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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1153-1154 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A BULLETIN by H. W. Oxley, director of civilian conservation corps camp education, issued by the U.S. Department of the Interior (No. 19, 1937), describes the growth and development of camp education, particularly its achievements in vocational guidance and in recreation. * The programme endeavours ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1170-1170 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Ancient Carthage THE Gentleman's Magazine of December 1838 contains the following information: "Sir Grenville Temple has employed himself for the last six months in making excavations on the classic soil of Carthage. On the site of the temple of Ganath, or Juno Coelestis, the great protecting ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1138-1138 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS book is the autobiography of David Fairchild, written with the assistance of Elizabeth and Alfred Kay. It consists of an account of his life and of his varied experiences during the course of his journeyings as a plant explorer. In early manhood, Fairchild's chief interests were in the ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1154-1154 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A RECENT article by Prof. Alois Herzog (Zeiss Nach., 2, Hefte 5 and 6, 1938) is based upon the value of the microscope to the chemist for qualitative analytical determinations with minimal amounts of material. A number of simple methods is described involving the use of sublimation, distillation, ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1155-1155 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE moon is full on January 5, and new on January 20. Lunar conjunctions with the planets occur as follows: on January 14 with Mars; on January 16 with Venus; on January 23 with Jupiter and with Saturn on January 26. Mercury, Venus and Mars are morning stars. Mercury is at greatest western ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1157-1158 
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    Notes: [Auszug] RECENT work on K-avitaminosis in chicks offered an opportunity of studying the nutritional encephalomalacia of growing chicks receiving certain supplements to their basal diet. Some groups of chicks were kept on diet 108 of Pappenheimer and Goettsch1. On this diet the animals ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1159-1160 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a recent communication1, we presented certain experimental observations of the reflection of medium radio waves from the ionosphere. These results were interpreted as indicating that the Lorentz ‘polarization’ correction was zero in the ionosphere. This conclusion has since ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1161-1162 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A UNIQUE type of meteoric iron fell at N'Goureyma, French West Africa, on June 15, 1900. It fills the 65th group of Brezina's classification1, “65. Breccia-like Octahedrite N'Goureyma group, Obzg. Molten and drawn out Iron of the Zacatecas group”. Brezina defined Zacatecas as ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1163-1163 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE interesting visual phenomenon described by Mr. Dartnall in NATURE recently1 was observed by Helmholtz many years ago2. The effect—the appearance of a purple after-image in a patch of light alternating at a frequency just below the critical frequency—no doubt ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1170-1170 
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    Notes: [Auszug] LONDON.-The title of reader in the University has been conferred on the following in respect of posts held at University College: Mr. C. R. Bailey (chemistry), Dr. R. O. Buchanan (economic geography). The degree of D.Sc. has been conferred on Mr. T. G. Pearson, an internal student of the Imperial ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1171-1172 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Paris Academy of Sciences (C.R., 207, 1077-1136, Dec. 5, 1938). B. CABRERA: Influence of water on the values of the magnetic constants of the rare earths. When allowance is made for combined water accurately determined, the values of the magnetic constants are nearer the theoretical values. B. ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1093-1095 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE African Survey, for which Lord Hailey has been responsible, derives no small share of its value from the comprehensive way in which it brings together in readily accessible form information that previously was extremely scattered and difficult to collect. On this ground alone, apart from ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1099-1099 
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING the last few years, the Bureau d'Etudes geologiques et Minieres coloniales has published four bulletins on French colonial mineral resources. These concern coal, iron, zinc and lead, and phosphates respectively. Now a fifth and final bulletin of the series, on petroleum, is ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1100-1100 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS book offers an excellent example of constructive thinking in theoretical and, practical philosophy. The problem of knowledge forms its central theme, and is taken as the basis of a more rational organization of human relations. Knowing is conceived as a process which produces and presents ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1172-1172 
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    Notes: [Auszug] APPLICATIONS are invited for the following appointments, on or before the dates mentioned: JUNIOR SCIENTIFIC OFFICER in the Forest Products Research Laboratory-The Establishment Officer, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 16 Old Queen Street, Westminster, S.W.I (Ref. J. 39/1. ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1095-1097 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A DICTIONARY of slang may, at first sight; seem to have no special message for readers of NATUBE, but it is impossible to turn over the pages of Mr. Partridge's monumental work without realizing how many important and perplexing problems, philological, psychological and social, are raised ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1100-1100 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE new edition of this second volume of “Hints A to Travellers” is to all intents a new book. Former editions treated of little besides medical and surgical care and hints on the scope and methods of scientific inquiry. These matters are not neglected and the sections dealing with ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1115-1115 
