designs is superior to ...
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    Indian Forest College, Dehra Dun (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 766-766 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Progress Report of the Indian Forest College, Dehra Dun, 1940-41 (Manager, Government of India Press, New Delhi, 1941), states that the College was opened in May 1938, after a period of closure, for the training of candidates for the Superior Forest Services of the various Provinces and States ...
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    Bicentenary of Scheele (1742–1786) (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 732-732 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE bicentenary of the birth of the Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, whose recently published manuscripts were reviewed in our columns on November 7, falls on December 19. His birthplace was Stralsund, in Pomerania, then a Swedish province, but he was trained as a pharmacist in Gothenburg. ...
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    University Students and Military Service (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 732-733 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the discussions in the House of Commons on December 9 and 10 on the National Service Bill, 1942, Mr. E. Bevin, Minister of Labour, pointed out that the measure was largely an administrative one to facilitate the calling up of young men of eighteen. The position of prospective university students ...
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    Recruitment of the Civil Service (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 733-734 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE sixteenth report of the Select Committee on National Expenditure, in a section dealing with the recruitment of the Civil Service, includes some account of the Appointments Department of the Ministry of Labour and National Service, created on March 1, 1942, in which the old Central and ...
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    Depths of the Arctic Ocean (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 734-734 
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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    Notes: [Auszug] A NOTE on some important Soviet flights in the Arctic is contained in the Polar Record of July. In March 1941 Ivan Cherevichni, and four others, flew from Moscow via Archangel, Franz Josef Land and Severnaya Zenalya to their base on Wrangel Island. Thence several flights were made to the north to ...
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    Discoveries by Accident (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 735-735 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. H. R. ROBINSON writes in NATURE of November 21, p. 591: “In November 1895, Röntgen discovered X-rays, largely by accident; Becquerel's discovery of radioactivity in February 1896 was largely a second accident arising out of Röntgen's discovery”. One is tempted to ask, how can it be ...
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    Newton as an Experimenter (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 706-709 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE duty has been assigned to me of telling you something about Newton as an experimentalist. As the result of a study of what is known of his history, it seems to me that among his various intellectual pursuits experiment was his first love and the love to which he was most constant. Strange ...
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    British Association Report (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 718-720 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ONE of the important questions raised at the Conference on Science and World Order, which was held in London during September 1941, under the auspices of the British Association Division for the Social and International Relations of Science1, was that of post-war university education and the ...
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    Geological Making of India (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 725-726 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MR. D. N. WADIA, author of the well-known "Geology of India for Students", retired from the Geological Survey of India in 1938, and shortly after took up the appointment of mineralogist to the Government of Ceylon. He was president of the Geological Section of the Indian Science Congress at its ...
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    Weather Elements (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 728-729 
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    Notes: [Auszug] JUDGING by the fact that this book has been reprinted five times since its first publication in April 1937, and has now been revised, it has proved very popular in the United States. The public interest in meteorology is probably much greater there than in Great Britain; for one thing, the ...
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    Newton's Life and Works (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 731-732 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AMONG the tercentenary celebrations of Newton's birthday was a meeting of the London and Home Counties Branch of the Institute of Physics held on December 9. The meeting was addressed by Dr. H. Buckley, of the National Physical Laboratory, and very appropriately was held in the Royal Institution, ...
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    Sir John Russell, F.R.S. (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 732-732 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON September 30, 1943, Sir John Russell will retire from the directorship of the Rothamsted Experimental Station, which he has held since 1912, when he succeeded the late Sir Daniel Hall. During 1907-12 he was Goldsmiths' Company soil chemist at Rothamsted. In these thirty-five years of service Sir ...
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    Radio Research for the Services (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 733-733 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MB. LYTTELTON, Minister of Production, said in the House of Commons on December 9, that in view of the great increase in the importance of wireless communication and radio-location during the War, the Government has set up a Radio Board as the co-ordinating body in regard to inter-Service policy, ...
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    Agriculture in Northern Ireland (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 734-734 
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    Notes: [Auszug] ADDRESSING a meeting at Ballyclare, Northern Ireland, Mr. J. F. Gordon, the Northern Ireland Minister of Labour, said that during the present year the farmers of Northern Ireland have surpassed all previous records in the production of food. They have increased land cultivation by 100 per cent, and ...
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    Mathematics in the U.S.S.R. (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 677-678 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE development of the science of mathematics in Russia is comparatively recent, beginning with the establishment of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the eighteenth century, when Bernoulli and Euler, leading mathematicians of the time, were invited to Russia. These men, however, remained ...
