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Icones Plantarum Formosanarum necnon et Contributiones ad Floram Formosanam - Nature
Nature· 9 hours agoClimatic conditions and the activity of the head-hunters of the interior had restricted exploration to the coastal regions before the acquisition of the island by Japan. Dr. A. Henry's “...
Science in the Magazines - Nature
Nature· 9 hours agoSCIENCE makes a good show in the March magazines. Sir Robert Ball, F.R.S., contributes to the Fortnightly an article on “The Significance of Carbon in the Universe.” The object of the article ...
A Slide-trap Method for the Isolation of Soil Fungi - Nature
Nature· 9 hours agoTHE slide-trap method of isolating actively growing soil fungi, described by C. J. La Touche1, was used in an investigation of the fungus flora of a podsolized Calluna-heathland ...
The Age of the Present Canadian Flora - Nature
Nature· 9 hours agoPENHALLOW has recently identified some fragments of wood found in the Leda clays of Montreal, as Picea nigra, the common black spruce. This is another addition to the group of plants which represent ...
Elastase from Staphylococcus epidermidis - Nature
Nature· 9 hours agoThe elastases are enzymes capable of digesting the scleroprotein, elastin, a component of mammalian connective tissues important in, for example, arteries, lung and skin. The screening of micro-organisms ...
How Serbia is eroding the rights of ethnic Albanians – DW – 07/12/2024
Deutsche Welle· 10 hours agoBusinessman Safet Demiri got a rude awakening when he went to renew the registration of his company...
Scientific Serials - Nature
Nature· 10 hours agoM. Crombie, and Additions to the flora of Berkshire, by James Britten. In this number is also the very useful annual list of the new species of phanerogamous plants described ...
[Book Reviews] - Nature
Nature· 10 hours agoTHIS little volume contains some excellent papers. The president, Dr. Beverley, in his address, suggests, rightly, we think, that members of such societies ought, in their researches and papers ...
Societies and Academies - Nature
Nature· 10 hours agoThe explanation of the width of the lines of the spectrum of rarefied gases, based on the Doppler-Fizeau principle, has been recently verified experimentally by Buisson and Fabry working with ...
Enlargement of the Kew Herbarium - Nature
Nature· 10 hours agoSIR WILLIAM J. HOOKER, the first director of Kew Gardens, as a public establishment, was really the founder of the herbarium at Kew, for before any bequests or gifts were made, his extensive ...