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. WALDEMAR THEODORE SCHALLER, chief mineralogist of the United States Geological Survey, an authority on rare and unusual minerals, has been awarded the Roebling Medal by the Mineralogical Society of America “for meritorious achievement in mineralogy and allied sciences”. This ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1115-1115 
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    Notes: [Auszug] In the article on “National Parks” in NATURE of December 17, p. 1087, second paragraph, line 18, for “16,000 ft.” read “1,600 ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1108-1109 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE death on November 5 of Prof. Georges Urbain, director of the Institut de Chimie, past-president of the French Chemical Society, removes a well-known figure from French scientific life. Born in Paris on April 12, 1872, son of a professor of chemistry, he studied at the Paris School of ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1109-1110 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT a meeting of the Chemical Society held at the Royal Institution on December 15, it was stated that Prof. Robert Robinson, Waynflete professor of chemistry in the University of Oxford, has accepted nomination to the office of president for the period 1939–41, which includes the ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1110-1111 
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    Notes: [Auszug] INTERESTING additions to the collections of British antiquities of the British Museum (Bloomsbury) were announced at the December meeting of the Trustees. Among these the most important is an iron sword of the second century B.C., with its bronze scabbard mount, which has been lent for ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1112-1112 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN his Friday evening discourse before the Royal Institution on December 16, Dr. John Thomas spoke on “Josiah Wedgwood and his Portraits of Eighteenth Century Men of Science”. The great success of three fellows of the Royal Society—Josiah Wedgwood and his two friends Matthew ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1112-1113 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE League of Nations Advisory Committee on Social Questions has issued a report, based on information collected from the Governments of forty-six countries and from other sources, on “The Recreational Cinema and the Young” (London: Allen and Unwin. Pp. 32. Price 9d.). It discusses ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1114-1115 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WITH a delay of only one month during the crushing events of last October, the next issue of Rise, the monthly journal of the Czechoslovakian Astronomical Society, has been published under an editorial entitled Zaciname Znovu—“We start again”. In this editorial, Dr. Hubert ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1090-1090 
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    Notes: [Auszug] DUBLIN.--On December 8, the honorary degree of D.Sc. of Trinity College was conferred on Dr. R. Lloyd Prseger, formerly librarian of the National Library of Ireland, and Prof. E. S. Goodrich, professor of zoology and comparative anatomy in the University of Oxford. DURHAM.-Dr. F. A. Paneth, reader ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1013-1015 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A CERTAIN amount of confusion exists in the minds of some botanists concerning botanical gardens, especially with reference to their origin and history. This is probably due in no small measure to a misunderstanding of the term. Botanical gardens may be considered to be gardens in which the plants ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1018-1018 
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    Notes: [Auszug] (1) The object of this book is to present the A knowledge of food preparation and cookery processes from a chemical and physical point of view, particularly from that of colloid chemistry. A citation from Ostwald is appropriate: "Much as everyone would like to obtain better food for less money, the ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1018-1018 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE authors of this volume have taken for their aim the axiom that the best preparation for the calculus is a suitable course in co-ordinate geometry. The text is thus divided into two sections: the first, consisting of six chapters, is devoted to analytic geometry, and the second to the calculus. ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1070-1071 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A REMARKABLE barbed point of red deer antler found in the bed of the River Irvine below Shewalton Sands, Ayrshire, was described by Mr. A. D. Lacaille at a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in Edinburgh on December 12. The point, which may have been part of a harpoon or ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1029-1029 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the House of Commons, on December 1, Sir John Anderson, Lord Privy Seal, outlined the Government's scheme for organizing the national resources in the service of the State. The plan involves: an immediate voluntary register of man-and woman-power throughout the kingdom; the publication of a ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1029-1029 
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    Notes: [Auszug] INTERNATIONAL co-operation in scientific research was also discussed in appreciative terms by Sir William Bragg, and he referred to a letter received from Dr. Bosch, president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft, inviting the co-operation of the Royal Society in some scientific enterprise which ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1075-1075 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE have examined by X-ray methods crystals of the protein material prepared by F. C. Bawden and N. W. Pirie1 from tomato plants suffering from bushy stunt disease. The crystals were in the form of isotropic rhombic dodecahedra of average diameter of only 0.01 mm. Consequently, no ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1076-1077 