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    Applications of Physics to the Heating and Ventilation of Buildings (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 678-680 
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    Notes: [Auszug] "The subjects of warming and ventilating, although in themselves simple, still deal with things and motions which are impalpable and invisible, and must be studied in their principles to be understood at all. Where the bodily eye can see nothing the mind's eye must note important processes. The ...
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    Mr. William R. S. Ladell (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 684-684 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MB. WILLIAM R. S. LADELL, whose sudden death in Jamaica on November 6 has just been reported, was born in 1887 and educated at the Merchant Taylors School and Finsbury Technical College. Before completing his degree, he went abroad and started work on agricultural science in the tropics, which was ...
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    [Obituaries] (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 685-685 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE regret to announce the following deaths: Dr. E. J. Allen, C.B.E., F.R.S., secretary to the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom and director of the Plymouth Laboratory from 1895 until 1936, on December 7, aged ssventy-six. Prof. R. A. Gortner, professor of biochemistry in the ...
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    Reconstruction in Great Britain: The People (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 685-685 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE widespread interest in the problems of postwar reconstruction and planning was reflected in the House of Commons debate on December 1 and 2 on an amendment to the Address. The debate was characterized by notable speeches from Mr. Greenwood, Sir William Jowitt and Mr. Anthony Eden. Sir William ...
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    Temperature of the Atmosphere (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 686-687 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A FURTHER colloquium in the series arranged by the Manchester University Branch of the Association of Scientific Workers was addressed by Dr. T. G. Cowling on December 2, the title being "The Temperature of the Atmosphere". Dr. Cowling began by describing how the temperature of the lower part of ...
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    Announcements (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 687-687 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Sm JOHN RUSSELL retires on September 30, 1943, under the age limit, from the directorship of the Rothamsted Experimental Station. Sir John Russell succeeded Sir Daniel Hall in 1912 and during his thirty-one years as director the Station, the oldest agricultural institute in the world, has shown a ...
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    Onions and Vernalization (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 689-689 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN connexion with work on the induction of flowering, an attempt was made to vernalize onion. It is known that autumn-sown onions occasionally become thick-necked in the following summer. In February of this year, onion seed of the varieties James Long Keeping and Ailsa Craig was germinated at ...
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    Optical Reflections From Coal (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 690-690 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE classification of the petrological constituents of coals developed in Great Britain by Dr. Marie C. Stopes and published in a revised version in 19351 has been widely adopted as a basis for further research in many directions. Much more attention appears, however, to have ...
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    Shipbuilding and Research (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 693-694 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE seventeenth report of the Select Committee on National Expenditure, dealing with merchant shipbuilding and repairs, points out that the rate of output of merchant ships has been greatly increased since the beginning of the War. The programme of merchant shipbuilding which was set for 1941 was ...
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    Travelling Waves in High-Voltage Alternator Windings (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 695-695 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A PAPER by E. Friedlander (J. lust. Elec. Eng., 89, Pt. 2, No. 11; October 1942) discusses the theory of this subject, pointing out that the security of the windings of an alternator generating at 22 kv. or above and connected directly to a network depends mainly on the ability of the insulation to ...
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    Reports and other Publications (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 696-696 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Great Britain and Ireland Royal College of Surgeons of England. Scientific Report for the Year 1941-1942. Pp.24. (London: Royal College of Surgeons.) [2310 National Physical Laboratory. The Technique of Calibrating Platinum Thermocouples for use in Liquid Steels. Pp. 8. (London: H.M. Stationery ...
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    Mother-right in India (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 644-644 
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    Notes: [Auszug] BARON EHRENFELS has undertaken an ambitious scheme in his analysis of mother-right in India, and that is no less than to investigate "the entire complex of problems grouped round the questions of the matriarchal system in India". The results at which he arrives are far-reaching. He concludes that ...
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    Parents Revolt (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS book, which comes with a commendatory 1 foreword by Beatrice Webb, is the work of writers well versed in the comparatively new but vigorous science of demography. As its title clearly intimates, however, its aim is not academic but practical. Demography has made rapid progress since the War of ...
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    Measurement of Electronic Charge (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 648-649 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Oil Drop Method THE steps in the progress towards precision in JL the measurement of the electronic charge, e, are well known. The first measurements by J. S. Townsend and J. J. Thomson of 1897 and 1898 were approximate ones. H. A. Wilson in 1903 used a method new in principle, but it was not ...
