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Societies and Academies - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoUsing calcium carbide as an indicator of the production of water, the reduction of cupric oxide in dry hydrogen is clear at 120° C. For lead dioxide, the corresponding temperature is 150° C.
Pole Treatment - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoIN an article on ground-line treatment of standing poles (Bell Lab. Rec., 22, No. 11; July 1944), C. H. Amadon discusses the preservative method developed by Bell System engineers. External ...
Recruiting mailbag: Are the Florida Gators no longer a destination program?
New York Times· 2 days agoIt was a busy June for recruiting departments everywhere, and before we know it, prospects will be...
Problems in Deep-Level Mining - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoTHE Association of Mine Managers of the Transvaal (Johannesburg) has just issued an interesting volume entitled “Some Aspects of Deep Level Mining on the Witwatersrand Gold Mines with Special ...
Distortion of Fungal Hyphæ in the Presence of Certain Inhibitors - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoBrian, Curtis and Hemming1 have recently reported the production by Penicillium Janczewskii of a factor having little antibiotic action but causing characteristic distortion of fungal hyphæ ...
University and Educational Intelligence - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoW. H. Allen, Sons and Co., of Bedford, has long paid particular attention to engineering training. Mr. R. W. Allen, the present head of the firm, referred to this subject in his presidential ...
The Relativity of ‘Meaning’ - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoROSS ASHBY1 is right (defining “right” as “what I think the best people think” and “best” as “tha class of people who think as I do”) in his conclusions ...
The National Museum of Wales - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoTHE progressive activity of all departments of the National Museum of Wales is a striking feature of the report for the year 1944-45. Most of the material removed from the public exhibition ...
Uteroverdin - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoONE of us1 has recently isolated oocyan—the blue-green pigment of the shells of many birds' eggs—and characterised it as an ether-soluble pyrrol pigment closely related to the bile pigments.
Scientific Precision and Popularisation - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoOf these, each contains sixty-four photographic reproductions. The latter is concerned exclusively with physical types and covers a fairly representative range, some evidently chosen to demonstrate ...