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING recent years, a series of papers from this laboratory have shown that derivatives of glucose may be converted smoothly into derivatives of altrose, galactose and gulose by means of optical inversion within the molecule1. In each case the key substance to such a conversion ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1079-1080 
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    Notes: [Auszug] MENZEL1 has recently stated that “There appears to be a widespread misconception concerning the effect of electron collisions on the intensities of forbidden lines”. In the conventional treatment to which the above statement objects, the intensity is given by the formula ... ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1039-1040 
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHEN a metal is cleaned in air, the surface will still be covered with a relatively thick layer of oxide and other adsorbed impurities. Friction measurements are usually made with metals coated in this way, and if a lubricant is added, it is superimposed on the surface films already present. ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1087-1087 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT a meeting of the Linnean Society held on December 8, the objects of national parks were discussed. The immediate cause of the discussion was a letter from Prof. J. B. Cleland, chairman of the Commissioners of the National Park at Belair, South Australia, who asked for "an authoritative ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1044-1045 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Awards of Medals Copley Medal: Proi Niels Bohr, For. Mem. R.S. Prof. N. Bohr has been for many years the recognized leader of theoretical atomic physics. His early work in 1913 provided the connecting link between Planck's conception of quanta and Rutherford's of the nucleus, and made it possible ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1069-1069 
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    Notes: [Auszug] BIRKBECK COLLEGE, University of London, celebrated on December 7 its 115th anniversary with an eloquent oration on "Ends and Means" by Sir Richard Livingstone, president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The Foundation oration dealt with the underlying principles of morality in individual and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. DOROTHY GARROD'S account of her recent excavation of the cave of Batcho Kiro, near Drevono, in Bulgaria, given before the Society of Antiquaries of London on December 8, adds a link of no little importance to the chain of evidence of the distribution of cultures of the later periods of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS useful synopsis deals not only with the French species but also with those found in countries bordering on the Republic. Since the various species found in Great Britain are also included, this work provides a handy and ready means for their identification. In addition to the descriptions of ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1027-1027 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. EDWARD MURRAY EAST, whose death has recently been reported, belonged to the group of Mendelian pioneers who began their investigations in the first decade of the present century. His most important contributions to plant genetics were in connexion with the breeding of potatoes, maize and ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 1027-1028 
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    Notes: [Auszug] FOR his Friday evening discourse at the Royal Institution on December 2, Viscount Samuel took as his subject, "The Scientist and the Philosopher". He said that in the complicated civilization of the modern world a division of labour is necessary, but this is sometimes carried to excess. The ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ACCORDING to a statement in The Times of November 30, the chairman and managing director of Messrs. Cable and Wireless, Ltd., has made an offer to the Government to create a system of wireless telegraphic and telephonic communication throughout the Colonial Empire without cost to the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE City of Leeds College of Technology enrolled in 1937-38 more than four thousand students, of whom all except 14 per cent attended evening classes only. In a report presented, by the Principal on the occasion of a distribution of awards by Prof. Lancelot Hogben on November 29, an appeal was made ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DURING the work on K-avitaminosis in chicks, it is often observed that in some animals large amounts of transparent fluid accumulate, for example, in the subcutaneous connective tissue. It has now been possible to produce this symptom systematically by using a diet from which the protein has ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Suwa1 and Poller and Linneweh2 found that the trimethylamine oxide occurring in the muscle of certain sea fishes is reduced to the corresponding volatile amine during its spoilage by bacteria. Recently, Beatty3 has shown that it is fairly certain ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A COMMISSION, elected at the fifteenth meeting of the International Geological Congress assembled at Pretoria in 1929, decided to produce a "Lexicon de Stratigraphie'', with a volume devoted to each continent in turn. The general editorship was entrusted to Dr. S. H. Haughton, who has naturally ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THIS is a book for the beginner in America. It starts with a definition of the purpose of laboratory training which every old stager in science will applaud. "The incalculable gift of the laboratory is its discipline in scientific method and its training in the importance of logical reasoning and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN the last decade, many investigations of an exact nature have been made on the proteins in solution and in the solid phase. Unfortunately, by a dissipation of the available research energy among a wide variety of proteins and by a signal absence of co-operation among the researchers themselves, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. UVAROV has outlined Prof. JVlordvilko's contribution to science and it remains to me to add my personal tribute to the memory