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    Health Education in Great Britain (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 652-654 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MANY of the most important institutions in Great Britain have, like Topsy, 'just growed', and among them is the Central Council for Health Education. Set up originally in 1927 as an offshoot of the Society of Medical CKncers of Health, it has grown until it is now recognized by the Government as ...
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    Capt. G. T. McCaw, C.M.G., O.B.E. (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] CAPT. GEORGE TYKRELL McCAW, who died on October 17, was the editor of the Empire Survey Review and one of the foremost and best known authorities on geodesy in the British Empire. McCaw was born in Lurgan, Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland, in 1870, and, after a distinguished career at Trinity College, ...
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    Colonial Policy (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the House of Commons on November 26, Sir Edward Grigg moved an amendment to the address in reply to the King's Speech, in which he welcomed the declaration that it is desired to raise the standards of life of peoples in the Colonies, but regretted the lack of mention of specific proposals, ...
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    Ministry of Health: Medical Advisory Committee (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 658-658 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health stated in the House of Commons on November 28 that a Medical Advisory Committee has been set up to advise the Minister on the medical aspects of problems relating to the health of the people. The members of the Committee are: The presidents of ...
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    Simplified Electrically Heated Hotbeds (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] A REPORT. Ref. W/T7, by C. A. Cameron Brown and E. W. Golding, issued by the British Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association, describes experiments carried out to determine whether a simple method of heating hotbeds electrically can be applied successfully to the intensive production ...
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    Tuberculosis in the United States (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] ACCORDING to the Journal of the American Medical Association of September 26, the United States National Tuberculosis Association has reported that 44 persons per 100,000 of population died of tuberculosis in 1941, as compared with 46 in 1940. In 1941 the deaths from tuberculosis in the United ...
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    Lactation and Reproduction on Highly Purified Diets (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] NAKAHARA et al.1 have claimed the existence of specific lactation vitamins, factors L1 and L2; they state that, if these are missing from the diet, rats will reproduce but not lactate. We2 used a diet which was unlikely to contain these ...
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    Lichenin (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE introduction of cross-linkages into soluble synthetic linear high polymers is followed by a decrease in solubility. In Nature, an interesting parallel appears to be afforded on one hand by the water-soluble polysaccharide lichenin, which consists ofan unbranched β-glucopyranose chain ...
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    Artificially Induced Loss of Theta-Toxin Production by Clostridium welchii Types A and C (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 549-550 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Macfarlane and Knight1 having shown fairly conclusively that the alpha toxin of Cl. welchii Type A is a lecithinase, we considered it possible that repeated passage through media containing lecithin might enhance the capacity to produce alpha toxin. However, we found that after a ...
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    The E.M.F. of Thermal Fluctuations in Resistances (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE formula giving the mean-square E.M.F. of thermal fluctuations per cycle, in a resistance R at temperature T, namely: ... was first derived by Nyquist1 by thermodynamical reasoning. J. Bernamont2 has derived formula 1 from the corpuscular point of view, using Ishe ...
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    Simplification of Musical Notation (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 322-323 
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    Notes: [Auszug] BY a slight modification of my suggested new stave1, I have succeeded in still further increasing the ease of reading music. Following the precedent of the ancient division of the Great Stave of 11 lines, in which the middle C line was omitted, I suggest the omission in my new ...
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    Crystal Structure of Oxyhæmoglobin (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. E. F. HARTREE recently gave me a preparation of horse oxyhaemoglobin crystals which he had grown from 20 per cent alcoholic solution. It was found that these give good X-ray diffraction pictures both in the wet and the air-dried state, and that they promise to become an interesting subject for ...
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    North Syrian Archæology and Old Testament Sources (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE July-August number of Man contains, among other interesting matter, a r©sum© of the most recent results obtained by Commander Schaeffer at his Ras Shamra dig. North Syria was a very important area geographically in prehistoric times, and the excavations at Ras Shamra, like those of Mersin in ...
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    Reports and other Publications (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] (not included in the monthly Books Supplement) GreatBritain and Ireland Hull Bulletins of Marine Ecology. Edited by Dr. A. C. Hardy and Dr. C. E. Lucas. Nos. 9 and 10, Vol. 2: Continuous Plankton Records. Phytoplankton in the North Sea, 193839, Part 2: Dinoflagellates, Phaeocystls, etc., by Dr. ...
