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    • Societies and Academies - Nature

      Nature· 16 hours ago

      LONDON Geological Society, June 21.-Prof. P. Martin Duncan, F.R.S., president, in the chair.—Mr. Hector Maclean and Mr. Samuel Trickett were elected Fellows, and Dr. L. Riitimeyer, of Basle, ...

    • Early English Railways - Nature

      Nature· 16 hours ago

      Petersburgh. William Vaughan (1752-1850) was a director of the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation, London, and was much interested in canals and railways and docks.

    • MARINE BIOLOGY AT PLYMOUTH* - Nature

      Nature· 17 hours ago

      THE Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom came into being in 1884 as a result of a meeting held under the chairmanship of Prof. T. H. Huxley ...

    • Plankton as a Source of Food - Nature

      Nature· 17 hours ago

      SIR JOHN GRAHAM KERR recently asked a question in the House of Commons and wrote a letter to The Times1 proposing that a committee of biologists and engineers should be instituted to inquire ...

    • Mr. George Hodge - Nature

      Nature· 17 hours ago

      Although from his retiring and unassuming disposition, little known beyond the naturalist circles of the north, George Hodge realised, as few do realise, the objects of a local naturalist. Living ...

    • The General Oceanic Circulation - Nature

      Nature· 17 hours ago

      The former, on the other hand, depending solely on difference of temperature, will (to use Sir J. Herschel's apposite language) have its movements, direction...