of one who over a long number of years and often at great difficulty to himself, proved such a valued correspondent. His vast knowledge was ever at our service; he put ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A LARGE part of Sir William Bragg's presidential address to the Royal Society, delivered on November 30, was concerned with scientific publications, and he referred particularly to the duty of the Society in connexion with the encouragement of research to secure the preparation and presentment of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE regret to announce the following deaths: Sir Thomas Callendar, deputy chairman and managing director of Callendar's Cable and Construction Co., Ltd., a pioneer in electricity supply, on December 2, aged eighty-three years. Mr. W. P. Dreaper, O.B.E., formerly superintendent of H.M. Factories at ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] AT a meeting of the Section of the History of Medicine of the Royal Society of Medicine on November 2, Dr. Cyril Elgood gave an interesting account of Jundhi Shapur, which was famous as the site of a university in south-west Persia, probably founded about A.D. 340. The Arab invasion of Persia took ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] A MEETING of the Society for the Study of Alchemy and Early Chemistry took place on December 7, at Queen Mary College, London, when Mr. J. C. Gregory delivered a lecture entitled "From Magic to Science". Mr. Gregory traced the interplay between reliance on magical efficacies, on one hand, and a ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] As a step toward canalizing research activities in the field of secondary education, much of which might otherwise run to waste, the United States Office of Education has published a bulletin on "Needed Research in Secondary Education" (Washington, D.C.: Supt. of Documents. Pp. 70. Price 10 c). The ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] INVESTIGATIONS have been conducted in this laboratory during the last few years on the structure of artificially prepared iron-nickel alloys in the iron end of the equilibrium diagram, and during the last year the structure of iron-nickel meteorites has also been examined. An interesting point ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN view of the interest recently displayed in an “Elegy, intended for Professor Buckland” (NATURE, Oct. 8, p. 673, and Oct. 22, p. 758), it may be appropriate to record Buckland's own comment upon it in a letter which he wrote to Miss Jane Talbot at Penrice Castle in Gower on December 11, 1820. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] New or Rare Plants in Edinburgh ON December 10, 1838, Robert Graham, professor of botany, sent to the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal a "Description of several New or Rare Plants which have lately flowered in the Neighbourhood of Edinburgh". The Chorizema Dicksonii, he said, was raised by Dickson ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a communication, dated October 17, from the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, an account is given of experiments made by Dr. Charles G. Abbot, secretary of the Institution and Mr. W. H. Hoover, of the Smithsonian staff, at the Mount Wilson Observatory of the Carnegie Institution at ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WE regret to announce the following deaths: Mr. J. F. Bailey, director of the Botanic Gardens, Brisbane, from 1905 until 1917, and director of the Botanic Garden, Adelaide, from 1917 until 1932. Prof. ?. ?. East, professor of genetics in Harvard University, aged fifty-nine years. Admiral Sir ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Guthrie Lecturer of the Physical Society this year was Prof. A. V. Hill, Foulerton research professor and secretary of the Royal Society, who chose as the title of his lecture delivered on November 11 "The Transformations of Energy and the Mechanical Work of Muscles". Prof. Hill is a Cambridge ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN his Guthrie Lecture on the subject, Prof. A. V. Hill pointed out that the study of the heat given out by muscles in relation to the work done by them is one of the classics of physiology. Until recently, however, the matter appeared much more complicated than it really is, owing to technical ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] NOVEMBER 14, 1938, marked the fiftieth anniversary of the inauguration of the Pasteur Institute of Paris as the result of international subscription, but the actual celebrations have, owing to the recent crisis, been postponed until December 27, the anniversary of the birth of Pasteur. The spacious ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE seventh Andrew Laing Lecture, delivered by Sir William Bragg before the North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders at Newcastle on November 8, dealt with the molecular basis of the strength of materials. Taking carbon compounds first, he showed how the regular arrangement of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Miss WINIFRED LAMB'S account of her third season of excavation at Kusuru, south-west of Afyon Karahissar in Anatolia, which was given before the Society of Antiquaries of London on November 17, emphasized the importance of this little-explored region for knowledge of the cultural distributions of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MRS. MARY V. WALKER has presented to the Department of Zoology a set of photographs which were taken by her husband, the late Dr. William D. Walker, depicting the early life history of kangaroos. The photographs show the kangaroo in all its stages from the newly born young one to the adult and ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is well known that genuine proteins (at pH 7) are attacked by crystalline trypsin which, on the other hand, is able to split synthetic peptides. This has been taken as support for the view that these proteins contain peptide bonds in their molecules1. We wish, however, to ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] WHEN.the Czechoslovak State regained its independence in 1918, the people looked forward to a period of fruitful constructive effort in industry, education, culture and science. Despite a long period of subjugation, the nation could look back upon a tradition in the field of science and learning. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IT is announced that the first International Standard for Vitamin Bx, which consisted of an adsorbate of the antineuritic vitamin, made from rice polishings, on fuller's earth, has now been replaced by a preparation of crystalline vitamin Ba hydrochloride. In recent years, progress in the study of ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] ON July 22 last, a body known as the Physical and Mental Welfare Society of New Zealand was formally incorporated; the object of the Society is, broadly, to promote the application of current scientific knowledge to physical and mental welfare. The Society originated in a movement which has existed ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S Advisory Committee on Education, appointed in September 1936, has presented a report (Government Printing Office, Washington, 1938. Pp. 244. 35 cents) on the whole subject of Federal relationship to State and local conduct of education. After a comprehensive study of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE administration report *for 1937 of the acting director of the Colombo Museum, P. E. P. Deraniya-gala, shows that in many directions the activity of the museum is maintained. Steady additions are being made to the zoological collections, notably by expeditions carried out by the staff or by the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE public acquisition of the High Elms estate in Kent, as part of London's 'green belt', is an event of note in the history of science; for this was the home of the Lubbock family from 1808. In that year, Sir John William Lubbock acquired the nucleus of the property, some 270 acres; by later ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SIR JAMES SWINBURNE, in his presidential address delivered on October 25 to the Institute of Plastics, discussed the subject of invention. In his opinion, inventions are usually the work of men less than forty years of age and often are discovered by those without scientific training. He attributed ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] RECENT experiments on mice from our sarcoma strain are producing results of sufficient importance to be communicated now, although the experiments are by no means complete. We have shown1 that there is a very marked sex-difference in the incidence of bone tumours, 77-3 per cent of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] SIR WILLIAM BRAGG, president of the Royal Society, is to deliver an address on "The Advance of Science" at the Ely Diocesan Conference to be held at Cambridge on November 21. DR. H. SPENCER JONES, Astronomer Royal, will deliver the fourteenth annual Norman Lockyer Lecture under the auspices of the ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] MARCONI'S discovery that radio waves followed the curvature of the earth indicated that the signals were reflected back to earth by an electrified condition of the upper atmosphere. In 1925 Prof. E. V. Applet on in England and Breit and Tuve of the Carnegie Institution (U.S.A.) gave definite ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE twentieth annual report of the National Research Council, Canada, covering the year 1936-1937*, contains the report of the president of the Council as well as reports from the various divisions. Even the president's brief review of the organization of research, both pure and industrial, ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] Paris Academy of Sciences (C.R., 207, 693-752, Oct. 24, 1938). D. RIABOUCHINSKY: Supersonic analogy of the electromagnetic field. L. ROY: Analogy between the forces exerted on currents and magnetic forces. J. CABANNES: Water of crystallization of gypsum. Examination of a single crystal in ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] (not included in the monthly Books Supplement) Great Britain and Ireland Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Forest Products Research Records No. 26 (Seasoning Series No. 5): Kiln-Drying Schedules. By R. G. Bateson and R. E. Hodge. Pp. ii + 21. (London: H.M. Stationery Office.) 6d. ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. SCHREINEMAKERS has been engaged since 1924 in studies in osmotic phenomena, which have hitherto only been available in Leyden dissertations and the publications of the Amsterdam Academy of Science. In this book he gives a collected account in English of his researches, which will be of great ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THERE is a decided place for this little book in lecture room, laboratory or workshop. As years have gone on, it is surprising what developments have taken place since the 'magic lantern' provided the only means of illustrating a lecture. Yet it remains the prototype of all the more or less ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN addition to three hitherto unpublished articles dealing respectively with multiple cystic disease of the lungs by Drs. F. H. Young and N. C. Oswald, an investigation of the relation of bronchography to post-lobectomy atelectasis by Mr. R. H. R. Belsery, and an investigation on statistical lines ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE Nobel Prize for Physics for 1938 has been awarded to Prof. E. Fermi, professor of theoretical physics in the University of Rome, and his work in connexion with artificial radioactivity induced by neutrons is specially mentioned in the award. Bombardment of the nucleus with neutrons is ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 908-908 
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    Notes: [Auszug] DR. ROBERT BROOM continues to provide sensational news from South Africa for anthropologist and palaeontologist. In another column of this issue (see p. 897) he reports further finds of relics of South African fossil anthropoids, which, if anything, surpass in interest the remarkable discoveries he ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 909-909 
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    Notes: [Auszug] AN earthquake, with an epicentre near Vienna, occurred about 4h. G.C.T. on November 8, doing some damage to property, but causing no casualties. An earthquake in this region is most unusual, and the last one of any importance was in 1927 on October 8 at 19h. 48m. 55s. G.C.T. with epicentre lat. 48° ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 911-911 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A NEW periodical entitled Chemical Products and the Chemical News, which is being published monthly by Science Services, Ltd., 35 Great James Street, Bedford How, London, W.C.2, is designed to emphasize the indivisibility of the chemical industry. It will accordingly deal with matters of interest ...