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    New Complete Russian-English Dictionary (New Orthography) (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 278-278 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE making of dictionaries is an evolutionary process; each new dictionary has or claims to have certain advantages over its predecessors that justify its appearance in the competitive struggle for existence, while the greater part of the reading matter must necessarily remain unchanged. The most ...
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    Prof. A. L. Selby (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] ARTHUR LAIDLAW SELBY, born on July 2, 1861, at Atherton, Lancashire, was the eldest son of Atherton Thomas Selby. He was educated at Heversham Grammar School and at Queen's College, Oxford. He was a fellow of Merton College from 1886 until 1893, and examiner in the Honour School of Natural Science ...
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    Industrial Health Research Board (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Medical Research Council has appointed the following to be the members of its Industrial Health Research Board during the period 1942-45: The Rt. Hon. the Earl De La Warr (chairman), Prof. F. C. Bartlett, Brig.-Gen. A. C. Baylay, Dr. J. C. Bridge, Dr. A. N. Drury, Dr. T. Ferguson, Dr. M. W. ...
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    Anglo-Soviet Scientific Collaboration Committee (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is now four months since the formation of the Anglo-Soviet Scientific Collaboration Committee under the chairmanship of Sir John Russell. The Committee came into being as a result of a conference held last March at the Royal Society to discuss the development of contacts between British and ...
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    Jean-Baptiste Van Mons (1765—1842) (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON September 6 occurs the centenary of the death of the once famous Belgian chemist and horticulturist Jean-Baptiste Van Mons who died at Louvain in 1842 at the age of seventy-six after a life entirely devoted to science. Born in Brussels on November 11, 1765, when Belgium was under foreign ...
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    A Pilot-Channel Regulator for the K-1 Carrier System (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] VARIATIONS in attenuation of the cable conductors lised for the K-l carrier system are compensated by corresponding changes of gain under control of a pilot-〉rire regulating system; Since these changes in attenuation are due primarily to temperature changes, and since all pairs in the same cable ...
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    Post-war Medical Relief (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a timely pamphlet (Post-War Problems Medical Relief in Europe. The Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1942. Pp. 67. 2s. net.), Dr. M. D. Mackenzie emphasizes the importance of organizing before the end of the War a central co-ordinating administrative machine composed at first of ...
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    Announcements (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] SIR JOHN ORR, director of the Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen, has been appointed professor of agriculture in the University of Aberdeen. He will retain the directorship of the Institute. THE Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries has appointed Mr. F. A. Secrett to be honorary adviser on ...
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    Rapid Determination of Fat in Animals and Plants (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 291-291 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE living organism or tissue is weighed, preferably by the displacement method1, and placed in a weighed Soxhlet thimble. It is then distilled under xylol and the percentage of water estimated2. Any fat will remain in the xylol. A further extraction is carried out ...
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    Reports and other Publications (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] Great Britain and Ireland Why Hitler ? By H. Runham Brown. Pp. 20. (Enfleld: War Resisters'International.) 3d. [68 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Section A (Mathe matical and Physical Sciences). Vol. 61, Part 3, No. 16: Simultaneous Linear Partial Differential Equations of the ...
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    Acoustics A Text-book of Sound (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 248-248 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE can be no doubt that British text-books A of acoustics are the finest published in any language. Most of the best advanced text-books in physics now come from the United States. General text-books in acoustics are still the exception, and the British product is best. For this reason, Dr. ...
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    The Discrimination Method in Animal Psychology (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE fact that an animal is able to discriminate between two stimuli is the foundation of a method used extensively in animal psychology. It is, however, open to various sources of error. While looking through a number of papers dealing with this method I found that some of these possible pitfalls ...
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    Manufacture of Fertilizer from Urban Wastes (1942)
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    Nature 150 (1942), S. 299-299 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE importance of organic fertilizer in maintain-A ing the humus content of soils, which is essential for growing crops in a healthy condition, is now widely recognized. Many definitions of the nature and functions of humus have been given, but the most practical is that given by Mr. G. V. Jacks in ...
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    The Making of a Physicist (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE physicist, like the poet, is born and not made. Neither can be produced, on demand, by any system of training. In each category we have to make do with what Nature, in her wisdom, supplies, and the number in each category is extremely small. As regards the physicist, statistics have recently ...
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    Halley's Comet and its Importance (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS lecture coincides with the bicentenary of JL Halley's death, for he died, the second Astronomer Royal, on January 14, 1742, at the age of eighty-five. To this office he succeeded Flams teed, after holding the position of Savilian professor of geometry from 1703 until 1720. The quality for ...
