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Fossil Human Occipital Bone from Thames Gravels - Nature
Nature· 21 hours agoDURING the recent meeting of the British Association at Norwich, Mr. Alvan T. Marston exhibited to Section H (Anthropology) a complete human occipital bone which he had found in the middle gravels ...
Capt. F. C. Selous - Nature
Nature· 21 hours agoTHE late Capt. Frederick Courteney Selous, whose death in action against the remaining German forces in East Africa has just come as a painful shock to his many friends in the two hemispheres ...
Societies and Academies - Nature
Nature· 21 hours agoLONDON 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, ...
Fossils as Indicators of Continental Drift* - Nature
Nature· 21 hours agoIf there has been such movement during geological time, this may clearly explain the changes of climate in many areas to which fossils bear witness. It affords a possible reason for the occurrence ...
An Active Group of Sunspots - Nature
Nature· 21 hours agoA RECENT group of sunspots, not remarkable for size, complexity or visible changes of structure, has proved of interest on account of its great activity when observed spectroscopically, especially ...
Recent and Proposed Geodetic Measurements - Nature
Nature· 21 hours agoIN the history of geodesy and the discussion of the problem of the figure of the earth, the measurement of three arcs of meridian stands out conspicuously. These are the Peruvian and Lapland ...
Essai sur la Psycho-physiologie des Monstres Humains - Nature
Nature· 22 hours agoThe first of the two monsters examined by the authors was an anencephalous male child, which was continuously under observation during the thirty-nine hours of its extra-uterine life. An examination ...
The Physiology of Man - Nature
Nature· 22 hours agoThe first chapter concludes with an account of the recent observations of Voit on the regeneration of the cerebral hemispheres after their ablation, which show that a large ...
Science in the Magazines - Nature
Nature· 22 hours agoDr. Alfred R. Wallace writes on “The Ice Age and its Work,” with the object of explaining “the nature and amount of the converging evidence demonstrating the existence of enormous ice-sheets ...
Our Astronomical Column - Nature
Nature· 22 hours agoFleming on October 26. Its Right Ascension is given as 230° 34′, and its North Polar Distance = 140° 14′. The magnitude on July 10 = 7˙0. No further details have been received, but from the ...
