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Effects of Altitude - Nature
Nature· 21 hours agoThe committee, which will consist of medical men, chemists, physicists and biologists, will form a branch of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The field covered by the committee will be (1) ...
Nanometeorites - Nature
Nature· 21 hours agoTHIS communication is a preliminary report of our work on a high-altitude airborne particle collection obtained in the Arctic on November 15, 1960. The collector was exposed ...
The Species of Ficus of the Indo-Malayan Archipelago - Nature
Nature· 21 hours agoThe present part completes the volume; but it is intimated that a supplement is to follow, dealing with the new species recently collected by Mr. H. O. Forbes in New Guinea, and containing an ...
A Remarkable Rime - Nature
Nature· 21 hours agoDuring the frost of last week, ice-crystals of about 2 inches in length, at first very hard and adhesive, were formed on the windward (south-south-west) side of all exposed objects, but particularly ...
Use of Oxygen on the Mount Everest Expedition, 1938 - Nature
Nature· 21 hours agoTHERE were two types of oxygen apparatus ooo available to the Mount Everest Expedition of 1938. The other was a closed circuit apparatus in which pure oxygen is breathed. Now the essence of ...
Royal Meteorological Society: Phenological Studies - Nature
Nature· 21 hours agoTHE Royal Meteorological Society has circulated its 500 odd phenological observers in the British Isles a description of a new organization for phenological-ecological research, so that the ...
The Meteoroid of November 17, 1882 - Nature
Nature· 21 hours agoOn the supposition of the above height, the altitudes of culmination as seen from Woodbridge and Windsor would be about 29°, from Bristol 25°, and from York 10° only, which ...
Iridescent Clouds - Nature
Nature· 21 hours agoYOUR correspondent Mr. W. Larden, writing on the subject of solar halos (p. 344), referred also to rose-crimson and green colours on clouds. It is quite unnecessary to be at 6000 feet
Mr. Stevenson's Observations on the Increase of the Velocity of the Wind with the Altitude - Nature
Nature· 21 hours agoA HEAVY pressure of professional work has prevented me till now from noticing Mr. Archibald's remarks on my paper on simultaneous observations of the wind at different elevations.
Mr. Stevenson's Observations on the Increase of the Velocity of the Wind with the Altitude - Nature
Nature· 21 hours agoI AM sorry if I took Mr. Stevenson too literally when I understood his remark, “great heights above sea-level,” to mean absolutely great heights; but I certainly think the phrase is extremely ...