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    H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G., P.C., K.T. (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is with deep regret that we record the death of H.R.H. The Duke of Kent on active service in a flying-boat crash in Scotland on August 25. The Duke was thirty-nine years of age. For ten years, as Prince George, he served in the Royal Navy, and it was not until he was withdrawn from active ...
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    The War and Nesting Birds (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE most interesting effect of the War upon nesting birds in Great Britain has been the attraction of the black redstart (Phcenicurus ochrurus gibral-tariensis) to nest in the air-raid ruins of some English towns. Until the War, this was one of the rarest British nesters, although a regular winter ...
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    Tuberculosis in Ei Salvador (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE March issue of the Boletin de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana contains an interesting paper by Dr. Rafael Vega Gomez, head of the Tuberculosis Department and ex-director of health, El Salvador, on the control of tuberculosis in his country. The campaign against the disease began in 1928 with ...
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    Man-Made Radio Interference (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] AN article by R. A. Shetzline (Bell Lab. Rec, 20, No. 10, June 1942) reviews the factors involved in this increasingly important subject. Opening with a brief reference to the multi-frequency disturbances caused by the operation of a relay or switch, the author cites an example of a telephone line ...
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    The Night Sky in September (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE moon is new on September lOd. 15h. 53m. TJ.T. and full on September 24d. 14h. 34m. The following conjunctions will occur during the month: Sept. 2d. 20h., Saturn in conjunction with the moon, Saturn 3° N.; Sept. 6d. 00h., Jupiter in conjunction with the moon, Jupiter 4° N.; Sept. 9d. 05h., ...
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    The British Rheologists' Club (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE seventh general meeting of the Club was held at the laboratories of the Electrical Research Association, Perivale, Middlesex, on July 25, Dr. Stanley Whitehead being in the chair. A discussion on the "Design and Standardisation of Rheological Apparatus" was introduced by Mr. J. G. Gage. Mr. ...
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    Functions of Works Managers (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN his speech in the House of Commons on July 22 on the work of the Factory Department of the Ministry of Labour and National Service, Mr. Ernest Bevin paid a well-deserved tribute to works managers. The works manager, he asserted, deserves more recognition than he had yet received, and the country ...
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    Cuckoo Problems (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is the most exhaustive work on the biology of the cuckoo that has yet appeared. The author's qualifications for writing it are unique, for not only has he studied the habits and economy of birds of this family for nearly seventy years, but also he has obtained far and away the most complete ...
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    Scientific Film Conference (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE first Scientific Film Conference in Great Britain met in the County Buildings, Ayr, during August 1 and 2. In Ayrshire there are four scientific film societies in operation, while an Army and an Air Force camp also arrange periodic shows of scientific films. The Conference was attended by ...
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    Montesquieu and Medicine (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE issue of the bilingual Schweizerische Medizin-ische Wochenschrift of May 2 contains an article in French by Dr. Camille Dreyfus, of Mulhouse on this subject, in which he declares that the author of "L'Esprit des Lois" and the "Lettres Persanes" deserves a place in the history of medicine which ...
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    Food Storage and Transport (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE problems of storage and transport of food have troubled men ever since they began to crowd into cities and to attempt to live at any density in northern latitudes. A diet of the cereals that made these developments possible is obviously monotonous; less obviously, but as inevitably, it is ...
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    Genetics for Medical Students (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE publication of this competently written book which was prepared ostensibly for medical students is particularly opportune. In a straightforward and clear manner the author outlines the principles of particulate inheritance. The medical reader will be pleased to note that examples from man ...
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    Electrical Properties of Polystyrene (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE value of polystyrene and of certain other organic plastics as dielectrics for high-frequency apparatus is well known. The power factor for polystyrene at frequencies of 106−107 c./s. is of the order of 0.0002, a figure much lower than that for most ...
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    Astronomy on Postage Stamps (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE dedication of the Mexican National Astrophysical Observatory at Tonanzintla in February last has been marked by the issue by the Mexican Government of a series of six postage stamps devoted entirely to astronomical subjects. The 2c, 5c, 10c, 20c. and 40c stamps depict respectively the dark ...
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    Nature Reserves Investigation Committee (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] A NATURE Reserves Investigation Committee has been established with the following membership: Sir Lawrence Chubb (chairman), Mr. G. Dent, Capt. C. Diver, Mr. J. C. F. Fryer, Mr. N. B. Kinnear, Prof. W. H. Pearsall, Dr. J. Ramsbottom, Prof. James Ritchie, Prof. E. J. Salisbury, Dr. G. F. Herbert ...