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE following appointments have recently been made: F. J. Harper, agricultural officer, Nigeria; G. A. Jones, director of agriculture, Jamaica; F. H. Fitch, geologist, Malaya; T. G. Chamberlain, veterinary officer, Kenya; D. Slavin, veterinary research officer, Kenya; J. F. C. Swan, veterinary ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 913-914 
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    Notes: [Auszug] As the pressure is increased on a mixed film produced by a 1: 1 mixture of oleic acid (HOL) with stearyl alcohol (STOH) or amine, or stearic acid (HST), the unsaturated oleic acid begins to separate out at about 24 dynes per cm., at which pressure minute particles of the oleic acid become ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 916-917 
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    Notes: [Auszug] PROF. MAURICE EWING has shown that it is possible to use the seismic method for investigating submarine geology, and has used the method to show that, in the continental shelf off the coast of Virginia, many thousands of feet of sediments overlie the Palæozoic or pre-Cambrian rocks. The ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 920-922 
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    Notes: [Auszug] Skeletal Remains from Kansas Mounds HUMAN skeletal remains with crania of a distinctive type have been discovered in mounds near Kansas City excavated by Dr. Walso R. Wedel of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington. In a preliminary report issued by the Institution, the skulls are described as ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 873-873 
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    Notes: [Auszug] INVESTIGATIONS of Evans1 and Karrer2 have demonstrated that α-tocopherol possesses reducing properties, so that it can be determined by potentiometric titration with gold chloride. Our colorimetric determination is based upon the reducing power of ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 875-876 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN a previous note1 the results were given of tests on Armco iron wire of various diameters when heated in hydrogen to a condition of maximum permeability at a temperature of 1,200° C. A number of the magnetization curves so obtained have been analysed and the values of the ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 878-878 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN India, rice is grown on the same land for many years without the addition of manures to the soil. Preliminary experiments have shown that a considerable amount of nitrogen is fixed in the soils of the rice-fields under water-logged conditions, when there is an abundance of algal growth ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 879-879 
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    Notes: [Auszug] A TABLE showing the amount of phosphate which enters into combination, in presence of oxygen, when glucose or malate is added to minced kidney cortex of a fasting rabbit, is given by Dr. H. Kalckar. The author concludes that malic acid is oxidized to pyruvic acid which combines with phosphate to ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 885-885 
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    Notes: [Auszug] IN NATURE of September 24, p. 564, reference was made to the various orbits that had been computed for Satellite ? by Dr. Paul Herget and Dr. M. Davidson. Dr. Herget obtained two orbits with high eccentricities, exceeding 0*6, but the orbits differed essentially, one being direct and the other ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 888-888 
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    Notes: [Auszug] [Meetings marked with an asterisk are open to the public.] Monday, November 14 ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, at 8.30.-Dr. H. A. Brouwer: "Exploration in the Lesser Sunda Islands". Tuesday, November 15 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON, at 5.-Dr. L. Margaret Kerly: "Muscle Chemistry" (succeeding lectures ...
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    Nature 142 (1938), S. 811-811 
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    Notes: [Auszug] THE discovery by Ross of the mosquito cycle made it possible for the first time to explain a host of facts in the epidemiology of malaria which otherwise were entirely inexplicable. It very soon became evident that malaria, instead of being contracted from man's general surroundings in Nature, as ...
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