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The Value of Insectivorous Birds - Nature
Nature· 3 days 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 ...
The Nature of Time - Nature
Nature· 3 days agoIN a recent article, entitled “The Relativity of Time”, Prof. Herbert Dingle1 discussed what constitutes a clock, and he used the discussion to support a thesis which he stated ...
Dr. F. G. Novy - Nature
Nature· 3 days agoFREDERICK GEORGE NOVY, formerly professor of bacteriology and dean of the Medical School of the University of Michigan, was presented with the 250,000th microscope produced by Messrs. Dr. Novy ...
The Conception of the Atomic Clock - Nature
Nature· 3 days agoHerbert E. Ives, is printed in Science(91, 79; 1940). The address is entitled “The Measurement of Velocity with Atomic Clocks”. Taking the variation of atomic clock rate as ...
Contributions to the Study of the Behaviour of Lower Organisms - Nature
Nature· 3 days agoBut Prof. Jennings has been gradually discovering that the simple reaction-formula does not cover all the facts, and he now gives us news which seems almost too good to be true. Contributions ...
Erosion in the Punjab - Nature
Nature· 3 days agoA COOTEKENCE held at Simla recently affords evidence that the importance of the erosion question in the outer Punjab Hills is now receiving serious attention. It was presided over by Sir < ...
Perigenesis v. Pangenesis—Haeckel's New Theory of Heredity - Nature
Nature· 3 days agoUNDER the title “Perigenesis der Plastidule oder die Wellenzeugung der Lebenstheilchen,” Prof. Haeckel has published quite recently a pamphlet containing an attempt to furnish a mechanical explanation ...
Scientific Serials - Nature
Nature· 3 days agoThe Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science for January, 1894, contains observations on the development of the head in Gobius capito, by H. B. Pollard. The work was carried out during the ...
Prof. H. B. Baker, C.B.E., F.R.S - Nature
Nature· 3 days agoTHE recent death of Herbert Brereton Baker removes a familiar name from the roll of chemists who made their reputation before the opening of the present century. After a period ...
Lessons in Elementary Botany for Secondary Schools - Nature
Nature· 3 days agoIt is satisfactory to all who are concerned in the progress of science, to know that these sound principles of scientific instruction are being brought more within the region of practical education ...
