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Treatment of Crops by Electric Discharges - Nature
Nature· 23 hours agoThe work was carried out during the years 1913, 1914, 1916, and 1917 on Mr. Low's farm of Mains of Luther, Kincardineshire. The apparatus was that of the Agricultural Electric ...
The Value of Insectivorous Birds - Nature
Nature· 23 hours agoWITH reference to Sir Herbert Maxwell's comments on my article in NATURE of July 25, I think he has overlooked one of the causes I mentioned in connection with the present scarcity of our insectivorous ...
Our Astronomical Column - Nature
Nature· 23 hours agoVARIABLE STARS.—As many of the ephemerides of these stars that were formerly available are discontinued or inaccessible owing to the war, M. Luizet has prepared a useful set of ephemerides for ...
Prof. C Tangl - Nature
Nature· 23 hours agoEotvos. He was appointed in 1901 as Privat-Dozentand in 1903 as professor of experimental physics at the University of Kolozsvar. In 1917 he became professor of physics at ...
A Relation between the Combined Atomic Volumes and their Optical Refractivities - Nature
Nature· 23 hours agoIT has Been shown (“Monograph on Molecular Volumes,” Longmans, 1917) that there is a periodic relationship between the atomic volumes of the combined elements. The subnrultipie ...
The Prevention of Venereal Disease - Nature
Nature· 23 hours agoTHE interest of many readers of NATURE has no doubt been aroused by recent correspondence in the Times upon the subject of prevention of venereal disease, together with the trenchant article ...
The Temperature Coefficient of Gravity - Nature
Nature· 23 hours agoTrans., May 17, 1917, Dr. P. E. Shaw published an account of a research from which he deduced that the gravitational constant is increased by one part in eighty thousand when ...
Tracing the Dawn of Life - Nature
Nature· 23 hours agoIN 1917, there was inaugurated at the Cawthron Institute of Scientific Research, Nelson, New Zealand, an annual lecture to commemorate the generosity and foresight of the ...
The Gases of War - Nature
Nature· 23 hours agoOn the other hand, bombing or spraying with a persistent substance, such as mustard gas, would greatly disorganise the life of a big city, as it would force the majority of the population to ...
Japanese Typhoon of September 21 - Nature
Nature· 23 hours agoIn the Times of September 26, it is stated that the Japanese Home Office on September 25 gave the casualties as 2,305 killed, 7,839 injured and 399 missing, with a total of more than 34,576 ...