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    Library of the Philippines (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] COLONEL C. P. ROMULO, formerly a publisher in Manila, now aide-de-camp to General MacArthur, has reported in the New York Herald-Tribune of July 17 that the Japanese have destroyed by fire the Library of the Philippines at Manila. According to Colonel Romulo, the aim of this vandalism is to ...
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    American Health in Early War Months (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] ACCORDING to an editorial in the April issue of the Statistical Bulletin, the organ of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York, the United . States have enjoyed a period of remarkably good health during the months they have been at war. An improvement in mortality-rate during the first ...
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    Horticultural Work on the Amaryllidaceae (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] VOL. 8 of Herbertia, the year-book for 1941 of the American Amaryllis Society (Pp. 180. Hamilton P. Traub (editor), Orlando, Florida), includes several short papers of scientific interest. W. M. James and F. T. Addicott have studied the causes of sterility in interspecific crosses within the genus ...
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    Potassium in Bacterial Fermentation (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] Verzar and Pulver1 discovered that alcoholic fermentation by living yeast cells is accompanied by a striking shift of equilibrium between extracellular and intracellular potassium. The beginning of fermentation is marked by a vigorous intake of potassium from the surrounding ...
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    The Public Schools in Great Britain (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] I SHOULD like to make a few comments upon the recent communication by the number of distinguished men of science discussing the Public Schools in Great Britain1. I do not know how much first-hand and up-to-date knowledge the signatories have of the working of the Public ...
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    Prof. A. R. Forsyth (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] MAY I correct Prof. Chapman on two minor points (NATURE, 150, 49; 1942)? Forsyth's Calcutta lectures, published in 1914, were on the theory of functions of two complex variables. His treatise on differential geometry, published in 1912, that is, before he went to Calcutta, is described in the ...
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    Research Items (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] Rice Field Insects AN interesting Circular, No. 632, under this title by W. A. Douglas and J. W. Ingram, has been issued by the United States Department of Agriculture (Washington, D.C., 1942) which should prove of interest outside the United States. "Insect enemies of the rice crop differ", say ...
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    Migration of Lepidoptera (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] LARGE-SCALE movements of butterflies have I J long attracted attention, as when in A.D. 1100 it was recorded, appropriately enough in a "History of Calamities", that swarms of butterflies were seen passing from Saxony to Bavaria. o In 1508 "an innumerable swarme of whit butterflyes coming so thick ...
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    Pascal Tercentenary Celebration (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN 1642 Blaise Pascal, a Frenchman, invented the first calculating machine. The tercentenary of this event, which has had such a profound influence upon applied mathematics and physics, should appropriately have been celebrated this year in Paris. In order that the date should not pass unnoticed, a ...
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    Evolution in Society (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] SIR WALTER LANGDON-BROWTST, in his presidential address to the British Social Hygiene Council on October 12, discussed "The Place of Social Biology in the Sciences". He indicated that the interdependence of all life is shown by the fact that at every stage of the journey, from the apparently inert ...
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    Forthcoming Events (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] Saturday, October 31 INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (ELECTRONICS GROUP AND MIDLAND BRANCH) {at the College of Technology, Rugby), at 2.45 p.m.-Dr. D. Gabor: "Electron Optics". ASSOCIATION OF SCIENTIFIC WORKERS (at the Royal Photographic Society, 16 Princes Gate, South Kensington, London, S.W.7), at 3 ...
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    Imperial Institute of Entomology (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the early part of the century the importance of entomology to the health services and to agriculture in the Overseas Empire was at last beginning to be realized. In 1909 the Entomological Research Committee of the Colonial Office was formed, with Sir Guy Marshall as scientific secretary. In ...
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    Sir William Tilden, F.R.S. (1842–1926) (1942)
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    Notes: [Auszug] SIR WILLIAM AUGUSTUS TILDEN, the centenary of whose birth falls on August 15, is best remembered as an inspiring teacher and for his pioneering work in connexion with scientific teaching in the younger universities of Great Britain. At twenty-two he became a demonstrator in chemistry at the ...
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    The Beet Leafhopper (1942)
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    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Notes: [Auszug] THIS insect, known scientifically as Euteitix tenella forms the subject of Farmer's Bulletin No. 1886 (1941) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, by W. C. Cook. We note in this publication a markedly enlarged dimension of its pages as compared with the usual run of its predecessors. Its value is ...
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/150175b0
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